Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Extraordinary Circular-Wikimedia India Chapter
Dear Jayanta and the new WMIN EC, Thank you for this open and transparent communication to us all. We wish you the very best, and as Asaf said earlier, look forward to working with you. Warmly, Anasuya On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 6:11 AM, Jayanta Nath jaya...@wikimedia.in wrote: Extraordinary Circular Dated: 03/10/2014 During the past several weeks, there has been significant developments and major changes in the team of governance of Wikimedia India Chapter (WMIN). The Executive Committee (EC) effective as of now, would like to clarify the sequence of events that unfolded and the remedial steps the EC took as and when necessary. - On August 27th, Moksh at 8:03pm tendered his resignation as the President of WMIN Chapter as well as a member of the Executive Committee. Within minutes, Pranav Curumsey too sent in his resignation from the position as an EC member. - With this, the number of remaining EC members became 5 (Five). - On 30th August, the remaining EC members immediately put up and passed an emergency Resolution accepting the resignation of both Moksh Juneja and Pranav Curumsey. This resolution was signed for by Jayanta, ViswaPrabha and Nikita. Srikanth signed against this. Karthik did not participate in this resolution. - Further, on the same day, another Emergency Resolution was passed to co-opt two new members to fill those two vacancies. By consensus, two senior Chapter members were selected to be the new EC members. All the then existing EC members viz. Jayanta Nath, ViswaPrabha, Srikanth, Nikita and Karthik unanimously voted for both these candidates. Radhakrishna Arvapally, a senior Chapter member and former Chairperson of Bangalore SIG was one among them. Due to severe personal engagements, the other person gracefully refused to be an EC Member. Due to privacy concerns, we prefer to conceal his identity. - With this, the number of effective EC members became 6. - On 31st August, an Emergency Telecon was held. Jayanta Nath was elected as the new President as well as Radhakrishna as the new Secretary and ViswaPrabha as the Treasurer. All the existing EC members (viz. Jayanta, Radhakrishna, ViswaPrabha, Srikanth, Nikita and Karthik) attended this telecon and all of them had voted for the new office bearers unanimously. - On 2nd September 2014, there was another Telecon mainly to discuss about the urgent pending matters such as elections, AGM, formation of an advisory committee etc. All the Six EC members (viz. Jayanta, Radhakrishna, ViswaPrabha, Srikanth, Nikita and Karthik) had attended this meeting. - Soon after this meeting was over, Srikant submitted his resignation. With this, the number of effective EC members fell back to 5 (five). This necessitated the co-opting of two more members to the board of directors. - During the next EC telecom, which was held on 5th September, Dr. Ekbal Bappukunju was co-opted in. This was supported by all attendees (viz. Jayanta, Radhakrishna, ViswaPrabha, Nikita and Karthik) unanimously. The EC was now back with a strength of Six members. There was still one more vacancy in the board to be filled up. EC decided to seek out and absorb one more potential candidate from the list of chapter members. - Finally, on 10th September, during yet another Telecon, Nikhil Kawale was co-opted to the remaining one position. This meeting was attended by Jayanta, ViswaPrabha, Dr. Ekbal, Nikita and Karthik) all of them unanimously voted in favour of Nikhil. - As is evident from the above, Wikimedia India Chapter would like to state explicitly and assure everybody who may be concerned that at no point of time during this period, there was a decision or deliberation that took place without sufficient quorum or majority as stipulated by its Memorandum of Association. Further, the Executive Committee itself was never in minority as suggested by certain messages appeared in open mail lists. The above circular is signed by the following members of the Executive Committee of Wikimedia India Chapter effective as on date: President: Jayanta Nath Secretary: Radhakrishna Arvapally Treasurer: ViswaPrabha Karthik Nadar Nikita Belavate Dr. Ekbal Bappukunju Nikhil Kawale Regards, Jayanta Nath President Wikimedia India Chapter The PDF copy of the the same you could found at http://wiki.wikimedia.in/images/8/80/Extraordinarycircular.pdf ___ 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 -- *Anasuya SenguptaSenior Director of GrantmakingWikimedia Foundation* Imagine a world in which every
[Wikimediaindia-l] Urgent reminder: please rsvp your attendance at the Bangalore community consultation *today*
