On 9/2/14, Nurunnaby Hasive <
nh@nhasive.com> wrote:
> Dear All,
> A good news. Bengali Wikipedia Administrator & Long time wikipedian Jayanta
> Nath elected as new President of Wikimedia India chapter. Congratulation
> Jayanta da..
>
> :)
>
>
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> From: Jayanta Nath <
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> Date: Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 2:52 AM
> Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Wikimedia India Chapter: Current state of
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> From: Jayanta Nath <
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> Date: Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 10:45 PM
> Subject: Wikimedia India Chapter: Current state of affairs
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> Dear Wikimedia India Chapter members and other interested stakeholders in
> the list,
>
> Dear members,
>
> The Executive committee of Wikimedia India has held an emergency
> teleconference on their official DSNL channel on 31 Aug 2014. As salient
> items on the agenda, the following topics were discussed and decided upon:
>
> 1. Earlier, Radhakrishna Arvapally, a senior chapter member and former
> Chair of Bangalore SIG, was co-opted by an emergency resolution. The
> resolution was passed unanimously. The resolution had also proposed another
> senior member. However, due to heavy personal engagements, the second
> nominee requested the EC to exempt from such considerations.
>
> Radhakrishna was invited to the telecon and was officially welcomed to be
> part of the EC.
>
> 2. Jayanta Nath, a senior Wikipedian from Kolkata and EC member, was
> unanimously elected as the new President of the Wikimedia India Chapter.
> Also, Radhakrishna Arvapally and Viswanathan Prabhakaran were elected as
> the new Secretary and Treasurer of the chapter respectively.
>
> 3. Any decision about hiring is kept on hold for now. The current EC agreed
> together that the opinion of the new EC (emerging through the upcoming
> general elections) should also be taken on-board for a major decision like
> this, since they are the ones to deal with the newly hired candidate(s)for
> a longer term.
>
> 4. Another extra ordinary EC Telecon was scheduled to be conducted
> tentatively on 02 September 2014, 9.00 PM to take up other urgent matters
> pending for decisions.
>
> This is for the general information for all chapter members and other
> interested stakeholders.
>
> Thank You,
>
> Jayanta Nath
>
> President
>
> Wikimedia India Chapter
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