Can you share the reason as well?
On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 5:36 PM, Yohann Thomas wrote:
> Hello one and all,
>
> Mrs Noopur Raval who had recently got elected to the Wikimedia India
> Chapter has resigned from the Executive Committee.
>
> WMIN thanks her for all her time & energy which she has
Dear all
If anyone planning to attend , come 2 days prior to attend SMC's 13th year
celebration and Annual Language Technology conference .
it is happening in Thiruvananthapuram itself on 16, 17 th . Swatantra is on
18-20
http://smc13.doattend.com/ have free passes.
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On Thu, De
FYI
-- Forwarded message --
From: Anivar Aravind
Date: Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 12:02 AM
Subject: WMIN Elections 2014 - Results
To: Wikimedia Members List
Dear Members,
We completed the election process for Wikimedia India Chapter Executive
Committee (EC) Elections for year 2014
On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 2:42 PM, 'Yogesh Khandke' via wmin-members <
wmin-memb...@googlegroups.com> wrote:
> As regards to "Same with Elecom.
> We are volunteers for conducting election process,
> We depends on legal advice from WMIN . So get in touch with WMIN office
> for any more clarification
On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 8:31 AM, 'Yogesh Khandke' via wmin-members <
wmin-memb...@googlegroups.com> wrote:
> I will, but please answer my last question.
>
Yogesh , read it and that have answer to your question :-)
Or get in touch with WMIN as Ravi informed .
> Also to my understanding as an an
On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 7:33 AM, 'Yogesh Khandke' via wmin-members <
wmin-memb...@googlegroups.com> wrote:
> Please share exact clause.
>
As a potential candidate , I request you to read chapter registration
documents and understand what Wikimedia Chapter is and what it is not
http://wiki.wikimed
On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 11:54 PM, Dhaval S. Vyas wrote:
> This is little strange, I can understand that voting and nominations are
> members only regime but why the community is not allowed to participate
> even in Q&A is not clear to me.
>
> If it is so, there should be no wiki page or onwiki dis
members who are users / editors of Wikipedia community
>
> This is a protest circulated against the strange decision by Anivar
> Aravind to hastily close the Q&A session for candidates after IAC
> poses uncomfortable queries from the "community"
>
> To: nethahus
not done
> it via "New question" section . Instead it has been added under the
> question of Arun .
>
> Please take a note of it .
>
> -Sibi
>
> On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 10:32 AM, Anivar Aravind > wrote:
>
>> Dear WMIN Members and Wikimedia Community,
>&
Just a correction
On Sat, Nov 1, 2014 at 6:48 PM, Anivar Aravind
wrote:
> Just a comment . "free knowledge" or "free and open knowledge" are the
> usual terms used by wmf and movement in general . the term open knowledge
> movement may be misleading because it is t
Just a comment . "free knowledge" or "free and open knowledge" are the
usual terms used by wmf and movement in general . the term open knowledge
movement may be misleading because it is the current legal name of open
knowledge foundation.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Knowledge
OKF or okfn.
as per current Q&A Shedule
Nobody in usual use cases are going to write to an email for creating an
account . Those will stay away from participating in process . I hope EC
will reconsider and lift the ban soon.
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On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 3:09 PM, Ravishankar Ayyakk
restriction is affecting
election Q&A *participation
Election Q& A is initiated in larger interest of the movement and not for
members alone
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On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 9:54 PM, Anivar Aravind
wrote:
> Just noticed Ravi put up a sitenotice on WMIN wiki have a
adding questions is Nov 10, 2014 and the
discussions is Nov 15, 2014
For Elecom
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http://blog.smc.org.in/chilanka-font/
You can test it at http://smc.org.in/downloads/fonts/chilanka/tests/
- Design: Santhosh Thottingal
- Technology: Santhosh Thottingal and Kavya Manohar
- Total number of glyphs: 676. Includes basic latin glyphs.
