[Wikimediaindia-l] Volunteers for Wiki Academy on 6 Aug 2012, Monday at Dravidian Univ, Kuppam
Hi, We have a Wiki Academy on 6 Aug 2012, Monday at Dravidian Univ, Kuppam, a special university setup in 1997 with focus on the four Dravidian languages, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada and Malayalam. About 80 research scholars and faculty are expected to attend the Event. The Details for the event and a custom brochure is at http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Wiki_Academy/Dravidian_University,Kuppam We plan to leave early morning by car (takes around 2:30hours by Road) and return by around 8 PM. We are looking for few Telugu, Tamil, Kannada and Malayalam wikipedians based in Bangalore or nearby places to join us. As of now, myself and Radhakrishna, Chair, Bangalore SIG have confirmed our plans. Let me know if any one is interested to join us by Aug 3, 2012. Thanks and regards Arjuna Rao Chavala President, Wikimedia India ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WMIN-Members] Volunteers for Wiki Academy on 6 Aug 2012, Monday at Dravidian Univ, Kuppam
I'd like to join, Arjun. I can talk about contributing to Tamil Wikipedia (and English, if required). Regards, Sundar That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted. - George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture From: Arjuna Rao Chavala arjunar...@gmail.com To: wmin-memb...@googlegroups.com Cc: Discussion list on Indian language projects of Wikimedia. wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Wednesday, August 1, 2012 11:38 AM Subject: [WMIN-Members] Volunteers for Wiki Academy on 6 Aug 2012, Monday at Dravidian Univ, Kuppam Hi, We have a Wiki Academy on 6 Aug 2012, Monday at Dravidian Univ, Kuppam, a special university setup in 1997 with focus on the four Dravidian languages, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada and Malayalam. About 80 research scholars and faculty are expected to attend the Event. The Details for the event and a custom brochure is at http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Wiki_Academy/Dravidian_University,Kuppam We plan to leave early morning by car (takes around 2:30hours by Road) and return by around 8 PM. We are looking for few Telugu, Tamil, Kannada and Malayalam wikipedians based in Bangalore or nearby places to join us. As of now, myself and Radhakrishna, Chair, Bangalore SIG have confirmed our plans. Let me know if any one is interested to join us by Aug 3, 2012. Thanks and regards Arjuna Rao Chavala President, Wikimedia India -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Wikimedia Chapter, India Member's Group. To post to this group, send email to wmin-memb...@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wmin-members+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/wmin-members?hl=en?hl=en ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Farewell
Hello all, I think it is important to analyse issues objectively rather than subjectively if we want to go forward and learn from our experiences. We bring with us into our professional lives our personal strengths and weaknesses as we are human. Criticism is good. Constructive criticism of both others and ourselves is important if we want to improve the movement. Let us move on as better human beings. Thanks Hisham for your contribution. With warm wishes, -- Vikram Vincent 09969249984 (Mumbai) 09448810822 (Bangalore) ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-l] Changes to India Program
Sunil, I read from the FAQ that the program plan from CIS would be shared with the community shortly. However, let me just put in a quick question I've had. I'm keen to know if there is any primary area of focus the CIS has in mind while executing the partnership/grant - anything that was central in the discussion running up to these changes. My specific concern is how the Chapter would evolve going ahead from here, and given that CIS has helped the Chapter activities in the past, what role CIS plans to play in strengthening the Chapter - whether there would be efforts to strengthen the organization or such. From the FAQ: The Indian chapter is young -- just over a year old. Since, and even before, its founding, the Wikimedia Foundation has worked on a regular basis with it. We provided a grant to help jumpstart chapter activities, and the India Program has collaborated with members of the chapter Executive Committee on a number of activities. The chapter has yet to complete its first grant, *is seeing significant turnover in its Executive Committee and a decline in membership*. Like most chapters, it needs time to develop into a mature organization with the governance setup in place to manage a staff and larger budget. We are hopeful that they will get there as other chapters have, but it will take time. *We believe that, at this point in the chapter’s development, to give it responsibility for a team of staff and a sizable budget would risk stressing and damaging rather than helping it*. We would like there to be a change in approach from competitive to cooperative with the Wikimedia Foundation and with other groups in the community. This would serve the chapter well and the community well. (emphasis mine) Reading this, I wish and hope in future that the Chapter won't be isolated or left to fend for itself. There are good leaders in the Wikimedia community who would be willing to take up responsibilities in the Chapter given there's more transparency, more willingness from the WMF to involve long time volunteers, - those that started during the early years of Wikipedia and had stayed on contributing for several years, in key decision making w.r.t India programs (because they understand the business of growing the community better, if not the essentials of running an organization). And so far, it seemed from outside that it has just been exorbitant amount of pressure exerted on the chapter to deliver at a time when it was supposed to be strengthening its base, which clearly hasn't helped. For WikimediaIndia-l users, just a note that I had earlier posted a response to Barry's email here: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2012-July/121523.html Regards, On 30 July 2012 16:26, Sunil Abraham su...