[Wikimediaindia-l] Testing

2014-01-25 Thread jeph
Hi, Testing Pls ignore. ___ 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] Wikipedia workshop at Startup Village

2014-01-25 Thread jeph
Hi, Last saturday Netha Hussain and I had an interesting experience conducting a Wikipedia workshop at Startup Village http://www.startupvillage.in/. Startup Village is a private-public not-for-profit business incubator at Ernakulam, Kerala. They wanted to help us in spreading the word about

[Wikimediaindia-l] Membership

2014-01-25 Thread Yann Forget
Hello, I read that Wikimedia India does not accept member who are not Indian nationals. This comes as a big surprise, and I don't see any reason for it. As far as I know, membership in a non-profit in India is not limited to Indian nationals. A change whould be most welcomed. Thanks, Yann

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Membership

2014-01-25 Thread Arun Ramarathnam
Dear Yann, It was not a restriction the founding EC members put in did but a limitation required by the authorities (as advised by our consultant) to get the registration of the society through. We do know there are indophiles around the world who may want to sign up. Unfortunately we didn't

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Membership

2014-01-25 Thread Pradeep Mohandas
Hi,br/br/This question came up last February as well. Apparently, this was a restriction placed by the Registrar of Societies in Bangalore. See - http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2013-February/009280.htmlbr/br/I have no idea. I just linked to the conversation because I

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Membership

2014-01-25 Thread Abhijith Jayanthi
We will need registration with Ministry of Home Affairs to allow foreign nationals to register.    _Abhijith JayanthiE: abhij...@wikimedia.inm: +91-9866898311 On Saturday, 25 January 2014 6:40 PM, Pradeep Mohandas prad2...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi, This question came

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Membership

2014-01-25 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
Yann, as Arun and Abhijit stated. We would require approval, both from the Registrar of Societies in Karnataka as well as the Ministry of Home Affairs at Delhi. The process is a lengthy and time consuming one because it involves a lot of running around. If any changes do take place, we will let