Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Recruitment Announcement : Program Director of Wikimedia India Chapter

2014-09-21 Thread Dhaval S. Vyas
Congratulations Ravi, Wish you and the Chapter all success! BR, Dhaval On 22 Sep 2014 02:10, "Ravishankar" wrote: > Hi Jayanta, Chapter EC and members, Nkansah, Vishnu, Arnav, Ansuman, > Sanket, Yohann and Rahim, > > Thank you all for your wishes. > > Yes, this is User:Ravidreams :) > > You can

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Eligibility confirmed for 2014-2015 Round 1 of the Annual Plan Grants

2014-09-21 Thread Manoj Lahiri
On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 9:38 AM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan < rsrikant...@gmail.com> wrote: > Manoj, > It simply means that Wikimedia India did not submit a letter of intent to > receive funding under the APG pattern. Exactly what do you mean by 'Why are > you letting them do such things to you?' It is

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Recruitment Announcement : Program Director of Wikimedia India Chapter

2014-09-21 Thread Nurunnaby Hasive
Congratulations Ravishankar! Wish you all the best. On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 2:02 PM, Nkansah Rexford wrote: > Welcome Ravishankar. Can't wait to see you in action. > > Thanks for the info, Nath > On Sep 21, 2014 9:56 AM, "Jayanta Nath" wrote: > >> Dear Members of Wikimedia India Chapter, >> >>

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Recruitment Announcement : Program Director of Wikimedia India Chapter

2014-09-21 Thread Abhishek Suryawanshi
Thank you Jayanta Da for sharing. Congratulations Ravishankar Ayyakkannu :) ​All the best.​ ​Warm Regards, Abhishek Suryawanshi ​ On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 1:25 PM, Jayanta Nath wrote: > Dear Members of Wikimedia India Chapter, > > It is my pleasure to announce Ravishankar Ayyakkannu as the

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Recruitment Announcement : Program Director of Wikimedia India Chapter

2014-09-21 Thread Ravishankar
Hi Jayanta, Chapter EC and members, Nkansah, Vishnu, Arnav, Ansuman, Sanket, Yohann and Rahim, Thank you all for your wishes. Yes, this is User:Ravidreams :) You can find my contact info at http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Staff Please stay tuned for more updates regarding programmatic activities from

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] New community nominations in place of absent invitees welcome

2014-09-21 Thread Dhaval S. Vyas
Dear Hari Prasad, Aren't festivals already listed on calendar? I have a couple of calendars here in UK, which shows all the festivals for the whole year, one till October this year (as that is when our Gujarati year ends) and another till 31st December. I can easily check on which date what festiv

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] New community nominations in place of absent invitees welcome

2014-09-21 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, Actually this discussion was firmly outside of any other consideration. It had nothing to do with CIS nor the Indian chapter. Having to say this, says something as well. Apparently there "must" be a relation of everyone between either CIS or the Indian chapter. I am a Wikimedian, I am most ac

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] New community nominations in place of absent invitees welcome

2014-09-21 Thread Hari Prasad Nadig
On 21 September 2014 21:55, Gerard Meijssen wrote: > Hoi, > At Wikimania in London I discussed how nice it would be to include all the > Indian calendars and by implication all the festivals past present and > future. From it I understand that there is no universal knowledge of such > calendars

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] New community nominations in place of absent invitees welcome

2014-09-21 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, At Wikimania in London I discussed how nice it would be to include all the Indian calendars and by implication all the festivals past present and future. From it I understand that there is no universal knowledge of such calendars and festivals. One of the things that I gleaned from the conve

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] New community nominations in place of absent invitees welcome

2014-09-21 Thread Hari Prasad Nadig
On 21 September 2014 21:01, Dhaval S. Vyas wrote: > Hi All, > > So far as I am aware, dates were advertised quite long ago and well before > some of the communities started discussing it (some communities don't seem > to have discussed) on their village pumps. If the dates were known already > an

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] New community nominations in place of absent invitees welcome

2014-09-21 Thread Dhaval S. Vyas
Hi All, So far as I am aware, dates were advertised quite long ago and well before some of the communities started discussing it (some communities don't seem to have discussed) on their village pumps. If the dates were known already and we all plan our holidays and festivals little bit in advance,