Jogalekar https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Sudhanwaaction=editredlink=1 (also former EC) - Traveling from airport: ? - confirmed acceptance: ? Oriya[edit https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=India_Community_Consultation_2014action=editsection=14 ] - Ansuman https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Ansumang - Traveling from airport: ? - confirmed acceptance: ? - Subas Chandra Rout https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Subas_Chandra_Rout - Traveling from airport: ? - Bhubaneswar - confirmed acceptance: ? - Yes Punjabi[edit https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=India_Community_Consultation_2014action=editsection=15 ] - Satdeep Gill https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Satdeep_gill - Traveling from airport: ? - confirmed acceptance: ? Tamil[edit https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=India_Community_Consultation_2014action=editsection=16 ] - Ravishankar Ayyakkanu https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Ravidreams - Traveling from: Coimbatore (Will confirm rail / air mode of transport by 20th September) - confirmed acceptance: Yes - BalaSundarRaman Lakshmanan https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Sundar (also former EC) - Traveling from airport: ? - confirmed acceptance: ? - Balasubramanian Jeyaraman https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Sodabottle (also former EC) - Traveling from airport: Chennai - confirmed acceptance: Yes Telugu[edit https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=India_Community_Consultation_2014action=editsection=17 ] - Ahmed Nisar https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:%E0%B0%85%E0%B0%B9%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%AE%E0%B0%A6%E0%B1%8D_%E0%B0%A8%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%B8%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%B0%E0%B1%8Daction=editredlink=1 - Traveling from airport: ? - confirmed acceptance: ? - Viswanadh B.K. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%B6%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%A8%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%A7%E0%B1%8D.%E0%B0%AC%E0%B0%BF.%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%86. - Traveling from airport: Rajahmundry - confirmed acceptance: Yes - Pavan Santhosh Surampudi https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pavan_santhosh.s - Traveling from airport: Hyderabad https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/rajiv_gandhi_international_airport - confirmed acceptance: Yes - Arjuna Rao Chavala https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Arjunaraoc (also former EC) - Traveling from airport: ? - confirmed acceptance: ? Sanskrit[edit https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=India_Community_Consultation_2014action=editsection=18 ] - Sumana Koundinya https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:SumanaKoundinya - Traveling from airport: ? - confirmed acceptance: ? Wikimedia India chapter Executive Committee (WMIN EC)[edit https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=India_Community_Consultation_2014action=editsection=19 ] - ViswaPrabha https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Viswaprabha - Traveling from airport by train/bus: *Thrissur* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thrissur_railway_station (booking by self) - confirmed acceptance: *Yes* - Jayanta Nath (also the Bangla delegate) - Traveling from airport: Kolkata - confirmed acceptance: *Yes* - Karthik Nadar - Traveling from airport: Mumbai - confirmed acceptance: Yes - Nikita Belavate - Traveling from airport: ? - confirmed acceptance: ? - Nikhil Kawle - Traveling from airport: ? - confirmed acceptance: ? - Dr Ekbal Bappukunju - Traveling from airport: ? - confirmed acceptance: ? - RadhaKrishna Arvapally - Traveling from airport: ? - confirmed acceptance: ? and - Sowmyan Tirumurti (former WMIN executive manager) - Traveling from airport: Bangalore based. No transportation required - confirmed acceptance: Confirm acceptance CIS and CIS-A2K team[edit https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=India_Community_Consultation_2014action=editsection=20 ] (all local and confirmed) - T. Vishnu Vardhan - Sunil Abraham - UB Pavanaja - Rahimanuddin Shaik WMF delegates[edit https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=India_Community_Consultation_2014action=editsection=21 ] (all confirmed) - Vice-chair of the Board of Trustees Patricio Lorente - Trustee Bishakha Datta - Senior Director of Grantmaking Anasuya Sengupta - Head of Wikimedia Grants and Global South Partnerships Asaf Bartov https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Ijon - Chief Financial Officer Garfield Byrd -- *Anasuya SenguptaSenior Director of GrantmakingWikimedia Foundation* Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! Support Wikimedia https://donate.wikimedia.org/ ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Bangalore Consultation Delegates invited
