Changed the subject line again.. ( Subject deviation again :) ) <div><br></div><div>Hi Praveen,</div><div>May I ask , what is not really clear about the chapter ? Wikimedia India chapter is registered now as a legal entity in India [1] in Jan 2010 ; there is an Executive committee with 7 members , the office bearers are [2] <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; ">Arun Ramarathnam, President ; </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; ">BalaSundaraRaman Lakshmanan, Secretary ; </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; ">Arjuna Rao Chavala, Treasurer etc</span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; ">May be it is time for the chapter to open up the membership to the community?</span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; ">or even making the agenda & meeting minutes of the Wikimedia India chapter EC available to all like the Wikimedia Foundation Board [3] ( so that these confusions to "common Wikimedians" can be avoided) ?</span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; line-height: normal; font-size: small; "><div>
If there are still any misunderstandings/unclear things, the EC members must be happy to answer them.</div></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "><br>
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; line-height: normal; font-size: small; ">I'm all excited to see the Wikimedia India chapter getting more active and the chapter & community working closely in the coming days. </span></span></div>
<div><br></div><div>[1] <a href="http://wikimedia.in/wiki/Chapter_Registration_accomplished">http://wikimedia.in/wiki/Chapter_Registration_accomplished</a></div><div>[2] <a href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_India/MoA-PostChapComVer">http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_India/MoA-PostChapComVer</a> </div>
<div>[3] <a href="http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Meetings">http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Meetings</a> </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Regards</div><div>Tinu Cherian</div><div><br></div><div>N.B. I am not speaking on behalf of the chapter , neither am I a EC member/ordinary member. My understandings are based on various threads on the mailing lists. </div>
<div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 1:40 AM, praveenp <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:me.praveen@gmail.com">me.praveen@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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</div>I like that "incidental fallout" phrase. ;-) I can now understand why<br>
chapter and none of its activities are clear to common wikimedian. :)<br>
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