# Please Say Hello, Nǐ hǎo, Guten tag, Kia Ora, Hola, Sveiki, Ahoj, Bonjour, Namaste
**URL:** https://connect.oeglobal.org/t/please-say-hello-n-h-o-guten-tag-kia-ora-hola-sveiki-ahoj-bonjour-namaste/14
**Category:** The Plaza
**Tags:** hello
**Created:** [April 1, 2022, 6:00am UTC](https://connect.oeglobal.org/t/please-say-hello-n-h-o-guten-tag-kia-ora-hola-sveiki-ahoj-bonjour-namaste/14 "2022-04-01T06:00:00Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@cogdog](https://connect.oeglobal.org/u/cogdog)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2022, 6:00am UTC](https://connect.oeglobal.org/t/please-say-hello-n-h-o-guten-tag-kia-ora-hola-sveiki-ahoj-bonjour-namaste/14/1 "2022-04-01T06:00:00Z")
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We are just launching OEG Connect as a community, so this is a great place to hear from everybody who enters, to say “hello” in a reply that includes:
- What is the usual way in the place you live to say hello?
- Let us know your name, what part of the world you live in, what organization / institution you work for.
- Why / how is open education important to your work?
- Share one personal experience where you benefited or experienced something unexpected from an act of openness.
- What would you like to get out of this community space?
**Goodbye hellos? No. We never say goodbye here, but since this topic as grown so long, we are going to close it, and open [a brand new hello space](https://connect.oeglobal.org/t/say-hello/4138).**
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### Author:  [@cogdog](https://connect.oeglobal.org/u/cogdog)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2020, 5:16pm UTC](https://connect.oeglobal.org/t/please-say-hello-n-h-o-guten-tag-kia-ora-hola-sveiki-ahoj-bonjour-namaste/14/2 "2020-04-24T17:16:43Z")
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### Author:  [@susan.huggins](https://connect.oeglobal.org/u/susan.huggins)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2022, 7:59am UTC](https://connect.oeglobal.org/t/please-say-hello-n-h-o-guten-tag-kia-ora-hola-sveiki-ahoj-bonjour-namaste/14/5 "2022-04-12T07:59:34Z")
Just saying HELLO. to the new community!
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### Author:  [@cogdog](https://connect.oeglobal.org/u/cogdog)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2022, 9:05am UTC](https://connect.oeglobal.org/t/please-say-hello-n-h-o-guten-tag-kia-ora-hola-sveiki-ahoj-bonjour-namaste/14/6 "2022-04-12T09:05:00Z")
And the community says **hello** back, Susan.
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### Author:  [@susan.huggins](https://connect.oeglobal.org/u/susan.huggins)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2022, 12:51pm UTC](https://connect.oeglobal.org/t/please-say-hello-n-h-o-guten-tag-kia-ora-hola-sveiki-ahoj-bonjour-namaste/14/8 "2022-04-12T12:51:23Z")
I wanted to share my word cloud because I noticed the “connect” … thought it was appropriate.
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### Author:  [@Mackiwg](https://connect.oeglobal.org/u/Mackiwg)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2022, 9:42am UTC](https://connect.oeglobal.org/t/please-say-hello-n-h-o-guten-tag-kia-ora-hola-sveiki-ahoj-bonjour-namaste/14/10 "2022-05-30T09:42:26Z")
Kia ora open educators!
Bringing you greetings from the deep south of New Zealand.
I’m based with the [OERu](https://oeru.org/) international partnership where we are open sourcing education.
Great to see another open community space powered with a little Discourse open goodness.
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### Author:  [@cogdog](https://connect.oeglobal.org/u/cogdog)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2022, 9:45am UTC](https://connect.oeglobal.org/t/please-say-hello-n-h-o-guten-tag-kia-ora-hola-sveiki-ahoj-bonjour-namaste/14/11 "2022-05-30T09:45:21Z")
And a big OE Global hello to you, thanks Wayne for joining in.
OERu is influential in so many ways, and we have followed [their lead in the platform](https://community.oeru.org/) and approach for this community.
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### Author:  [@susan.huggins](https://connect.oeglobal.org/u/susan.huggins)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2022, 9:59am UTC](https://connect.oeglobal.org/t/please-say-hello-n-h-o-guten-tag-kia-ora-hola-sveiki-ahoj-bonjour-namaste/14/12 "2022-05-30T09:59:09Z")
Glad to have you join!
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### Author:  [@lightweight](https://connect.oeglobal.org/u/lightweight)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2022, 10:02am UTC](https://connect.oeglobal.org/t/please-say-hello-n-h-o-guten-tag-kia-ora-hola-sveiki-ahoj-bonjour-namaste/14/13 "2022-05-30T10:02:44Z")
Tēnā koutou katoa! Greetings to you all, also from the far south (but not quite as far south as @Mackiwg 😉 ) of New Zealand - I’m pleased to be able to join you all from Christchurch. Thanks for adding a bit of northern light to our murky, misty, chilly winter morning! I work with @Mackiwg at the [OER Foundation](https://oerfoundation.org) - we both [work remotely](https://tech.oeru.org/working-home) all the time - to democratise higher education for those who, for whatever reason, don’t have access to it now.
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### Author:  [@susan.huggins](https://connect.oeglobal.org/u/susan.huggins)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2022, 12:28pm UTC](https://connect.oeglobal.org/t/please-say-hello-n-h-o-guten-tag-kia-ora-hola-sveiki-ahoj-bonjour-namaste/14/14 "2022-05-30T12:28:04Z")
Hello to you from Florida, U.S. Thanks for joining!
