On Oct 3, 2011, at 2:14 AM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan wrote:
>
> 9,12 lakh Laptops will be completely distributed by the end of the Academic
> year.
We are trying to establish a line of communication with ELCOT to discuss how we
could have Wikipedia Offline installed on these computers.
>
> After all this nonsense, I ask a few questions to several groups of people:
This isn't nonsense! It's fantastic context!!! Many many thanks!
>
> 1> The chapter, the Foundation office, and board members. This includes
> Hisham Mundol, Bishakha Dutta, Achal Prabhala, Shiju Alex, Nitika Tandon et
> al.
> Are you willing to launch any school student oriented plan in South India,
> [not limited to TN]?
> I'm not asking for anything similar to the Campus Ambassadors program, but
> more of a series of Seminars, workshops, academies, meetups, tutorials etc.
> We need your support for such a mass scale program, as individually we cannot
> achieve anything.
Yes! Happy to discuss and see how best we can help out. Let me know when we
can talk.
> 2> South Indian wikipedians, especially the Bangalore, Chennai and Kerala
> communities.
> Are you open to helping us out?
> Especially Kerala, you are the most advanced in the Indic wiki sphere, will
> you please help out your neighbour TN?
>
> I'm willing to do as much as possible from my side[I'm not too good at
> arranging meetups, when I say Wikipedia, people stare at me blankly, and I
> can't explain it to them in Tamil, even though it is my mother tongue].
>
>
> Please do consider this Golden opportunity.
> There is plenty of potential out here.
> The laptops run on Linux, which means, a big boost to Open Source software.
> The primary target is school students, which means, more young editors [and
> oldies in their late teens like me].
>
> I couldn't think of how to say this, but somehow I just typed it and sent it.
Once again, Thank You for this!
hisham
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