Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] News from the Chapter and the Conference

Dear Ravi: > 1. Chapter shall conduct IRC discussions with each langauge community at > least once in few months. It is best done one community at a time to give > more time and space for each of them. Not all language community members are > in India and not all can become chapter members. This

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] News from the Chapter and the Conference

Hi Naveen, Srikanth Lakshmanan is already active in Tamil Wikimedia informing about WikiConference India happenings. http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:VP will be a good place to leave further messages. Thanks, Ravi On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 2:12 PM, Naveen Francis wrote: > > Hi Ravi, > > Can we

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] News from the Chapter and the Conference

Hi Gautham, Here are two ways: 1. Chapter shall conduct IRC discussions with each langauge community at least once in few months. It is best done one community at a time to give more time and space for each of them. Not all language community members are in India and not all can become chapter me

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] News from the Chapter and the Conference

Just one not about the subject: If WMIN don't use that money to WCI, it needs to be returned to WMF. This money was not "given" to WMIN for no reason, was given *to be used in WCI* - if that would not be the case anymore, the money need to be returned. So all those arguments that "We have better

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] News from the Chapter and the Conference

Hi Ravi, Can we please have some kind of online activity as a runup event for WCI 2011 from Tamil Community ? http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2011/Wiki_Outreach Naveen Francis Signature powered by

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] News from the Chapter and the Conference

On 25 August 2011 13:29, Ravishankar wrote: Ravi - thank you very much for your email - much appreciated. > We shall look for unconventional ways to invest wisely which will have > maximum ROI. Here are some examples: You know, these are excellent ideas and it does highlight an issue we have f

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] News from the Chapter and the Conference

Off the cuff, I want to appreciate the great ideas put forth, Ravi. Thanks for taking the effort. These ideas need to be preserved even if we are not able to use them right now. Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 1:29 PM,

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] News from the Chapter and the Conference

Hi all, I appreciate the transparent, detailed and professional planning of conference and I am sorry I couldn't take part in WikiConference related planning earlier. For those who don't know, I am a Tamil Wikimedian since 2005 with 20,000+ edits. My major interest lies in outreach and policy dec

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] News from the Chapter and the Conference

My apologies for the gentle dig at you, Ravi. :) You set yourself up and I just couldn't resist but it was not meant any way in bad faith. I sincerely hope you are not offended. Or if you are, I hope that you are magnanimous to forgive me. Good to know that you are a great Wikipedian. :) Hari has

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Someone much wiser than me said that if you're community doesn't disagree within itself, it's dead and I think he is right. Ravi: I see your point of view and it would be great if you could help us with a Project plan: http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Projects:2011-12 In which case, we'll at least have th

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] News from the Chapter and the Conference

Thanks HP. Ravi, I hope you didn't take my comment personally. I saw the organizers make request after request for people to join in on Meta and the mailing list here. They even setup another mailing list here publicly and tried to be as open as possible. I've seen them do nothing but discuss and

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Theo, Although I may not agree with Ravi or Ashwin completely, I feel that open-minded discussion about this doesn't hurt. The grant and its details are public, and Ravi has expressed his opinion on it. Ravi is a longtime Wikipedian on Tamil Wikipedia, and one of the authors of this: http://www.a

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lol +1 to Ashwin. Ravishankar, I dont know who you are but please dont denigrate the work of my friends and fellow community members with statements like those. No one stopped you from getting or anyone else involved, you still can. Go get us the in-kind donation please. You have our blessing. T

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] News from the Chapter and the Conference

Ravi, Thank God someone feels like this. Be our guest, please prove us wrong by getting us a great big sponsorship. We really welcome help in this field. I'm sure if you are succesful, and we have enough funds, we could reduce the grant or use it elsewhere than for the Wiki Conference. Warm regard

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] News from the Chapter and the Conference

Hi, I am not so glad to see the huge grant for Wikiconference and the way it is spent. With all due respect for the organising community and volunteers, more effort should have gone in getting donation in kind ( example: venues ) / commercial sponsors. That is how most of the events of this scale

[Wikimediaindia-l] News from the Chapter and the Conference

Hello Everyone: I'd like to share two pieces of good news. 1. The Chapter grant has been approved. More details here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:WM_IN/Bootstrap_Grant 2. The Conference grant has also been approved. More details here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:WM_IN/WikiConf