@Arjuna & Tinu, How about adding these things in the discussion in this Sunday meetup?
regards Subha On 7 July 2011 16:07, Gautam John <gau...@prathambooks.org> wrote: > Dear Wikimedia India Community, > > Last month, the Chapter has taken several steps to engage with the > community towards building the Chapter further. Here are the highlights. > > 1. Membership drive to enroll members who will be able to both stand > for elections and vote in the elections to the Executive Committee of the > Chapter was completed on 23 Jun 2011. The membership stands at 64 as of > 23-June-2011. We thank the community for having shown keen interest in > getting membership in the Chapter. > 2. A mailing list exclusively for members ( > wmin-memb...@googlegroups.com) is now operational. We encourage members > to start using the mailing list for discussing topics of interest to > members. > 3. A wiki for members (http://members.wikimedia.in with 36 accounts as > of 4 Jul 2011) is now operational. We request all members to intimate > chapter their user-ids on Community wiki, to enable access for them on > Members Wiki. Members can seamlessly access community wiki and Members > wiki, > with single login. We look forward to building an active members wiki, > which > can help in shaping the Chapter's plans. > 4. Chapter decided to partner with the Mumbai and Pune Wiki-Communities > to co-host the WikiConference > India<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2011> for > this year. > 5. Applied for a boot strap > grant<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants_talk:WM_IN/Bootstrap_Grant> from > the Wikimedia Foundation. > 6. AGM is planned for 24th September, 2011 in Bangalore. > > We thank the community on the support extended to the Chapter so far. We > would like to thank Arnav Chaudhary specifically for offering to set-up a > platform for membership sign-ups and > management<http://wiki.wikimedia.in/SW_for_Membership_management> and > building a test site and several others from members and community in > testing the prototype. We look forward to the community and members to > volunteer for other projects <http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Projects:2011-12> as > well and also support the chapter through > donations<http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Donations>, > as getting the funds from Foundation could take 3-4 months. > > Over the next few weeks, we will work towards forming city/language > subcommittee<http://members.wikimedia.in/City_and_Language_Special_Interest_Group_subcommittee> > (for > members only), defining the process for nominations and conduct of elections > for vacancies in EC as well as making progress on > projects<http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Projects:2011-12> > . > > You can still register to be a member of the Chapter by using the [Individual > Membership > Form<http://wiki.wikimedia.in/File:WikimediaChapterMembershipFormIndividual.pdf>] > along with either Cheque/DD payable at par at Bangalore or via online > transfer. Please do send us the physical copy of the form, duly signed, to > the Bangalore address of the Chapter. > > Look forward to your continued support > Thank you. > > Best, > > Gautam on behalf of the Wikimedia Chapter. > > (PS: Please do cross-post this as necessary) > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaindia-l mailing list > Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l > > -- * ସୁଭପାSubhashishPanigrahi ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ _______________________________________________ Wikipedia Odia (Oriya) mailing list wikipedia...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-or facebook.com/OdiaWiki Tweet @OdiaWiki *
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