Hello everyone, Thank you to those who participated in Wednesday night's IRC session with all of us - the next IRC session is now. We're at #wikimedia-in if you'd like to join us. All questions and comments welcome - and we'd really like to get to know you better. :-)
Warmly, Anasuya On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 6:14 AM, Anasuya Sengupta <asengu...@wikimedia.org>wrote: > Dear all, > > Many apologies but Sydney, Garfield and I are really jet-lagged, and are > in no state to hold an intelligible IRC session today. :-) However, please > do join us tomorrow or another time this week: I've put the timings for the > three IRC sessions we hope to hold this week (Wednesday, Friday and > Saturday), the time (8-9pm) and the channel (#wikimedia-in). In fact, on > Saturday, it will be a wonderful opportunity to have all the WMIN EC here > with us too, as we do both physical and virtual meet-ups. > > Please also let us know if any of you would like to speak with us > separately by phone or hangout, and we'll make sure to accommodate your > request. > > Again, our apologies to the Telugu community that we cannot be with you in > person at your well-deserved celebrations this weekend, though we will > certainly be there in spirit! It was logistically more convenient for the > WMIN EC to meet with us in Bangalore, and as they are all volunteers, we > wanted to make sure to accommodate their needs and convenience as much as > possible. > > Thanks very much, looking forward to good conversations this week. > > Warmly, > Anasuya > > > On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 7:06 PM, Asaf Bartov <abar...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > >> Hi, Nurunnaby. >> >> Bangladesh is not planned to be part of this particular visit. I've >> heard about and appreciated the warm welcome your community gave our mobile >> team, though. :) >> >> We would be delighted to visit Bangladesh, given a suitable context. We >> don't just travel for fun... :) >> >> Cheers, >> >> Asaf >> >> >> On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 8:39 PM, Nurunnaby Chowdhury <n...@nhasive.com>wrote: >> >>> Hi Asaf, >>> Nice to know. Is there any plan of this team to come Bangladesh? We are >>> very happy if the team able to come & meet with our Wikimedians. >>> >>> >>> On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 7:02 AM, Asaf Bartov <abar...@wikimedia.org>wrote: >>> >>>> Dear Indian Wikimedians, >>>> >>>> I pleased to announce a group from the Wikimedia Foundation will be >>>> visiting India next week, staying in Bangalore from Feb 10th through Feb >>>> 16th. >>>> >>>> The group includes: >>>> 1. Garfield Byrd (WMF's Chief of Finance and Administration) >>>> 2. Anasuya Sengupta (WMF's Senior Director of Grantmaking) >>>> 3. Sydney Poore (volunteer member of the Funds Dissemination Committee >>>> [FDC]) >>>> and will be joined in India by WMF Trustee Bishakha Datta. >>>> >>>> (I had also been intending to come, but am prevented this time around >>>> due to unexpected issues securing a travelling visa to India.) >>>> >>>> WMF staff have been visiting partner organizations and communities over >>>> the past few months, to learn more about their context, achievements and >>>> challenges. More recently, FDC members have been joining them in this >>>> effort. Currently, WMF staff and FDC members are visiting Germany. >>>> >>>> One purpose of this visit is to conduct working meetings with the >>>> Foundation's two major partners and grantees in India: the Wikimedia India >>>> (WMIN) chapter and the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS), operating the >>>> Access To Knowledge (A2K) programme. >>>> >>>> Additionally, we would like to meet as many Wikimedians as we can, via >>>> a community meetup in Bangalore, and to make ourselves available over >>>> digital channels (at least taking advantage of being in the same timezone) >>>> to community members across India, via open group discussions over IRC. We >>>> are also open to discussion with any interested smaller groups or >>>> individuals, over Skype, Hangout, or telephone, time permitting. >>>> >>>> We have put up a rough agenda page up on Meta: >>>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMF_India_Visit_Feb_2014 >>>> >>>> Please feel free to sign up for the meetup or the conversations, and to >>>> raise topics you would like to see addressed, on the talk page. >>>> >>>> We greatly regret that logistical issues are preventing us from >>>> visiting other communities in person this time around, and from attending >>>> the Telugu community's 10th anniversary celebrations in Vijayawada. >>>> >>>> Cheers, >>>> >>>> Asaf Bartov >>>> -- >>>> Asaf Bartov >>>> Wikimedia Foundation <http://www.wikimediafoundation.org> >>>> >>>> Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share >>>> in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! >>>> https://donate.wikimedia.org >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Wikimediaindia-l mailing list >>>> Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org >>>> To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit >>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> *Nurunnaby Chowdhury Hasive* >>> Administrator | Bangla Wikipedia<http://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/user:nhasive> >>> Social Media Interaction Expert & >>> Assignment Reporter | The Daily Prothom-Alo <http://www.prothom-alo.com> >>> Bangladesh Ambassador | Open Knowledge Foundation Network >>> <http://www.okfn.org> >>> Treasurer | Bangladesh Open Source Network (BdOSN)<http://www.bdosn.org> >>> Task Force Member | Mozilla Bangladesh <http://www.mozillabd.org> >>> fb.com/nhasive | @nhasive <http://www.twitter.com/nhasive> | Skype: >>> nhasive | www.nhasive.com >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wikimediaindia-l mailing list >>> Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org >>> To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Asaf Bartov >> Wikimedia Foundation <http://www.wikimediafoundation.org> >> >> Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the >> sum of all knowledge. 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