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### Author:  [@cogdog](https://connect.oeglobal.org/u/cogdog)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2022, 1:10pm UTC](https://connect.oeglobal.org/t/please-say-hello-n-h-o-guten-tag-kia-ora-hola-sveiki-ahoj-bonjour-namaste/14/15 "2022-05-30T13:10:28Z")
And a big “howdy” Dave, you and Wayne are our first posting guests. I can’t think of too many open source blogs that share as much as here [https://tech.oeru.org/](https://tech.oeru.org/) That’s well worth more than just a bookmark.
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### Author:  [@paulstacey](https://connect.oeglobal.org/u/paulstacey)
#### Post date: [May 31, 2022, 3:36am UTC](https://connect.oeglobal.org/t/please-say-hello-n-h-o-guten-tag-kia-ora-hola-sveiki-ahoj-bonjour-namaste/14/16 "2022-05-31T03:36:39Z")
Kia ora Wayne. Thanks for jumping in. Always welcome your presence and insights. Congrats to NZ for the way it handled the pandemic.
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### Author:  [@paulstacey](https://connect.oeglobal.org/u/paulstacey)
#### Post date: [May 31, 2022, 3:39am UTC](https://connect.oeglobal.org/t/please-say-hello-n-h-o-guten-tag-kia-ora-hola-sveiki-ahoj-bonjour-namaste/14/17 "2022-05-31T03:39:52Z")
Dave, great to see you here in this space. Been a long time since I last saw you in person. So pleased to see the way OERu has established itself and built out its business model from those early days when we workshopped it together. Welcome.
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### Author:  [@Stephanie](https://connect.oeglobal.org/u/Stephanie)
#### Post date: [May 31, 2022, 6:52pm UTC](https://connect.oeglobal.org/t/please-say-hello-n-h-o-guten-tag-kia-ora-hola-sveiki-ahoj-bonjour-namaste/14/18 "2022-05-31T18:52:30Z")
Hello everyone,greetings from Nigeria
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### Author:  [@cogdog](https://connect.oeglobal.org/u/cogdog)
#### Post date: [May 31, 2022, 7:18pm UTC](https://connect.oeglobal.org/t/please-say-hello-n-h-o-guten-tag-kia-ora-hola-sveiki-ahoj-bonjour-namaste/14/19 "2022-05-31T19:18:31Z")
Welcome Stephanie, thanks for being a very early participant here. What is your interest, role, efforts in Open Education?
Please look around and find other conversations to join (or start).
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### Author:  [@Indira](https://connect.oeglobal.org/u/Indira)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2022, 12:14am UTC](https://connect.oeglobal.org/t/please-say-hello-n-h-o-guten-tag-kia-ora-hola-sveiki-ahoj-bonjour-namaste/14/20 "2022-06-01T00:14:55Z")
Namaste from India. I am Indira, Founding Director of [KBR & HL Human Development Foundation](https://elearning.hdfoundation.in/) and Head, eLearning at [Icfai Buisess School](https://www.ibsindia.org/) (IBS).
My open education journey started in 2009. Since then I have been promoting OERs and OER-enabled eLearning through various Faculty Development Programmes in India and other Asian countries.
Our Foundation is in the process of developing OER-enabled eCourses for school education in India.
Looking forward to connecting with open educators with similar interests.
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### Author:  [@susan.huggins](https://connect.oeglobal.org/u/susan.huggins)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2022, 2:14am UTC](https://connect.oeglobal.org/t/please-say-hello-n-h-o-guten-tag-kia-ora-hola-sveiki-ahoj-bonjour-namaste/14/21 "2022-06-01T02:14:22Z")
Welcome, Stephanie! So glad to have you in this group. We’d love to hear more about what you are doing with open education.
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### Author:  [@cogdog](https://connect.oeglobal.org/u/cogdog)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2022, 4:13am UTC](https://connect.oeglobal.org/t/please-say-hello-n-h-o-guten-tag-kia-ora-hola-sveiki-ahoj-bonjour-namaste/14/22 "2022-06-01T04:13:37Z")
Welcome to OEG Connect, Indira!
Thank you for joining this community early, bringing your open education experience, and hopefully sharing more about the work your foundation is doing.
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### Author:  [@Indira](https://connect.oeglobal.org/u/Indira)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2022, 4:44am UTC](https://connect.oeglobal.org/t/please-say-hello-n-h-o-guten-tag-kia-ora-hola-sveiki-ahoj-bonjour-namaste/14/23 "2022-06-02T04:44:57Z")
Our Foundation will be presenting “Preparing Higher Education Teachers for A Rapid Transition to Blended Online Learning” at [MoodleMoot Global](https://web.cvent.com/event/549deed0-5cdd-4641-a2a1-406fc21b6653/websitePage:671f4de5-ccd1-496d-86d7-a3864ab01d9b).
Will be showcasing how our Foundation’s 10-Day “eLearning for Professional Development” ([#eL4PD](https://twitter.com/hashtag/eL4PD)) Programme offered in April and May 2020 enabled 100 participants to make a rapid transition to Moodle-enabled teaching, learning and and assessment and conduct live sessions using BigBlueButton.
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### Author:  [@Sumit](https://connect.oeglobal.org/u/Sumit)
#### Post date: [June 7, 2022, 6:12am UTC](https://connect.oeglobal.org/t/please-say-hello-n-h-o-guten-tag-kia-ora-hola-sveiki-ahoj-bonjour-namaste/14/24 "2022-06-07T06:12:50Z")
Namaste and Hej! from an Indian in Sweden
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