Hisham ,
Welcome to the world of Wikimedia / Wikipedia ! Looking forward to closely
working with you.
Best wishes !
Regards
Tinu Cherian
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 6:43 AM, Arjuna Rao Chavala <
arjunaraoc(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi Hisham,
>
> A warm welcome and best wishes.
>
> Cheers
> Arjuna Rao Chavala
> President, Wikimedia Chapter, India
>
> On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 10:40 PM, Barry Newstead <bnewstead(a)wikimedia.org>wrote:
>
>> Dear colleagues, (please feel free to cross-post this to local lists
>> within India)
>>
>> I am pleased to announce the appointment of Hisham Mundol as a consultant
>> to the Wikimedia Foundation to support us in our program initiatives in
>> India.
>>
>> As you know, the Wikimedia Foundation declared India to be a strategic
>> priority during the strategic planning process [1]. I announced our plans
>> for the formation of an office in August 2010 and the Wikimedia Foundation
>> Board of Trustees approved the creation of the Wikimedia India chapter in
>> June 2010. India is a priority for the Wikimedia movement as it has a strong
>> and growing community of Wikimedians building the Indic and English language
>> projects. It is a country where the Wikimedia movement can achieve our
>> mission and learn important lessons for achieving impact elsewhere. The
>> engagement of Hisham will enable the Wikimedia Foundation to pilot new
>> initiatives aimed at accelerating the growth of the community in India. I am
>> very happy we’ve now reached this point.
>>
>> As I have mentioned in the past, we have a lot of momentum in India but we
>> have a long way to go to achieve our full potential as a movement. Indians
>> represent 4% of the world’s Internet users today (and this share is
>> growing), yet they only represent 1.5% of page edits on Wikipedia. We should
>> be able to rapidly increase this share - across all projects - and expand
>> readership in a corresponding fashion.
>>
>> Hisham’s title will be Consultant, India National Programs. He will
>> report to me. His 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. To that end, he will be spending the coming weeks (not months!) in
>> learning mode: Hisham and I will be meeting with community members in
>> Mumbai, Pune and Bangalore on Feb 23-25 and then Hisham will join community
>> meetings across the country as they occur. Hisham will also spend time in
>> San Francisco with the staff of the Wikimedia Foundation, as well as with
>> other like-minded individuals and organizations and he will attend the
>> chapter conference in Berlin.
>>
>> Hisham will be creating a workspace on strategy wiki where he will share
>> what he is learning and develop the core elements of the action plan going
>> forward. We encourage active community engagement on this wiki. We aim to
>> move to action quickly and welcome input and guidance from across the
>> community.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> We have scheduled an IRC chat with Hisham and myself for Thursday,
>> February 17 at 22:00 India Standard Time (16:30 UTC).
>>
>> I want to thank everyone who helped in the selection process that
>> identified Hisham. It was a five month process in which we made an open call
>> for consultants (using my visit in September to drum up interest via
>> conversations with the community and the media) in India and around the
>> world. We had 197 applicants from a wide range of professional backgrounds.
>> Egon Zehnder’s India office, part of a leading global executive search
>> firm, helped screen candidates and manage the process. Egon Zehnder
>> conducted indepth interviews with 25 candidates based on the inputs from
>> Bishakha and I who helped shortlist. I interviewed 12 candidates via Skype
>> in the first round and then I had the help of Bishakha Datta and Achal
>> Prabhala to interview the top seven in person in Bangalore. Our top two
>> candidates met with Sue and Erik in Delhi and then Hisham met with the
>> entire WMF leadership team and a broad group of staff members in San
>> Francisco.
>>
>> We are very happy with the selection of Hisham. We recognize that we did
>> not manage to hire someone from inside the Wikimedia community or the open
>> source community. We did look for people with this background and one of
>> our finalists was a long time open source advocate. We also engaged with a
>> long time Wikimedian for a role, though he ultimately decided to withdraw
>> for personal reasons. We are committed to seeing Hisham integrate himself
>> into the community quickly and to seeing him add people to his team from the
>> community. We hope that the community will engage actively with him to
>> bring him into the fold. Hisham will most definitely bring fresh
>> perspectives to the movement that will help us grow and change for the
>> better.
>>
>> Please join me in welcoming Hisham to the Wikimedia movement.
>>
>> Note: An FAQ will follow shortly.
>>
>> Best,
>> Barry
>> [1] *http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Plan/Role_of_the_WMF*<http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Plan/Role_of_the_WMF>
>> [2] *
>> http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2010-August/000850.ht…
>> *<http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2010-August/000850.ht…>
>>
>> --
>> Barry Newstead
>> Chief Global Development Officer
>> Wikimedia Foundation
>> Tel: +1-415-839-6885 x. 6634
>> Skype: barry.wikimedia
>> Twitter: @bazanews
>>
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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
Hi all,
Developers with Wikimedia Foundation, Tomaz Finc and Arthur Richards will be
in the Bengaluru this week.
