Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-IN-PUN] Updated Aksharyogini font release in Open Font License
Great! :) -- Abhijeet Safai On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 4:44 PM, Sudhanwa Jogalekar sudhanwa@gmail.comwrote: Dear friends, You may be aware that we (my family) have released a font family earlier. Here is some background if you are not aware of it. On the first death Anniversary of Yogini Joglekar(my aunt), our family released AksharYogini (Normal) Font on 1st Nov. 2006. This font is primarily for Marathi language but can also be used for Hindi (for any language using Devanagari). It also has English support. Later on, on the occasion of Gudhipadwa (Chaitra Shuddha 1, 1931; that is 27th March 2009) , we released the additional fonts to complete the AksharYogini font family. This font family was/is made available on the site http://aksharyogini.sudhanwa.com for free usage/distribution/sharing. Today, on the occasion of Eighth Death Anniversary of Yogini Joglekar, we are now releasing an updated AksharYogini font. This font is also available on the same website http://aksharyogini.sudhanwa.com This is an updated font and has support for the new (MS Windows) operating systems where the internal mechanism for font rendering is changed. Also, it has additional characters for the current Unicode standard and the Rupee Sign is also included. Most important is the licensing. The new release is under the Open Font License. As such, all Linux distributions will be able to freely use it in their packaging. Please feel free to use, share, distribute the new font. You can download it from http://aksharyogini.sudhanwa.com . Give us feedback on my email id or the official id for the font aksharyogini at sudhanwa.com You can also comment on the guestbook on the website. Do share this news and also the font. Wishing you a Very Happy Diwali !! Thanks and regards -Sudhanwa -- ~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~! web: www.sudhanwa.com blog: www.sudhanwa.in Twitter: sudhanwa Check on FB, Linkedin for more. ___ Wikimedia-IN-PUN mailing list wikimedia-in-...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-pun ___ 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] WMF and CIS agreement
On 1 November 2013 09:17, Asaf Bartov abar...@wikimedia.org wrote: Dear Shyamal, and everyone, I apologize for not responding in a timely manner to your question on the Wikimedia Forum[1]. Since that thread is now archived, and because I don't want to bury my respond, I'm responding here, on this list where most of the people who care will read it. To your question: Vishnu did ask me -- at the time (the delay is all mine) -- about sharing the WMF and CIS agreement publicly. We will not be sharing that agreement, on principle: not because there's anything secret or damning in it, but because we do not want to create a misleading precedent that may set the expectation that all WMF contracts are subject to community review. This isn't, and cannot be, the case. We likewise do not expect chapters or other partners to publicly share contracts. That said, I am happy to answer the question that prompted you to want to look at the agreement, viz. whether the community really has the right to complain about things like lack of discussions / transparency etc. -- the answer is: yes, of course! The community is our ally in ensuring meaningful work gets accomplished, in India as in elsewhere in the world. We not only allow, but _want_ the community to review CIS-A2K's work, just like it reviews WMF's work (on more global/technical matters, e.g. the visual editor), Wikimedia India's work, and any other group operating in or around the Wikimedia projects. Asaf, One of the reasons I personally would want to push for more visibility on the agreement terms is the spending that is being done on the salaries of the people involved in the Indian program. There's not much disclosure on these if I'm not mistaken. Or point me to it if there's any. Starting from the earlier program director, the salaries allotted were mind bogglingly huge when compared to the salary trends in the non-profits here in India. The impression the volunteers involved in the community would get obviously is that the spending has been free flow, and anything but frugal. And considering the volume of spending, there's an impending question about the fruitfulness of the actual work done on ground. -- Hari Prasad Nadig http://hpnadig.net http://twitter.com/hpnadig http://flickr.com/hpnadig ___ 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] WMF and CIS agreement
