[Wikimediaindia-l] Request for a new list

[Ashwin Baindur]

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
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