Good evening Hisham, Thanks for the notices on Wiki, which i read just now. Let me go through it fully and in detail and get back to you with my views. Thanks again for including me in. regards, Jayan.

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1. India Programs: Reaching Out (Hisham Mundol)
2. Advice & Help Sought: Potential Additions to the Community (Hisham Mundol)

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Message: 1 Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 14:01:08 +0530 From: Hisham Mundol hmundol@wikimedia.org Subject: [Wikimedia-in-chn] India Programs: Reaching Out To: wikimedia-in-chn@lists.wikimedia.org Message-ID: 4881CF42-9D22-40C5-9163-D227EA5C8A31@wikimedia.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

Hi Folks

I am writing to all of you to correct a potential error. As you might be aware, the Wikimedia Foundation has set itself an important objective of supporting the community in India to expand participation. As part of this, India Programs has been set up - and I work for it.

I have put together a plan for India (please see http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_-_India_Programs) - and I had communicated this on the India mailing list. This has generated interest as well as debate and discussion. However, I understand that some of you might not be on that mailing list. I therefore thought I'd correct this by reaching out directly to you and requesting you to have a look at the page and share your comments (on the Talk Page or on this mailing list or directly to me; my contact details are in my signature.) It outines the thinking behind India Programs, key initiatives, milestones, team structure, visit reports, IRC logs, recommendations on office location and some other details. I hope you find it interesting, and I'd love to hear your views / comments / suggestions.

Also, we I have a monthly IRC on India Programs with whoever is interested

• on the first Thursday of every month. I'll send out an invite to your

mailing list from now on. Do see if you can join in.

I am also going to try and attend as many community meet-ups in as many locations as possible - so I look forward to meeting as many of you as possible, as soon as possible. If you would be kind enough to let me know when the next meeting is planned for and on what schedule (e.g. 2nd Saturday, etc.) then I'll work out how to attend asap.

(Do excuse me if you have received this message through other mailing lists, or it's a bit of a duplication if you are already on the India mailing list.)

Thank You.

Warm Regards,

Hisham Mundol Wikimedia Foundation India Programs skype: hisham.wikimedia gtalk: hmundol@wikimedia.org twitter: @mundol