[Wikimediaindia-l] Farewell
Dear India Community I'm writing to inform you that I plan to leave my current role supporting Wikimedia in India. I am going to be exploring opportunities and evaluating options that are closer to my career aspirations and my personal circumstances. I will be working through to ensure that there is a smooth transition - and this is likely to take 2-3 months. I am writing now because I felt it appropriate and opportune to inform you as early as possible. I want to start off by thanking the Wikimedia community and movement for giving me this extraordinary opportunity. Working on something like India Program has been something that has been professionally enriching and personally fulfilling. Over the past 1 1/2 years, I have been supported by so many of you - and I want to thank you for everything you have done! The passion and intellectual firepower of our community has been my constant source of drive and guidance. There are so many examples of powerful stories from all over the country: the incredible efforts put in by the IEP Campus Ambassadors in Pune; the army of volunteers that drove the outreach push across the country in the first few months of this year; the beautiful stories of fantastic community initiatives from far and wide across the country and sub-continent, and indeed the world; the remarkable stories from so many communities - large, small and tiny ones! I want to thank the team that I have had the pleasure and privilege of working with - Nitika, Noopur, Shiju Subha. You guys have been wonderful. The work that we are doing is experimental and we have been innovating every day, and I know the circumstances have not always been easy. Take strength and inspiration from the large number of community members who have been touched by you and appreciate your efforts and value your work. I will send an actual over and out message later. In the meantime, I will continue to work on everything that needs working on. Happy Editing! Warmest Regards, hisham ___ 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
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] IRC on EC elections for this year,
Gautam, is it mandatory to attend this IRC? Several chapter members I know, want to stand for elections, but will be unable to attend this IRC. -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan. Sign this petition to introduce Volvo buses in Coimbatore city: https://www.change.org/en-IN/petitions/the-transport-minister-tamil-nadu-introduction-of-volvo-city-buses-in-the-city-of-coimbatore ___ 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
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-l] Changes to India Program
Dear Wikipedians, On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 4:18 PM, Barry Newstead (WMF) bnewst...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hisham’s departure coincides with another change in the India Program. We are pleased to announce that the Wikimedia Foundation has approved a grant to the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) in Bangalore to expand their Access to Knowledge programme to support the achievement of the Wikimedia mission in India. CIS is a leading organization in India working on Internet policy. They are part of the broad free and open community. CIS is a long time friend of Wikimedia, our community in Bangalore, and the Wikimedia India chapter. I would like to first like to thank Wikimedia Foundation for giving us a grant to expand our Access to Knowledge Programme with a greater focus on Wikipedia. I look forward to working with colleagues from the Foundation and serving the community in India. A little bit about my self since I am posting for the first time on this list, I was elected an Ashoka fellow in 1999. I was part of the founding team of Mahiti.org though no longer formally involved. Between 2004 and 2007, I managed IOSN.net, a project of APDIP-UNDP that focussed on promoting FOSS, open standards and open content policies in the Asia-Pacific region. Apart from the Government of India, I have worked with the governments of Moldova, Tajikistan, Saudi Arabia and Iraq on free software and open standards policies. I currently serve on the boards of Samvada and Tactical Technology Collective and also on the sub-board of Open Society Foundation's Information Programme. Now a little about CIS that is not in the FAQ. We are most often in the news for our work around Freedom of Expression under our Internet Governance programme. But most of our budget is spent on the other less controversial areas. As a research organisation CIS does not enforce party positions across staff members and fellows, like the Kamasutra we encourage a multiplicity of positions. CIS has hosted inclusiveplanet.com in the past and is currently hosting hasgeek.in. CIS's garage has been converted into a hacker space called The Lab. In the past, we have had the privilege to useful in small ways to individual Wikipedians, the Indian Wikipedia community and India chapter. The whole team looks forward to stepping-up that dramatically with this grant. As a registered non-profit society, CIS will strive to maintain high levels of transparency and accountability to the Wikipedia community and the general public. We will make the budget and programme plan publicly available shortly. We will be transparent about staff remuneration and travel-related costs – as is the case with other CIS staffers. We will setup a recruitment panel for the Programme Director with hopefully participation from the community and the chapter as was the case in Brazil. More on that soon. For now, if there are any questions for me regarding CIS and this particular grant – I would be happy to answer them. Best wishes, Sunil P.S. Apologies for posting from my Mahiti id. ___ 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
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Farewell
It was great to work with you. Thanx a lot for your support to the Assamese Wikipedia Community. Wish you a bright future ahead. Goodbye Hisham Regards Jyoti Prakash Nath From: Hisham his...@wikimedia.org To: Wikimedia India Community list wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Monday, 30 July 2012 4:11 PM Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Farewell Dear India Community I'm writing to inform you that I plan to leave my current role supporting Wikimedia in India. I am going to be exploring opportunities and evaluating options that are closer to my career aspirations and my personal circumstances. I will be working through to ensure that there is a smooth transition - and this is likely to take 2-3 months. I am writing now because I felt it appropriate and opportune to inform you as early as possible. I want to start off by thanking the Wikimedia community and movement for giving me this extraordinary opportunity. Working on something like India Program has been something that has been professionally enriching and personally fulfilling. Over the past 1 1/2 years, I have been supported by so many of you - and I want to thank you for everything you have done! The passion and intellectual firepower of our community has been my constant source