Thanks Jayanta for sharing this. Wish you all the very best. Moksh, Pranav and Srikanth, kudos for your contribution to the chapter's growth.
Best! Subha > On 3 ଅକ୍ଟୋବର 2014, at 6:41 pm, Jayanta Nath <jaya...@wikimedia.in> wrote: > > > > > Extraordinary Circular > > Dated: 03/10/2014 > > During the past several weeks, there has been significant developments and > major changes in the team of governance of Wikimedia India Chapter (WMIN). > The Executive Committee (EC) effective as of now, would like to clarify the > sequence of events that unfolded and the remedial steps the EC took as and > when necessary. > > > On August 27th, Moksh at 8:03pm tendered his resignation as the President of > WMIN Chapter as well as a member of the Executive Committee. Within minutes, > Pranav Curumsey too sent in his resignation from the position as an EC > member. > > With this, the number of remaining EC members became 5 (Five). > > On 30th August, the remaining EC members immediately put up and passed an > emergency Resolution accepting the resignation of both Moksh Juneja and > Pranav Curumsey. This resolution was signed for by Jayanta, ViswaPrabha and > Nikita. Srikanth signed against this. Karthik did not participate in this > resolution. > > Further, on the same day, another Emergency Resolution was passed to co-opt > two new members to fill those two vacancies. By consensus, two senior Chapter > members were selected to be the new EC members. All the then existing EC > members viz. Jayanta Nath, ViswaPrabha, Srikanth, Nikita and Karthik > unanimously voted for both these candidates. > Radhakrishna Arvapally, a senior Chapter member and former Chairperson of > Bangalore SIG was one among them. Due to severe personal engagements, the > other person gracefully refused to be an EC Member. Due to privacy concerns, > we prefer to conceal his identity. > > With this, the number of effective EC members became 6. > > On 31st August, an Emergency Telecon was held. Jayanta Nath was elected as > the new President as well as Radhakrishna as the new Secretary and > ViswaPrabha as the Treasurer. All the existing EC members (viz. Jayanta, > Radhakrishna, ViswaPrabha, Srikanth, Nikita and Karthik) attended this > telecon and all of them had voted for the new office bearers unanimously. > > On 2nd September 2014, there was another Telecon mainly to discuss about the > urgent pending matters such as elections, AGM, formation of an advisory > committee etc. All the Six EC members (viz. Jayanta, Radhakrishna, > ViswaPrabha, Srikanth, Nikita and Karthik) had attended this meeting. > > Soon after this meeting was over, Srikant submitted his resignation. With > this, the number of effective EC members fell back to 5 (five). This > necessitated the co-opting of two more members to the board of directors. > > During the next EC telecom, which was held on 5th September, Dr. Ekbal > Bappukunju was co-opted in. This was supported by all attendees (viz. > Jayanta, Radhakrishna, ViswaPrabha, Nikita and Karthik) unanimously. The EC > was now back with a strength of Six members. There was still one more vacancy > in the board to be filled up. EC decided to seek out and absorb one more > potential candidate from the list of chapter members. > > Finally, on 10th September, during yet another Telecon, Nikhil Kawale was > co-opted to the remaining one position. This meeting was attended by Jayanta, > ViswaPrabha, Dr. Ekbal, Nikita and Karthik) all of them unanimously voted in > favour of Nikhil. > > As is evident from the above, Wikimedia India Chapter would like to state > explicitly and assure everybody who may be concerned that at no point of time > during this period, there was a decision or deliberation that took place > without sufficient quorum or majority as stipulated by its Memorandum of > Association. Further, the Executive Committee itself was never in minority as > suggested by certain messages appeared in open mail lists. > > > The above circular is signed by the following members of the Executive > Committee of Wikimedia India Chapter effective as on date: > > President: Jayanta Nath > Secretary: Radhakrishna Arvapally > Treasurer: ViswaPrabha > Karthik Nadar > Nikita Belavate > Dr. Ekbal Bappukunju > Nikhil Kawale > > > > Regards, > > Jayanta Nath > President > Wikimedia India Chapter > > > The PDF copy of the the same you could found at > http://wiki.wikimedia.in/images/8/80/Extraordinarycircular.pdf > _______________________________________________ > 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
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