I am also more than willing to personally come down to Kolkatta and meet up with any
officials - if you think it will help in any way. Just let me know.
Many thanks.
hisham
On Jan 10, 2012, at 7:23 PM, Nitika wrote:
> Hey Jayantha, Biswarup,
>
> Do you think a letter from the foundation or chapter will help? Or maybe if Hisham
speaks with the GUILD office directly? I'm just thinking of various ways to work
around this. This is a great opportunity for us to do a massive outreach in Kolkata and it
will be a pity if we loose it. I'll be more than happy to help in anyway possible.
Please let me know.
>
> Thanks
> Nitika
>
> On 10-Jan-2012, at 5:10 PM, Jayanta Nath wrote:
>
>> Hi all.
>>
>> Biswarupda and myself went to GUILD office regarding our stall allocation
>> at Book fair, but they still not not confirming our stall. We met Mr.
>> Ramen Guha, senior member, the Guild and he was requested to comes in
>> after 15th Jan for Stall distribution.
>>
>> So there are some red-tape for stall booking with GUILD, the organizer. We
>> are still finding some way out to get our Wikipedia stall. But they have
>> demand unacceptable amount Rs 2,00,000 ($ 4000) for our stall. We submitted
>> one letter in Bengali for concession for our Stall to GUILD (PFA).
>>
>> Our community fell that we are shootout this matter during this time frame.
>> We are trying to contact our local IT Minister, Govt of West Bengal, Mr.
>> Partha Chatterjee, to resolve this issue smoothly.
>>
>> Jayanta
>>