Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimania tour of Rahul Desmukh

2018-08-03 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
Hi Yohann, Thanks for your mail. If you check the link of chairperson's meeting, you can see, that many participants were not president of any affiliates, they attended the meeting on behalf of the president. For example, Nahid Sultan attended the meeting on behalf of Wikipedia Bangladesh (WMBD)

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimania tour of Rahul Desmukh

2018-08-03 Thread Yohann Thomas
Dear Bodhi & other community members First of all, I would apologise for the delay in reply. Wikimedia India is run by 7 board members(as you are already aware) & any discussion on any topic, requires inputs from all of them.. Since all are unpaid volunteers & have their own professional lives apa

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimania tour of Rahul Desmukh

2018-08-03 Thread Dr. Manavpreet Kaur
Hi Asaf, Wikimedia India community members and CIS A2K Team, I am sorry for intervening in this whole discussion but I feel the discussion is deviating from the primary concern as we have received another mail where a number of concerns have been raised in response to the primary issue raised by B

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimania tour of Rahul Desmukh

2018-08-03 Thread Subhashish Panigrahi
(@Amritasya: please note, your's an off-topic discussion here) It does, and those who are subscribers to the list can see your mail. You can always check the archive ( https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/) to check if your mail has made it to the discussion or not. You can write

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimania tour of Rahul Desmukh

2018-08-03 Thread Amritasya Putra
Why doesn’t my email reach this list? I have been a member for, like three years. On Fri, 3 Aug 2018 at 10:00 AM, Asaf Bartov wrote: > Certainly, we can wait. But please understand I did not assert WMIN (or > anyone) needs to apologize. Please reread and you'll find I posed it in a > conditional

[Wikimediaindia-l] CIS-A2K : Transparency and Other Issues

2018-08-03 Thread Abhinav srivastava
Dear Friends From CIS-A2K, I am bringing up a discussion based on few of the concerns expressed on the other mail thread. I would like to acknowledge on record, the past few years CIS-A2K has reached out to communities (besides Focussed Language Area) much more effectively. I may be the first pe

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimania tour of Rahul Desmukh

2018-08-03 Thread Abhinav srivastava
Hello Asaf, Tito, Bodhi and others, Bodhisattwa: Although Wikimedia India is yet to reply it would be in the best interest that Wikimedia India also incorporates the question put up by Bodhisattwa. Tito: Coming out publicly is a welcome step and also apologizing. The point 3 and 4 effectively

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimania tour of Rahul Desmukh

2018-08-03 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
Hi Tito, Thanks for the clarification from the part of CIS-A2K. It is clear now from your reply, that the WMIN president sent a request to CIS-A2K to support for his participation in Wikimania and CIS-A2K responded positively as this was an official request from an affiliate representative, I gue

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimania tour of Rahul Desmukh

2018-08-03 Thread Tito Dutta
Hello, I, on behalf of CIS-A2K would like to clarify our position regarding Mr. Rahul Deshmukh/WMIN representative's participation in Wikimania 2018. We unconditionally apologise for not sending out information to community and mailing lists about this support extended by A2K. We received an off