Thank you Subha for all your service! We look forward to seeing you around on wiki, and at the intersection of the open web and free knowledge.
On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 12:47 PM, Jorge Vargas jvargas@wikimedia.org wrote:
Best of lucks in your new role with Mozilla, Subha! It's been a pleasure meeting you.
On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 11:05 PM, Gerard Meijssen < gerard.meijssen@gmail.com
wrote:
Hoi, It was good to work with you. You were part of a wonderful move towards more Wikimedia projects in India. It was a pleasure to see you in action and work with you. Thank you
Gerard
On 10 November 2016 at 22:06, Subhashish Panigrahi < subhashish@cis-india.org
wrote:
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Friends,
TL; DR
After almost five years of professional engagement with the South Asian language Wikimedia communities, I have decided to step down from my
current
role. And I will remain a Wikipedian friend of yours who you can reach
out
in volunteer capacity on my talk page.
——
I was about to complete my first wiki-versary when I joined the
Wikimedia
Foundation’s India Program as a Consultant for Community and Program Support. The program ran until August of 2012 and then got housed at
the
Centre for Internet Society’s Access to Knowledge program (CIS-A2K)
[0].
Thanks to Sunil, Pranesh, Nirmita, Nishant and many others at the CIS family who embraced my team from India Program with great amount of
trust.
CIS became more like a family for me all these years. It will always
remain
my other home and alma mater - calling CIS a former employer will be
quite
an understatement. I feel I grew as a person along with the
organization
that is today a noted name for its research in openness, accessibility, privacy, IP reform, access to knowledge, and digital humanity.
Over these years I have had the most memorable time in my personal and professional life. I have traveled a lot in the country and across the world, met many friends in the Wikimedia and the open knowledge
community,
and had the privilege of working on many important projects both
locally
and globally. The South Asian language Wikimedia communities that I
have
worked with have not just been patient and understanding, but have been
my
mentor in many ways. I thank you all wholeheartedly for being such
great
friends and guides. And I hope that I have added some value to your community, project and the larger Wikimedia movement.
This was an incredible journey and I feel really honored to see as many
as
three new Wikimedia projects taking birth where I had a chance to contribute. Many of you have shared your stories in an interview series WikipediansSpeak [1] that I started during my time at CIS, and I felt
so
touched and connected to many people that spoke languages that I never
even
understood. I want to thank many Wikimedians both from the Indian and
the
global Wikimedia community that participated in @WeAreWikipedia [2], a rotation curation project on Twitter that I started as a voluntary
project.
The good news is @WeAreWikipedia has always been and will be a volunteer-led project even after I leave my professional role at CIS.
In the last few days of my work at CIS, my biggest worry was if I will
be
able to give much time to wrap up Project Ol Chiki [3], a project to
create
typeface family and input tools for the Ol Chiki script (used to write
the
Santali language) that I was leading. I would like to personally thank
to
colleagues T.Vishnuvardhan (former Programme Director of CIS-A2K) for
his
guidance, Pooja Saxena for designing the typeface and several other peripherals, Prof. Damayanti Besra and other friends of the Santali-language community who have reviewed the typeface, and
Wikimedians
Jnanaranjan Sahu and Nasim Ali who have created the input tools. A few years of my childhood was spent in a place where 30% of people spoke
this
aboriginal language Santali, and I cannot share how nostalgic it felt
when
the opportunity came to lead this project.
Once again, thanks you all the friends in the Wikimedia community, and
the
larger openness movement for your kind support over all these years. In
the
long road, this was a great milestone but there are many more to come.
I
hope to continue working with you in my volunteer capacity, and/or may
be
in my new role.
Where I am heading next? Some of you might know this already. I am super excited that the next milestone is going to be another open source community as I am joining Mozilla’s Participation team as South Asia Community Catalyzer [4]. I
am
super excited for it. And I will keep seeing you all amazing people on
the
Wikimedia projects like before.
Do feel free to get in touch with me in my talk page at
User:Psubhashish,
or over email at psubhashish (at) gmail (dot) com, or at @subhapa on
both
Twitter and Telegram.
- https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K
- https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikipediansSpeak
- https://twitter.com/wearewikipedia
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project_Ol_chiki
- https://discourse.mozilla-community.org/t/introducing-
our-new-south-asia-community-catalyzer/11975
Love, Subhashish
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