Sanskrit Bharathi volunteers were generally keen on our Sanskrit Wikipedia.
Arunram and others have conducted Wiki academies for them. Probably good
idea to take them more into confidence with our movement.
While Kerala & TN governments have chosen to go with the Wikipedia, it is
sad that Karnataka government is always trying to reinvent the wheel. May
be we are not reaching out with them properly.
It may be a good idea to set up a Chapter task force for government liaisons
and policy making, which includes those folks who have done these kind of
stuff successfully more than those who have contacts.
Regards
Tinu Cherian
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 11:10 AM, Naveen B M <naveenbm(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> From the state budget speech here (
> http://www.kar.nic.in/finance/bud2011/bsp2011.htm), it appears this is a
> grant to Sanskrit Bharathi
>
>
> >>> 182. To develop Sanskrit Wikipedia, Rs 1 crore would be provided as
> a grant to Sanskrit Bharathi.
>
>
> Naveen
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 10:51 AM, Hari Prasad Nadig <hpnadig(a)gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Just checked with my sources in the government - and what I hear is that
>> the allocated funds *isn't* for Sanskrit Wikipedia, but a project "on the
>> lines" of Sanskrit Wikipedia, but perhaps with editing control.
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 10:45 AM, Prashanth NS <prashanth.ns(a)gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Yea. I remember that announcement 2 years back and then it got converted
>>> into an internal project.
>>>
>>> But, a good opportunity for advocacy here. Perhaps some chapter members
>>> should meet the department officials and try and get co-opted into the
>>> decision-making process. Often, it is lack of information and trust that
>>> scares them. Unlike 2 years, back with the chapter in place and most of us
>>> quite well networked, we should get involved closely and see if we can get
>>> them to invest in improving the sanskrit and kananda wikis.
>>>
>>>
>> The government usually prefers a project with editing control rather than
>> one without any direct control over content decisions made.
>>
>> --
>> Hari Prasad Nadig
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Dear all,
Forwarding Liam's email to the Bangalore list. FYI.
The message may not have reached you as he is not a member of the list.
regards
Arun
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To: Arun Ramarathnam <arunram25(a)gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 16:19:13 +1100
Subject: Re: Liam Wyatt's visit to India
Thank you for this introduction and for making the
<http://wikimedia.in/wiki/Projects:GLAM_2011>
http://wikimedia.in/wiki/Projects:GLAM_2011 coordination pages Arun. Also
thank you Bishakha for your earlier introduction.
As described, I have been invited to speak at a conference in Delhi and
thought it would be a good opportunity to visit also Mumbai and Bangalore
and see if there was anything I could do to help the local Wikimedia
communities in these cities to generate some prodictive relationships with
local cultural organisations.
For Mumbai and Bangalore I think it would be best to have (potentially) a
couple of meetings - one with just wikimedians (with dinner?) where we can
plan and talk about what you can/would like to achieve. And then a second
meeting which includes any GLAM representatives wo would like to meet us so
we can all talk together. If there is time/interest afterwards, it might
also be possible to visit some specific institutions directly.
For Delhi, I have a bit less time because I will be speaking at the ICLAM
conference on both the 15th and 16th. Therefore, possibly the best time to
do things in Delhi would be dinner on the 16th(?) and maybe a meeting on the
17th?
In any case, you do not need me to be present, of course, to start making
collaboration projects with local cultural organisations but I hope that I
can be a catalyst!
So, if you are interested in being involved in GLAM outreach and can come to
some event At any of these cities, please add your name at the relevant
place and help organise a meetup.
I look forward to meeting you all next month,
Sincerely,
-Liam
Wittylama.com/blog
Peace, love & metadata
On 26/01/2011, at 6:49, Arun Ramarathnam <arunram25(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Dear Wikimedians,
It's a pleasure to inform you all that Liam
Wyatt<http://www.wittylama.com/>will be visiting India between 12th
and 19th Feb to focus on
GLAM <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GLAM_(industry_sector)>related
initiatives here.
Liam's visit to India is intended to support wikimedia communities to
explore the possibilities of collaborating with Galleries, Libraries,
Archives and Museums (GLAM) in strengthening articles on wikipedia of mutual
interest.
