---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Sudhanwa Jogalekar sudhanwa.com@gmail.com Date: Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 4:15 PM Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia Chapter Registered To: "Discussion list on Indian language projects of Wikimedia." < wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org> Cc: Wikimedia India EC wikimedia-in-exec@lists.wikimedia.org, Achal Prabhala aprabhala@gmail.com, sunil sunil@cis-india.org
Congrats!!
This is great news!! And on a perfect timing of the 10th Anniversary celebrations.
-Sudhanwa
On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 12:44 PM, Arjuna Rao Chavala arjunaraoc@googlemail.com wrote:
Hello all,
We are very pleased to announce the successful registration of the Wikimedia Chapter vide Registrar of Societies, Bangalore Urban District Certificate No: SOR/BLU/DR/1137/10-11 dt 03 Jan 2011.
We have become a formal entity due to the untiring efforts of Wikipedians (in alphabetical order) Anirudh Bhati, Arjuna Rao Chavala, Arun
Ramarathnam,
Balasundararaman, Gautam John, Hari Prasad Nadig, Srinivas Gunta for
over
two long years with support from Achal Prabhala, Wikimedia Foundation Advisory Board member, Bishakha Datta, Wikimedia Foundation Trustee and Barry Newstead, Chief Global Development Officer, Wikimedia Foundation.
We would like to place on record the support by Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore, specially its director, Sunil Abraham for extending their office support for chapter and community meetings and registration support by its auditor Mr MN Rao. The efforts of Gautam John and Arun Ramarathnam in working with registration authorities are appreciated.
We are delighted with this development, as Wikimedians all over world are celebrating Wikipedia's Tenth anniversary this week. We have over 60
events
happening in India(http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:India). At this juncture, we would like to commit ourselves to taking Wikimedia Movement
to
greater heights by engaging with Wikimedia Foundation, Wikimedian
community
in India and all Indians by working with special focus on all Indian languages including English.
With your active participation and support, Chapter can play a key role
in
enabling access to free knowledge to everyone. In the next few weeks,
you
will hear more actively from the Chapter on various initiatives. In the mean time, for any questions, please send a mail to executive committee mailing list wikimedia-in-exec@wikimedia.in
Please do check Wikimedia India website http://wikimedia.in for further updates.
Cheers
On behalf of Wikimedia India Executive Committee,
Arjuna Rao Chavala PS: Please help reduce the noise on the mailing list to the minimum by
not
sending your appreciation remarks to the entire list and placing the same on wikimedia.in announcement discussion page http://wikimedia.in/wiki/Chapter_Registration_accomplished
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