[OpenGLAM] Fwd: [GLAM] Funding a new gear for WM photographer Poco a poco

Tue Dec 2 23:38:56 UTC 2014

Great suggestion - if anyone does have connections at Canon I suggest they
contact Santi Navarro!

-Sarah

On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 3:24 PM, James Morley <James.Morley at europeana.eu>
wrote:

>  There's got to be someone with contacts at Canon who can make sure this
> happens, or at least half the total amount needed?
>
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> *From:* open-glam [open-glam-bounces at lists.okfn.org] on behalf of Sarah
> Stierch [sarah.stierch at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* 03 December 2014 00:21
> *To:* open-glam at lists.okfn.org
> *Subject:* [OpenGLAM] Fwd: [GLAM] Funding a new gear for WM photographer
> Poco a poco
>
>   See below!
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>  *James Morley*
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> From: Santiago Navarro Sanz <wikimillars at hotmail.com>
> Date: Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 3:17 PM
> Subject: [GLAM] Funding a new gear for WM photographer Poco a poco
> To: Wikimedia Commons Discussion List <commons-l at lists.wikimedia.org>,
> Wiki Loves Monuments <wikilovesmonuments at lists.wikimedia.org>, Cultural
> Partners <cultural-partners at wikimedia.ch>, GLAM <glam at lists.wikimedia.org>
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>   Sorry for crossposting:
>  Help one of the best volunteer photographers in Wikimedia Commons restore
> his stolen equipment.
>
>
>  *Diego Delso is known as Poco a poco
> <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Poco_a_poco> in Wikimedia Commons*.
> In case you don't know, Wikimedia Commons is a media file repository where
> anyone can share freely-licensed content with everyone. *Wikipedia uses
> Wikimedia Commons as it's image repository*, so, in fact, most of the
> times you view an image in Wikipedia, you are actually viewing a Wikimedia
> Commons image.
>
>  While Diego is just one of the thousands of Wikimedia Commons
> volunteers, he is a very special one: *he's one of the main Commons
> contributors ever*, having some amazing records, such as being the user
> with the highest amount of Featured Pictures ever
> <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Featured_pictures_by_creator> (153
> images) and also the one with the highest amount of quality images ever,
> with 5,777 Quality Images
> <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Quality_images_by_User:Poco_a_poco>.
> That's an awesome amount of very high quality material, that Diego has
> given to every living person for free.
>
>  Never heard about *Wikimedia Commons*? It's the repository that hosts all*multimedia
> files* that you can see (and download) in *Wikipedia *and all other
> Wikimedia projects. Diego's files are used in those projects and are also
> available for everybody else with a free license.
>
>
>  Furthermore, Diego has contributed in Wikimedia Commons in other ways.
> One of them is by supporting (by being an *organizer* or a *jury*) two of
> the most important*photographic contests* in the Wikimedia movement (and
> in the world!): Wiki Loves Monuments and Wiki Loves Earth.
>
>
>  Sadly, while Diego was in Buenos Aires after participating in a
> Wikimedia Iberoamerican Encounter with other Wikimedia volunteers, *he
> got his equipment stolen*. In this unfortunate event, he didn't only lost
> his camera, zoom lenses and laptop, but also *every single picture he
> took during his 2 weeks trip in South America*, which he was going to
> upload to Wikimedia Commons so they could be used by everyone, everywhere.
>
>  As Wikimedia volunteers and Diego's friends, we could not stand aside of
> this, so we decided to help him to *restore his equipment*. *You can
> help, too*, by contributing to this campaign!
>
>  Our goal is simple: to collect enough money to help Diego to buy exactly
> the same equipment he lost.
>
>  All the gear he lost in Argentina is described below, with a reference
> to the price from Amazon for the same equipment.
>
>   Tipo Modelo Preço  Camera body Canon EOS 5D Mark II
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canon_EOS_5D_Mark_II> $ 2,694.00
> <http://www.amazon.com/Canon-Mark-Frame-Camera-MODEL/dp/B001G5ZTLS>  Objective
> fisheye f/4.0 Canon EF 8-15mm L USM
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canon_EF_8-15mm_lens> $ 1,349.00
> <http://www.amazon.com/Canon-8-15mm-Fisheye-Ultra-Wide-Cameras/dp/B0040X4OZU/>  Objective
> wide-angle f/4.0 Canon EF 17-40mm L USM
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canon_EF_17-40mm_lens> $ 839.00
> <http://www.amazon.com/Canon-17-40mm-Ultra-Angle-Cameras/dp/B00009R6WO/>  Objective
> wide-angle to telephoto f/4.0 Canon EF 24-105mm L IS UVM
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canon_EF_24-105mm_lens> $ 1,149.00
> <http://www.amazon.com/Canon-24-105mm-USM-Lens-Cameras/dp/B000AZ57M6/>
> Laptop Acer Aspire 1810T
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acer_Aspire_Notebook> $ 600.00
> <http://www.notebookcheck.net/Acer-Aspire-1810T-Series.21471.0.html>
> Total $ 6,631.00
>
>   Converted to Euro (since Diego is based in Europe) that goes to 5,300
> Euro + 200 euro of Indiegogo fee, which is our target to collect.
>
> This campaign is runned on indiegogo.com and the link is
> https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/funding-a-new-gear-for-wm-photographer-poco-a-poco#home
>
>  You can use the short link  http://igg.me/at/pocoapoco in social networks
>
>  Thank you
>
>  Santi Navarro
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