Dear English-Wikipedians in India Community
I'm writing to inform you that I plan to leave my current role supporting Wikimedia in India. I am going to be exploring opportunities and evaluating options that are closer to my career aspirations and my personal circumstances. I will be working through to ensure that there is a smooth transition - and this is likely to take 2-3 months. I am writing now because I felt it appropriate and opportune to inform you as early as possible.
I want to start off by thanking the Wikimedia community and movement for giving me this extraordinary opportunity. Working on something like India Program has been something that has been professionally enriching and personally fulfilling. Over the past 1 1/2 years, I have been supported by so many of you - and I want to thank you for everything you have done! The passion and intellectual firepower of our community has been my constant source of drive and guidance. There are so many examples of powerful stories from all over the country: the incredible efforts put in by the IEP Campus Ambassadors in Pune; the army of volunteers that drove the outreach push across the country in the first few months of this year; the beautiful stories of fantastic community initiatives from far and wide across the country and sub-continent, and indeed the world; the remarkable stories from so many communities - large, small and tiny ones!
I want to thank the team that I have had the pleasure and privilege of working with - Nitika, Noopur, Shiju & Subha. You guys have been wonderful. The work that we are doing is experimental and we have been innovating every day, and I know the circumstances have not always been easy. Take strength and inspiration from the large number of community members who have been touched by you and appreciate your efforts and value your work.
I will send an actual "over and out" message later. In the meantime, I will continue to work on everything that needs working on.
Happy Editing!
Warmest Regards,
hisham
Dear Hisham,
Let me thank you for all the hard work that you and your team has done. The India Program with its large quotient of positive results - most importantly the creation of a large set og college going editors, the push to further specific sectors such as Indic Language, GLAM and community development. Your unstinted championing of the WikiConference. All these have made an impact on the Wikipedia scene in India.
I have disagreed on occasion publicly about the role India Program should have taken up but I have always believed your role to be a essential component of our progress and the India Program to be necessary and vital. I am glad that the Program will continue in a new avatar.
I wish you all the best in your new opportunities and your new life and hope to continue associating with you after this too.
Sincerely, Ashwin Baindur
On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 4:08 PM, Hisham hisham@wikimedia.org wrote:
Dear English-Wikipedians in India Community
I'm writing to inform you that I plan to leave my current role supporting Wikimedia in India. I am going to be exploring opportunities and evaluating options that are closer to my career aspirations and my personal circumstances. I will be working through to ensure that there is a smooth transition - and this is likely to take 2-3 months. I am writing now because I felt it appropriate and opportune to inform you as early as possible.
Hi Hisham,
Thanks a lot for all the motivation you provided during the IEP times and also post IEP. Your words of encouragement and support when I had just started volunteering for Indian Collaboration of the Month(WP:INCOTM) was a nice gesture on your part.
Had many good memories with you and wish to be in touch with you!
All the best! You rock! \m/
P.S: One of Hisham's dialogue which we all CA's of IEP know is - "We'll discuss this man-to-man, outside the class, in Hindi!". I guess this might apply to that person who is subscribed on this list for no reason. ;-) :P
Cheers, Pratik Lahoti
On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 4:08 PM, Hisham hisham@wikimedia.org wrote:
Dear English-Wikipedians in India Community
I'm writing to inform you that I plan to leave my current role supporting Wikimedia in India. I am going to be exploring opportunities and evaluating options that are closer to my career aspirations and my personal circumstances. I will be working through to ensure that there is a smooth transition - and this is likely to take 2-3 months. I am writing now because I felt it appropriate and opportune to inform you as early as possible.
I want to start off by thanking the Wikimedia community and movement for giving me this extraordinary opportunity. Working on something like India Program has been something that has been professionally enriching and personally fulfilling. Over the past 1 1/2 years, I have been supported by so many of you - and I want to thank you for everything you have done! The passion and intellectual firepower of our community has been my constant source of drive and guidance. There are so many examples of powerful stories from all over the country: the incredible efforts put in by the IEP Campus Ambassadors in Pune; the army of volunteers that drove the outreach push across the country in the first few months of this year; the beautiful stories of fantastic community initiatives from far and wide across the country and sub-continent, and indeed the world; the remarkable stories from so many communities - large, small and tiny ones!
I want to thank the team that I have had the pleasure and privilege of working with - Nitika, Noopur, Shiju & Subha. You guys have been wonderful. The work that we are doing is experimental and we have been innovating every day, and I know the circumstances have not always been easy. Take strength and inspiration from the large number of community members who have been touched by you and appreciate your efforts and value your work.
I will send an actual "over and out" message later. In the meantime, I will continue to work on everything that needs working on.
Happy Editing!
Warmest Regards,
*hisham*
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