@mahiti.org wrote: Dear Wikipedians, On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 4:18 PM, Barry Newstead (WMF) bnewst...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hisham’s departure coincides with another change in the India Program. We are pleased to announce that the Wikimedia Foundation has approved a grant to the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) in Bangalore to expand their Access to Knowledge programme to support the achievement of the Wikimedia mission in India. CIS is a leading organization in India working on Internet policy. They are part of the broad free and open community. CIS is a long time friend of Wikimedia, our community in Bangalore, and the Wikimedia India chapter. I would like to first like to thank Wikimedia Foundation for giving us a grant to expand our Access to Knowledge Programme with a greater focus on Wikipedia. I look forward to working with colleagues from the Foundation and serving the community in India. A little bit about my self since I am posting for the first time on this list, I was elected an Ashoka fellow in 1999. I was part of the founding team of Mahiti.org though no longer formally involved. Between 2004 and 2007, I managed IOSN.net, a project of APDIP-UNDP that focussed on promoting FOSS, open standards and open content policies in the Asia-Pacific region. Apart from the Government of India, I have worked with the governments of Moldova, Tajikistan, Saudi Arabia and Iraq on free software and open standards policies. I currently serve on the boards of Samvada and Tactical Technology Collective and also on the sub-board of Open Society Foundation's Information Programme. Now a little about CIS that is not in the FAQ. We are most often in the news for our work around Freedom of Expression under our Internet Governance programme. But most of our budget is spent on the other less controversial areas. As a research organisation CIS does not enforce party positions across staff members and fellows, like the Kamasutra we encourage a multiplicity of positions. CIS has hosted inclusiveplanet.com in the past and is currently hosting hasgeek.in. CIS's garage has been converted into a hacker space called The Lab. In the past, we have had the
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] IRC on EC elections for this year,
Hi All, The IRC log is available at http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Election_IRC_Jul2012 Thanks Arjuna On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 6:22 PM, Gautam John gau...@prathambooks.orgwrote: No. It's not mandatory. This is only to clarify questions there may be. Thank you. Best, Gautam http://blog.prathambooks.org/p/social-media.html On 30 July 2012 16:16, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.com wrote: Gautam, is it mandatory to attend this IRC? Several chapter members I know, want to stand for elections, but will be unable to attend this IRC. -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan. Sign this petition to introduce Volvo buses in Coimbatore city: https://www.change.org/en-IN/petitions/the-transport-minister-tamil-nadu-introduction-of-volvo-city-buses-in-the-city-of-coimbatore ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-l] Changes to India Program
Dear Hari, On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 1:53 PM, Hari Prasad Nadig m...@hpnadig.net wrote: discussion running up to these changes. My specific concern is how the Chapter would evolve going ahead from here, and given that CIS has helped the Chapter activities in the past, what role CIS plans to play in strengthening the Chapter - whether there would be efforts to strengthen the organization or such. Please don't worry on that count. CIS will maintain status quo w.r.t. to Chapter relationships. Whatever facilities/services are currently being provided to Chapter and have been provided to the Chapter in the past - will continue to be provided from CIS's core-funding. These services will continue beyond the 22 month period of this grant and for as long as we are around. For WikimediaIndia-l users, just a note that I had earlier posted a response to Barry's email here: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2012-July/121523.html As mentioned in my first message to the list - CIS is very committed to increasing the accountability and transparency of this particular grant and also the organisation as a whole. For example - to control travel related costs - CIS could publicly disclose the list of hotels in each city that are affordable at our per diem rates - these hotels will be used by all staffers including the A2K team. For greater transparency around staff travel - we could provide demand-based access to the staff calendar including the A2K team. In other words, if you wanted to know what I or any member of the A2K team was doing or will be doing on a particular date - you could email our publication's manager and he would tell you. Hopefully measures such as these will increase the bang you are getting for your buck. I hope you will also point out other areas where we could make improvements as CIS. Best wishes, Sunil ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-l] Changes to India Program
