Re: [Talk-in] OSM India Chapter (Arun Ganesh)

2020-01-30 Thread Amish Sarpotdar
chapter, it would definitely be wise to learn from the chapter forming > experiences of other open communities in India. > > Lets list a few such successful and thriving chapters that folks are aware > of and that might help think of the next steps and folks to rope in for > guida

Re: [Talk-in] OSM India Chapter

2020-01-30 Thread Arun Ganesh
On Thu, Jan 30, 2020 at 10:32 PM Arun Ganesh wrote: > >> >> now we have a model where PyCon India [1] is organized on rotation from >> various users groups from around country,these users groups aka chapters >> have no formal body they exist on Mailing lists and meetup groups [2] they >> first sh

Re: [Talk-in] OSM India Chapter

2020-01-30 Thread Arun Ganesh
> > > > now we have a model where PyCon India [1] is organized on rotation from > various users groups from around country,these users groups aka chapters > have no formal body they exist on Mailing lists and meetup groups [2] they > first show case the strenght in organizing the event of this magn

Re: [Talk-in] OSM India Chapter

2020-01-30 Thread satyakam goswami
> > On the chat yesterday, I had cautioned that India has had previous bitter > experiences with running organisations wherein a Foundation manages the > organisations or groups in various countries. We are seeing the effect of > that in the Wikimedia movement in India. Naveen, also on this group,

Re: [Talk-in] OSM India Chapter

2020-01-30 Thread Arun Ganesh
On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 11:52 PM Pradeep Mohandas < pradeep.mohan...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello all, > > In the Virtual Mappy Hours held yesterday, the OSM Chair Allan Mustard had > suggested that we go ahead with the formation of an Indian chapter and > officially affiliate with the OSM Foundation

Re: [Talk-in] Reg: OSM India conference

2020-01-30 Thread satyakam goswami
> I on behalf of Afrost.org and also an individual is of opinion that we > would be more than happy to help in anyway for hosting the Conference. > Over the decades working in communities and organizing events the initial > core teams is important lets start forming one other things like venue > ,s