I'm with Sydney :) Welcome Bishakha to our crazy projects and community. Wiki(mp)edia is diverse, huge, decentralized, a little overwhelming and full of some of the geekiest, most awesome people I know -- I hope you can make it to Wikimania to meet some of them!
And as with all new board members, staff & others taking up a role in the Foundation: if you have questions (whether about how to edit, or the history of a project, or how something works, or anything at all) don't hesitate to ask (via mail, irc, wiki talk page, etc). The community may be argumentative & noisy but we try to be helpful too :) -- Phoebe On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 9:08 AM, Sydney Poore <sydney.po...@gmail.com> wrote: > Welcome Bishakha :-) > > From my perspective having more focus on women's related topics and > issues in the WMF projects would be a good thing! So I welcome your > involvement; including your perspective as someone who has encouraged > and empowered women to contribute in the public domain on women's > issues. > > Sydney Poore > > On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 9:35 AM, Bishakha Datta <bishakhada...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> Thanks, all. Thought I would just introduce myself a bit more. >> >> Building on Michael (Snow's) email, for the last 12 years I have run Point >> of View (www.pointofview,org), a Mumbai-based non-profit that puts the >> voices and points of view of women in the public domain through media, art >> and culture. We work on issues ranging from domestic violence, sex workers' >> rights, gender and HIV - to enabling women in low-income communities to >> access and use digital technologies (video, photo, net) to tell their own >> stories and talk about their own realities. >> >> Info-activism, specially via online platforms, is one of the issues that we >> started working on a couple of years back. Our first foray into >> info-activism was as one of the seeders of the Public Access Digital Media >> Archive (http://pad.ma), which is built on open source software and >> principles. >> >> Apart from managing POV, I also make documentary videos on issues of gender >> and sexuality, and am currently writing a non-fiction book on the lives of >> sex workers in India. I also serve on the boards of many other non-profits >> that work in the Global South, including CREA (www.creaworld.org) and >> Breakthrough (www.breakthrough.tv) - and consult for foundations and >> non-profits in India, the US, and parts of Africa. >> >> Coming to Michael (Peel's) question about my prior involvement with >> Wikipedia, I'm one of its millions of daily readers/users around the world. >> I have yet to contribute enough by way of edits to call myself an editor. >> >> Cheers - and really do look forward to contributing in more ways than one, >> Bishakha > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > -- * I use this address for lists; send personal messages to phoebe.ayers <at> gmail.com * _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l