On 6 November 2013 18:08, Hari Prasad Nadig hpna...@gmail.com wrote: Starting from the earlier program director, the salaries allotted were mind bogglingly huge when compared to the salary trends in the non-profits here in India. In general, salaries at non-profits in India are staggeringly low. So not sure if that's a valid starting point. Thank you. Best, Gautam http://www.akshara.org.in/ ___ 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] WMF and CIS agreement
One of the reasons I personally would want to push for more visibility on the agreement terms is the spending that is being done on the salaries of the people involved in the Indian program. There's not much disclosure on these if I'm not mistaken. Or point me to it if there's any. Dear Hari, The current CIS-A2K Grant budget (including the Team salaries) were openly shared with the community through most of the Indian mailing lists, in June 2013. For the posting on this list see [1]. Also see [2] for original approved budget which was part of the Grant Agreement and see [3] revised budget. Best, Vishnu [1] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2013-May/009900.html [2] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WMF-A2K_Grant_Budget_and_Utilization_Sept12_-Feb13.pdf [3] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CIS-A2K_WMF_Grant_Revised_Budget_%28Approved%29_and_Utilization_Sept_12-Feb_13.pdf ___ 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] WMF and CIS agreement
On 6 November 2013 18:31, Gautam John gau...@akshara.org.in wrote: On 6 November 2013 18:08, Hari Prasad Nadig hpna...@gmail.com wrote: Starting from the earlier program director, the salaries allotted were mind bogglingly huge when compared to the salary trends in the non-profits here in India. In general, salaries at non-profits in India are staggeringly low. So not sure if that's a valid starting point. Well, salaries upto 2 lakh _per month_ with additional allowances for expenses on domestic and international travel is pretty huge for India. Reading from http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WMF-A2K_Grant_Budget_and_Utilization_Sept12_-Feb13.pdf -- Hari Prasad Nadig http://hpnadig.net http://twitter.com/hpnadig http://flickr.com/hpnadig ___ 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] WMF and CIS agreement
Vishnu, The salaries of the earlier program director wasn't disclosed. There's not been much visibility there. Thanks for the links though. On 6 November 2013 19:11, Vishnu T visdav...@gmail.com wrote: One of the reasons I personally would want to push for more visibility on the agreement terms is the spending that is being done on the salaries of the people involved in the Indian program. There's not much disclosure on these if I'm not mistaken. Or point me to it if there's any. Dear Hari, The current CIS-A2K Grant budget (including the Team salaries) were openly shared with the community through most of the Indian mailing lists, in June 2013. For the posting on this list see [1]. Also see [2] for original approved budget which was part of the Grant Agreement and see [3] revised budget. Best, Vishnu [1] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2013-May/009900.html [2] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WMF-A2K_Grant_Budget_and_Utilization_Sept12_-Feb13.pdf [3] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CIS-A2K_WMF_Grant_Revised_Budget_%28Approved%29_and_Utilization_Sept_12-Feb_13.pdf ___ 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 -- Hari Prasad Nadig http://hpnadig.net http://twitter.com/hpnadig http://flickr.com/hpnadig ___ 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: [Wikiml-l] Fwd: Re: Request for publishing Asan's Gurudeva Jeevacharithram's Anubandham under common licence in Wikipedia
