Hi,
CIS-A2K is allocating huge amount of budget on only five Indian languages.
I dont know how other language communities, including my own Bengali, will
provide feedback on that. We do not fall in the so-called Focused Language
Area (FLA) of CIS-A2K and our feedback dont matter at all.
CIS has been requesting millions of dollars from WMF every year on their
so-called 5 focused language areas and doing all kind of propaganda about
their so-called progress, in social media, blogs and meta, sometimes
claiming volunteer events as their own success. Still I can say, that other
non-FLA volunteer Indian communities, including Bengali, are working
on-wiki silently on their own without any/very little monetary or
organizational support and progressing a lot more than funded Wikimedia
projects and I am proud of that as a community member.
As India is not a country of only 5 languages, this Focused language
concept is completely faulty to me and this shows clear discrimination to
other language communities.
Regards,
Bodhisattwa
On 2 April 2016 at 16:56, Tito Dutta <trulytito(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hello,
We want to inform you that CIS-A2K team has submitted workplan and proposal
for the year 2016-2017. These are the details:
- Link to Workplan :
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Work_plan_July_2016_-_June_2017
- Link to proposal :
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/2015-2016_round2/The_C…
- Link to strategic plan :
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Strategic_plan_June_2016_-_July_2018
- Link to budget :
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Work_plan_July_2016_-_June_2017/Bud…
Please provide your valuable feedback here:
Regards
Tito Dutta
Programme Associate
CIS-A2K