Liam recently became a Wikimedia Fellow -
<http://blog.wikimedia.org/blog/2011/01/19/announcing-our-glam-fellow-liam-w…>
http://blog.wikimedia.org/blog/2011/01/19/announcing-our-glam-fellow-liam-w…
Liam was the wikipedian in
residence<http://blog.wikimedia.org/blog/2010/07/10/the-royal-cup-bridges-wikipedia-a…>
at
the British Museum last year. Liam has been focussed on GLAM and was
the convener of the GLAM-WIKI
<http://www.wikimedia.org.au/wiki/GLAM-WIKI>event held in Australia in
August
2009.
It is great to have Liam visiting us. He will be visiting Delhi, Mumbai and
Bangalore. We hope to make the most of Liam's visit to create more awareness
for GLAM amongst wikipedians and connect with GLAM stakeholders wherever
possible.
Liam will also be speaking at the
ICLAM<http://www.nift.ac.in/ICLAM_2011/index.htm>conference on the
15th.
For coordinating events during his visit, I have create a GLAM project page
on the India wiki, to help us all get started:
<http://wikimedia.in/wiki/Projects:GLAM_2011>
http://wikimedia.in/wiki/Projects:GLAM_2011
There are city specific pages, each of which has a planning page.
We look forward to all your support and active participation to organize
events and meeting in various cities. Wikipedians are requested to join the
discussions in the planning pages for each city. .
regards
Arun
Bangalore, India
<http://www.twitter.com/arunram>www.twitter.com/arunram
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http://outlookindia.com/article.aspx?270643
Posting this article to the list as I think it has various interesting
tangents for the idea of knowledge in India - though Sugata writes
specifically about Kannada, I think he is talking about any Indian
language at all.
Hi,
Hisham Mundol was recently hired [1] as an consultant to the
Wikimedia Foundation to support the program initiatives in India.
Hisham Mundol will be primarily based in India and will be working closely
with the Wikimedian community in India.
Hisham Mundol is coming to Bangalore to connect with the Wikimedian
community in Bangalore.
Date : *Friday, 25-Feb-2011 6:30 PM IST *
Venue:
The Centre for Internet and Society
No. 194, 2nd 'C' Cross,
4th Main
Domlur 2nd Stage
Opposite to Domlur Club
Bangalore 560 071
Karnataka
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Bangalore/Bangalore30
Do plan to attend and kindly sign up.
About Hisham Mundol :
*Hisham Mundol's role will be to design and implement specific pilot
programs that encourage many more Indians to become contributors to our
projects in Indic languages as well as English. The National Programs
initiative will focus on the following areas in the first year:*
*Design and implement an India-wide program to increase Wikimedia’s
footprint on university and college campuses with students and faculty with
the aim of encouraging contributions to Wikimedia projects*
*Support the launch and implementation of community-initiated programs that
seek to increase the editor base for Wikimedia projects*
*Engage with the community and chapter to build a strong relationship among
these stakeholder groups and create communications forums that allow for
effective partnerships*
*As a newcomer to the Wikimedia movement, Hisham’s first task will be to
deepen his understanding of us: our history, goals, values, culture and
mission. *
*
*
*Hisham was most recently a consultant with the Public Health Foundation of
India (in a partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation). He
designed and implemented large-scale national programs on HIV/AIDS
prevention. He worked to understand the dynamics of hard-to-reach
communities by conducting in-depth, on-the-ground analysis (ask him to tell
you about his experience talking to drivers while sitting under their
trucks). The programs he designed and implemented sought to convince people
in large numbers - 400 million young people across the nation - to change
very personal behaviours. While we are not tackling issues of such an
intimate nature, we do aim to convince large numbers of people across the
country to contribute their personal time to Wikimedia projects. During
this assignment, Hisham worked closely with public, private and community
groups (local and international) to work through the details of the programs
and build partnerships for implementing them at scale. He did so in a manner
that used persuasion rather than power to build support to move things
forward. We think his experience navigating these varied groups position
him well to work in the Wikimedia community. His earlier career was in
marketing and business development with a number of well-known businesses:
Infosys, Accenture, Cadbury and Unilever. This experience positions him well
to engage with a movement and organization that is global in nature, in
particular to work with a team that is based halfway around the world. *
( Introduction by Barry Newstead , GCDO , Wikimedia Foundation) [1]
Regards
Tinu Cherian
[1]
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2011-February/002239.…
[2]
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/FAQ_Consultancy_for_National_Programs,_India
On Friday at 3 pm, a group of us from Bangalore (Arun, Gautam and I)
organised a GLAM presentation and meeting at the NGMA (National Gallery
of Modern Art, Bangalore http://ngmaindia.gov.in/ngma_bangaluru.asp)
with Liam. (Announced here:
http://wikimedia.in/wiki/Projects:GLAM_2011/Bangalore_Feb2011)
This is a quick update:
NGMA is a grand Indian art institution, and the Bangalore museum is it's
latest expansion. The director of the museum, Sobha Nambisan, was keen
to make this a small meeting for NGMA staff and invited curators/
gallery owners from Bangalore. Of the people present, other than us,
there were about 10 NGMA staff, including all the main curators and
coordinators, as well as Aashti Mudnani from Gallery SKE
(www.galleryske.com) - a leading contemporary art gallery, Suresh
Jayaram from 1 Shanthi Road (www.1shanthiroad.com), - an arts centre for
residencies and experimentation, Suman Gopinath from Colab - curatorial
space for arts and architecture, and Namita Malhotra from Pad.ma
(www.pad.ma) - an open video archive.
