Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-l] Changes to India Program

Dear Wikipedians, On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 4:18 PM, Barry Newstead (WMF) bnewst...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hisham’s departure coincides with another change in the India Program. We are pleased to announce that the Wikimedia Foundation has approved a grant to the Centre for Internet and Society

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-l] Changes to India Program

Dear Hari, On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 1:53 PM, Hari Prasad Nadig m...@hpnadig.net wrote: discussion running up to these changes. My specific concern is how the Chapter would evolve going ahead from here, and given that CIS has helped the Chapter activities in the past, what role CIS plans to play

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-l] Changes to India Program

Dear Hari, On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 1:53 PM, Hari Prasad Nadig m...@hpnadig.net wrote: discussion running up to these changes. My specific concern is how the Chapter would evolve going ahead from here, and given that CIS has helped the Chapter activities in the past, what role CIS plans to play

[Wikimediaindia-l] Volunteer for CIS's A2K programme director recruitment committee

Dear Wikimedians, I would like to request members of the Indian Wikipedia community to nominate themselves to serve on the CIS's A2K Programme Director recruitment committee. This programme will hopefully receive large grant from Wikimedia Foundation and we would greatly benefit from community

[Wikimediaindia-l] Vacancy for Programme Director - Access to Knowledge

Dear Wikimedians, This is the announcement that we have published on the jobs sections of the CIS website for the Director of the Access to Knowledge Programme. Please share with interested friends, colleagues and communities. Please send me feedback if any, I am happy to make some incremental

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Volunteer for CIS's A2K programme director recruitment committee

Dear Adethya, Apologies for sending the previous message prematurely. On Sat, Aug 4, 2012 at 1:03 PM, Adethya Sudarsanan adethyas...@gmail.com wrote: I would like to nominate myself to the CIS's A2K Programme Director recruitment committee. I am based out of Chennai. Thanks for volunteering

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Volunteer for CIS's A2K programme director recruitment committee

Dear Yuvi and Vickram, On Sun, Aug 5, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Vickram Crishna vvcris...@radiophony.com wrote: On Aug 5, 2012 3:05 PM, Yuvi Panda yuvipa...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 2:41 PM, Sunil Abraham su...@mahiti.org wrote: Simply out of curiosity, what would constitute

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Volunteer for CIS's A2K programme director recruitment committee

On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 1:11 PM, Vickram Crishna vvcris...@radiophony.com wrote: True. Your explanation clarifies that what is needed is leadership experience, possibly either with large or small teams, obviously somebody who has enough time to devote during the next month or two for this task,

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] why to donate

how CIS is spending the grant allocated do not hesitate to ask me. Best wishes, Sunil Original Message Subject: Training of CIS-A2K team on 23 or 24 of February Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2013 10:48:42 +0530 From: Sunil Abraham su...@cis-india.org To: Wikimedia India EC wikimedia-in-e

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [A2K]: The Access to Knowledge - Bulletin - January '13

Dear Theo, On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 8:45 PM, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote: 2) The hiring process wasn't nearly as neutral as you are suggesting. From what I know CIS didn't have 1 in 5 vote, it first picked who got selected for the first round to even have a vote, and I am told that

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [A2K]: The Access to Knowledge - Bulletin - January '13

Dear Theo, On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 8:45 PM, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote: 3) I am still curious about some of the relationships here. As far as I know achal still serves on your board? because I have a distinct memory of there being some association here. He also still serves on the

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [A2K]: The Access to Knowledge - Bulletin - January '13

Dear Theo, On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 8:45 PM, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote: 1) I can't seem to understand the rationale behind hiring academicians here at all. There was no rationale behind hiring academics. It just happens that two of the three people that the recruitment committee

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] why to donate

Dear Rudolph the Rd Nosed Reindeer, On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 6:52 PM, Rudolph the Rd Nosed Reindeer rednosedr...@hotmail.com wrote: Interesting isn't it? That one should have timed that A2K bulletin to come out exactly when the Chapter is having a fundraiser and leave people like the good

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Re: [Wikipedia-gu] Urdu Wikipedia crosses the 50, 000 mark

Dear Dhaval, Thanks so much for your question. Access to CIS email id, admin privileges on our website content management system, subscription to staff newsletter, access to staff calendar etc. are only revoked when a ex-partner, ex-staffer, ex-intern and ex-volunteer makes a request or there is

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Legal threat for Wikimedia community volunteers in India getting WMF grants

Dear Ravi, Thanks so much for all the feedback and the useful questions that you are asking. On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 11:29 AM, Ravishankar ravidre...@gmail.com wrote: The former WMF India programs did not get any financial support from the Wikimedia India

[Wikimediaindia-l] CIS-A2K 2.0 and new Programme Associates

Dear Wikimedians, It gives me immense pleasure to announce that CIS-A2K is implementing its new model of working - CIS-A2K version 2.0. This model takes on board many of the criticisms that have been made of our work so far. We will be eliminating the