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From: <sibi(a)fsftn.org>
Date: 13-Jul-2013 3:18 PM
Subject: [FSFTN] Free Wikipedia Workshop at FSFTN Office on 14th July 2013
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Dear Friends,
As part of our mission to promote the culture of freedom and community
collaboration, Free Software Foundation Tamil Nadu is organizing a
workshop at our office to bring new contributors to Wikipedia and share
experiences on the initiative
The workshop will be held on Sunday July 14 2013. Two independent
sessions will be organised. The first session will be from 10 am to 1 pm
and the second session from 2 pm - 5 pm. Both sessions will focus on
contributing Wikipedia in both English and Tamil. The aim of the sessions
will be to enable contributors to come up with entries.
To make prior arrangements , please fill up the form .
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1hrP65OLz79Xq2YYEUrURGNjujqFQacy3HggRTxkha2…
-Sibi
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From: Arjuna Rao Chavala <arjunaraoc(a)gmail.com>
Date: 2013/7/11
Subject: Re: [WMIN-Members] Re: Election-2013 IRC Notice for 6 July 2013
from 9PM to 10PM
To: wmin-members(a)googlegroups.com
Hi All,
http://wiki.wikimedia.in is now up. As few election announcement pages were
lost during the wiki infrastructure transition.
Kindly participate in the election process by visiting the Nominations
page<http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Nominations_for_the_Executive_Committee_Elections-…>
The election announcement
<http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Announcements/Election_Notice-2013>and IRC
summary<http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Election-2013_IRC_Jul2013>can be
visited for information.
6th July IRC log is lost. If any of the participants kept a copy, kindly
upload the same.
Sincerely
For Election Committee
Arjuna Rao Chavala
2013/7/8 Pranav Curumsey <curumsey(a)gmail.com>
> Server is currently being moved so there may be an error on and off for a
> day or two.
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 6:38 PM, Nikhil Kawale <nikhil.kawale(a)gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hello Arjuna,
>> The link you posted regarding the election 2013 IRC
>> seems to be redirecting to somewhere else i.e. masterssystems.com and
>> same is the case with the link of election details link.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Nikhil Kawale
>>
>>
>> On Wednesday, 3 July 2013 10:32:55 UTC+5:30, arjunaraoc wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> The proposed IRC details are at http://wiki.wikimedia.in/**
>>> Election-2013_IRC_Jul2013<http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Election-2013_IRC_Jul2013>
>>>
>>> Election committee and EC looks forward to interacting with you
>>>
>>> Sincerely
>>>
>>> For Elections Committee-2013
>>>
>>> Arjuna Rao Chavala
>>>
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>From: Rajesh Ranjan <rajesh672(a)gmail.com>
>To: "fuel-discuss(a)lists.fedorahosted.org" <fuel-discuss(a)lists.fedorahosted.org>
>Sent: Tuesday, July 9, 2013 6:05 PM
>Subject: FUEL GILT Conference 2013 - Call for Papers
>
>
>
>Hi All,
>
>
>First of all I would like to thank the entire FUEL Project community for their greater contributions to the success of the initiative we started five years ago. With the help of community volunteers and organizations we have achieved remarkable milestones through our journey till date.
>
>Building the language standards in the open source and making it freely available in the open domain is one of our motto behind starting FUEL Project. Our objective is to establish a common and universal platform to support continued development and adherence of GILT standards by building the consensus for it's development, establishment and promotion with the help of community and organizations working towards the aim of democratization of content and wider awareness and acceptance of these standards.
>
>The FUEL GILT Conference 2013 is being organized by Red Hat and C-DAC GIST. In this conference we are gathering industry localization experts, linguists, internationalization engineers, testing professionals working towards language technologies.
>
>Participants would get a chance to network all the localization experts working in the industry as well as able to grab more opportunities available in this domain. There would be learning for the beginner localizers as well.
>
>Keeping these objectives in mind we have identified following tracks for the papers:
>
> 1. Globalization, Language and Translations (Something that showcase the importance of language, culture, it's role in the modern life, etc.)
> 2. Standards: Linguistic resource (work towards Terminology, Glossary, Dictionary, Style Guide, Unicode, CLDR, FUEL Modules, Script Grammar, etc would lead into this category of development.)
> 3. Tools & Technologies (An effort in the direction of development of translation management systems, Rendering Systems, Quality Assessment tools, Fonts, Input Methods, etc. would lead into this category.)
> 4. Localization in FOSS (The volunteer localization efforts in the FOSS world, how they contribute, what they contribute, etc would fall in this track.)
> 5. Open Track (Anything related to GILT and relevant matter could also be considered provided we get a space to allocate you a slot.)
