Congratulations Ravi. -Hasive
On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 1:20 PM, Ashwin Baindur <ashwin.bain...@gmail.com> wrote: > Heartiest congrats Ravi, wish you the very best in taking our movement > forward. :) > > On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 11:44 AM, Manoj Khurana <he...@manojkhurana.com> > wrote: > > Congratulations, Ravi. > What a good and timely news. > > We've got a job in hand waiting for you. > I mean to say, we need your help, please. > > As all of us know, Hindi wiki has not seen any offline activity in recent > past, despite huge expectations keeping in view the speaker base. > > Our friend, Suyash is in Bhopal, who is in talks with Atal Bihari Vajpeyee > Hindi University. During the initial discussion itself, they have shown so > much interest that they invited us for National Science Conference > organised at the university by Hindi cell of Bhabha Atomic Research Centre. > > We participated in that with whatever knowledge/resources we had. You will > be glad to know that in the conference, VC announced in his address that > the university is soon going for a collaboration with Wikipedia. > > Now, we all at Hindi Wikipedia do not have any past experience and we are > desparately in need of guidance. I do believe this announcement couldn't > have come at a better time for us. > > Suyash has just filed for a rapid grant to arrange a education programme > cum wikipedians conference at Bhopal. > > This is a first for Hindi Wiki and will play a big role to decide the > future direction. > > I once again congratulate you on behalf of all Hindi Wikipedians, and do > hope you'll help us in achieving success in our first effort. > > Regards, > Manoj. > (u:Anamdas) > > On 22 Dec 2016 10:44 a.m., "Adele Vrana" <avr...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > > Dear Wikimedia India community, > > I am thrilled to announce that Ravishankar Ayyakkannu is joining the > Global Reach team as a Partnerships Manager Contractor for Asia for the > Wikimedia Foundation. > > As many of you may already know, earlier Ravi served as the Program > Director for the Wikimedia India Chapter. He played a significant role in > two recent developments from the Indian region, namely, the WikiConference > India 2016 and the Government of Tamil Nadu issuing an order releasing all > its content in CC-BY-SA license. Ravi is also a proud Wikimedian > contributing to many Tamil Wikimedia projects since 2005 and has a specific > interest in community building. > > The Global Reach team will focus on growing Wikimedia projects along the > themes of awareness, affordability and offline solutions in the Indian > region. Working closely with Smriti Gupta who leads our work in the region, > Ravi will strive to build strategic partnerships with government, > non-profit, educational and private institutions to achieve this goal. He > is very keen to evolve partnership models that ensure the active > participation of Wikimedia communities and will appreciate your support on > doing so. > > Please join me in congratulating Ravi! > > Warm regards, > Adele > > -- > *Adele Vrana* > *Strategic Partnerships - Global Reach* > Wikimedia Foundation > > > > > +1 (415) 839-6885 ext. 6773 > avr...@wikimedia.org > > > > > > *Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the > sum of all knowledge. That's our commitment. Donate. > <https://donate.wikimedia.org/>* > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > 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 > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > 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 > > > > > > > -- > Warm regards, > > Ashwin Baindur > ------------------------------------------------------ > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 > > -- Nurunnaby Chowdhury (Hasive) @nhasive • www.fb.com/NCHasive Sent from my iPhone 6 Plus device
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