Thanks very much, Ravi and all the community members who are participating in this process, both virtually and in Bangalore. I look forward to meeting and learning from you all. Two important pieces of additional information: * *Please rsvp your participation by noon on Friday September 19* so that we can confirm travel and lodging as soon as possible. If any of you are nominated, but uncertain about your attendance, do let us know as well, so we can support you as you need. * As requested, we will put up a draft agenda over the next few days, so that we can design the meeting together. We have asked the facilitator to work with us on this, as requested by some community members. ** Overall, the agenda for the meeting is likely to cover these issues: - Introductions, expectations, ground rules - SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats) analysis and sharing stories of individual contributors, diverse language communities and projects - SWOT for India and Indic languages across South Asia - Visioning for the movement in India - Strategies and action plans for the movement going forward (next six months, next year, next two years) - Roles, responsibilities and rules of engagement between the different actors in India However, as different language communities mobilise to offer their thoughts (thanks very much, Ravi!), we'll obviously work with all your suggestions. Here's to a productive conversation, Anasuya On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 6:39 AM, Asaf Bartov abar...@wikimedia.org wrote: Thank you! I'm traveling in the coming 24 hours, but will engage afterwards. I do join you in encouraging our fellow Wikimedians to offer thoughts and prospects in that talk page. Cheers, A. On Sep 17, 2014 1:51 AM, Ravishankar ravidre...@gmail.com wrote: Asaf, Thanks for the update. We will try our best to gather more opinions and official community recommendations at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:India_Community_Consultation_2014#Agenda before we enter the October 4 meeting. 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 ___ 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 -- *Anasuya SenguptaSenior Director of GrantmakingWikimedia Foundation* Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! Support Wikimedia https://donate.wikimedia.org/ ___ 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] Reports on WMF grants team visit
Hi Ravi, Thanks for asking this question. As I said when we had our IRC conversation, our understanding with all those we have visited during this past year has been that we will not do official site reports at this time beyond a financial review for the Audit Committee, instead creating shared notes with each organisation that serve as a framework for current and future work together. We have visited nine organisations (not all of them full fledged site visits) so far, and believe that this process has helped us build a much stronger rapport and shared understanding of strategy and impact. To elaborate on the reasons for doing it this way: for Garfield and me (as well as other staff and FDC who have accompanied us) the site visit process is about understanding each organisation's context, leadership, financial and other systems, effectiveness, program design, execution and so on. But at the core of it, it's about building trust, and creating a much more supportive atmosphere in which we can ask tough questions of each other (yes, we certainly get our share about WMF), at the same time as build a solid and constructive working relationship together. I know you will appreciate that in order to do this, we need a level of transparency and openness between the organisation and the visiting team - so from the start of the visit, we build our notes together. The organisation is then welcome to share any portion of these collaboratively created notes with whomever they'd like to, including community. In turn, our notes are shared with the FDC, with a financial report going to the Audit Committee. To be clear, this past year was new, and an exploration for all of us in the process: each organisation, WMF staff, the FDC and the community members we interacted with in the process. During such an evolving process, it felt unhelpful to create 'official' reports that could undermine the trust and openness we were seeking to build. In addition, what we did not want to happen is for issues and conversations to be taken out of context and for unhelpful and incorrect comparisons to be made between organisations. It may well be that from next year on, it will feel much more appropriate and helpful for us to create shared public documentation with each organisation of our visits, and I'd be happy to do so. What I think is most useful for all of us right now - and which I intend to do at the end of this fiscal year - is a 'reflections' document that looks at the overall trends and learning from all the site visits in a way that can support movement-wide learning. I hope this helps, Anasuya On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 10:11 PM, Ravishankar ravidre...@gmail.com wrote: Any updates on this? I asked Anushaya about this during IRC with Indic Wiki IRC in Feb 2014 and she said I should ask WMIN and CIS-A2K :) // Hey, Any reports from Wikimedia India chapter / CIS - A2K regarding the plans after WMF grants' team visit? 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 -- *Anasuya SenguptaSenior Director of GrantmakingWikimedia Foundation* Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! Support Wikimedia https://donate.wikimedia.org/ ___ 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] To WMF; Anasuya's involvement. And transparency!
