Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Global Fund raising Support to Indian Currency
Srikanth - we've been working on it but there are *several* complications due to Indian foreign exchange and tax laws that are slowing quick progress. Thank you. Best, Gautam http://social.prathambooks.org/ On 14 June 2011 11:11, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 06:22, Ravishankar ravidre...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.ccavenue.com/ works best for accepting payments online from various netbanking accounts in India. Not sure how safe and compliant with Wikimedia policies especially after the recent h[crac]acker attack on the site. Also there seems to be a FAQ and deadlines page which states June 30 as last date for signing off agreements. Can the chapter take some swift action / work with foundation so that we don't miss the boat even if we are few days late. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2011/Chapters_FAQ_and_deadlines Regards Srikanth.L ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
[Wikimediaindia-l] 34th Bangalore Wiki Meetup, Sunday 12June2011
Hi Folks, This is again a good news to inform you that 34th Bangalore Wiki Meetup is just over! Bangalore Wiki Community's 34th Meetup was attended by 16 enthusiast attendees. The meetup went through 2 talks by Tory Read and Achal Prabhala and post talk discussions and networking. *Tory Read’s Talk:* *[ Tory, being a photographer, artist and journalist in profession works basically in arts, humanity, behavioral approach of humans to a new technology and strategic thinking. ] *In her visit to India she has been visiting places, meeting people who are taking part in the WMF initiatives and documenting them in the form of Images/Audio/Video files. For her, photography is a tool to understand how organizations like Wikimedia work. She explained the focus of her ongoing project which is based on making Wikipedia more supportive, how well they could help people, the good and bad points in its organization system, strategic thinking of Wikipedia in India, both in English and regional languages. She has interviewed people of varied personal and professional backgrounds and recorded almost 25 videos which she’d be uploading to commons. She has met Bishakha Datta in Mumbai, visited Pune Pilot Program campus, taken part in interacting with 22 campus ambassadors, attended Kannur Malayalam Wiki Meetup along with Bishakha and Hisham, trvelled Thiruvananthapuram, Ernakulam and interviewed several Malayalam Wikipedians, from a very-young-Wikipedian to a Heart-Stroke-Patient-Wikipedian. Tory would be documenting the history of Wikipedia along with the work pattern, strategic plans, cons and pros of new initiatives based on the behavioral function. *Achal Prabhala’s talk:** [Achal is an Indian researcher, activist and writer based in Bangalore, Karnataka. He works on intellectual property rights in relation to medicine and knowledge. He also serves on the board of the Centre for Internet and Societyhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centre_for_Internet_and_Society_%28India%29http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achal_Prabhala#cite_note-1and on the Advisory board of the Wikimedia Foundation.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achal_Prabhala#cite_note-2 ]* Achal, being a part of a long term project on Oral citation has interviewed many people in India (mostly in Kerala and Maharashtra), attended public gathering, folk dances, observed process of traditional liquor skills of local folks in South Africa, interviewed them and recorded their words and action. His work also pervaded to understand how newspapers in a long span of their lives never worked as authentic source of information, media, entertainment industry has popularized languages like Hindi, but the same language has still not reached more scholarly published articles. During a long presentation Achal showed the extensive approach and need of Oral citation in documenting the history of mankind in a more generic way. Post talks there was few discussions. Arjuna Rao Chavala explained the Bangalore Community Engagement with Wikimedia Chapter and its role as an independent body. The main topics discussed are: - Membership (*Membership needs, benefits, role as a Chapter member*) - Projects 2011-2012 - Representation of Bangalore in the city SIG Post discussion Membership forms were distributed. The forms are also avaibale online at http://wiki.wikimedia.in/File:WikimediaChapterMembershipFormIndividual.pdf Wikipedians also discussed about taking initiatives to start on campus Wiki Workshops in Engineering and Communication/Media Studies Institutes which will bring out students for taking part in Wikimedia initiatives. Post discussion Wikipedians socialized and had photoshoots. Photos and videos can be found at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Bangalore_Meetup_June2011 Thanks * ସୁଭପାSubhashishPanigrahi ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ ___ Wikipedia Odia (Oriya) mailing list wikipedia...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-or facebook.com/OdiaWiki Tweet @OdiaWiki * ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] 34th Bangalore Wiki Meetup, Sunday 12June2011
