Thanks Ashwin.
I understand, let me know if you need my help. Salmaan User:Theo10011 On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 6:23 PM, Ashwin Baindur <ashwin.bain...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hi Salmaan, > > Thanks for the offer! Shiju is just waiting for a reply from Casey Browne > before we file the bug. Since we have formally asked, it would be > appropriate to wait for a while for the response. > > As regards the name, there are now a large amount of activities, lists etc > communities, meet-ups etc coming up in India. We now need a finer level of > grading between Foundation, chapter and community driven ventures - hence we > are a little chary of appending "media" unless it is directly driven by or > associated with Chapter or Foundation. Secondly, events are of many types, > whereas we want a list specifically for the annual national conference and > perhaps other conferences in India, hence the need felt for the word > "conference". > > Warm regards, > > Ashwin Baindur > ------------------------------------------------------ > > > > On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 5:45 PM, Theo10011 <de10...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I believe you need to file a bug for this Ashwin. If you want, I can file >> it for you and get someone to close the request. >> >> Are you sure about the title? I would suggest something like >> WikiIndia-events or Wikimediaindia-events list. So that it doesn't become >> useless after the event and can be re-used for coordinating future events. >> The naming convention for the list also depends on country codes and >> previous naming convention, Wikimediaindia-events would be a sub-list of >> Wikimediaindia-l. >> >> Salmaan >> User:Theo10011 >> >> >> >> On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 5:23 PM, Ashwin Baindur <ashwin.bain...@gmail.com >> > wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I'm user:AshLin, co-chair of the Working Group for a forthcoming >>> Wiki-conference in India in November 2011. I'm writing formally to you to >>> request for a list for that event; a request which you may have >>> already received informally from Shiju Alex. >>> >>> The event will definitely be taking place on 18-20 November 2011 at >>> Mumbai and we have already requested Jimbo's presence at the event (as an >>> example of the event's firming up). >>> >>> This is a joint venture between the Indian Chapter and the Indian >>> Wikimedia community and will henceforth be an annual feature. We were about >>> to start communications of the Working Group on a Google Group but community >>> members have asked if our email group can be hosted by the Foundation and be >>> a mailman list. If provided, it is planned to use this list for planning and >>> organising all national wikiconferences in India henceforth. >>> >>> The advantages, we feel, are that the list and its archives will be >>> preserved and secure while the Foundation exists, ease of use & interface as >>> all of us are used to mailman lists for community communication to date and >>> that the future of the group will not be dependent upon Google policies. >>> >>> We request that the list be named "WikiConference India", to distinguish >>> it from other types of WikiConferences such as the Wikimania series. >>> >>> Should other countries decide to have annual national conferences, >>> perhaps their lists could be named "WikiConference xxxx" (where xxxx is name >>> of the country) similarly. >>> >>> Looking forward to a positive and early response so that we can begin our >>> organising activities. >>> >>> Warm regards, >>> >>> Ashwin Baindur >>> ------------------------------------------------------ >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wikimediaindia-l mailing list >>> Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimediaindia-l mailing list >> Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaindia-l mailing list > Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l > >
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