Dear One & all
As you are aware, Wikimedia India (WMIN) recently in April had its election
for all its 7 Executive Committee (EC) positions
<http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Elections_2016/Results>
At IIT Bombay, WMIN recently had an Induction meeting with the
newly elected Executive committee members. This session was conducted from
30th June - 1st July 2017 in the IIT Bombay campus
Since the new EC has a good mix of members from Past EC & new faces too,
the Induction process was conducted in a very smooth & planned manner.
Mr Ashwin Baindur also gave a session on the working of Community dynamics
along with the expectations by the community from the new EC.
On the last day of the Induction meeting, the EC members elected office
bearers amongst themselves. Following are the new Office bearers
- Mr Rahul Deshmukh : President
- Mr Yohann Thomas : Secretary
- Mr Sanket Oswal : Treasurer
- Mr Viswa Prabha : Member
- Mr Suyash Dwivedi : Member
- Mr Santosh Shingare : Member
- Mr Krishan Chaitanya Velaga : Member
You can find the newly updated Board members page with their profiles here
http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Executive_Committee_Members
I would like to thank the community for their wholehearted support they
have given to the chapter & hope to meet their expectations
Regards,
Yohann Thomas
Wikimedia India
Dear Community
I am pleased to announce to you that Agastya Chandrakant is one of the
first featured wikimedians we have announced who is primarily into Wikinews.
Please find the excerpt below. You can also find the full article on our
page - wiki.wikimedia.in
*User:Acagastya*
*Agastya Chandrakant from Surat, Gujarat is an editor on English Wikinews
under alias of **Acagastya* <https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/User:Acagastya>*,
currently studying in The National Institute of Engineering, Mysore. *
*He is 18-years-old and has been editing Wikimedia Projects since 2014,
from his days in high school. He has more than 8,000 global edits and also
holds the review rights on Wikinews. On Wikinews, every article has to pass
the review before it is published. Agastya has written more than 200 news
articles on Wikinews. He is amongst the very few Indian editors on
Wikinews. *
*Calligraphy, reading, and photography are some of his hobbies, however,
after academic commitments whatever time he gets for himself now, he
devotes it to Wikinews. *
*Agastya believes there are lot of things happening around us in various
fields -- from crime and law to science and technology. Some events affect
a certain group of people. Some affects other groups. As a news reporter
his tries to cover news for everyone, ranging from different subjects. *
*Agastya hopes more Indian community members to contribute quality photos
from the events around the country on Wikimedia projects, and hopes they,
as an Indian, make decisions and act so that secularism, freedom, and
humanity can co-exist. *
I would like to thank Abhinav Srivastava for getting us in touch with this
amazing contributor & helping to write the article on him
I am also proud to announce that Mr Krishna Chaitnaya who got newly elected
to the board of WMIN will be taking forward the Featured Wikimedian of the
month
If you know any Wikimedian whom you think should be featured, please feel
free to nominate them here
<http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Featured_Wikimedian/Nominations>.
Contact Abhinav Srivastava/Krishna Chaitanya here -
abhinav.srivastava(a)wikimedia.in / kcvelaga(a)wikimedia.in
Regards,
Yohann Thomas
Wikimedia India