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Swathanthra
ik Nadar , Seconded by: Srikanth Ramakrishnan)
*Last date for withdrawal of candidature is 29 Oct 2014, 2359 hrs IST. **Any
candidate withdrawing candidature may express the same on
Talk:Elections2014/Nominations
<http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Talk:Elections2014/Nominations> and wikisign
before due
On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 4:54 PM, Arun wrote:
> Dear Anivar and members,
>
> I took the liberty of sprucing up the election page. (since yesterday)
> http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Elections2014
>
> Added link for procedural documents
> Added a status table for Election progress
> Template for Election
members
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ns in India Community Consultation as well .
But personalizing issues and building and spreading personal animosity
around technology opinions is a nonconstructive attitude of this identity
for long . So I am not engaging with him further on this off-topic
conversation .
I hope moderators will t
sorry for typo in subject line
On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 12:51 PM, Ashwin Baindur
wrote:
> 2004? Surely its done by now? Oh wait, we didn't have a Chapter then! ;)
>
> On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 11:31 PM, Anivar Aravind > wrote:
>
>> FYI
>>
>>
>> ---
FYI
-- Forwarded message --
From: Anivar Aravind
Date: Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 6:37 PM
Subject: WMIN 2004 Elections Announcement
To: Wikimedia Members List
Dear Members,
*Subject: Election Notice for Wikimedia Chapter Executive Committee
Elections-2014*
The Election Committee
On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 12:40 PM, Ravishankar Ayyakkannu <
ravidre...@wikimedia.in> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Lucia (2013 film) is a crowd funded and crowd sourced movie made in
> Karnataka that used social media for its promotions.
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucia_%282013_film%29
>
> Please watch
>
On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 3:22 PM, Anivar Aravind
wrote:
>
>
> The books now released by GoK also include some recent books which
>> contains collections like complete works of Dr Ambedkar, essays on
>> Ambedkar, research works on Kanaka dasa, etc.
>>
>
> Copyrigh
The books now released by GoK also include some recent books which contains
> collections like complete works of Dr Ambedkar, essays on Ambedkar,
> research works on Kanaka dasa, etc.
>
Copyright on Ambedkar work is yet another interesting grey area
Read this article
http://www.downtoearth.org.in
On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 1:02 PM, Vishnu wrote:
>
>
> On Thursday 25 September 2014 11:19 AM, Rajesh Ranjan wrote:
>
> On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 9:49 AM, Anivar Aravind
> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 9:55 PM, Vishnu wrote:
>>
>>&g
On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 11:23 AM, Omshivaprakash | Wikimedia <
omshivaprak...@wikimedia.in> wrote:
> @Rajesh @Ravi @Anivar @Pavanaja Don't you think CC0 (Public Domain) is the
> best license for this? We always back off from using the government
> produced books and content unless it is stated to
Congrats Ravi,
Happy to see an active wikipedian joining as a chapter staff.
Usually what we see in this sector for last few yerars is community members
quitting staff positions after a short term burnout at official roles. I am
sure Ravi will not join in that list and he will lead the chapter to
On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 9:55 PM, Vishnu wrote:
> Dear Ravi,
>
> On the copyright question AFAIK... it is the manner in which a certain
> content is expressed (e.g. analyzed, compiled, paginated, represented,
> etc..) the author could claim copyright, as there is a certain basic amount
> of crea
On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 10:31 AM, Samuel Klein wrote:
> I am also surprised to see no reply. Arjuna, do you have any further
> information?
>
Update on Election commitee process on WMIN Elections is here
http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Talk:Elections2014
Anivar Aravind
Member , Election
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From: Anivar Aravind
Date: Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 10:26 PM
Subject: Spoken Tutorials moved into CC-BY-SA 4.0 License
To: cc-in...@lists.ibiblio.org
Dear all,
Just heard from Prof. Kannan Moudgalya that Spoken Tutorials (
http://spoken-tutorial.org/) has
helped us to start exploring the possibilities and expanding
the program with more partners .
In last October Malayalam wikisource community released a 2.0 version of
its offline CD . This is the next major endeavour
~ regards
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User:AniVar
On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 5:45 PM
On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 8:36 PM, Gautam John wrote:
> On 16 November 2013 20:31, Nagarjuna G wrote:
>
> >> How is "CC BY-SA 3.0" copyright-free?