Hi Ansuman, I think I've made clear on the CIS talk page what the process for the CIS transition was, as best as I am able. Since neither Asaf or I were directly involved at the start, it is difficult for us to give the community details we do not know. The so-called Conflict of Interest issue has been addressed by the Board here, [1] making it clear that they do not believe that there is any CoI involved. If it helps further, I'm happy to quote from my email correspondence with you in February: I'd also like to clarify that I am not 'associated' with CIS in any problematic fashion - I have no CoI and never have had one. I have known Sunil from when I was 21 years old because we worked in the same rural development NGO - 'Samuha' - he worked on the tech side of things in Bangalore, and I was working on livelihood and women's leadership in north Karnataka. We have naturally continued to know each other because of our common interests in social justice and tech issues in Bangalore and beyond. And the grant to CIS was discussed and finalised by Barry before I joined WMF in July 2012; I had nothing to do with that process and did not even know it was happening till I came on board. I hope that clarifies the situation and makes clear why the Board said what it did. I'm happy to respond to any questions about this or anything else. Let me just say that simply knowing someone does not constitute 'conflict of interest' - what is important is to establish that there is no undue influence by and benefit to the 'conflicted person' (a somewhat amusing phrase of legalese) by this situation. Since neither is true, please be assured that there is no CoI whatsoever. I'd also like to point out that our community loses energy and focus by not recognising perceived or actual CoI when it exists, while assuming it exists in situations where it does not. I know it can be confusing, and we've made a start to explore it together at the Wikimedia conference. Asaf and Stephen led a session there, which we hope to expand into guidelines for the community soon.[2] I hope this helps, Anasuya [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/FDC_portal/Appeals_to_the_Board_on_the_recommendations_of_the_FDC#Ombudsperson_feedback [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2014/Documentation/12 On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 11:30 PM, ansuman ansum...@gmail.com wrote: Here it's writtenhttps://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/FDC_portal/Appeals_to_the_Board_on_the_recommendations_of_the_FDC#Ombudsperson_feedback about Anasuya's involvement. If there is a COI issue, why is she involved now? Why did she visited India officially to meet CISA2K? To Anusuaya, you have written in that email sent to me that you were not involved, I think you need to tell the whole community the same. You said you were not involved, Asaf said on cisa2k proposal page that he was not involved back then, then who was involved? You need to disclose that, and bring some clarity, transparency. If you guys don't disclose, then how would we believe that everything happened properly without any bias/COI? Note:you don't disclose these matters openly, hence we ask! Ansuman -- *Anasuya SenguptaSenior Director of GrantmakingWikimedia Foundation* Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! Support Wikimedia https://donate.wikimedia.org/ ___ 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] WMF visit to Bangalore next week
Hello everyone, Thank you to those who participated in Wednesday night's IRC session with all of us - the next IRC session is now. We're at #wikimedia-in if you'd like to join us. All questions and comments welcome - and we'd really like to get to know you better. :-) Warmly, Anasuya On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 6:14 AM, Anasuya Sengupta asengu...@wikimedia.orgwrote: Dear all, Many apologies but Sydney, Garfield and I are really jet-lagged, and are in no state to hold an intelligible IRC session today. :-) However, please do join us tomorrow or another time this week: I've put the timings for the three IRC sessions we hope to hold this week (Wednesday, Friday and Saturday), the time (8-9pm) and the channel (#wikimedia-in). In fact, on Saturday, it will be a wonderful opportunity to have all the WMIN EC here with us too, as we do both physical and virtual meet-ups. Please also let us know if any of you would like to speak with us separately by phone or hangout, and we'll make sure to accommodate your request. Again, our apologies to the Telugu community that we cannot be with you in person at your well-deserved celebrations this weekend, though we will certainly be there in spirit! It was logistically more convenient for the WMIN EC to meet with us in Bangalore, and as they are all volunteers, we wanted to make sure to accommodate their needs and convenience as much as possible. Thanks very much, looking forward to good conversations this week. Warmly, Anasuya On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 7:06 PM, Asaf Bartov abar...