https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/WikipediaSummitIndia#Against
A major conference cannot be driven by a single person, no matter how well-intentioned or energetic. Two city communities (Mumbai & Pune) were hard pressed to arrange the WikiConference in 2011. In effect a WikiConference 2015 is sought to be organised in a clandestine manner by calling it a summit but in no case has the proposer sought community support and no city community has agreed to take this challenge up. Such a proposal must be driven jointly by Chapter, city communities and also the sister organisation CIS-A2K in partnership. The proposal in itself is basically okay, its time India had anpther conference or Summit or what you will. But to place the funding and execution responsibility in the hands of a single individual not backed by the community at large is NOT the way to go. This proposal should be vetted by WMIN Chapter, community buy-in to the proposal obtained, proper planning done and then the proposal put forth once again by India Chapter as one of its events. AshLin (talk) 18:02, 3 March 2015 (UTC) -- Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur ------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