of drive and guidance. There are so many examples of powerful stories from all over the country: the incredible efforts put in by the IEP Campus Ambassadors in Pune; the army of volunteers that drove the outreach push across the country in the first few months of this year; the beautiful stories of fantastic community initiatives from far and wide across the country and sub-continent, and indeed the world; the remarkable stories from so many communities - large, small and tiny ones! I want to thank the team that I have had the pleasure and privilege of working with - Nitika, Noopur, Shiju Subha. You guys have been wonderful. The work that we are doing is experimental and we have been innovating every day, and I know the circumstances have not always been easy. Take strength and inspiration from the large number of community members who have been touched by you and appreciate your efforts and value your work. I will send an actual over and out message later. In the meantime, I will continue to work on everything that needs working on. Happy Editing! Warmest Regards, hisham ___ 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
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-l] Changes to India Program
On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 4:26 PM, Sunil Abraham su...@mahiti.org wrote: Dear Wikipedians, On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 4:18 PM, Barry Newstead (WMF) bnewst...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hisham’s departure coincides with another change in the India Program. We are pleased to announce that the Wikimedia Foundation has approved a grant to the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) in Bangalore to expand their Access to Knowledge programme to support the achievement of the Wikimedia mission in India. Thanks Barry for the update. Congratulations to Sunil and CIS. Wishing CIS and WMF all the best for the initiative. Arjuna Rao Chavala ___ 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
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Farewell
You will be missed, Hisham, and it's really good to know that you are around for the next few months. Take care, Achal On Monday 30 July 2012 04:07 PM, Hisham wrote: Dear Bangalore Community I'm writing to inform you that I plan to leave my current role supporting Wikimedia in India. I am going to be exploring opportunities and evaluating options that are closer to my career aspirations and my personal circumstances. I will be working through to ensure that there is a smooth transition - and this is likely to take 2-3 months. I am writing now because I felt it appropriate and opportune to inform you as early as possible. I want to start off by thanking the Wikimedia community and movement for giving me this extraordinary opportunity. Working on something like India Program has been something that has been professionally enriching and personally fulfilling. Over the past 1 1/2 years, I have been supported by so many of you - and I want to thank you for everything you have done! The passion and intellectual firepower of our community has been my constant source of drive and guidance. There are so many examples of powerful stories from all over the country: the incredible efforts put in by the IEP Campus Ambassadors in Pune; the army of volunteers that drove the outreach push across the country in the first few months of this year; the beautiful stories of fantastic community initiatives from far and wide across the country and sub-continent, and indeed the world; the remarkable stories from so many communities - large, small and tiny ones! I want to thank the team that I have had the pleasure and privilege of working with - Nitika, Noopur, Shiju Subha. You guys have been wonderful. The work that we are doing is experimental and we have been innovating every day, and I know the circumstances have not always been easy. Take strength and inspiration from the large number of community members who have been touched by you and appreciate your efforts and value your work. I will send an actual over and out message later. In the meantime, I will continue to work on everything that needs working on. Happy Editing! Warmest Regards, */hisham/* */ /* ___ Wikimedia-in-blr mailing list wikimedia-in-...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-blr ___ 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
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] IRC on EC elections for this year,
No. It's not mandatory. This is only to clarify questions there may be. Thank you. Best, Gautam http://blog.prathambooks.org/p/social-media.html On 30 July 2012 16:16, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.com wrote: Gautam, is it mandatory to attend this IRC? Several chapter members I know, want to stand for elections, but will be unable to attend this IRC. -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan. Sign this petition to introduce Volvo buses in Coimbatore city: https://www.change.org/en-IN/petitions/the-transport-minister-tamil-nadu-introduction-of-volvo-city-buses-in-the-city-of-coimbatore ___ 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
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] FOSS.in - call for proposals open till 8 July
On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 9:53 PM, Gautam John gau...@prathambooks.orgwrote: Is anyone planning a submission? A stall? Will we have a presence at FOSS.IN? Yuvipanda has made a submission(and waiting for CfP confirmation) on Mediawiki API and we might use the hackerspace as well if his talk gets accepted. Shall keep the list posted. I am not sure if anyone is planning on a generic Wikipedia stall @ FOSS.IN -- Regards Srikanth.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
[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] IRC office hours with the Wikimedia Fellows
FYI. :-) -- Forwarded message -- From: Siko Bouterse sboute...@wikimedia.org Date: Jul 31, 2012 3:36 AM Subject: [Wikimedia-l] IRC office hours with the Wikimedia Fellows To: wikimedi...@lists.wikimedia.org Hi all, The Wikimedia Fellows program will be holding IRC office hours in #wikimedia-office this Thursday, August 2, 2012 at 21:00 UTC. Fellows Tanvir Rahman, Peter Coombe, Jon Harald Søby, Steven Zhang, Sarah Stierch and Jonathan Morgan will be there to discuss their current fellowship projects (exact topics TBD based on who shows up with questions/comments/feedback), and I'll take any questions on the fellowships program that you may have.[1][2] As always, links to time conversion and other office hour info is on Meta.[3] Hope to see you there! Best wishes, Siko 1. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fellowship_News/Current, and this should be even more current by Thursday :-) 2. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Fellowships 3. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours -- Siko Bouterse Head of Community Fellowships Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. sboute...@wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list wikimedi...@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-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