Dear all, This is a news worth sharing for the entire wikimedia community. Kudos to Malayalam Wikimedians for their effort! Best! Subha Begin forwarded message: From: Sandeep N Das sandeepn...@gmail.com Date: 6 November 2013 10:01:57 pm IST To: permissions-comm...@wikimedia.org Cc: Malayalam Wikimedia Project Mailing list wikim...@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Wikiml-l] Fwd: Re: Request for publishing Asan's Gurudeva Jeevacharithram's Anubandham under common licence in Wikipedia Reply-To: Malayalam Wikimedia Project Mailing list wikim...@lists.wikimedia.org Mr. Niranj S/o Dr. T Bhaskaran have given consent to use Asan's Gurudeva Jeevacharithram's Anubandham under common licence in Wikipedia. Please see the attachment as content below. Thanks to all members of Bhaskaran Memoril Trust. I hereby affirm that: M/s.Dr.T.Bhaskaran Memoril Trust, represented by T B Niranj, S/o, Dr.T.Bhaskaran and Managing Trustee of Dr.T.Bhaskaran Memorial Trust, is the sole owner of the exclusive copyright of Anubandham: 1090 to Great Samadhi by Dr. T Bhaskaran. I agree to publish that work under the free license Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported I acknowledge that by doing so I grant anyone the right to use the work in a commercial product or otherwise, and to modify it according to their needs, provided that they abide by the terms of the license and any other applicable laws. I am aware that this agreement is not limited to Wikipedia or related sites. I am aware that I always retain copyright of my work, and retain the right to be attributed in accordance with the license chosen. Modifications others make to the work will not be claimed to have been made by me. I acknowledge that I cannot withdraw this agreement and that the content may or may not be kept permanently on a Wikimedia project. T B Niranj S/o Dr.T.Bhaskaran, Managing Trustee, M/s Dr.T.Bhaskaran Memorial Trust ‘Ameya’, Chakalappadam Road, Kaloor, Cochin, 682017. Regards, Sandeep N Das Sr. Positioning Specialist WesternGeco Intl. +91 999 54 80 198 -- Forwarded message -- From: Niranj nir...@loremine.com Date: 6 Nov 2013 12:09 Subject: Re: Request for publishing Asan's Gurudeva Jeevacharithram's Anubandham under common licence in Wikipedia To: Sandeep N Das sandeepn...@gmail.com Cc: Nishkala Retnakumar nishk...@kel.co.in, Anu atheen...@gmail.com, Ratnakumar Sreedharan srat...@gmail.com Hi Sandeep, Thank you for explaining about the license. Please see attached consent. Regards, Niranj Co-founder Director LoreMine Technologies Pvt. Ltd. Cell Phone: +919446031415 Website: www.loremine.com Office address: LoreMine Technologies Pvt. Ltd. H4, 4th Floor, Heavenly Plaza, Vazhakkala, Kakkanad, Thrikkakara P.O, Kochi, PIN - 682021, Kerala India. Phone: +91 484 2972798 Home address: CPRA 20, Ameya, Chakkalapadam Road, Off-Perandoor Road, Kaloor P.O, Kochi,, PIN - 682017, Kerala, India. Phone: +91 484 2531414 Alternate email: niran...@gmail.com On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 10:21 AM, Sandeep N Das sandeepn...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Niranj Sir, Hope you doing fine. This is Sandeep who meet you at your home last day regarding, Request to get permission from Dr. T Bhaskaran's family to publish Anubandham: 1090 to Great Samadhi by Dr. T Bhaskaran in WikiSource. Below is the formal request. On your reply please include wikim...@lists.wikimedia.org, which is Wikimedia project mailing group. Thanking you in advance. * Respected Sir, My Name is Sandeep, a Malayalam Wikipedian who support Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit. We have published Great Kumaran Asan's Gurudeva Jeeva charithram in Wikipedia. - http://ml.wikisource.org/wiki/Sree_Narayana_Guru We can only publish anything in wikipedia which doesn' t hold any copy wright issue. According to India copy right rule - its gets free only after 60 years of writers death or the publisher is willing to publish it under free copy wright. Thonnakkal Kuramaranasan Committe has published Gurudeva Jeeva charithram as a book, which was published earlier in vivekodyam as an article. At the end there is and Anubandham which is written by Dr. T Bhaskaran. This is a request to get permission from Dr. T Bhaskaran's family to publish Anubandham: 1090 to Great Samadhi by Dr. T Bhaskaran in WikiSource. xyz കൃതിയുടെ പകർപ്പവകാശ ഉടമസ്ഥനായ/ഉടമസ്ഥരായ ഞാൻ/ഞങ്ങൾ, xyz എന്ന ഈ കൃതി സ്വതന്ത്രപകർപ്പവകാശലൈസൻസിൽ (ഉദാ:CC-BY-SA) പ്രസിദ്ധീകരിക്കുന്നു എന്ന ഒരു സ്റ്റെറ്റ്മെന്റ് ആണ് ആവശ്യം. Hope you will take appropriate action for the request. Pl contact me for any clarification on this email for phone: 9995480198. Yours Faithfully, Sandeep Cherthala Mob: 9995480198 Regards, Sandeep N Das Sr. Positioning Specialist WesternGeco Intl. +91 999 54 80 198 Anubandham 1090 to Great Samadhi by Dr.T Bhaskaran.doc