Liam spoke for about half an hour about his experiences at the British
Museum, interspersed with questions from the curators present. Following
his talk, we had a discussion that lasted another half hour. There was
plenty of interest evinced in continuing similar work in Bangalore at
the institutions present; questions ranged from fairly interesting
("What can I get out of this?") to the expectedly basic around tenets of
Wikipedia - as is perhaps to be expected from a specialist audience in a
different field. Gallery SKE, for instance, is already working in-house
on looking at ways of enhancing Wikipedia around the artists it
represents; 1 Shanthi Road, which is a far looser arts-space, expressed
interest in finding ways to document events, happenings and art that
might otherwise be lost, and NGMA as a whole - as expressed by Sobha -
seemed very interested in following up the conversation, by starting to
think about what they would want to get out of a relationship with
Wikimedians.
Personally, it was very interesting for me to see the intersection
between high-culture and Wikimedia, a connection that's not often
expressed or articulated in Bangalore or India. Gautam and Arun, who
were both at the meeting, have suggested that they could follow up in
terms of coordinating community involvement with NGMA and other art
galleries present at the meeting, especially in terms of interest
expressed at the public CIS meet-up where Liam also spoke.
If there is anyone on these lists who'd like to get in touch with any of
the institutions mentioned here, please drop either Arun, Gautam or I a
line and we'll be delighted to connect you :)
Cheers,
Achal
Hi All,
I am 60 plus and all these years I presume that
Galleries,Libraries,Art centres etc are places of worship.
But a little reading in one of your blogs changed the whole of my
perception.Quote,"However, it seems to me
that we have reached a tipping point in the mood of the cultural sector for
curators to become guides rather than
guards, for museums to be forums rather than temples.'" Unquote.
A great revelation for a 60 year old and I have added a new
dimension when I look at churches ,
mosques and temples.
Gokuldas
Wikian
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 9:29 PM, Arjuna Rao Chavala <
arjunaraoc(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> All are welcome to join this talk by Liam.(details enclosed)
>
> Cheers
> Arjun
>
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> Date: Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 3:40 PM
> Subject: KALA/ NCSI-NET Talk on Wikipedia and GLAM's by Liam Wyatt
> (Wikimedia Foundation's Cultural Partnerships Fellow) on 19th Feb 2011
> To: "lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in" <lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in>, "
> lislforum(a)gmail.com" <lislforum(a)gmail.com>, "akelpa(a)gmail.com" <
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>
>
> Dear LIS Professionals,
> Karnataka State Library Association (KALA) and NCSI-NET (an alumni
> association of Students and staff of NCSI) are happy to invite you to the
> Special Lecture on;
>
> *Topic: "Wikipedia and GLAMs (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums)"
> *
> *Speaker: Liam Wyatt *(Wikimedia Foundation’s Cultural Partnerships
> Fellow)
> *Date and Time: 19th Feb 2011 at 10.30AM*
> *Venue: Seminar Hall, National Centre for Science Information (NCSI),
> IISc, Bangalore -12*
>
> *Abstract: *
> In this presentation Liam will discuss his project as the "Wikipedian in
> Residence" at the British Museum and the current global cultural
> partnerships project. He will then talk about the kinds of collaboration
> that libraries and librarians can achieve with Wikimedia and also answer any
> questions about Wikipedia more generally.