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi, Nurunnaby. Bangladesh is not planned to be part of this particular visit. I've heard about and appreciated the warm welcome your community gave our mobile team, though. :) We would be delighted to visit Bangladesh, given a suitable context. We don't just travel for fun... :) Cheers, Asaf On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 8:39 PM, Nurunnaby Chowdhury n...@nhasive.comwrote: Hi Asaf, Nice to know. Is there any plan of this team to come Bangladesh? We are very happy if the team able to come meet with our Wikimedians. On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 7:02 AM, Asaf Bartov abar...@wikimedia.orgwrote: Dear Indian Wikimedians, I pleased to announce a group from the Wikimedia Foundation will be visiting India next week, staying in Bangalore from Feb 10th through Feb 16th. The group includes: 1. Garfield Byrd (WMF's Chief of Finance and Administration) 2. Anasuya Sengupta (WMF's Senior Director of Grantmaking) 3. Sydney Poore (volunteer member of the Funds Dissemination Committee [FDC]) and will be joined in India by WMF Trustee Bishakha Datta. (I had also been intending to come, but am prevented this time around due to unexpected issues securing a travelling visa to India.) WMF staff have been visiting partner organizations and communities over the past few months, to learn more about their context, achievements and challenges. More recently, FDC members have been joining them in this effort. Currently, WMF staff and FDC members are visiting Germany. One purpose of this visit is to conduct working meetings with the Foundation's two major partners and grantees in India: the Wikimedia India (WMIN) chapter and the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS), operating the Access To Knowledge (A2K) programme. Additionally, we would like to meet as many Wikimedians as we can, via a community meetup in Bangalore, and to make ourselves available over digital channels (at least taking advantage of being in the same timezone) to community members across India, via open group discussions over IRC. We are also open to discussion with any interested smaller groups or individuals, over Skype, Hangout, or telephone, time permitting. We have put up a rough agenda page up on Meta: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMF_India_Visit_Feb_2014 Please feel free to sign up for the meetup or the conversations, and to raise topics you would like to see addressed, on the talk page. We greatly regret that logistical issues are preventing us from visiting other communities in person this time around, and from attending the Telugu community's 10th anniversary celebrations in Vijayawada. Cheers, Asaf Bartov -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation http://www.wikimediafoundation.org Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! https://donate.wikimedia.org ___ 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 -- *Nurunnaby Chowdhury Hasive* Administrator | Bangla Wikipediahttp://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/user:nhasive Social Media Interaction Expert Assignment Reporter | The Daily Prothom-Alo http://www.prothom-alo.com Bangladesh Ambassador | Open
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] WMF visit to Bangalore next week
...and to the community in Bangalore: please do join us for the meet-up this evening (Saturday 14 Feb) at 5pm at TERI (The Energy and Resource Institute) at 4th Main Rd, Domlur II Stage, Domlur, Bangalore, Karnataka 560008. For those who've been to CIS, this is very close to CIS (at the corner of the road you turn into to get to CIS). Please ping me if you have any trouble getting here. Looking forward to seeing you all, Anasuya On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 6:41 AM, Anasuya Sengupta asengu...@wikimedia.orgwrote: Hello everyone, Thank you to those who participated in Wednesday night's IRC session with all of us - the next IRC session is now. We're at #wikimedia-in if you'd like to join us. All questions and comments welcome - and we'd really like to get to know you better. :-) Warmly, Anasuya On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 6:14 AM, Anasuya Sengupta asengu...