Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Event Organising Committee

2011-06-14 Thread Naveen Francis
All the best !!! Where is the India wikiconf page ? On 13 June 2011 21:30, wrote: > Dear All, > > > > *Cross posted on India/Mumbai/Pune Mailing lists to reach everyone. > Recipients from other cities are requested to forward this email to their > respective city list as well.* > > > > Welco

[Wikimediaindia-l] 34th Bangalore Wiki Meetup, Sunday 12June2011

2011-06-14 Thread Subhashish Panigrahi
Hi Folks, This is again a good news to inform you that 34th Bangalore Wiki Meetup is just over! Bangalore Wiki Community's 34th Meetup was attended by 16 enthusiast attendees. The meetup went through 2 talks by Tory Read and Achal Prabhala and post talk discussions and networking. *Tory Read’s

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] 34th Bangalore Wiki Meetup, Sunday 12June2011

2011-06-14 Thread Gautam John
Thank you so much Subhashish for the round-up. Best, Gautam http://social.prathambooks.org/ On 14 June 2011 13:26, Subhashish Panigrahi wrote: > Hi Folks, > This is again a good news to inform you that 34th Bangalore Wiki Meetup is > just over! > > Bangalore Wiki Community's 34th Me

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-IN-PUN] [Wikimedia-in-mum] Community-Chapter Relations

2011-06-14 Thread Moksh Juneja
Dear All, Since the past behind, lets all of us move forward with the single objective in mind to roll out the Mumbai-Pune hosted WikiConference in November 2011. Lets not fret over the lost time, lets make the best of all the resources that we can pool in together. Let the enthusiasm prevail and

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Global Fund raising Support to Indian Currency

2011-06-14 Thread Moksh Juneja
Similar to justgiving.com in UK, we have something closer home giveindia.org. We can actually use their platform for commerce. Give India provides these facilities only to charities. They keep a nominal fees for a transaction. If everyone is ok with this. I would be happy to connect the individual

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Global Fund raising Support to Indian Currency

2011-06-14 Thread Gautam John
Hi Moksh: That would be great! Thank you very much for the offer. Thank you. Best, Gautam http://social.prathambooks.org/ On 14 June 2011 10:36, Moksh Juneja wrote: > Similar to justgiving.com in UK, we have something closer home > giveindia.org. We can actually use their platform

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Administrative maps of India and states.

2011-06-14 Thread Vickram Crishna
On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 1:16 AM, Abhilash S Unni wrote: > Does this help. > > http://censusindia.gov.in/Footer_Menus/Disclaimer.html > > The site mentions > that > > quote > > *Copyright:* > > Material on this site subject to copyright unless

[Wikimediaindia-l] Invitation to join Chapter as Member by 23 June 2011 to participate in EC elections during AGM

2011-06-14 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
Hi Wikimedians, The Chapter has a statutory requirement that we have our first Annual General Body meeting before the end of September 2011. We plan on holding this, in Bangalore, on 24 Sep 2011. (Note: We had earlier mentioned the date as 17 Sep 2011 but this was changed based on unforeseen chan

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Administrative maps of India and states.

2011-06-14 Thread Gautam John
On 15 June 2011 03:38, Vickram Crishna wrote: > In this light, the copyright disclaimer on the Census webpage seems > completely invalid. Vickram - good catch but even the lack of a copyright notice does not, per se, mean there is no copyright. Copyright is presumed to be granted the moment it h

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Invitation to join Chapter as Member by 23 June 2011 to participate in EC elections during AGM

2011-06-14 Thread Shiju Alex
> > Filling vacancies in the EC will be one major item on the agenda of > AGM. > Does this means that existing 5 members will continue for ever unless they themselves decides to step down. This is a major concern for community since all the existing/resigned members are self appointed. Requestin

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Invitation to join Chapter as Member by 23 June 2011 to participate in EC elections during AGM

2011-06-14 Thread Gautam John
On 15 June 2011 12:02, Shiju Alex wrote: > Does this means that existing 5 members will continue for ever unless they > themselves decides to step down. This is a major concern for community > since  all the existing/resigned members are self appointed. No no, Shiju! The term is two years! Than

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Invitation to join Chapter as Member by 23 June 2011 to participate in EC elections during AGM

2011-06-14 Thread Naveen Francis
Hi Shiju, This was discussed earlier during MoA drafting. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_India/MoA#Article_VII_-_Composition_of_EC.2C_.234 There was no support for that discussion at that time. Current board members decided like that. Most of the chapters has only one year term h

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-mum] [Wikimedia-IN-PUN] Wiki India Conference

2011-06-14 Thread Naveen Francis
Hi all, Is there any plan for a DVD of featured articles in all indic languages and articles by WP:IND (english wiki) ? Releasing DVD will help to increase quality of content in the wiki. Shiju/Santhosh, How viable is to release a DVD in 60 days in all languages ? On 12 June 2011 17:35, Outof

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Administrative maps of India and states.

2011-06-14 Thread Naveen Francis
Now Gautam, What do you suggest ? not use that pdf ? Discussion is not reaching anywhere On 15 June 2011 11:51, Gautam John wrote: > On 15 June 2011 03:38, Vickram Crishna wrote: > > > In this light, the copyright disclaimer on the Census webpage seems > > completely invalid. > > Vickram - goo

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Administrative maps of India and states.

2011-06-14 Thread Gautam John
Hi Naveen: What do you guys mean when you say you will create maps based on this? Do you create your own maps with this as the base map? Thank you. Best, Gautam http://social.prathambooks.org/ On 15 June 2011 12:20, Naveen Francis wrote: > Now Gautam, > > What do you suggest ? not