Part 2 - Shirish's views. Warm regards,
Ashwin Baindur ------------------------------------------------------ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: shirish शिरीष <shirisha...@gmail.com> Date: 2011/1/29 Subject: Re: The challenge : Was Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Liam Wyatt's visit to India To: Bishakha Datta <bishakhada...@gmail.com> Cc: Ashwin Baindur <ashwin.bain...@gmail.com>, "Jogalekar, Sudhanwa" <sudhanwa....@gmail.com>, Liam Wyatt <liamwy...@gmail.com> At bottom :- On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 02:16, Bishakha Datta <bishakhada...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear Ashwin, > > Many thanks for this note - am ccing Liam Wyatt as suggested by you. > > Liam: on this thread are Ashwin, Shirish, Sudhanwa - wikimedians and free > software folks from Pune. Hi all, I do not know how much I can help in this project. A bit embarrassed as I have some strong opinions on this matter and a slightly different take on it. No artist, no software developer either, just a blogger and a FOSS user. From what little I know of museums they are a large repository of not just historical documents and artefacts but also cultural, whether they may be nice-looking artefacts such as motifs,symbols or/and artefacts which makes us imagine how our ancestors lived. Some of these cultural history is just lost. I am a foodie as well like cooking (not much skillful but ok enough to make sure that I do not go hungry) hence taking a cooking example. Just to take an stupid/simple example, look at 'Kadai' https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Kadai for reference. I have seen implementations of Kadai over centuries in some of the museums so do not think it is something which got/happened yesterday but over centuries. I do know that the Thais have a similar kind of utensil (made of wood though) which they use for rice, noodles whatever. I forgot the name however. Do they share some kind of rich background, something I/We are not aware of, do not know ? Did the Buddhists went with the Kadai to Thailand and fashioned it with wood there (perhaps wood was more abundant than steel,iron etc. in those times) I have no idea. I am sure there are so many examples that my puny mind cannot comprehend just have to say that this is a project which is needed because sadly history is being wiped out here as elsewhere in the name of modernism. Another off-take would be because there is not so much content in the commons of such historical and cultural pieces, digital games and art pieces also have just American and European culture in it. > Best > Bishakha So will end this mail with hopefulness that Ashwin and Sudhanwa can take this project forward and atleast jump start the process. <snipped> -- Regards, Shirish Agarwal शिरीष अग्रवाल My quotes in this email licensed under CC 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://flossexperiences.wordpress.com 065C 6D79 A68C E7EA 52B3 8D70 950D 53FB 729A 8B17 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: shirish शिरीष <shirisha...@gmail.com> Date: 2011/1/29 Subject: Re: The challenge : Was Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Liam Wyatt's visit to India To: Bishakha Datta <bishakhada...@gmail.com> Cc: Ashwin Baindur <ashwin.bain...@gmail.com>, "Jogalekar, Sudhanwa" <sudhanwa....@gmail.com>, Liam Wyatt <liamwy...@gmail.com> Adding at bottom :- 2011/1/29 shirish शिरीष <shirisha...@gmail.com>: > Another off-take would be because there is not so much content in the > commons of such historical and cultural pieces, digital games and art > pieces also have just American and European culture in it. The point I wanted to make is because there is only digital american and European art that is the culture which is ingrained and known about, the rest of the world is just not known and games have been an influencer atleast to young and middling age group audiences world over. -- Regards, Shirish Agarwal शिरीष अग्रवाल My quotes in this email licensed under CC 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://flossexperiences.wordpress.com 065C 6D79 A68C E7EA 52B3 8D70 950D 53FB 729A 8B17 _______________________________________________ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l