(sorry for the delay, just following the 24hrs email rule) Hi Bodhi
I would request you to please read my email completely. If you want, I can give you an excerpt of my email, which should answer your questions. //In a similar way, our President Mr Rahul Deshmukh had earlier attended the Berlin Wikimedia Conference representing Wikimedia India & then subsequently was *invited* to Wikimania, especially the Chairperson's meeting at Wikimania. You will find the agenda in the link below. https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliate_Chairpersons_meeting_July_20,_2018 With this invitation , Rahul Deshmukh had requested CIS-A2K to fund its trip & they accepted his proposal. // Regards, Yohann Thomas Secretary Wikimedia India On Fri 3 Aug, 2018, 18:33 Bodhisattwa Mandal, <bodhisattwa.rg...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Yohann, > > Thanks for your mail. > > If you check the link of chairperson's meeting, you can see, that many > participants were not president of any affiliates, they attended the > meeting on behalf of the president. For example, Nahid Sultan attended the > meeting on behalf of Wikipedia Bangladesh (WMBD) as the General Secretary > of WMBD. It is not mandatory to join the meeting as a President of any > affiliates, usually, if one representative of an affiliate is present in > that conference, he can represent the affiliate. > > In Wikimania 2018, 2 EC members, Viswa Prabha and Krishna Chaitanya > Velaga, were present and one of them could have attended the meeting on > behalf of WMIN. Can you please explain, why WMIN decided to spend a huge > amount of donation money to send WMIN president to attend a meeting, where > his presence is not at all mandatory. Does WMIN consider these two members > unfit to attend such meeting? > > Waiting for your reply, > Bodhisattwa > > > On 3 Aug 2018 6:05 pm, "Yohann Thomas" <yohan...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Dear Bodhi & other community members > > First of all, I would apologise for the delay in reply. Wikimedia India is > run by 7 board members(as you are already aware) & any discussion on any > topic, requires inputs from all of them.. Since all are unpaid volunteers & > have their own professional lives apart from Wikimedia India, there was a > delay in drafting a reply. > > As it is a well known fact, Wikimedia India is a volunteer run > organisation. There are board members, who discharge their duties towards > the chapter, as well as serve their regional communities (as well as user > groups) in their volunteer roles. > > Another well known fact is that, Wikimedia India still isn't financially > independent & is still dependent on external funding which is fraught with > regulatory hurdles, including obstacles related to FCRA. > > Having said that, many community members juggle their different roles in > community, affiliates, committees & in personal & professional roles to > attend different conferences run by the Wikimedia & its volunteers around > the world. > In a similar way, our President Mr Rahul Deshmukh had earlier attended the > Berlin Wikimedia Conference representing Wikimedia India & then > subsequently was invited to Wikimania, especially the Chairperson's meeting > at Wikimania. You will find the agenda in the link below. > > > https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliate_Chairpersons_meeting_July_20,_2018 > > With this invitation , Rahul Deshmukh had requested CIS-A2K to fund its > trip & they accepted his proposal. > > Going a little off topic & concluding my email, I would really want to > appreciate & acknowledge the work done by Abhinav on & offline in relation > to the chapter. Eventhough Abhinav, prematurely left the chapter before his > term expired, he still continues to support the chapter on different > issues, inspite of us still battling with all our regulatory hurdles. I > wish there were more such vocal well wishers, when the chapter is going > through a difficult time. > > Regards, > Yohann Thomas > Secretary > Wikimedia India > > ---- > On Fri 27 Jul, 2018, 12:32 Bodhisattwa Mandal, < > bodhisattwa.rg...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> WMIN chapter president Rahul Deshmukh attended Wikimania 2018 in Cape >> Town without being selected for any type of scholarship. My question is why >> was he sent to the conference depriving other community members from India >> who were in the waiting list. >> >> He spoke in the informal chairpersons' meetup for few minutes. The >> meeting doesn't require president of the organization's presence, and >> already there were 2 EC member of WMIN present, who could have attended the >> meeting. >> >> To me, this is utter misuse of power and abuse of donation money. >> >> Thanks, >> Bodhisattwa >> _______________________________________________ >> 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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