> > Usual misconception! recently I met people who are vocal advocates of
> > CC in India, they also hold this misconception.
>
> Another common one i
to Dr. P.K Thilak, Research Officer SCERT , Director SCERT, and
Biju Prabhakar IAS (Director of Public Instruction, Govt of Kerala ) for
initiating this Change.
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Secretary
Swathanthra Malaalam Computing
http://smc.org.in
Ph. 0
ctor SCERT, and
Biju Prabhakar IAS (Director of Public Instruction, Govt of Kerala ) for
initiating this Change.
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http://smc.org.in
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ia India and Univerity of New Delhi.
>
> With regards
> Jane Hornibrook
>
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 3:11 PM, Jayanta Nath wrote:
>
>> Dear All,
>>
>> Please go through below our India mailing list.... we need clear
>> explanation for this.
On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 1:14 AM, Karthik Nadar wrote:
> Dear Friends,
>
> Wikimedia India in association with Acharya Narendra Dev College New Delhi
> and Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore will be hosting the launch
> of Creative Commons India in New Delhi on 12 November, 2013 with Minist
Goa is a good option.
But just sharing a point of concern. It is extremely important to be
careful in selecting Hotels in Goa for International Conferences .There are
many Hotels violating many coastal regulation zones and environmental laws
.
2 years back Tehelka Think Fest faced a similar troubl
On Sun, Sep 1, 2013 at 12:20 AM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan <
srik.r...@wikimedia.in> wrote:
> Shyamal,
> Is this rule an unwritten rule or is it a proper legal law of sorts?
> If photography is legally banned, then all these photographs would be
> technically in violation of the law right?
>
It was
Thanks Arun,
But my emphasis was on organisational policy on newsletter format
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Dear Noopur
I request you to not send documents encoded in secret proprietary format.
If you
want me to read the attached document, please resend it in a free document
standard such as txt, html, odf, rtf, pdf in that order of preference. We
just
passed celebrating Document freedom Day (http://ww
This is very old news.
Libreoffice and Open office already have this feature from 2008 .
Libreoffice-wiki-publisher module does the job. Microsoft implemented
similar feature in 2010 .
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On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 11:54 AM, Tejaswini Niranjana wrote:
> I heard about a year ago that a Malayalam project I had helped raise funds
> for had become part of WikiSource. It is a Reader in Gender History put
> together by Prof J Devika of the Centre for Development Studies,
> Thiruvananthapuram
On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 2:39 PM, sankarshan wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 2:37 PM, Pavanaja U B
> wrote:
>> But then there is one issue of missing characters in some scripts. For
>> example Tamil has very few characters. When we transliterate from other
>> language into Tamil, say Kannada, we
On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 7:18 PM, Ashwin Baindur wrote:
> I fully agree with Vicram and others who feel its only fair that we give
> the new organisation a chance to do good and succeed.
>
> Dhaval & Aravind, you are both right & wrong. You are right that large
> parts of the India Program's strateg
On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 10:17 AM, Ravishankar wrote:
> The former Indian Wikimedia office was burnt out precisely because of this
> negative approach from the community.
Can you explain this ? I found this is a baseless allegation
In my observation following 2 major factors resulted in the
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 2:58 PM, Anirudh Bhati wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 4:12 PM, Amir E. Aharoni
> wrote:
>>
>> Again: Let's not make up controversy.
>
>
> No one is trying to rake up a controversy. This is a polite discussion, at
> least on my part, so I will appreciate if you do not al
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 9:31 AM, Anirudh Bhati wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 1:02 AM, Amir E. Aharoni
> wrote:
>>
>> If he didn't explain it, then you can presume that it's wrong. There's
>> nothing to discuss, and there's nothing wrong with saying "Indic
>> languages".
>
>
> The word "Indic"
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Dear Barry,
Just a question .
What will happen to Wikimedia India Programme Trust[1]
I think it need to be answered in FAQ[2].
In my observation, the registration of a third entity , at a safe
distance from Wikimedia Foundation and Chapter was a major
organisational mistake in Wikimedia India pr
On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 4:04 PM, Gautam John wrote:
> On 18 June 2012 15:19, Shiju Alex wrote:
>
> > Texts books (of few subjects) are available for download from the
> education
> > department website of the following states (There might be some more
> state
> > government sites).
