Esperanto kaj Libera Scio/Reports/2019

Annual report 2019 of the Wikimedia User Group Esperanto and Free Knowledge (in Esperanto Esperanto kaj Libera Scio, shortly ELiSo).

Talks, Workshops & Edit-a-Thons

Topic	Activity	Date	Place	Volunteer/s	Resume/Report
"Why we had shut down Wikipedia?"	Summer Esperanto Study	15 July	Nitra, Slovakia	Venca24
"Why we had shut down Wikipedia?"	International Youth Congress	3 August	Liptovský Hrádok, Slovakia	Venca24

Contests

Activity	Date	Place	Volunteer/s	Resume/Report
Wikimedia CEE Spring	March - May	Worldwide (with thematic focus on Central and Eastern Europe)	KuboF Hromoslav	First time in Esperanto Wikivoyage (in Incubator)
Asian Month	November	Worldwide (with thematic focus on Asia)	KuboF Hromoslav	Both on Esperanto Wikipedia and Wikivoyage (in Incubator)

Community & Activists Development & Engagement

Activity	Date	Place	Volunteer/s	Resume/Report
Consultation of Wikimania scholarship applications	March	Worldwide	KuboF Hromoslav	2nd consultation
Stories of wiki people	Thou the year	Worldwide	KuboF Hromoslav	Informing about community members throu social medias.
Invitations to Wikimedia events	Thou the year	Worldwide	KuboF Hromoslav ?	Wikimanias, Wikimedia Summit, Wikimedia CEE Meeting, ...

ELiSo inside the Wikimedia Movement

Activity	Date	Place	Volunteer/s	Resume/Report
Affiliation Selected Board Seat (ASBS)			Remux Blahma KuboF Hromoslav	1st time we could participate in the process
Strategy consultation	Thru the year		KuboF Hromoslav	Liasoning with the group, invitation for providing feedback, participation in in-person Working Groups consultations
Wikimania 2019	August	Stockhol, Sweden	KuboF Hromoslav, ...	During Wikimania happened Esperanto Meetup and speak about constructed languages.
Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2019	October	Beograd, Serbia	KuboF Hromoslav	ELiSos representative presented 1 talk and 1 training, had a meetup with AffCom representatives, helped another affiliation with following bylaws, participated another meetups and program.

Organisation development

Activity	Date	Place	Volunteer/s	Resume/Report
Shared calendar	March		KuboF Hromoslav	Calendar with ELiSo related events shared with activists and supporters (with intention to solve this more systematically in future)
Start of recognition as s Themetic Organisation	October		Preparatory Commiittee	During Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2019 in Belgrade happened friendly meetup with AffCom representatives. The official start was short after.
First Bylaw	November-December		Preparatory Committee	Until now, ELiSo worked as a non-formal group recognized as Wikimedia User Group. The first version of bylaw was created (in Slovak) and translated into Esperanto. The bylaw is planed to be revisited in early 2020, the revisited version proposed to AffCom for consultation and finally accepted during Generally Assembly in probably in 2nd half of 2020.
Incorporation	December	Slovakia	Preparatory Committee	ELiSo was incorporated in Slovakia.