>
> *About the Speaker: *
> Liam Wyatt is the Wikimedia Foundation’s *Cultural Partnerships Fellow*<http://bit.ly/GLAMfellow>(a.k.a GLAM fellow), based in Sydney. He has done his bachelors in
> Globalisation. He had been given a one year fellowship to focus on Cultural
> Partnerships within the Wikiverse.
> His role is to help create systems and processes to make outreach
> partnerships more efficient and effective. The key phrase is “capacity
> building” as described in his blogpost a few months ago “*How to make
> cultural collaborations scale*<http://www.wittylama.com/2010/11/how-to-make-cultural-collaborations-scale/>“.
> He believes that now the cultural sector has seen that working with
> Wikimedia can be A Good Thing™, that we must have reasonably professional
> processes in place for managing those relationships. As a first step in this
> he has built a bit of a *GLAM hub on-wiki*<http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM>.
> For more details, he can be accessed at this URL *http://glamwiki.org*<http://glamwiki.org/>
> He has been Vice President of *Wikimedia Australia*<http://wikimedia.org.au/>and the “
> *Wikipedian in Residence*<http://www.wittylama.com/2010/03/the-british-museum-and-me/>”
> at the British Museum. Also, a project officer at *Austlii*<http://www.austlii.edu.au/austlii/>and multimedia coordinator at the
> *Dictionary of Sydney*<http://www.dictionaryofsydney.org/www/html/51-project-teams.asp>,
> a historian, *podcaster* <http://wikipediaweekly.org/>, *fire-twirler*<http://www.circusoc.com/>,
> museuophile, snowboarder, *förman* <http://www.ostgota.nu/>, bartender and
> backpacker.
>
> Thanks and Regards,
> Rajendra Babu H
> General Secretary
> Karnataka State Library Association (KALA)
>
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Dear all,
We are having a special meetup In Bangalore on Saturday, February 19, 2011
(3:15 pm) at CIS. We will be having Liam Wyatt speaking on Wikipedia and
GLAM institutions (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums). This talk is
open to Wikipedians and the general public.
Requesting people who are attending to sign up here -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Bangalore/Bangalore29
Liam Wyatt has been meeting many GLAM institutions in Mumbai and Delhi
during this trip. Bangalore is the last leg of his trip. He will also be
meeting GLAM institutions in Bangalore on 18th and 19th.
It will be an exciting meeting, so please do be there.
We had given a heads up in last week's Bangalore meetup.
We also hope to have discussions around approaches to work with GLAM
institutions In India based on his recent meetings and discussions.
warm regards,
Arun
A friendly reminder...in addition to other GLAM events that are
happening over the next two days:
http://wikimedia.in/wiki/Projects:GLAM_2011/Bangalore_Feb2011
...please sign up for the NGMA GLAM meeting if you are interested in
joining us tomorrow (Friday, Feb 18) at the staff boardroom of the
National Gallery of Modern Art, Bangalore @ 3 pm (all the other events
listed on the page are public, except this, which is for museum staff,
curators, archivists, gallery owners and any interested Wikipedians -
sign up required).
Cheers,
Achal
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Subject: Liam/ Wikipedia GLAM discussion @ NGMA @ 3 pm, Feb 18 (Friday)
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 17:35:58 +0530
From: Achal Prabhala <aprabhala(a)gmail.com>
To: Mailing list for Wikimedians / Wikipedians in Bangalore, India
<wikimedia-in-blr(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Discussion list on Indian
language projects of Wikimedia. <wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Dear all,
A group of us here in Bangalore have been arranging GLAM sessions on Feb
18/19.
NGMA (the National Gallery of Modern Art, Bangalore:
http://ngmaindia.gov.in/ngma_bangaluru.asp) will host a semi-public
discussion with Liam, NGMA staff, and invited curators/ art gallery
owners at their premises on Feb 18, Friday, 3 pm in the NGMA staff
boardroom. The other organisations invited are: 1 Shanthi Road
(http://www.1shanthiroad.com/), Gallery SKE (www.galleryske.com), Colab
(an art and architecture curatorial concern) and pad.ma (www.pad.ma).
Wikipedians and other interested folk from Bangalore are welcome to
join, but since space is slightly limited, NGMA would prefer to keep
this a private event (without press) and ask that you send in your names
beforehand. Therefore, if you are interested in this event, could you
please add your names here:
http://wikimedia.in/wiki/Projects:GLAM_2011/Bangalore_Feb2011#18-Feb
Will update http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/India after the
event.
There are many other events in the planning, and there will be more
notifications here as these events are finalised.
Cheers,
Achal