Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Hindustani Music resource donation event - Mumbai

2014-10-05 Thread Pranav Curumsey
This is wonderful. Will you also be getting some audio examples uploaded to Commons? I am glad your team has taken up the cause of Indian classical on Wikipedia and look forward to more in this sphere in the coming months. On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 5:16 AM, Vishnu visdav...@gmail.com wrote: Dear

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WMIN-Members] Facilitating attending of Wikimania by Wikimedians from India

2014-06-14 Thread Pranav Curumsey
As with practice in previous years, please do add your details to this page if your attending Wikimania: http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Wikimania2014 On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 5:04 PM, Karthik Nadar karthik...@wikimedia.in wrote: Dear all, There is a requirement of a letter from local organsation

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Membership

2014-05-15 Thread Pranav Curumsey
This is a Karnataka State requirement. Kindly petition the government if you want a change. We are only following advice from our consultant. On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 1:34 PM, Jayantilal Kothari jayantilal...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Srikant! I hope you live in 21st century. Downloading the

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] WMIN's grant report

2014-04-22 Thread Pranav Curumsey
Thank you, Asaf! The chapter has always promoted transparency and welcomes community input. It would be excellent if you could share the original CIS MoU and all their reports submitted to you in the same spirit as you shared this. Unlike some others out here, we are not trained to make reports

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Calendars in use in India

2014-01-15 Thread Pranav Curumsey
The official Nepali Calendar (Bikram or Vikram Samvat) is used in several parts of India as well, although it is not the official Government of India Calendar (Saka). Apart from these two, I believe there are 2-3 other major calendars used in different parts of the country. On Wed, Jan 15, 2014

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [WMIN-Members] Thank you

2014-01-13 Thread Pranav Curumsey
Thank you, Sowmyan! We have been extremely lucky to have someone of your caliber at the chapter. It is miserable for us to be in a position where we cannot help but accept the situation. It feels as if the wind has been knocked out of our sails. Here's wishing you the very best for all your

[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Wikimedia Hackathon 2013, Rakkar

2014-01-12 Thread Pranav Curumsey
-- Forwarded message -- From: Soujanyaa Boruah soujanyaabor...@gmail.com Date: Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 8:46 PM Subject: Wikimedia Hackathon 2013, Rakkar Hello Wikimedians, It was great to host the Wikimedia Hackathon at Mindgrephttp://mindgrep.com/ in Ghoomakad. On behalf of the

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Kerala School text books to be Licensed under Creativecommons, Printing using FOSS Tools

2013-11-15 Thread Pranav Curumsey
Congratulations, this is wonderful! On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 6:15 PM, Gautam John gau...@akshara.org.in wrote: Wow! That's an amazing win! More power to you. Thank you. Best, Gautam http://www.akshara.org.in/ On 15 November 2013 18:10, Anivar Aravind anivar.arav...@gmail.com

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WMIN-Members] Re: Vote for new Creative Commons India Logo

2013-10-23 Thread Pranav Curumsey
. Bangalore, India. http://wiki.wikimedia.in On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 12:49 PM, Pranav Curumsey pra...@wikimedia.inwrote: Hi folks, Just heard back from the folks at the CC head office regarding crowdsourcing of our new logo. We would like to Thank all designers who took out their time

[Wikimediaindia-l] Vote for new Creative Commons India Logo

2013-10-15 Thread Pranav Curumsey
Hi folks, Just heard back from the folks at the CC head office regarding crowdsourcing of our new logo. We would like to Thank all designers who took out their time to submit designs. In total 9 of the 17 designs submitted are now open for voting, in addition to an option of retaining an old logo

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WMIN-Members] Re: Crowdsourcing of new Creative Commons India Logo

2013-10-08 Thread Pranav Curumsey
the process to add entries? On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 4:20 PM, Arnav Sonara sonara.ar...@gmail.comwrote: When does the voting start? Thanks, Arnav http://arnavs.com/. (User:Rangilo_Gujarati)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Rangilo_Gujarati . On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 12:14 PM, Pranav Curumsey

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Crowdsourcing of new Creative Commons India Logo

2013-10-05 Thread Pranav Curumsey
: wiki.wikimedia.in/Deciding_CC_India_logo On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 1:11 AM, Pranav Curumsey pra...@wikimedia.inwrote: Hiya, The chapter along with Acharya Narendra Dev College in New Delhi and CIS needs to prepare a new logo for CC India. In true Wikipedia style, all 3 organisations have agreed

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WMIN-Members] Re: Wikimedia India Chapter: FDC Proposal Review Request

2013-09-24 Thread Pranav Curumsey
+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- Kind Regards, Pranav Curumsey ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India Chapter: FDC Proposal Review Request

2013-09-24 Thread Pranav Curumsey
I am responding here this once, from now ahead please post your comments on the chapter wiki so we dont spam peoples inboxes. Abhijith, I think I answer most of your points here. The one about FCRA, we have prior permission upto $100k. Next Jan we complete 3 years and we can apply for a prior

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] FDC grant

2013-09-20 Thread Pranav Curumsey
Folks, Would really appreciate community input by tomorrow. We can only prepare a plan you want if we have your input, do cooperate. We would like you to give ideas for our annual plan/ five year plan/ dream outcome after five years. Link: http://wiki.wikimedia.in/FDC_Proposal_2013 On Tue,

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] FDC grant

2013-09-20 Thread Pranav Curumsey
Sure, you need not be a chapter member to comment. It is open to the community at large. Please add your comments with details on the page itself so everything is in one place. On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 2:18 PM, Shyamal L. lshya...@gmail.com wrote: If I can make a suggestion as non-member of the