>
> Thank you,
42061.html
BBC report http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-17350225
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"[It is not] possible to distinguish between 'numerical' and
'nonnumerical' algorithms, as if numbers were somehow different from
other kinds
On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 2:47 PM, Shiju Alex wrote:
> I am replying to this mail as a Malayalam wikimedia community member.
>
>
>> Fact: Subhashish, former volunteer, and now paid consultant with India
>> Programs.
>
>
> What do you mean by this? I Shiju Alex is a Indic language wikipedian now
> cl
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 11:59 AM, Anirudh Bhati wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> We are very happy to announce that the Ministry of Home Affairs has
> granted us prior permission under the Foreign Contribution
> (Regulation) Act, 2010 (FCRA) to receive funds from the Wikimedia
> Foundation, USA for Chapter
On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 3:38 PM, Pradeep Mohandas
wrote:
> You do not provide only references, you write the relevant paragraph
> that you are referencing. We did not think that we should write that
> down.
The whole article is relevant in the context of this thread, so why replicate?
Stopping my
On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 3:31 PM, wrote:
> Would have been good to mention that when you posted the link.
I am not much aware about such strange rules in English wikipedia :-)
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On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 2:15 PM, wrote:
>
> Refer:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Argumentum_ad_Jimbonem
It was not. Instead of articulating same point again, i pointed the
link. It does not matter even if it someone else's article .
Please respond to it that , instead of rejecting it
On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 1:57 PM, Gautam John wrote:
> On 4 January 2012 13:38, Srikanth Ramakrishnan
> wrote:
>
> > list and off the list. Wikipedia so't wholely reliant on FOSS, and
> > will never be. I don't mean to offend anyone but this is it. Please
> > comment.
>
> Wikipedia relies on three
Congrats Subha !!
Happy to see average age of WMF India programme got reduced with your entry !!!
Also thanks to Hisham for renaming the post to suit the skillset of Subha
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On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 5:07 PM, sankarshan wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 11:28 AM, Ravishankar wrote:
>
>> Only few years before even PCs supported all of these and it will take more
>> years to get this in all gadgets. So, the only expectation now is to at
>> least display the characters wel
On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 8:49 AM, Praveen Prakash wrote:
> I haven't seen any communication in any open platform with Malayalam
> Community members about this matter. A few weeks before I had a brief
> discussion with Santhosh about webfonts. But it was nothing about webfonts'
> rendering bugs. Inf
On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 11:19 PM, Srikanth Lakshmanan wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I dont see India Programs Staff being mentioned in this page[1]. Is there a
> specific reason to it? IIRC number of employees / contractors from this page
> is important since goes to fundraising appeal numbers. While it is s
On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 8:58 AM, Pradeep Mohandas
wrote:
> hi Anivar,
>
> Wikipedians like us call it the Open Source Movement. Since, we're all
> on the Wikipedia list, the acronym is acceptable. We don't have to
> adjust for the FOSS guys and be specific. Please understand and
> adjust.
Pradep,
On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 1:05 AM, Tory Read wrote:
> Dear Sudhanwa,
>
> My sincerest appologies. In my effort to be transparent, I made a mistake. In
> the report, attribution by name will not occur.
>
> Thank you for answering the chapter question.
>
> OSM = open source movement. Thanks for your c
On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 4:26 PM, Vickram Crishna
wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 1:08 PM, Erik Moeller wrote:
>>
>> And - to stay with the sandbox metaphor from another thread - if the
>> majority of contributors to a university-based program in India can
>> reach won't be able to contribute at
Very Valid Points Aswin & pune community. This is extremely useful. Putting
blame on students and educational system does not help us to study from
this experience . In addition , i was always wondering how we omitted
addressing copy-vios from the programme plan, since it is always expected
in "as
Thanks Shiju.
I raised same points yesterday , in Malayalam wikimedia list , in a related
thread.
