Hey Subhashish, I can't thank you enough personally for all the work you have been doing for the Wikimedia movement and especially for the Odia language.
Thank you for being supportive even if I have not been supportive to you because of whatever maybe the reason! :/ My best wishes with you for your upcoming endeavors.. :-) Stay blessed. Thanks Ansuman On 11-Nov-2016 2:30 AM, "Subhashish Panigrahi" <subhash...@cis-india.org> 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 > <https://psubhashish-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/Redirect?ukey=1PJvbCaYjAlErRnMutCs-chTc78AMIT_Y9u3cTkxuznk-0&key=YAMMID-11621403&link=https%3A%2F%2Fmeta.wikimedia.org%2Fwiki%2FCIS-A2K> > 1. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikipediansSpeak > <https://psubhashish-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/Redirect?ukey=1PJvbCaYjAlErRnMutCs-chTc78AMIT_Y9u3cTkxuznk-0&key=YAMMID-11621403&link=https%3A%2F%2Fcommons.wikimedia.org%2Fwiki%2FWikipediansSpeak> > 2. https://twitter.com/wearewikipedia > <https://psubhashish-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/Redirect?ukey=1PJvbCaYjAlErRnMutCs-chTc78AMIT_Y9u3cTkxuznk-0&key=YAMMID-11621403&link=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Fwearewikipedia> > 3. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project_Ol_chiki > <https://psubhashish-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/Redirect?ukey=1PJvbCaYjAlErRnMutCs-chTc78AMIT_Y9u3cTkxuznk-0&key=YAMMID-11621403&link=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mediawiki.org%2Fwiki%2FProject_Ol_chiki> > 4. https://discourse.mozilla-community.org/t/introducing- > our-new-south-asia-community-catalyzer/11975 > <https://psubhashish-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/Redirect?ukey=1PJvbCaYjAlErRnMutCs-chTc78AMIT_Y9u3cTkxuznk-0&key=YAMMID-11621403&link=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscourse.mozilla-community.org%2Ft%2Fintroducing-our-new-south-asia-community-catalyzer%2F11975> > > Love, > Subhashish > > Subhashish Panigrahi > Programme Officer, Access To Knowledge > Centre for Internet and Society > @subhapa / https://cis-india.org > <https://psubhashish-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/Redirect?ukey=1PJvbCaYjAlErRnMutCs-chTc78AMIT_Y9u3cTkxuznk-0&key=YAMMID-11621403&link=https%3A%2F%2Fcis-india.org> > [image: beacon] > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaindia-l mailing list > Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l > >
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