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] FDC grant

2013-09-20 Thread Pranav Curumsey
, 2013 at 2:20 PM, Pranav Curumsey pra...@wikimedia.inwrote: Sure, you need not be a chapter member to comment. It is open to the community at large. Please add your comments with details on the page itself so everything is in one place. On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 2:18 PM, Shyamal L. lshya

[Wikimediaindia-l] UNESCO OER Declaration Translations

2013-09-16 Thread Pranav Curumsey
Hi folks, Some time back, I requested volunteers from this list to help with translations of the UNESCO OER Declaration made in Paris, 2012. Happy to let you know that Hindi and Gujarati are up on the UN website, a couple of other languages are also in the works. Open the links and check the

[Wikimediaindia-l] Proposal for hiring consultant to review WMIN

2013-09-03 Thread Pranav Curumsey
Its now almost 3 years since the chapter was formed. There are quite a few issues plaguing the current organisation, related to membership, functioning and our tax status. The chapter is considering hiring of a consultant to look into these issues, provide remedies and implement those remedies.

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Proposal for hiring consultant to review WMIN

2013-09-03 Thread Pranav Curumsey
:09 PM, Pranav Curumsey pra...@wikimedia.in wrote: Its now almost 3 years since the chapter was formed. There are quite a few issues plaguing the current organisation, related to membership, functioning and our tax status. The chapter is considering hiring of a consultant to look

[Wikimediaindia-l] Gandhian portal

2013-09-02 Thread Pranav Curumsey
Came across this copyright statement on a website run by Sabarmati volunteers similar to what Achal posted a few months ago from one of his books: https://www.gandhiheritageportal.org/copyright-policy ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Licence violation

2013-08-30 Thread Pranav Curumsey
FYI -- Forwarded message -- From: Michelle Paulson mpaul...@wikimedia.org Date: Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 12:01 AM Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Licence violation Yes, we actually cracked down on them 2 years ago from not making it clear that the content was from Wikipedia. They

[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Wikipedia.in

2013-08-17 Thread Pranav Curumsey
, Geoff, Yana, Moksh and all the rest of the folk who helped us with this matter in the last few years. -- Kind Regards, Pranav Curumsey ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] New Programme Officer CIS-A2K (Announcement)

2013-08-16 Thread Pranav Curumsey
Welcome, Muzammiluddin! Iv had the pleasure of interacting with him at WCI 11 and think he makes a particularly good choice. On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 4:01 PM, Vishnu t visdav...@gmail.com wrote: Dear All, I am happy to inform you about the selection of the new Programme Officer, who has

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Wikimedia India Board(EC) Elections-2013 - Results

2013-08-15 Thread Pranav Curumsey
Thank you, Arjuna, RK Tinu for conducting the election in a such a smooth well executed manner. Congratulations Moksh Jayanta, welcome aboard the EC! Look forward to working with both of you towards furthering the movement in India :-) On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 9:31 PM, Arjuna Rao Chavala

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Regarding the involvement of WMIN Chapter in Wikipedia Club Pune's Independence Day Workshop.

2013-08-11 Thread Pranav Curumsey
I think Srikanth covered it. On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 10:32 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan srik.r...@wikimedia.in wrote: Hi, to clarify: *Niraj had originally stated: I'am very glad to inform you that we the members of WMIN Wikipedia Club Pune are planning to conduct Workshops and Edit-a-thons

[Wikimediaindia-l] *Volunteers required for translating the Paris OER Declaration*

2013-06-10 Thread Pranav Curumsey
Hiya, Bala and I received a request a few days ago from Tim Seal of the Open University (UK), with whom we have been in touch in the last few months regarding open licensing of content and donation to Wikisource etc. among other matters. Tim requested us if we could help with translation of the

[Wikimediaindia-l] *Use of Images from India Office Records on Wikipedia*

2013-06-10 Thread Pranav Curumsey
Hiya, As some of you may be aware, I was in London for GLAM-Wiki which was held at the British Library a couple of months ago. This gave me the chance to interact with several members/trustees etc at Wikimedia UK. One of the discussions we had was getting images from the India Office Records onto

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Malayalam Wikipedia takes a gender turn

2013-03-06 Thread Pranav Curumsey
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. Can Shiju or someone else from the Malayalam Wikipedia confirm this? On 6 March 2013 13:47, Pranav Curumsey pra

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Tamil Wikipedia crossess 50, 000 article mark

2012-12-21 Thread Pranav Curumsey
Kudos! So very heartening to see both Malayalam and Tamil Wikipedias reach important landmarks. On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 8:24 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.com wrote: Congrats to the Tamil Community. It feels great that one of those fifty thousand articles was created by me.

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Creative Commons turns 10

2012-12-10 Thread Pranav Curumsey
Hi Arun, Since you mentioned this, thought it may be a good idea to let everyone know of something in the pipeline. A few days back the chapter was informed of an impending visit to India by members of the Creative Commons team from San Francisco and the EC was introduced to them. We have

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Creative Commons turns 10

2012-12-10 Thread Pranav Curumsey
and Delhi community have their meetup at the same time so we could hangout and say hi to each other. Could I also request to connect community members with the creative commons guys so they can spend some time with the participants over a video chat? On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 11:23 AM, Pranav

[Wikimediaindia-l] [Press] The Hindu : Indians win in Wiki mega photo contest

2012-12-06 Thread Pranav Curumsey
the team along with three Wikipedians Arun Ganesh, Kiran Ravikumar, and Sreejith K. * Regards Pranav Curumsey Press Team, Wikimedia India Chapter pr...@wikimedia.in http://wiki.wikimedia.in/In_the_news Important Note : Non-commercial reproduction for informative purposes only. The publisher