Best of lucks in your new role with Mozilla, Subha! It's been a pleasure meeting you.
On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 11:05 PM, Gerard Meijssen <[email protected] > wrote: > Hoi, > It was good to work with you. You were part of a wonderful move towards > more Wikimedia projects in India. It was a pleasure to see you in action > and work with you. > Thank you > > Gerard > > On 10 November 2016 at 22:06, Subhashish Panigrahi < > [email protected] > > wrote: > > > <!--Apologies if this mail is not in your language.--> > > > > Friends, > > > > TL; DR > > > > After almost five years of professional engagement with the South Asian > > language Wikimedia communities, I have decided to step down from my > current > > role. And I will remain a Wikipedian friend of yours who you can reach > out > > in volunteer capacity on my talk page. > > > > —— > > > > I was about to complete my first wiki-versary when I joined the Wikimedia > > Foundation’s India Program as a Consultant for Community and Program > > Support. The program ran until August of 2012 and then got housed at the > > Centre for Internet Society’s Access to Knowledge program (CIS-A2K) [0]. > > Thanks to Sunil, Pranesh, Nirmita, Nishant and many others at the CIS > > family who embraced my team from India Program with great amount of > trust. > > CIS became more like a family for me all these years. It will always > remain > > my other home and alma mater - calling CIS a former employer will be > quite > > an understatement. I feel I grew as a person along with the organization > > that is today a noted name for its research in openness, accessibility, > > privacy, IP reform, access to knowledge, and digital humanity. > > > > Over these years I have had the most memorable time in my personal and > > professional life. I have traveled a lot in the country and across the > > world, met many friends in the Wikimedia and the open knowledge > community, > > and had the privilege of working on many important projects both locally > > and globally. The South Asian language Wikimedia communities that I have > > worked with have not just been patient and understanding, but have been > my > > mentor in many ways. I thank you all wholeheartedly for being such great > > friends and guides. And I hope that I have added some value to your > > community, project and the larger Wikimedia movement. > > > > This was an incredible journey and I feel really honored to see as many > as > > three new Wikimedia projects taking birth where I had a chance to > > contribute. Many of you have shared your stories in an interview series > > WikipediansSpeak [1] that I started during my time at CIS, and I felt so > > touched and connected to many people that spoke languages that I never > even > > understood. I want to thank many Wikimedians both from the Indian and the > > global Wikimedia community that participated in @WeAreWikipedia [2], a > > rotation curation project on Twitter that I started as a voluntary > project. > > The good news is @WeAreWikipedia has always been and will be a > > volunteer-led project even after I leave my professional role at CIS. > > > > In the last few days of my work at CIS, my biggest worry was if I will be > > able to give much time to wrap up Project Ol Chiki [3], a project to > create > > typeface family and input tools for the Ol Chiki script (used to write > the > > Santali language) that I was leading. I would like to personally thank to > > colleagues T.Vishnuvardhan (former Programme Director of CIS-A2K) for his > > guidance, Pooja Saxena for designing the typeface and several other > > peripherals, Prof. Damayanti Besra and other friends of the > > Santali-language community who have reviewed the typeface, and > Wikimedians > > Jnanaranjan Sahu and Nasim Ali who have created the input tools. A few > > years of my childhood was spent in a place where 30% of people spoke this > > aboriginal language Santali, and I cannot share how nostalgic it felt > when > > the opportunity came to lead this project. > > > > Once again, thanks you all the friends in the Wikimedia community, and > the > > larger openness movement for your kind support over all these years. In > the > > long road, this was a great milestone but there are many more to come. I > > hope to continue working with you in my volunteer capacity, and/or may be > > in my new role. > > > > Where I am heading next? > > Some of you might know this already. I am super excited that the next > > milestone is going to be another open source community as I am joining > > Mozilla’s Participation team as South Asia Community Catalyzer [4]. I am > > super excited for it. And I will keep seeing you all amazing people on > the > > Wikimedia projects like before. > > > > Do feel free to get in touch with me in my talk page at User:Psubhashish, > > or over email at psubhashish (at) gmail (dot) com, or at @subhapa on both > > Twitter and Telegram. > > > > 0. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K > > 1. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikipediansSpeak > > 2. https://twitter.com/wearewikipedia > > 3. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project_Ol_chiki > > 4. https://discourse.mozilla-community.org/t/introducing- > > our-new-south-asia-community-catalyzer/11975 > > > > Love, > > Subhashish > > > > Subhashish Panigrahi > > Programme Officer, Access To Knowledge > > Centre for Internet and Society > > @subhapa / https://cis-india.org > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > > wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > > New messages to: [email protected] > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > New messages to: [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > -- Jorge Vargas Head of Strategic Partnerships - LATAM Wikimedia Foundation [email protected] +1 415.404.9536 Skype: jorge.a.vargas.p _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