Thanks for bringing this discussion here
Anivar
On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 5:58 AM, Shiju Alex wrote:
> Another strategy that we can adopt while doing this program in India is,
> about the selection o
FYI
>From Foundation List
-- Forwarded message --
From: James Heilman
Date: Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 9:44 PM
Subject: [Foundation-l] New Delhi, India
To: foundatio...@lists.wikimedia.org
Wikimedia Canada in collaboration with Wikimedia India and the University of
New Delhi is organ
Tehelka Report on TN freebie laptops and it politics
Relevant in the context of wikipedia offline plans in TN laptops
http://www.tehelka.com/story_main50.asp?filename=Ws101011MICROSOFT.asp
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On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 3:11 PM, Gautam John wrote:
> On 12 September 2011 13:16, Hisham Mundol wrote:
>
>> (Some) students in the Pune pilot have copy-pasted copyright material onto
>> their articles. We are taking these copyvios extremely seriously and here's
>> a summary of the action that we
I think it is in the advertisement of communication position with
foundation posted by Hisham sometimes back
On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 2:14 PM, Pradeep Mohandas
wrote:
> hi,
> Thanks for bringing this to our attention. Can you share where you have
> spotted this? We're not planning to have a twit
On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 1:41 PM, CherianTinu Abraham
wrote:
> Congratulations to Shiju and Nitika.
>
> It has been great working along with Shiju, closely for years now and I
> don't have to tell that how much he deserves this. I wondered how he gets
> time to "really" work with ABB with all his
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 4:36 PM, Ashwin Baindur
wrote:
> That is such a good idea. First of all we would need to see how many
> featured articles exist in each language and if they would fit in a DVD.
> OpenZIM would probably be the way to go. Do we have a list of sysops or
> pointsmen for each la
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 2:10 PM, Anivar Aravind
wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 2:04 PM, Gautam John wrote:
>> Hey:
>>
>> I was wondering is anyone here could offer some help to the Chapter to
>> set up a system to process membership forms etc.
>
> Seems lik
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 2:04 PM, Gautam John wrote:
> Hey:
>
> I was wondering is anyone here could offer some help to the Chapter to
> set up a system to process membership forms etc.
Seems like CiviCRM is best suited for your needs in long term . You
may need some customizations as well for 3.2
> On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 12:15 PM, Shiju Alex wrote:
>> In fact all of us know the effort and pain took by Mumbai/Pune community to
>> make arrangements for the Wikimedia India conference. They have reached out
>> to almost all community members and asked for the support. As per the below
>> mail
+1 Shiju . A healthy relationship is a must for community growth . I
suggest Charter to not to make such restrictive
regulations/frameworks or project for the time being, before AGM
starts (after membership periods) , since your role on establishing
chapter is completed, and the very next step is o
Dear friends
What happening now here is the splitting of community spirit.
Wikimedia Movement in india is anyway unite and active irrespective of the
presence and activities of chapter/ chapters
And all Indian projects (irrespective of language) achieved a lot of
momentum even without initiating a
On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 10:10 PM, Vibhi Jain wrote:
> Wikimedia India chapter is mainly
> Concentrated toward South Indian Languages,
Any measurable work by Indian Chapter is not visible for me so far.
Both with North /south indian languages/ areas.
I think They are just placing them on track afte
On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 11:58 AM, sankarshan wrote:
> On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 8:23 AM, Anivar Aravind
> wrote:
>> There is major problem in depending upon Non-FOSS solutions.
>
> There is. However, the line that comes immediately next might just
> need to be couched as a pe
On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 7:13 PM, Shiju Alex wrote:
>
> Congrats to Odia wiki community.
>
> From a wiki with almost no activism during 2011 March, now Odia wiki
> community is grown as one of the most vibrant wiki communities of India.
> Really appreciate the efforts and pain took by few native
There is major problem in depending upon Non-FOSS solutions.
It seems google used api's for collecting crowd sourced input for
improving their database & now shutting it down. Input methods such as
Tranlitration does not need online services . It can be easily done
without google or microsoft. And
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 8:39 AM, CherianTinu Abraham
wrote:
> The newspaper had not contacted me or possibly any ml Wikipedians directly
> for this article.
> There is a general misconception, among general public or media folks, that
> the images that are free to use are not copyrighted.
