Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] A brief Report on OSSCamp at Lucknow, Dated 26-27th March, 2011

2011-04-10 Thread Hisham Mundol
Hi Piyush Many thanks for your efforts. Your report is interesting and insightful. You sound like you had a good time too, and that's great! I'm curious about what the student profile was - age, kind of college (IT, engineering, arts, commerce, etc.), location of college, and anything else on

[Wikimediaindia-l] WikiPuneri Meetup - 09 April 2011

2011-04-10 Thread Ashwin Baindur
Today's meet saw different participation from last time. For the record we had with us : * The usual suspects - Sudhanwa Jogalekar, Harshad Gune & Ashwin Baindur * Budding editor - Arnav Sonara * Newbies - Sudeep Ghiya & Saurabh Agrawal * Editors returning back to Wikipedia after a long hiatus - Vi

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] A brief Report on OSSCamp at Lucknow, Dated 26-27th March, 2011

2011-04-10 Thread Piyush Aggarwal
Hi Hisham, First of all, thanks a lot for finding my report insightful. Yes, I had a good time over there and it was a great learning opportunity for me as well, because you learn more by explaining something to others. Secondly, regarding the profile, there were students from different colleges

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] India Office Location: Selection Criteria & Invite to Comment

2011-04-10 Thread CherianTinu Abraham
Shared some personal inputs at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Foundation_-_India_Programs/Office_Location I welcome the community to participate in the discussion. Kindly be civil in the discussions and the purpose of this is to help the foundation in making a decision and not lobb

[Wikimediaindia-l] Report-32nd Bangalore WikiMeetup

2011-04-10 Thread Subhashish Panigrahi
The 32nd Bangalore Wikimedia Meetup was organized on 2011April10 at 3 PM in CIS, Bangalore. This meetup was headed by Subhashish Panigrahi [[User:Psubhashish]] and attended by 7 Wikipedians. The speakers of this meetup were Arjun Rao C, Achal Prabhala and Anirudh Bhati. 1st Talk: Arjun Rao C/ Expe

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Tamil Wikipedia crossed the 30, 000 articles milestone

2011-04-10 Thread BalaSundaraRaman
I thank you Shiju, Hisham, and Naveen, as a Tamil wikian. :) - Sundar "That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted." - George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-blr] Report-32nd Bangalore WikiMeetup

2011-04-10 Thread Achal Prabhala
Thank you for running the meetup Subhashish - it was a very worthwhile and productive afternoon! On Monday 11 April 2011 10:10 AM, Subhashish Panigrahi wrote: > The 32nd Bangalore Wikimedia Meetup was organized on 2011April10 at 3 > PM in CIS, Bangalore. This meetup was headed by Subhashish Pan

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-blr] Report-32nd Bangalore WikiMeetup

2011-04-10 Thread Anirudh Bhati
Thanks, Subhashish for the note. It was fun talking to you, Srikanth and Ralph. An important clarification, however: It was Nikhil Sheth who focused and took the lead on Wikipedia for Schools Offline Edition. I will be sending in a report soon. :-) Thanks again! Yours sincerely, Anirudh Bhat

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] WikiPuneri Meetup - 09 April 2011

2011-04-10 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
Hi, On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 12:50 AM, Ashwin Baindur wrote: [snip] > * Campus Ambassador program. > Mandar Kulkarni spoke about his motivation to edit in Marathi and why this > is such a worthwhile and important activity. Mandar regularly features a > Marathi article in WikiPuneri. He is the a

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Report-32nd Bangalore WikiMeetup

2011-04-10 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
Subhashish, Thanks for running this event and producing a summary, probably for first time for Bangalore meet ups Cheers Arjun On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 10:10 AM, Subhashish Panigrahi < psubhash...@gmail.com> wrote: > The 32nd Bangalore Wikimedia Meetup was organized on 2011April10 at 3 PM in