@wikimedia.org wrote: Dear all, Many apologies but Sydney, Garfield and I are really jet-lagged, and are in no state to hold an intelligible IRC session today. :-) However, please do join us tomorrow or another time this week: I've put the timings for the three IRC sessions we hope to hold this week (Wednesday, Friday and Saturday), the time (8-9pm) and the channel (#wikimedia-in). In fact, on Saturday, it will be a wonderful opportunity to have all the WMIN EC here with us too, as we do both physical and virtual meet-ups. Please also let us know if any of you would like to speak with us separately by phone or hangout, and we'll make sure to accommodate your request. Again, our apologies to the Telugu community that we cannot be with you in person at your well-deserved celebrations this weekend, though we will certainly be there in spirit! It was logistically more convenient for the WMIN EC to meet with us in Bangalore, and as they are all volunteers, we wanted to make sure to accommodate their needs and convenience as much as possible. Thanks very much, looking forward to good conversations this week. Warmly, Anasuya On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 7:06 PM, Asaf Bartov abar...@wikimedia.orgwrote: Hi, Nurunnaby. Bangladesh is not planned to be part of this particular visit. I've heard about and appreciated the warm welcome your community gave our mobile team, though. :) We would be delighted to visit Bangladesh, given a suitable context. We don't just travel for fun... :) Cheers, Asaf On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 8:39 PM, Nurunnaby Chowdhury n...@nhasive.comwrote: Hi Asaf, Nice to know. Is there any plan of this team to come Bangladesh? We are very happy if the team able to come meet with our Wikimedians. On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 7:02 AM, Asaf Bartov abar...@wikimedia.orgwrote: Dear Indian Wikimedians, I pleased to announce a group from the Wikimedia Foundation will be visiting India next week, staying in Bangalore from Feb 10th through Feb 16th. The group includes: 1. Garfield Byrd (WMF's Chief of Finance and Administration) 2. Anasuya Sengupta (WMF's Senior Director of Grantmaking) 3. Sydney Poore (volunteer member of the Funds Dissemination Committee [FDC]) and will be joined in India by WMF Trustee Bishakha Datta. (I had also been intending to come, but am prevented this time around due to unexpected issues securing a travelling visa to India.) WMF staff have been visiting partner organizations and communities over the past few months, to learn more about their context, achievements and challenges. More recently, FDC members have been joining them in this effort. Currently, WMF staff and FDC members are visiting Germany. One purpose of this visit is to conduct working meetings with the Foundation's two major partners and grantees in India: the Wikimedia India (WMIN) chapter and the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS), operating the Access To Knowledge (A2K) programme. Additionally, we would like to meet as many Wikimedians as we can, via a community meetup in Bangalore, and to make ourselves available over digital channels (at least taking advantage of being in the same timezone) to community members across India, via open group discussions over IRC. We are also open to discussion with any interested smaller groups or individuals, over Skype, Hangout, or telephone, time permitting. We have put up a rough agenda page up on Meta: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMF_India_Visit_Feb_2014 Please feel free to sign up for the meetup or the conversations, and to raise topics you would like to see addressed, on the talk page. We greatly regret that logistical issues are preventing us from visiting other communities in person this time around, and from attending the Telugu community's 10th anniversary celebrations in Vijayawada. Cheers, Asaf Bartov -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation http://www.wikimediafoundation.org Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] WMF visit to Bangalore next week
