WELCOME NOOPUR TO WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION
Here are some crazy enthusiasts doing great things
On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 7:19 PM, Hisham <hisham(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
> cross-posting to reach pan-community; apologies if you have already read
> this from another list.
>
> Dear All,
>
> I am pleased to announce that Noopur Raval ([User:Noopur28] has been
> selected as Consultant to the Wikimedia Foundation, and will support
> Communications for India Program.
>
> This position will perform 4 key functions. Firstly, it will support
> communications with our community. This involves a regular set of updates
> (such as newsletters) as well as specific communication projects such as
> story-telling of local community initiatives (to document experiences,
> celebrate successes and cross-pollinate ideas.) This is not for day-to-day
> program communications - which is a core part of each of our
> responsibilities in the India Program team. Second will be to support
> media & PR for local community initiatives. The single biggest challenge
> here will to be get more Indic language media coverage to support community
> building efforts. This will be done directly with community members and
> also in co-ordination with the India Chapter's Communications Media & PR
> team. The third aspect is to build and expand existing community social
> networks (such as WikimediaIndia on facebook) and to help with the use of
> social networks to support community building. Lastly, there is untapped
> potential of using digital outreach - to augment existing physical outreach
> efforts. We need to (very, very carefully) explore if we can reach out to
> our large and growing reader base and inform, encourage and enable them to
> become editors using online channels and resources.
>
> Noopur is a community member and has supported outreach activities (in
> Ahmedabad & Delhi), is a member of Delhi SIG of the Chapter, has
> participated in community collaborations like Collaboration of the Month
> and has been actively trying to start GLAM in India.
>
> Noopur is from Gandhinagar and is graduating from JNU with a Master's in
> Arts & Aesthetics. She has a triple honors Bachelor's in Media Studies,
> Literature and Psychology from Christ College, Bangalore. She has interned
> with Radio Mirchi, Times of India and the Centre for Internet & Society
> (amongst others) - as well as done some teaching assignments. She is an
> active blogger (including for the India Art Summit, 2011.) She has
> published a novella and co-authored an anthology of poems, plays & short
> stories and has co-presented a paper on "Wikiwars" with [User:Srikeit.]
> She is also an amateur photographer and has contributed to Commons as well
> as other platforms.
>
> The Communications position has taken a long time to fill. The initial
> call for selection was in September. I reported back to the community in
> December that I had failed to find the right candidate and hence the delay.
> There were a number of deserving candidates and this selection has taken
> time because of the need to find the most suitable profile for a complex
> role. This role requires the right mix of an academic foundation in
> communications, domain expertise as well as adequate familiarity with our
> community. It also requires adaptability and strong learning skills -
> because so much of what we are trying to do is pioneering. I am confident
> that she brings the right level of experience and competencies - and I'm
> very excited by the opportunity of making a step jump in the impact of
> communications for our community.
>
> Do join me in welcoming Noopur. She will start on March 12 and will be
> based in New Delhi.
>
> Best
>
> hisham
>
>