Thank you so much Subhashish for the round-up. Best, Gautam http://social.prathambooks.org/ On 14 June 2011 13:26, Subhashish Panigrahi psubhash...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Folks, This is again a good news to inform you that 34th Bangalore Wiki Meetup is just over! Bangalore Wiki Community's 34th Meetup was attended by 16 enthusiast attendees. The meetup went through 2 talks by Tory Read and Achal Prabhala and post talk discussions and networking. Tory Read’s Talk: [ Tory, being a photographer, artist and journalist in profession works basically in arts, humanity, behavioral approach of humans to a new technology and strategic thinking. ] In her visit to India she has been visiting places, meeting people who are taking part in the WMF initiatives and documenting them in the form of Images/Audio/Video files. For her, photography is a tool to understand how organizations like Wikimedia work. She explained the focus of her ongoing project which is based on making Wikipedia more supportive, how well they could help people, the good and bad points in its organization system, strategic thinking of Wikipedia in India, both in English and regional languages. She has interviewed people of varied personal and professional backgrounds and recorded almost 25 videos which she’d be uploading to commons. She has met Bishakha Datta in Mumbai, visited Pune Pilot Program campus, taken part in interacting with 22 campus ambassadors, attended Kannur Malayalam Wiki Meetup along with Bishakha and Hisham, trvelled Thiruvananthapuram, Ernakulam and interviewed several Malayalam Wikipedians, from a very-young-Wikipedian to a Heart-Stroke-Patient-Wikipedian. Tory would be documenting the history of Wikipedia along with the work pattern, strategic plans, cons and pros of new initiatives based on the behavioral function. Achal Prabhala’s talk: [Achal is an Indian researcher, activist and writer based in Bangalore, Karnataka. He works on intellectual property rights in relation to medicine and knowledge. He also serves on the board of the Centre for Internet and Society and on the Advisory board of the Wikimedia Foundation.] Achal, being a part of a long term project on Oral citation has interviewed many people in India (mostly in Kerala and Maharashtra), attended public gathering, folk dances, observed process of traditional liquor skills of local folks in South Africa, interviewed them and recorded their words and action. His work also pervaded to understand how newspapers in a long span of their lives never worked as authentic source of information, media, entertainment industry has popularized languages like Hindi, but the same language has still not reached more scholarly published articles. During a long presentation Achal showed the extensive approach and need of Oral citation in documenting the history of mankind in a more generic way. Post talks there was few discussions. Arjuna Rao Chavala explained the Bangalore Community Engagement with Wikimedia Chapter and its role as an independent body. The main topics discussed are: Membership (Membership needs, benefits, role as a Chapter member) Projects 2011-2012 Representation of Bangalore in the city SIG Post discussion Membership forms were distributed. The forms are also avaibale online at http://wiki.wikimedia.in/File:WikimediaChapterMembershipFormIndividual.pdf Wikipedians also discussed about taking initiatives to start on campus Wiki Workshops in Engineering and Communication/Media Studies Institutes which will bring out students for taking part in Wikimedia initiatives. Post discussion Wikipedians socialized and had photoshoots. Photos and videos can be found at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Bangalore_Meetup_June2011 Thanks ସୁଭପାSubhashishPanigrahi ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ ___ Wikipedia Odia (Oriya) mailing list wikipedia...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-or facebook.com/OdiaWiki Tweet @OdiaWiki ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-IN-PUN] [Wikimedia-in-mum] Community-Chapter Relations
