Eric, It is officially released now. A print copy of the newsletter was handed-over to Barry at Bangalore Wikimeetup yesterday. I'll upload the images soon.
Regards Tinu Cherian On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 12:01 AM, Erik Moeller <e...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Achal, > > congratulations - this is an amazing debut! When you're ready to > "officially" disseminate it, can I ask you to send a note to > WikimediaAnnounce-l (at) lists (dot) wikimedia (dot) org? > > Thanks! > > Erik > > 2010/9/24 Achal Prabhala <aprabh...@gmail.com>: > > Greetings, > > > > On behalf of Shiju Alex, here is... the first ever edition of the > > Wikimedia India Community Newsletter. It's an incredible effort, and > > we're really glad to have something like this - congrats to all who > > helped with it. > > > > Going forward, Shiju (and all of us) would appreciate help and > > participation. If you are a member of a Wikimedia language, or > > geography, or project that you feel isn't adequately represented, or if > > you'd like to help with design, proofreading and turning it into > > something that works like the Signpost - we'd appreciate hearing from > > you at: > > > > wminewslet...@gmail.com or Shiju Alex <shijualexonl...@gmail.com> > > > > At the moment, we're circulating the file in two pdf versions (one for > > viewing, one for printing) and this is the link to the file on Commons: > > > > > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_India_Community_Newsletter_2010_September.pdf > > > > Shiju will shortly find a way to design it in html, making it easier for > > everyone. > > > > Cheers, > > Achal > > > > > > -------- Original Message -------- > > Subject: Releasing first edition of Wikimedia India Community > > Newsletter - 2010 September > > Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 17:56:06 +0530 > > From: Shiju Alex <shijualexonl...@gmail.com> > > To: Belayet Hossain <bella...@gmail.com>, Ragib Hasan > > <ragibha...@gmail.com>, jayanta...@gmail.com, "Naveen (Naveenpf-wiki) > > Francis" <navee...@gmail.com>, Srikanth Lakshmanan <srik....@gmail.com>, > > tinucher...@gmail.com, mayur kumar <mayur...@gmail.com>, Hari Prasad > > Nadig <hpna...@gmail.com>, Praveen Prakash <me.prav...@gmail.com>, > > Raziman T V <razima...@gmail.com>, Francis Simi Nazereth > > <simynazar...@gmail.com>, makan so thachan <thachan.ma...@gmail.com>, > > Jacob Jose <jacob.j...@gmail.com>, Rajesh Varma <rajes...@hotmail.com>, > > Mahitgar from Marathi Wikipedia <mahit...@yahoo.co.in>, Abhay Natu > > <an...@yahoo.com>, Sankalp Dravid <sankalp.dra...@gmail.com>, > > Mayooranathan Ratnavelupillai <rmayooranat...@gmail.com>, "C.R. > > Selvakumar" <c.r.selvaku...@gmail.com>, Ravishankar > > <ravidre...@googlemail.com>, balasun...@gmail.com, arjuna rao chavala > > <arjunar...@googlemail.com>, Junaid P V <junu...@gmail.com>, Rajesh K > > <rajeshodayanc...@gmail.com> > > CC: Barry Newstead <bnewst...@wikimedia.org>, Achal Prabhala > > <aprabh...@gmail.com>, Bishakha Datta <bishakhada...@gmail.com>, Arun > > Ram <arunra...@gmail.com> > > > > > > > > Dear All, > > > > Our hard work for the past 2 months to release the first version of > > Wikimedia India newsletter is coming to an end today. > > > > Please find attached the Print Quality PDF of the finalized version of > > Wikimedia India Newsletter for your reference. We are officially > > releasing the newsletter at 7:00 PM in the Bangalore Wikimeetup. > > > > This newsletter is the result of the ideas, suggestions, and feedback > > that you had been provided by you during the last 2 months. Finally > > Indian wikipedia community has come together for a common purpose. This > > is just a starting. We have a long way to go. > > > > Each language community (8 communities as of now) has helped by > > providing content about the respective language community. Some > > communities could not join as their communities are not strong enough to > > provide news to the newsletter. Hope they will join soon. > > > > Let me introduce again the Indian Language Wikipedians involved in this > > effort (All are included in this mail thread). Here are they: > > > > Bengali: > > > > * Belayet Hossain > > * Jayantanth > > * Ragib Hasan > > > > > > *English* > > > > * Naveen PF > > * Srikanth Lakshmanan > > * Tinu Cherian > > > > > > *Hindi:* > > > > * Mayur Kumar > > > > > > *Kannada:* > > > > * Hari Prasad Nadig > > > > > > Malayalam: > > > > * * Praveen P . > > * * Raziman T.V . > > * * Simy Nazareth > > * * Shiju Alex > > * * Junaid P.V . > > * * Thachan makan > > * * Jacob Jose > > * * Rajesh V arma > > > > > > *Marathi:* > > > > * * Mahitgar > > * * Abhay Natu > > * * Sankalp Dravid > > > > > > *Tamil:* > > > > * * Mayoora Nathan > > * * C.R. Selva Kumar > > * * Ravi Dreams > > * * Sundar > > > > > > *Telugu:* > > > > * * Arjuna Rao C . > > * * Ravi Vyzasatya > > * * Veeven > > * * Sujatha Thummapud i > > * * Bhaskara Rao Chimakurthy > > * * Ravi Chandra Enagant > > > > > > > > *Technical team* > > > > * * Typesetting, template design, other tecnical support: Junaid > > P.V. > > * * Front and back cover page design: Rajesh Odayanchal > > > > > > > > I know that not everybody knows each other. But you will be excited to > > be introduced to wikimedians working for other language wiki communities > > of India. Let this be a new begining. Sharing experience from different > > language wiki communities will surely help us (it is already helping us) > > to replicate the success stories and best practices in other wikis. > > > > > > So we are done with the first release. So what next? > > > > Eventhough we cannot think of a monthly newsletter now, we need to aim > > atleast for a quaterly newsletter. Taking this point in into account, we > > are proposing a list for regular content collation and newsletter > > coordination. This list will contain the core editorial team and two > > volunteers from each wikipedia. The volunteer nominations can be > > suggested by the respective wikipedia community. > > > > The role of the volunteers from the language wikipedias would be to > > conduit for collating content on events, happenings and plans of those > > respective wikipedias. The community could choose to rotate these > > nomiees as they deem appropriate. Please send your queries regarding the > > mailing list to Arun Ram (arunra...@gmail.com > > <mailto:arunra...@gmail.com>). > > > > > > Once again I would like to thank each one of you from various language > > communities for providing the community news.( from various language > > communities.) > > > > Junaid P.V has done the type setting and the template design of this > > newsletter. Without his support and hardwork this newsletter would not > > have seen as it is today. Many days he was woking over night to fix > > various issues. Once again I thank him for being kind with me while I > > was sending repeated changes that I got from various language > communities. > > > > Rajesh Odayanchal has designed front and back cover pages.He specially > > created an Indian language map for this newsletter. Thanks to him. > > > > Arun Ram has done the peer review of most of the language community > > news. Special Thanks to him. > > > > Last but not the least, I specillay thank Achal Prabhala for the review, > > timely advice, and support. His advice has helped us to move forward > > when there were many roadblocks in between. > > > > > > Thanks once again. > > > > Thank you. > > Shiju Alex > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimediaindia-l mailing list > > Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l > > > > > > -- > Erik Möller > Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation > > Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaindia-l mailing list > Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l >
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