There's a Wiki meetup planned on *February 17th, at 5.30 p.m*. at *Center
for Internet and Society, Domlur* (near TERI).
Everyone who's interested can attend. This could be a good chance for those
of you interested in development of mediawiki to get answers for your
questions on getting started, get information on mobile gateway of
Wikipedia, off-line version of Wikipedia and more.
More details and registration on:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Bangalore/Bangalore28
Feel free to mail back to me off-the-list for more information.
Cheers,
--
Hari Prasad Nadig
<http://hpnadig.net>http://twitter.com/hpnadighttp://flickr.com/hpnadig
Hi,
Please note that Tomasz Finc (User:Tfinc)
<http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/User:Tfinc>( Engineering
Program Manager, Wikimedia Foundation) , <goog_1530955784>Arthur
Richards<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Awjrichards>(User:Awjrichards)
(software
engineer with Wikimedia Foundation) are in Bangalore Feb/16 - Feb/19
( Arthur leaves on 2/18)
Liam Wyatt (User:Witty lama)
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Witty_lama>is also in Bangalore (
Feb 18-19) as a part
GLAM <http://wikimedia.in/wiki/Projects:GLAM_2011> program.
Let us discuss this today at the Bangalore Meetup.
Regards
Tinu Cherian
On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 8:59 PM, Tomasz Finc <tfinc(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Small correction on those dates. Traveling causes you to lose track of time
> :)
>
> I'll be there 2/16 - 2/19. 2/16 or 2/17 would be best as we could get
> Arthur who's leaving on 2/18.
>
> --tomasz
>
> On Feb 10, 2011, at 12:10 PM, Tomasz Finc wrote:
>
> > Sadness to just be missing this.
> >
> > After GNUnify in Pune both Arthur and I are heading down to Bangalore
> 2/18 - 2/19. It would be fun to see you guys!
> >
> > Any chance of getting another meetup then?
> >
> > --tomasz
> >
> > On Feb 9, 2011, at 5:49 PM, CherianTinu Abraham wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> Hi all,
> >> Please note that the next Wikimedia / Wikipedia Wiki-meetup 27
> Bangalore is on Feb 13, 2010 Sunday, 3 PM
> >>
> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Bangalore/Bangalore27
> >>
> >> 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/Bangalore27#Getting…
> >> Agenda
> >>
> >> • Talks
> >> • Invited Video Talk via Skype
> >> • Wiki loves monuments
> >> • Talk by Lodewijk Gelauff from Wikimedia
> Nederlands. He is Vice chair and International contact for Wikimedia
> Nederlands. He is also a member of Wikimedia's chapter's committee.
> >> • Discussions
> >> • Wiki Ten Bangalore Celebration
> >> • Thank you note to volunteers who participated.
> >> • Experiences from the community initiative.
> >> • Retrospective: what was done well and what needs
> improvement.
> >> • India GLAM events and Liam Wyatt's visit to India -
> Bangalore specific plans.
> >> • Updates
> >> • Wikimedia India chapter
> >> • Bangalore loves Wikipedia initiative. Intro and call for
> participation. - User:HPN
> >> • Update on participation in World Sanskrit Book fair event
> - Arunram, Vishal, Swaroop, others.
> >> • Update on participation in Carte Blanche event - Sundar
> >> • Experience at Kannada Saahithya Sammelana - User:HPN
> >> • Networking & Snacks
> >>
> >>
> >> Please sign up here at
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Bangalore/Bangalore27#Attendi…
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Regards
> >> Tinu Cherian
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Hi,
Request all the people who contributed to the sessions to capture key
takeaways at this page on wikimedia.in.
http://wikimedia.in/wiki/Ten/Bangalore/Key_takeaways/Sessions
Also request participation in tomorrow's meetup, where this will be an
agenda item.
Cheers
Arjun
Hi,
Malayalam Wikipedia community is organizing a Wikipedia academy at Kochi,
Kerala on Feb 19th 2011 Saturday, 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM.
Venue : Toc H Public School, Vytilla, Kochi, Ernakulam, Kerala
Date: Feb 19, 2011
Time: 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Agenda:
- An introduction to Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects
- An introduction to Malayalam Wikipedia and sister projects
- Click "Edit" on Wikipedia - Wikipedia editing session.
For more details and registration visit :
http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:Malayalam_Wiki_Workshop_Ernakulam_1
If you are in Kochi or around, please do spread the word and participate in
the academy.
Regards,
Anoop