[Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India Chapter: FDC Proposal Review Request
Dear Members and Community, In the last few days many of you have given your valuable feedback and suggestions on our FDC proposal. We sincerely thank everyone for their input. We have tried to build a balanced proposal keeping everyones requirements in mind. This has been a particularly tough job as the initial ideal budget calculating all requests went over INR 2 crore. We have had to sadly cut down on a lot of items to make it a more viable proposal. Though our initial letter of intent was for $200,000, our goal was to submit a request for around $100,000 so as to grow at a sustainable pace. However this has been an extremely difficult task and in the end we decided to keep the proposal to just under $150,000. We feel that we have included the needs of the movement in India to a fair extent and at a sustainable level. We would have loved to include a lot more, however we have had to restrict ourselves with a heavy heart. Kindly go through the link below and give your comments on the talk page (Please DO NOT edit the budget itself). Link: http://wiki.wikimedia.in/FDC_Proposal_2013/Budget Regards, Karthik Nadar. Secretary, Wikimedia India Chapter. http://wiki.wikimedia.in Participate in world's largest photo contest Wiki Loves Monuments: www.wikilovesmonuments.in ___ 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] CIS-A2K MoU with Goa University (Announcement)
Dear All, On behalf of CIS-A2K, I am glad to share with you that GOA University has signed an MoU with CIS-A2K. As part of this MoU Goa University and CIS-A2K will work together to digitize “Konkani Vishwakosh” under Creative Common license and build a Digital Knowledge Partnership in order to enhance digital literacy in the Konkani language and facilitate collaborative knowledge production and disseminate the same free of cost through Kokani Wikipedia (currently under incubation). Gos University and CIS-A2K will co-design and jointly implement relevant training programmes to achieve this objective. CIS-A2K is grateful for the support and encouragement received from the Goa University Vice-Chancellor Dr. Satish Shetye; Prof. Alito Siqueira; Prof. Priyadarshini Tadkodkar; Dr. Madhavi Sardesai; Dr. Gopakumar; and other faculty of Goa University. We are also equally grateful to Wikipedians Harriet Vidyasagar and Frederick Noronha who have engaged with CIS-A2K team and been a constant source of support. Wish us best of luck! Vishnu ___ 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 India Chapter: FDC Proposal Review Request
Karthik, Except for allocation for Innovative projects, GLAM acdtivities and Digitisation (Budget items 3.5.1, 3.5.4, 3.5.5), I don't see any other budget item that directly sustains any measurable impact on the growth of language communities. Even this fund allocation will prove miniscule when distributed for all the language communities. I strongly recommend to extend the budget proposal to make use of the full $200,000 that you proposed in your letter of intent and allocate a good budget for language communities and special interest groups. Please also see my feedback at http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Talk:FDC_Proposal_2013/Budget#Funding_allocation_for_language_communities_and_SIGs Thanks, Ravi ___ 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
