I understand that Tinu, I was laughing at that part. You guys have been so supportive that it never entered my mind, it was a compliment.
Regards Salmaan On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 10:57 AM, CherianTinu Abraham <tinucher...@gmail.com > wrote: > Salmanji, > Please don't take it personally either... we are not "competing" for the > cities.. :) > Do note that the journo is from a Bangalore edition newspaper, so obviously > will highlight the "Bangalore part". :) > The journo asked about what are the "chances" for Bangalore, I said my > personal opinions. She asked her "other contacts" in other cities too.. I > also stressed the fact that it is upto the Foundation to decide where this > has to be ( which wasn't mentioned in the article). > > What matters is not where the foundatation office is set up, what is > important is to grow the wiki-community and culture in every corner of the > country. > > Regards > Tinu Cherian > > > On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 10:43 AM, theo10011 <de10...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I would suggest not to take it personally, I dont know who Priyanka >> Prachad is, I dont think shes even attending the Delhi Meet. She's not on >> the sign-up page from what I see and does not speak for the Delhi community. >> >> lol......so does that mean we are all competing for our cities, I didnt >> get that impression so far. >> >> Regards >> >> Salmaan >> >> >> On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 10:39 AM, Hari Prasad Nadig <hpna...@gmail.com>wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 9:45 AM, Barry Newstead <bnewst...@wikimedia.org >>> > wrote: >>> >>>> So, I guess there is interest in where our office will be. She left >>>> out the following from the info I provided. Probably because it spoiled the >>>> theme of the story. ;-) >>>> >>>> 3 How good are Bangalore chances of being crowned wiki-capital in >>>>>> India? >>>>>> >>>>> We do not plan on having a "wiki-capital in India". We hope that >>>> every city and town will be a wiki-capital. >>>> >>>> >>>> http://www.mid-day.com/news/2010/sep/210910-Wikimedia-foundation-Bangalore-Wikicapital-communities.htm >>>> >>> >>> :-) >>> >>> If Priyanka Prachad has been quoted right, I'll have to say it is rather >>> unfair to say that "Bangalore has tiny forums and Mumbai has none". >>> There are strong communities from out of Bangalore. Shouldn't need to add >>> that Mumbai has equally strong communities as well. >>> >>> There is diverse language community thriving on Internet from Bangalore. >>> >>> In fact, a community in the local language that I personally maintain ( >>> http://sampada.net) started in 2005 has had regular stream of increasing >>> users all these years. And there are strong communities like Praja ( >>> http://praja.in), Citizen Matters (citizenmatters.in), India Water >>> Portal (http://indiawaterportal.org/) and many more from Bangalore... >>> the list is huge. >>> -- >>> Hari Prasad Nadig >>> http://hpnadig.net | http://twitter.com/hpnadig >>> http://flickr.com/hpnadig >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wikimediaindia-l mailing list >>> Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimediaindia-l mailing list >> Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaindia-l mailing list > Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l > >
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