Oops. Meetup's _15_ Feb. Today. :-) On 14 Feb 2014 12:46, Anasuya Sengupta asengu...@wikimedia.org wrote: ...and to the community in Bangalore: please do join us for the meet-up this evening (Saturday 14 Feb) at 5pm at TERI (The Energy and Resource Institute) at 4th Main Rd, Domlur II Stage, Domlur, Bangalore, Karnataka 560008. For those who've been to CIS, this is very close to CIS (at the corner of the road you turn into to get to CIS). Please ping me if you have any trouble getting here. Looking forward to seeing you all, Anasuya On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 6:41 AM, Anasuya Sengupta asengu...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hello everyone, Thank you to those who participated in Wednesday night's IRC session with all of us - the next IRC session is now. We're at #wikimedia-in if you'd like to join us. All questions and comments welcome - and we'd really like to get to know you better. :-) Warmly, Anasuya On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 6:14 AM, Anasuya Sengupta asengu...@wikimedia.org wrote: Dear all, Many apologies but Sydney, Garfield and I are really jet-lagged, and are in no state to hold an intelligible IRC session today. :-) However, please do join us tomorrow or another time this week: I've put the timings for the three IRC sessions we hope to hold this week (Wednesday, Friday and Saturday), the time (8-9pm) and the channel (#wikimedia-in). In fact, on Saturday, it will be a wonderful opportunity to have all the WMIN EC here with us too, as we do both physical and virtual meet-ups. Please also let us know if any of you would like to speak with us separately by phone or hangout, and we'll make sure to accommodate your request. Again, our apologies to the Telugu community that we cannot be with you in person at your well-deserved celebrations this weekend, though we will certainly be there in spirit! It was logistically more convenient for the WMIN EC to meet with us in Bangalore, and as they are all volunteers, we wanted to make sure to accommodate their needs and convenience as much as possible. Thanks very much, looking forward to good conversations this week. Warmly, Anasuya On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 7:06 PM, Asaf Bartov abar...@wikimedia.orgwrote: Hi, Nurunnaby. Bangladesh is not planned to be part of this particular visit. I've heard about and appreciated the warm welcome your community gave our mobile team, though. :) We would be delighted to visit Bangladesh, given a suitable context. We don't just travel for fun... :) Cheers, Asaf On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 8:39 PM, Nurunnaby Chowdhury n...@nhasive.comwrote: Hi Asaf, Nice to know. Is there any plan of this team to come Bangladesh? We are very happy if the team able to come meet with our Wikimedians. On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 7:02 AM, Asaf Bartov abar...@wikimedia.orgwrote: Dear Indian Wikimedians, I pleased to announce a group from the Wikimedia Foundation will be visiting India next week, staying in Bangalore from Feb 10th through Feb 16th. The group includes: 1. Garfield Byrd (WMF's Chief of Finance and Administration) 2. Anasuya Sengupta (WMF's Senior Director of Grantmaking) 3. Sydney Poore (volunteer member of the Funds Dissemination Committee [FDC]) and will be joined in India by WMF Trustee Bishakha Datta. (I had also been intending to come, but am prevented this time around due to unexpected issues securing a travelling visa to India.) WMF staff have been visiting partner organizations and communities over the past few months, to learn more about their context, achievements and challenges. More recently, FDC members have been joining them in this effort. Currently, WMF staff and FDC members are visiting Germany. One purpose of this visit is to conduct working meetings with the Foundation's two major partners and grantees in India: the Wikimedia India (WMIN) chapter and the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS), operating the Access To Knowledge (A2K) programme. Additionally, we would like to meet as many Wikimedians as we can, via a community meetup in Bangalore, and to make ourselves available over digital channels (at least taking advantage of being in the same timezone) to community members across India, via open group discussions over IRC. We are also open to discussion with any interested smaller groups or individuals, over Skype, Hangout, or telephone, time permitting. We have put up a rough agenda page up on Meta: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMF_India_Visit_Feb_2014 Please feel free to sign up for the meetup or the conversations, and to raise topics you would like to see addressed, on the talk page. We greatly regret that logistical issues are preventing us from visiting other communities in person this time around, and from attending the Telugu community's 10th anniversary celebrations in Vijayawada. Cheers, Asaf Bartov -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation http://www.wikimediafoundation.org
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] WMF visit to Bangalore next week