Dear Hari, On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 1:53 PM, Hari Prasad Nadig m...@hpnadig.net wrote: discussion running up to these changes. My specific concern is how the Chapter would evolve going ahead from here, and given that CIS has helped the Chapter activities in the past, what role CIS plans to play in strengthening the Chapter - whether there would be efforts to strengthen the organization or such. Please don't worry on that count. CIS will maintain status quo w.r.t. to Chapter relationships. Whatever facilities/services are currently being provided to Chapter and have been provided to the Chapter in the past - will continue to be provided from CIS's core-funding. These services will continue beyond the 22 month period of this grant and for as long as we are around. For WikimediaIndia-l users, just a note that I had earlier posted a response to Barry's email here: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2012-July/121523.html As I said in my first message to the list - CIS is very committed to increasing the accountability and transparency of this particular grant and also the organisation as a whole. For example - to control travel related costs - CIS could publicly disclose the list of hotels in each city that are affordable at our per diem rates - these hotels will be used by all staffers including the A2K team. For greater transparency around staff travel - we could provide demand-based access to the staff calendar including the A2K team. In other words, if you wanted to know what I or any member of the A2K team was doing or will be doing on a particular date - you could email our publication's manager and he would tell you. Hopefully measures such as these will increase the bang you are getting for your buck. I hope you will also point out other areas where we could make improvements as CIS. Best wishes, Sunil ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Wikitech-l] Welcoming Srikanth Lakshmanan to the i18n engineering team
Congrats Srikanth! -- Forwarded message -- From: Alolita Sharma asha...@wikimedia.org Date: 2012/8/1 Subject: [Wikitech-l] Welcoming Srikanth Lakshmanan to the i18n engineering team To: Wikimedia developers wikitec...@lists.wikimedia.org Hi All, Please join me in welcoming Srikanth Lakshmanan as outreach coordinator/QA engineer (contractor) in WMF’s Internationalization (i18n) / Localization (L10n) engineering team. As the team’s technical liaison, Srikanth will be actively reaching out and working with our language communities to get feedback on new i18n/L10n features being planned or rolled out to Wikimedia sites. Srikanth hails from Chennai, India. He has been a Wikipedian since 2006 and identifies himself as a wikignome (User:Logicwiki). Srikanth has provided language support for Tamil Wiki projects and loves to file bugs (and occasionally fix them) when he sees languages are not properly supported. Srikanth has recently revived his blogging habit at logic10.tumblr.com. His other interests include cycling, travelling in buses, playing table tennis (aka ping pong). Srikanth is excited to be able to contribute his tiny bit in making a sum of all human knowledge more accessible and helping build a more multilingual web! Check out some of his work on Tamil scripts and consonants at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamil_Script#Consonants_of_Modern_Tamil Srikanth can be reached on email at slakshma...@wikimedia.org or as @srikanthlogic on our irc channels including #mediawiki, #wikimedia-dev and #mediawiki-i18n. Welcome Srikanth! It is great to have you on the i18n engineering team! -Alolita -- Alolita Sharma Director of Engineering Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list wikitec...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Wikitech-l] Welcoming Srikanth Lakshmanan to the i18n engineering team
+1 On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 10:59 PM, Santhosh Thottingal santhosh.thottin...@gmail.com wrote: Congrats Srikanth! -- Forwarded message -- From: Alolita Sharma asha...@wikimedia.org Date: 2012/8/1 Subject: [Wikitech-l] Welcoming Srikanth Lakshmanan to the i18n engineering team To: Wikimedia developers wikitec...@lists.wikimedia.org Hi All, Please join me in welcoming Srikanth Lakshmanan as outreach coordinator/QA engineer (contractor) in WMF’s Internationalization (i18n) / Localization (L10n) engineering team. As the team’s technical liaison, Srikanth will be actively reaching out and working with our language communities to get feedback on new i18n/L10n features being planned or rolled out to Wikimedia sites. Srikanth hails from Chennai, India. He has been a Wikipedian since 2006 and identifies himself as a wikignome (User:Logicwiki). Srikanth has provided language support for Tamil Wiki projects and loves to file bugs (and occasionally fix them) when he sees languages are not properly supported. Srikanth has recently revived his blogging habit at logic10.tumblr.com. His other interests include cycling, travelling in buses, playing table tennis (aka ping pong). Srikanth is excited to be able to contribute his tiny bit in making a sum of all human knowledge more accessible and helping build a more multilingual web! Check out some of his work on Tamil scripts and consonants at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamil_Script#Consonants_of_Modern_Tamil Srikanth can be reached on email at slakshma...@wikimedia.org or as @srikanthlogic on our irc channels including #mediawiki, #wikimedia-dev and #mediawiki-i18n. Welcome Srikanth! It is great to have you on the i18n engineering team! -Alolita -- Alolita Sharma Director of Engineering Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list wikitec...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Wikitech-l] Welcoming Srikanth Lakshmanan to the i18n engineering team
Quite logical, i18n-Et. And congratulations, logic. :) Tamil and other Indic Wikis, have a great go with Srikant ! -Viswam ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