> Aniwar
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 7:50 AM, CherianTinu Abraham
wrote:
> The 2,155 copyright-free images uploaded are on diverse topics.
As i mentioned earlier this copyright-free tag coming up with most of
the reports on wikipedia is frustrating. We need to have a proper
strategy to address it. Most of t
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 8:44 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan
wrote:
> Aravind, thank you for the link.
> It comes very handy.
> Good to know that the state government is involved in this. Maybe, we could
> try it in other states.
> Regards,
> Srikanth.
>
The project i mentioned is not limited to wikipe
in Kerala , I have seen many people visually challenged people
accessing wikipedia (english &hindi wikipedia's) throughout the state
using orca+festival with the training provided by INSIGHT .a joint
project of state IT mission & a non profit group SPACE this is the
project website http://insight.
On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 4:33 PM, Nagarjuna G wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 3:28 PM, Anirudh Bhati wrote:
>> Okay, guys. This is uber-cool stuff. Hats off! :)
>>
>> How about a workshop on training Wikimedians on map-creation? I would
>> love to participate.
>>
>
> Sure. if you get yourself
On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 7:43 AM, CherianTinu Abraham
wrote:
> The Hindu : "Now, copyright-free maps of States, districts, panchayats"
> http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/article1697940.ece
In the last few news reports , the "copyright free" phrase is
repeating. This is worrying.
I
Send contacts to you in off list mail
On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 9:32 PM, Hisham Mundol wrote:
> Absolutely.
> Hisham Mundol
>
> Wikimedia Foundation
>
> India Programs
>
> skype: hisham.wikimedia
> gtalk: hmun...@wikimedia.org
> twitter: @mundol
> On Apr 12, 2011,
Some of my friends are involved in Designing & Training a FOSS
elective in COEP , Pune
http://www.fosscommunity.in/wiki/Pune/COEP/FOSS_Devel_Elective
May be we can use those networks for popularizing Campus Ambassadors
programme through students in such networks to invite more quality
application
ticle mark.
~ Regards
Anivar Aravind
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Dear hp nadig,
Which department will be incharge of such wikipedia like projects?
May be it can be used for releasing the content and images under
wikipedia complaint license, even if they keep editing control
Anivar
On 2/25/11, Hari Prasad Nadig wrote:
> Just checked with my sources in the go
Dear gautam
Thanks for those links. I am aware about that. But not get enough time
to read it yet. But are you sure, it specified unicode 5.1 . I am
curious becuase new rupee symbol getting encoded only in unicode 6.1.
Usually govt standards does not specify versions.
Anivar
On 2/24/11, Gautam J
AM, Anivar Aravind
> wrote:
>
>> CDACMumbai have a history of GPL Licensing one font series as a part
>> of their indix project , Raghu Series, by Late. Prof. R.K.Joshi,
>> Famous Calligrapher and Researcher in Type faces.
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_K_Joshi
>&
ssion here was not only about Input methods. It is about
Encoding , Rendering & Fonts, which is the underlying technology which
enable input methods to work
Also just a friendly request to understand thread first before
knee-jerking with what you know
Anivar Aravind
> So here's so
On 2/23/11, Gautam John wrote:
> Dear Anivar:
>
>> There are Four Components
>
> Thanks for the addendum - how important is the rendering engine in the
> scheme of things? Is work on that pretty much done or are there issues
> there too?
If your language have some errors in Complex Glyph formatio
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2011-02-21/News_and_notes
Dynamic content so copy-pasting relevant text
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On 2/22/11, Gautam John wrote:
> On 22 February 2011 22:29, Santhosh Thottingal
> wrote:
>
>> I think you have some confusion on Unicode and Fonts. Let me try to
>> clarify in simple words.
>
> Yes - I did! And thank you for such a detailed response.
>
> To see if I have understood this - there a
I tend to agree with Gerard's views & Siebrand's points. Since there
are many lists , Yet another list will be a waste . There are many
lists for Indic Specific issues such as Indlinux list, which can be
also used to connect with indic developers
Anivar
On 1/31/11, praveenp wrote:
> Hi,
> I th
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