Just a gentle reminder. This is happening today at 6:30 PM at CIS, Bangalore. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:MBL30
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:MBL30>Do plan to attend. On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 5:54 PM, hisham mundol <[email protected]>wrote: > Many thanks for this email, Tinu. > > I'm really looking forwarding to meeting the community in Bangalore. > > Warm Regards, > > hisham > > > On 2/21/2011 5:36 PM, CherianTinu Abraham wrote: > > Hi, > Hisham Mundol was recently hired [1] as an consultant to the > Wikimedia Foundation to support the program initiatives in India. > Hisham Mundol will be primarily based in India and will be working closely > with the Wikimedian community in India. > > Hisham Mundol is coming to Bangalore to connect with the Wikimedian > community in Bangalore. > > Date : *Friday, 25-Feb-2011 6:30 PM IST * > Venue: > The Centre for Internet and Society > No. 194, 2nd 'C' Cross, > 4th Main > Domlur 2nd Stage > Opposite to Domlur Club > Bangalore 560 071 > Karnataka > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Bangalore/Bangalore30 > > Do plan to attend and kindly sign up. > > About Hisham Mundol : > > *Hisham Mundol's role will be to design and implement specific pilot > programs that encourage many more Indians to become contributors to our > projects in Indic languages as well as English. The National Programs > initiative will focus on the following areas in the first year:* > *Design and implement an India-wide program to increase Wikimedia’s > footprint on university and college campuses with students and faculty with > the aim of encouraging contributions to Wikimedia projects* > *Support the launch and implementation of community-initiated programs > that seek to increase the editor base for Wikimedia projects* > *Engage with the community and chapter to build a strong relationship > among these stakeholder groups and create communications forums that allow > for effective partnerships* > *As a newcomer to the Wikimedia movement, Hisham’s first task will be to > deepen his understanding of us: our history, goals, values, culture and > mission. * > * > * > *Hisham was most recently a consultant with the Public Health Foundation > of India (in a partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation). He > designed and implemented large-scale national programs on HIV/AIDS > prevention. He worked to understand the dynamics of hard-to-reach > communities by conducting in-depth, on-the-ground analysis (ask him to tell > you about his experience talking to drivers while sitting under their > trucks). The programs he designed and implemented sought to convince people > in large numbers - 400 million young people across the nation - to change > very personal behaviours. While we are not tackling issues of such an > intimate nature, we do aim to convince large numbers of people across the > country to contribute their personal time to Wikimedia projects. During > this assignment, Hisham worked closely with public, private and community > groups (local and international) to work through the details of the programs > and build partnerships for implementing them at scale. He did so in a manner > that used persuasion rather than power to build support to move things > forward. We think his experience navigating these varied groups position > him well to work in the Wikimedia community. His earlier career was in > marketing and business development with a number of well-known businesses: > Infosys, Accenture, Cadbury and Unilever. This experience positions him well > to engage with a movement and organization that is global in nature, in > particular to work with a team that is based halfway around the world. * > ( Introduction by Barry Newstead , GCDO , Wikimedia Foundation) [1] > > Regards > Tinu Cherian > > [1] > http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2011-February/002239.html > > [2] > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/FAQ_Consultancy_for_National_Programs,_India > > > _______________________________________________ Wikikn-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikikn-l