Dear All, Since the past behind, lets all of us move forward with the single objective in mind to roll out the Mumbai-Pune hosted WikiConference in November 2011. Lets not fret over the lost time, lets make the best of all the resources that we can pool in together. Let the enthusiasm prevail and contagious!! Moksh Juneja Social Media Catalyst Avignyata Inc. avignyata.com Mobile: +91 93221 21170 My profiles: [image: Facebook] http://www.facebook.com/mokshjuneja [image: LinkedIn] http://www.linkedin.com/in/mokshjuneja [image: Flickr]http://www.flickr.com/photos/mokshjuneja [image: Twitter] http://twitter.com/mokshjuneja [image: foursquare]http://foursquare.com/mokshjuneja [image: SlideShare] http://www.slideshare.net/mokshjuneja [image: YouTube]http://www.youtube.com/mokshjuneja Contact me: [image: Google Talk] mokshjuneja [image: Skype] mokshjuneja [image: BlackBerry] 21922c20 [image: Twitter] http://twitter.com/mokshjuneja Latest tweet: @_PWN yes, exactly. With the rains setting all my exercise schedule has gone for a toss!! Follow @mokshjuneja http://twitter.com/mokshjuneja http://twitter.com/?status=@mokshjuneja%20in_reply_to_status_id=80140750964269060in_reply_to=mokshjuneja Replyhttp://twitter.com/?status=@mokshjuneja%20in_reply_to_status_id=80140750964269060in_reply_to=mokshjuneja http://twitter.com/?status=RT%20%40mokshjuneja%3A%20%40_PWN%20yes%2C%20exactly.%20With%20the%20rains%20setting%20all%20my%20exercise%20schedule%20has%20gone%20for%20a%20toss%21%21 Retweethttp://twitter.com/?status=RT%20%40mokshjuneja%3A%20%40_PWN%20yes%2C%20exactly.%20With%20the%20rains%20setting%20all%20my%20exercise%20schedule%20has%20gone%20for%20a%20toss%21%21 10:43 Jun-13 http://twitter.com/mokshjuneja/statuses/80140750964269060 On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 10:45, wheredevelsd...@hotmail.com wrote: Open Response to Members and office bearers of the Executive Committee, Wikimedia Chapter (India), Thank you for your letter of unconditional support for the Mumbai-Pune hosted WikiConference in November 2011. We highly appreciate and are humbled by this support from the chapter as well as vocal public support from all communities across India for for us hosting this event. We now look forward to a new dawn by putting the past behind us and hosting a benchmark conference. We request communities across the country to continue supporting us the way they have and come forward with proposals for the event program/theme etc. We welcome to Gautam K John and Arun Ramanathan onto our Event Organising Committee. On behalf of the Mumbai and Pune Community, Thanks and Regards, User:AroundTheGlobe -- Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 09:46:31 +0530 From: arjunar...@googlemail.com To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-IN-PUN] [Wikimedia-in-mum] Community-Chapter Relations Hi Wikimedians We wholeheartedly supported the Mumbai-Pune bid for organising the conference. It has received widespread community support from Wikipedians across the country on the mailing list. We also take note of the fact that there is no visible active intent to make a bid to host the event from other cities. The previous note from Executive Committee (EC) clearly indicates the intent and commitment to run an annual event, year on year, with the support of other stakeholders in the movement. To that end we request that the organising team of this year's event keep this an important objective. EC had previously made a proposal for such an event many in early 2011 but it was then deferred to September due to other procedural hurdles in getting all aspects of a formal entity up and running - A bank account being a prerequisite to execute the plan. EC regrets the communication gaps and discomfort caused in some quarters due to misunderstandings of intent which our earlier email clearly and directly addresses. The Wikimedia movement is community driven and we reiterate that involving the community is and will be a key priority for your Chapter and Executive Committee. We request everyone's support for the Mumbai-Pune efforts to organise the 2011 WikiConference. Please consider this note a full and complete support of the India Chapter for the event. We thank the Mumbai and Pune Wikimedians again for the passion and leadership in working towards organising the first edition of this event. We will engage and work with the Mumbai team and other Wikipedians on the specific aspects of the frame work. As indicated in the earlier email, it was meant to be a draft seeking comments from other stakeholders. There were a few other aspects that were highlighted to which we would like to provide the following: *Feedback #1: Treat us like equals and stakeholders. Amongst us, chapter will then be first among equals.* The Chapter is only a part of the Community and should be reflective of it. If the impression was otherwise, we apologise and
