Hi,<div><br></div><div>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.</div>
<div><br></div><div>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).</div><div><br></div>
<div>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.</div>
<div><br></div><div>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.</div>
<div><br></div><div>We request that the list be named "WikiConference India", to distinguish it from other types of WikiConferences such as the Wikimania series. </div><div><br></div><div>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.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Looking forward to a positive and early response so that we can begin our organising activities. </div>
<div><br clear="all">Warm regards,<br><br>Ashwin Baindur<br>------------------------------------------------------<br>
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