Dear all, Many apologies but Sydney, Garfield and I are really jet-lagged, and are in no state to hold an intelligible IRC session today. :-) However, please do join us tomorrow or another time this week: I've put the timings for the three IRC sessions we hope to hold this week (Wednesday, Friday and Saturday), the time (8-9pm) and the channel (#wikimedia-in). In fact, on Saturday, it will be a wonderful opportunity to have all the WMIN EC here with us too, as we do both physical and virtual meet-ups. Please also let us know if any of you would like to speak with us separately by phone or hangout, and we'll make sure to accommodate your request. Again, our apologies to the Telugu community that we cannot be with you in person at your well-deserved celebrations this weekend, though we will certainly be there in spirit! It was logistically more convenient for the WMIN EC to meet with us in Bangalore, and as they are all volunteers, we wanted to make sure to accommodate their needs and convenience as much as possible. Thanks very much, looking forward to good conversations this week. Warmly, Anasuya On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 7:06 PM, Asaf Bartov abar...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi, Nurunnaby. Bangladesh is not planned to be part of this particular visit. I've heard about and appreciated the warm welcome your community gave our mobile team, though. :) We would be delighted to visit Bangladesh, given a suitable context. We don't just travel for fun... :) Cheers, Asaf On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 8:39 PM, Nurunnaby Chowdhury n...@nhasive.comwrote: Hi Asaf, Nice to know. Is there any plan of this team to come Bangladesh? We are very happy if the team able to come meet with our Wikimedians. On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 7:02 AM, Asaf Bartov abar...@wikimedia.orgwrote: Dear Indian Wikimedians, I pleased to announce a group from the Wikimedia Foundation will be visiting India next week, staying in Bangalore from Feb 10th through Feb 16th. The group includes: 1. Garfield Byrd (WMF's Chief of Finance and Administration) 2. Anasuya Sengupta (WMF's Senior Director of Grantmaking) 3. Sydney Poore (volunteer member of the Funds Dissemination Committee [FDC]) and will be joined in India by WMF Trustee Bishakha Datta. (I had also been intending to come, but am prevented this time around due to unexpected issues securing a travelling visa to India.) WMF staff have been visiting partner organizations and communities over the past few months, to learn more about their context, achievements and challenges. More recently, FDC members have been joining them in this effort. Currently, WMF staff and FDC members are visiting Germany. One purpose of this visit is to conduct working meetings with the Foundation's two major partners and grantees in India: the Wikimedia India (WMIN) chapter and the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS), operating the Access To Knowledge (A2K) programme. Additionally, we would like to meet as many Wikimedians as we can, via a community meetup in Bangalore, and to make ourselves available over digital channels (at least taking advantage of being in the same timezone) to community members across India, via open group discussions over IRC. We are also open to discussion with any interested smaller groups or individuals, over Skype, Hangout, or telephone, time permitting. We have put up a rough agenda page up on Meta: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMF_India_Visit_Feb_2014 Please feel free to sign up for the meetup or the conversations, and to raise topics you would like to see addressed, on the talk page. We greatly regret that logistical issues are preventing us from visiting other communities in person this time around, and from attending the Telugu community's 10th anniversary celebrations in Vijayawada. Cheers, Asaf Bartov -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation http://www.wikimediafoundation.org Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! https://donate.wikimedia.org ___ 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 -- *Nurunnaby Chowdhury Hasive* Administrator | Bangla Wikipediahttp://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/user:nhasive Social Media Interaction Expert Assignment Reporter | The Daily Prothom-Alo http://www.prothom-alo.com Bangladesh Ambassador | Open Knowledge Foundation Network http://www.okfn.org Treasurer | Bangladesh Open Source Network (BdOSN) http://www.bdosn.org Task Force Member | Mozilla Bangladesh http://www.mozillabd.org fb.com/nhasive | @nhasive http://www.twitter.com/nhasive | Skype: nhasive | www.nhasive.com ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l