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Global Fund raising Support to Indian Currency
Hi Moksh: That would be great! Thank you very much for the offer. Thank you. Best, Gautam http://social.prathambooks.org/ On 14 June 2011 10:36, Moksh Juneja moksh.jun...@avignyata.com wrote: Similar to justgiving.com in UK, we have something closer home giveindia.org. We can actually use their platform for commerce. Give India provides these facilities only to charities. They keep a nominal fees for a transaction. If everyone is ok with this. I would be happy to connect the individual to the giveindia.org. Moksh Juneja Social Media Catalyst Avignyata Inc. http://avignyata.com Mobile: +91 93221 21170 My profiles: [image: Facebook] http://www.facebook.com/mokshjuneja [image: LinkedIn] http://www.linkedin.com/in/mokshjuneja [image: Flickr]http://www.flickr.com/photos/mokshjuneja [image: Twitter] http://twitter.com/mokshjuneja [image: foursquare]http://foursquare.com/mokshjuneja [image: SlideShare] http://www.slideshare.net/mokshjuneja [image: YouTube]http://www.youtube.com/mokshjuneja Contact me: [image: Google Talk] mokshjuneja [image: Skype] mokshjuneja [image: BlackBerry] 21922c20 [image: Twitter] http://twitter.com/mokshjuneja Latest tweet: Dear 107.1 FM, I love beatles, but not every morning!! Follow @mokshjuneja http://twitter.com/mokshjuneja http://twitter.com/?status=@mokshjuneja%20in_reply_to_status_id=80497688566706180in_reply_to=mokshjuneja Replyhttp://twitter.com/?status=@mokshjuneja%20in_reply_to_status_id=80497688566706180in_reply_to=mokshjuneja http://twitter.com/?status=RT%20%40mokshjuneja%3A%20Dear%20107.1%20FM%2C%20I%20love%20beatles%2C%20but%20not%20every%20morning%21%21 Retweethttp://twitter.com/?status=RT%20%40mokshjuneja%3A%20Dear%20107.1%20FM%2C%20I%20love%20beatles%2C%20but%20not%20every%20morning%21%21 10:21 Jun-14http://twitter.com/mokshjuneja/statuses/80497688566706180 http://www.wisestamp.com/apps/twitter?utm_source=extensionutm_medium=emailutm_term=twitterutm_campaign=apps On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 10:25, wheredevelsd...@hotmail.com wrote: Iv had some fundraising experience with charities - both in India and the UK. The simplest method of accepting payment is tying up with an external party such as http://www.justgiving.com/ (from experience - this is one of many that specialise in online fundraising for charities in the UK). If the amount is relatively small this makes sense, however for higher amounts we may as well sign up with a merchant as that would be cheaper if we have volume. Rather than requesting funds through NEFT (which is a better mode for payments such as membership fee etc), for this you could opt for Net Banking or even cheques by post! As for 80G, the more you run after it the more the babu will want from you. If you put a bundle on the table, the certificate will be in your hand in days. However, from experience I can tell you, if you dont bother about it - just complete official formalities, the form will come by post to your office in due course. Kind Regards, -- Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 06:22:03 +0530 From: ravidre...@gmail.com To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Global Fund raising Support to Indian Currency I think 80G is nice to have, but shouldnt stop us. Also we are not probably looking at large scale(We would love if they come), but typically my equivalents to 5 10 20 dollors would 250 500 1000 INR for which most would not take trouble of getting receipts and eventually getting the benefit(Atleast the folks who do online donations) since the tax benefit would be negligible. +1 So my next question is without which are we eligible to collect donations online, would just like to know the bureaucracy around it? I now know the chapter can receive donations through NEFT[1].If we are good to go then the next thing to work out would be a payment gateway / payments partner helping us in giving options to various bank netbanking / credit/debit cards, ofcourse a decent API. The more the merrier. Also if we could get some sponsorship/deal from them in terms of the cut they take for transaction cost. People who have experience with online payment solutions can add their inputs. http://www.ccavenue.com/ works best for accepting payments online from various netbanking accounts in India. Thanks for the timely reminder and initiative on this, Srikanth. Ravi ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Administrative maps of India and states.
