Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] New community nominations in place of absent invitees welcome

2014-09-21 Thread Yohann Thomas
From what i see in the talk page for the event, in the English community out of 8 only 2 have confirmed. How will the other 6 be selected?? Yohann Thomas yohan...@gmail.com On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 11:34 PM, Ravishankar ravidre...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Vikram, Some communities like Tamil,

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] New community nominations in place of absent invitees welcome

2014-09-21 Thread Hari Prasad Nadig
Ravi, Going by what Asaf disclosed to me on an email off the list, the event was organized on these dates despite the knowledge of this major festival. I fail to see why it was done so in such hurried manner, whatever is the reasoning with respect to WMF travel schedule. Further, I was told

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] New community nominations in place of absent invitees welcome

2014-09-21 Thread Dhaval S. Vyas
Hi All, So far as I am aware, dates were advertised quite long ago and well before some of the communities started discussing it (some communities don't seem to have discussed) on their village pumps. If the dates were known already and we all plan our holidays and festivals little bit in

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] New community nominations in place of absent invitees welcome

2014-09-21 Thread Hari Prasad Nadig
On 21 September 2014 21:01, Dhaval S. Vyas dsv...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, So far as I am aware, dates were advertised quite long ago and well before some of the communities started discussing it (some communities don't seem to have discussed) on their village pumps. If the dates were known

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] New community nominations in place of absent invitees welcome

2014-09-21 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, At Wikimania in London I discussed how nice it would be to include all the Indian calendars and by implication all the festivals past present and future. From it I understand that there is no universal knowledge of such calendars and festivals. One of the things that I gleaned from the

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] New community nominations in place of absent invitees welcome

2014-09-21 Thread Hari Prasad Nadig
On 21 September 2014 21:55, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com wrote: Hoi, At Wikimania in London I discussed how nice it would be to include all the Indian calendars and by implication all the festivals past present and future. From it I understand that there is no universal

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] New community nominations in place of absent invitees welcome

2014-09-21 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, Actually this discussion was firmly outside of any other consideration. It had nothing to do with CIS nor the Indian chapter. Having to say this, says something as well. Apparently there must be a relation of everyone between either CIS or the Indian chapter. I am a Wikimedian, I am most

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] New community nominations in place of absent invitees welcome

2014-09-21 Thread Dhaval S. Vyas
Dear Hari Prasad, Aren't festivals already listed on calendar? I have a couple of calendars here in UK, which shows all the festivals for the whole year, one till October this year (as that is when our Gujarati year ends) and another till 31st December. I can easily check on which date what

[Wikimediaindia-l] New community nominations in place of absent invitees welcome

2014-09-19 Thread Ravishankar
Hi, We are just realizing that October 4th and 5th coincide with a festive long week end. So, some members who have been earlier nominated and invited by WMF are unable to attend the event. However, all communities are welcome to recommend nominations replacing these invitees. Please nominate

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] New community nominations in place of absent invitees welcome

2014-09-19 Thread Vikram Vincent
Hi, On 19 September 2014 20:34, Ravishankar ravidre...@gmail.com wrote: snip However, all communities are welcome to recommend nominations replacing these invitees. Please nominate new names or recommend who is next in order to replace the absent attendees snip There already were a

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] New community nominations in place of absent invitees welcome

2014-09-19 Thread Ravishankar
Hi Vikram, Some communities like Tamil, Telugu and Gujarati had village pump nominations first instead of directly placing names in meta. For those communities, sending new nominations officially will make WMF's job more easy and community accepted. For the rest of the communities, what you say