Nisha, All the best. Just saw the message today only.
On Monday, December 4, 2017 at 1:07:23 PM UTC+5:30, Nisha Thompson wrote: > > Dear All, > > I'm sad to say that I'll be leaving India for good on Jan 4th. It was not > an easy decision, but I've been in Bangalore for 7 wonderful years and feel > it's time to head back to the US. > > I'm so proud and happy to be apart of this community, while I won't be > able to do offline events and work anymore, I'll continue to moderate the > Google Group and assist with any online work. > > Over the past 6 years we have been at the table for most data discussions > and that reflects a lot about how we have been able to build a solid > community of people. We have managed to run events, campaigns, free data, > build resources, and do policy work; for a group like ours the list of > accomplishments is profound considering we are just a community of > volunteers with no money. > > A few years ago the stress of dealing with all the asks of us, made THej, > Anand, and I take a step back and evaluate what we were trying to do. The > decision to not raise money and to continue as volunteers was difficult but > necessary given that we wanted to continue to concentrate on freeing > essential data important to the community not trying to run around and > collect money for projects that don't meet everyone's needs. > > For the past year we have concentrated on policy work, partnerships, and > geospatial data. The community wants shapefiles we have worked to get them > and make them open. While there has been delay we will have a complete > village shapefile set in the public domain soon. And as we continue on we > will do urban areas as we go along. This is a major accomplishment for us. > And as the work winds down and me transitioning out it is a good time to > take a look at what we should concentrate on next. > > We have created a survey to start collecting ideas. If you have some time > this week please fill it out: > > https://goo.gl/forms/APbUYf9TyY2bcmgP2 > > What started out as a place to complain about Indian data has really > become a family to me and has made my time in India really special. > > Thank you all for being awesome. I know this community will continue to > thrive. > > I will miss everyone dearly. > > Nisha > > -- > Nisha Thompson > DataMeet.org > ni...@datameet.org <javascript:> > skype: nishaqt > mobile: 876-266-9960 > > > -- Datameet is a community of Data Science enthusiasts in India. Know more about us by visiting http://datameet.org --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "datameet" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to datameet+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