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Recruitment Announcement : Program Director of Wikimedia India Chapter

2014-09-21 Thread రహ్మానుద్దీన్ షేక్
Dear Ravi, Congratulations and Welcome! On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 4:25 PM, Yohann Thomas wrote: > Congrats Ravishankar & Welcome to the community > > Yohann Thomas > yohan...@gmail.com > > > ___ > Wikimediaindia-l mailing list > Wikimediaindia-l@lists.w

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] New community nominations in place of absent invitees welcome

2014-09-21 Thread Hari Prasad Nadig
Ravi, Going by what Asaf disclosed to me on an email off the list, the event was organized on these dates despite the knowledge of this major festival. I fail to see why it was done so in such hurried manner, whatever is the reasoning with respect to WMF travel schedule. Further, I was told that

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] New community nominations in place of absent invitees welcome

2014-09-21 Thread Yohann Thomas
>From what i see in the talk page for the event, in the English community out of 8 only 2 have confirmed. How will the other 6 be selected?? Yohann Thomas yohan...@gmail.com On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 11:34 PM, Ravishankar wrote: > Hi Vikram, > > Some communities like Tamil, Telugu and Gujarati ha

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Recruitment Announcement : Program Director of Wikimedia India Chapter

2014-09-21 Thread Yohann Thomas
Congrats Ravishankar & Welcome to the community Yohann Thomas yohan...@gmail.com ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/l

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Recruitment Announcement : Program Director of Wikimedia India Chapter

2014-09-21 Thread Sanket Oswal
Congratulations Ravishankar! Regards, Sanket Oswal. On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 1:37 PM, ansuman wrote: > Congrats Ravishankar. > > Welcome to WMIN as PD. > Wish you all the best! > > Regards, > Ansuman > On 21-Sep-2014 1:26 pm, "Jayanta Nath" wrote: > >> Dear Members of Wikimedia India Chapter, >

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Recruitment Announcement : Program Director of Wikimedia India Chapter

2014-09-21 Thread ansuman
Congrats Ravishankar. Welcome to WMIN as PD. Wish you all the best! Regards, Ansuman On 21-Sep-2014 1:26 pm, "Jayanta Nath" wrote: > Dear Members of Wikimedia India Chapter, > > It is my pleasure to announce Ravishankar Ayyakkannu as the Program > Director of Wikimedia India Chapter. > > He was

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Recruitment Announcement : Program Director of Wikimedia India Chapter

2014-09-21 Thread Arnav Sonara
Welcome to the community, Ravishankar ! Is he by any chance, User:Ravidreams? Also few links about him or his work would have been helpful while introducing him to the list, including his email address. Jayanta, please look into it? Thanks. Thanks, Arnav. (User:Rangilo_Gujarati). On Sun, Sep

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Recruitment Announcement : Program Director of Wikimedia India Chapter

2014-09-21 Thread Vishnu
Dear Ravi, Congratulations and welcome! Best wishes. Vishnu On Sunday 21 September 2014 01:25 PM, Jayanta Nath wrote: Dear Members of Wikimedia India Chapter, It is my pleasure to announce Ravishankar Ayyakkannu as the Program Director of Wikimedia India Chapter. He was involved in var

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Recruitment Announcement : Program Director of Wikimedia India Chapter

2014-09-21 Thread Nkansah Rexford
Welcome Ravishankar. Can't wait to see you in action. Thanks for the info, Nath On Sep 21, 2014 9:56 AM, "Jayanta Nath" wrote: > Dear Members of Wikimedia India Chapter, > > It is my pleasure to announce Ravishankar Ayyakkannu as the Program > Director of Wikimedia India Chapter. > > He was invo

[Wikimediaindia-l] Recruitment Announcement : Program Director of Wikimedia India Chapter

2014-09-21 Thread Jayanta Nath
Dear Members of Wikimedia India Chapter, It is my pleasure to announce Ravishankar Ayyakkannu as the Program Director of Wikimedia India Chapter. He was involved in various projects of the movement that dealt with the State Government of Tamilnadu and multinational firms like Google. His experie