On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 1:16 AM, Abhilash S Unni abhilashu...@gmail.comwrote: Does this help. http://censusindia.gov.in/Footer_Menus/Disclaimer.html http://censusindia.gov.in/Footer_Menus/Disclaimer.htmlThe site mentions that quote *Copyright:* Material on this site subject to copyright unless otherwise indicated. The material may be downloaded without requiring prior permission. Any other proposed use of the material is subject to the approval of ORGI - New Delhi. Application for obtaining permission should be made to ORGI, New Delhi unquote Here's a very interesting point about copyright, that I just read on a webpage discussing copyright infringements (and claims, in the USA, which is sure a good place to litigate): [a valid copyright notice has 3 elements: (1) the rights holder name, (2) the copyright symbol, and (3) the year of first publication. Using an copyright notice in an invalid format – such as omitting the year of first publication – is not recommended] The page is a blogpost by a photographer about pressing copyright claims in the USA: http://www.jeremynicholl.com/blog/2011/06/13/the-10-rules-of-us-copyright-infringement/ In this light, the copyright disclaimer on the Census webpage seems completely invalid. Regards Abhi On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 1:13 AM, Gautam John gau...@prathambooks.orgwrote: On 8 June 2011 01:03, Vickram Crishna vvcris...@radiophony.com wrote: OK. No offense taken. Your legal grounding is well established, as we all know. Oh sorry - none meant! Apologies if it sounded otherwise. Can anyone please point me to the relevant link (for the census data, because the Census Authority is distinctly constituted at arm's length from the Government of India)? I would like to review the pertinent restrictions, for this list. http://copyright.gov.in/Documents/CopyrightRules1957.pdf 28. Term of copyright in Government work.- In the case of Government work, where Government is the first owner of the copyright therein, copyright shall subsist until [Sixty] years from the beginning of the calendar year next following the year in which the work is first published. Where Government work is defined as: (k) Government work means a work which is made or published by or under the direction or control of- (i) the Government or any department of the Government; (ii) any Legislature in India; (iii) any court, tribunal or other judicial authority in India; My reading is that the Census Authority is very much a part of government. A question that I have been thinking about is whether census data (in the raw form and not the presentation) is capable of being copyrighted. Thank you. Best, Gautam http://social.prathambooks.org/ ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- Vickram Fool On The Hill http://communicall.wordpress.com ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
[Wikimediaindia-l] Invitation to join Chapter as Member by 23 June 2011 to participate in EC elections during AGM
Hi Wikimedians, The Chapter has a statutory requirement that we have our first Annual General Body meeting before the end of September 2011. We plan on holding this, in Bangalore, on 24 Sep 2011. (Note: We had earlier mentioned the date as 17 Sep 2011 but this was changed based on unforeseen changes in the schedules of EC members and to give more time for members to join in.) Filling vacancies in the EC will be one major item on the agenda of AGM. That said, only people who have become members at least three months prior to the date of the AGM are eligible to stand and to vote. Please remember that there is allowance for those members not in Bangalore to vote as well. What we will do in the next 2 weeks is to begin a draft nomination process and send it for your feedback and inputs. Hence we urge you to join Wikimedia Chapter by 23 June 2011, if you have not yet applied for membership. Please spread this message with your fellow wikimedians and encourage them to apply for membership immediately. The Individual membership formhttp://wiki.wikimedia.in/File:WikimediaChapterMembershipFormIndividual.pdf along with either Cheque/DD payable at par at Bangalore should be received by 23 June 2011 at Chapter's office. If you are using online transfer, please send a scanned copy of your membership form before 23 June 2011 to members...@wikimedia.in along with your online payment details and ensure that your physical membership form reaches chapter office before 30 June 2011. We are really looking forward to an active and strong interest in the Chapter from the Community. Sincerely, Arjuna Rao Chavala President, Wikimedia Chapter ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
