Achal, congratulations - this is an amazing debut! When you're ready to "officially" disseminate it, can I ask you to send a note to WikimediaAnnounce-l (at) lists (dot) wikimedia (dot) org?
Thanks! Erik 2010/9/24 Achal Prabhala <aprabh...@gmail.com>: > Greetings, > > On behalf of Shiju Alex, here is... the first ever edition of the > Wikimedia India Community Newsletter. It's an incredible effort, and > we're really glad to have something like this - congrats to all who > helped with it. > > Going forward, Shiju (and all of us) would appreciate help and > participation. If you are a member of a Wikimedia language, or > geography, or project that you feel isn't adequately represented, or if > you'd like to help with design, proofreading and turning it into > something that works like the Signpost - we'd appreciate hearing from > you at: > > wminewslet...@gmail.com or Shiju Alex <shijualexonl...@gmail.com> > > At the moment, we're circulating the file in two pdf versions (one for > viewing, one for printing) and this is the link to the file on Commons: > > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_India_Community_Newsletter_2010_September.pdf > > Shiju will shortly find a way to design it in html, making it easier for > everyone. > > Cheers, > Achal > > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Releasing first edition of Wikimedia India Community > Newsletter - 2010 September > Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 17:56:06 +0530 > From: Shiju Alex <shijualexonl...@gmail.com> > To: Belayet Hossain <bella...@gmail.com>, Ragib Hasan > <ragibha...@gmail.com>, jayanta...@gmail.com, "Naveen (Naveenpf-wiki) > Francis" <navee...@gmail.com>, Srikanth Lakshmanan <srik....@gmail.com>, > tinucher...@gmail.com, mayur kumar <mayur...@gmail.com>, Hari Prasad > Nadig <hpna...@gmail.com>, Praveen Prakash <me.prav...@gmail.com>, > Raziman T V <razima...@gmail.com>, Francis Simi Nazereth > <simynazar...@gmail.com>, makan so thachan <thachan.ma...@gmail.com>, > Jacob Jose <jacob.j...@gmail.com>, Rajesh Varma <rajes...@hotmail.com>, > Mahitgar from Marathi Wikipedia <mahit...@yahoo.co.in>, Abhay Natu > <an...@yahoo.com>, Sankalp Dravid <sankalp.dra...@gmail.com>, > Mayooranathan Ratnavelupillai <rmayooranat...@gmail.com>, "C.R. > Selvakumar" <c.r.selvaku...@gmail.com>, Ravishankar > <ravidre...@googlemail.com>, balasun...@gmail.com, arjuna rao chavala > <arjunar...@googlemail.com>, Junaid P V <junu...@gmail.com>, Rajesh K > <rajeshodayanc...@gmail.com> > CC: Barry Newstead <bnewst...@wikimedia.org>, Achal Prabhala > <aprabh...@gmail.com>, Bishakha Datta <bishakhada...@gmail.com>, Arun > Ram <arunra...@gmail.com> > > > > Dear All, > > Our hard work for the past 2 months to release the first version of > Wikimedia India newsletter is coming to an end today. > > Please find attached the Print Quality PDF of the finalized version of > Wikimedia India Newsletter for your reference. We are officially > releasing the newsletter at 7:00 PM in the Bangalore Wikimeetup. > > This newsletter is the result of the ideas, suggestions, and feedback > that you had been provided by you during the last 2 months. Finally > Indian wikipedia community has come together for a common purpose. This > is just a starting. We have a long way to go. > > Each language community (8 communities as of now) has helped by > providing content about the respective language community. Some > communities could not join as their communities are not strong enough to > provide news to the newsletter. Hope they will join soon. > > Let me introduce again the Indian Language Wikipedians involved in this > effort (All are included in this mail thread). Here are they: > > Bengali: > > * Belayet Hossain > * Jayantanth > * Ragib Hasan > > > *English* > > * Naveen PF > * Srikanth Lakshmanan > * Tinu Cherian > > > *Hindi:* > > * Mayur Kumar > > > *Kannada:* > > * Hari Prasad Nadig > > > Malayalam: > > * * Praveen P . > * * Raziman T.V . > * * Simy Nazareth > * * Shiju Alex > * * Junaid P.V . > * * Thachan makan > * * Jacob Jose > * * Rajesh V arma > > > *Marathi:* > > * * Mahitgar > * * Abhay Natu > * * Sankalp Dravid > > > *Tamil:* > > * * Mayoora Nathan > * * C.R. Selva Kumar > * * Ravi Dreams > * * Sundar > > > *Telugu:* > > * * Arjuna Rao C . > * * Ravi Vyzasatya > * * Veeven > * * Sujatha Thummapud i > * * Bhaskara Rao Chimakurthy > * * Ravi Chandra Enagant > > > > *Technical team* > > * * Typesetting, template design, other tecnical support: Junaid > P.V. > * * Front and back cover page design: Rajesh Odayanchal > > > > I know that not everybody knows each other. But you will be excited to > be introduced to wikimedians working for other language wiki communities > of India. Let this be a new begining. Sharing experience from different > language wiki communities will surely help us (it is already helping us) > to replicate the success stories and best practices in other wikis. > > > So we are done with the first release. So what next? > > Eventhough we cannot think of a monthly newsletter now, we need to aim > atleast for a quaterly newsletter. Taking this point in into account, we > are proposing a list for regular content collation and newsletter > coordination. This list will contain the core editorial team and two > volunteers from each wikipedia. The volunteer nominations can be > suggested by the respective wikipedia community. > > The role of the volunteers from the language wikipedias would be to > conduit for collating content on events, happenings and plans of those > respective wikipedias. The community could choose to rotate these > nomiees as they deem appropriate. Please send your queries regarding the > mailing list to Arun Ram (arunra...@gmail.com > <mailto:arunra...@gmail.com>). > > > Once again I would like to thank each one of you from various language > communities for providing the community news.( from various language > communities.) > > Junaid P.V has done the type setting and the template design of this > newsletter. Without his support and hardwork this newsletter would not > have seen as it is today. Many days he was woking over night to fix > various issues. Once again I thank him for being kind with me while I > was sending repeated changes that I got from various language communities. > > Rajesh Odayanchal has designed front and back cover pages.He specially > created an Indian language map for this newsletter. Thanks to him. > > Arun Ram has done the peer review of most of the language community > news. Special Thanks to him. > > Last but not the least, I specillay thank Achal Prabhala for the review, > timely advice, and support. His advice has helped us to move forward > when there were many roadblocks in between. > > > Thanks once again. > > Thank you. > Shiju Alex > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaindia-l mailing list > Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l > -- Erik Möller Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate _______________________________________________ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l