>
>For more details about the conference, its venue, registration and paper submission please visit here:
>
>http://fuelproject.org/gilt2013/index
>
>Please feel free to write to us if you need any information regarding the conference.
>
>Thanks!
>
>
>--
>
>Regards,
>Rajesh Ranjan
>
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>http://fuelproject.org/gilt2013/index
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Hi all,
I am working on a personal Wikipedia project aimed at getting more
images of Notable Indians into Wikipedia & Wikimedia Commons.
I am calling it "Improve Indian Biography Images Project" for now...
( I know that it is a very boring title.. But if you want to suggest better
names, do help me :) )
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Tinucherian/Improve_Indian_Biography_Ima…
The strategy is to use your influences to persuade people to donate their
images to Wikipedia/Creative Commons.
The result , in my opinion, would be
1) Better images of Notable Indians & celebrities to Wikipedia and
Wikimedia Commons.
2) Improve the awareness of releasing the images to free licenses and
Creative Commons.
There are already two successes:
Ashwin Sanghi <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashwin_Sanghi>, author —
Persuaded to change licenses of the images on Flickr to CC by SA. Uploaded
to Wikimedia Commons with Flickr Bot
Amish Tripathi <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amish_Tripathi>, author —
Released 4 images on CC by SA by email. Uploaded to Wikimedia Commons .
OTRS pending
I am already in talks with several others.
One of the my learning from this exercise is that, while the celebrity
might hold the copyrights of the images technically , it is also important
to get signed consent of the actual photographer for transfer of the
rights, if you are going via the OTRS route..
If someone instructs or pays another to take his photo, who holds the
copyright? the photographer or the subject?
In legal terms, it is always the photographer who is the copyright owner.
The photographer should transfer the copyright by a contract or written
terms if the subject needs to have the copyright. In most cases, it sound
stupid, but that's how the law is written. ( Thanks to User:Sreejithk2000
for this gyan)
Thoughts?
Regards
Tinu Cherian
User:Tinucherian
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From: Arjuna Rao Chavala <arjunaraoc(a)gmail.com>
Date: 2013/7/6
Subject: Re: Election-2013 IRC Notice for 6 July 2013 from 9PM to 10PM
To: wmin-members <wmin-members(a)googlegroups.com>
Cc:
Hi all,
here is the summary of the IRC
Attendees:
- Arjun, Tinu, RK (Election Committee)
- Karthik,Srikanth, Viswam (Executive Committee)
- Sowmyan (Executive Manager)
- Jayanta and Yohannvt (Members)
Election process and EC roles clarifications were provided.
Actions:
- EC to confirm the eligibility of members for participation in Election
(as proposer/seconder/candidate) well in advance of the Nomination due date
i.e 14 July -- Karthik
- Members are encouraged not to wait for the dead line to submit
nominations.--Members
For the full log, please see the IRC
page.<http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Election-2013_IRC_Jul2013#Log>
Please reach out to Election Committee for any clarifications and actively
participate in the Elections
Cheers
For Election Committee
Arjuna Rao Chavala
2013/7/3 Arjuna Rao Chavala <arjunaraoc(a)gmail.com>
> Hi All,
>
> The proposed IRC details are at
> http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Election-2013_IRC_Jul2013
>
> Election committee and EC looks forward to interacting with you
>
> Sincerely
>
> For Elections Committee-2013
>
> Arjuna Rao Chavala
>
Just a reminder of the IRC today at 9 PM.
http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#wikimedia-in
Regards
Tinu Cherian
On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 10:32 AM, Arjuna Rao Chavala <arjunaraoc(a)gmail.com>wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> The proposed IRC details are at
> http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Election-2013_IRC_Jul2013
>
> Election committee and EC looks forward to interacting with you
>
> Sincerely
>
> For Elections Committee-2013
>
> Arjuna Rao Chavala
>
Blog link -
http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/kannada-wikipedia-workshop-bloggers
Thanks and regards,
Pavanaja
From: Pavanaja U B [mailto:pavanaja@vishvakannada.com]
Sent: 23 June 2013 21:15
To: 'wikikn-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org'
Cc: 'wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org'
Subject: Photos of today's Kannada Wikipedia workshop for bloggers
Hi,
It was nice day today conducting Kannada Wikipedia workshop for Kannada
bloggers. The workshop was conducted at Suchitra Bangalore. It was a program
presented by Suchitra, organised by CIS and collaborated by Avadhi. The
photos are available at
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Kannada_Wikipedia_workshop_for_b
loggers_at_Suchitra. Thanks to all those who participated, and to those
contributed in some way for the success of the program.
At the end of the program we also discussed the program to celebrate the
10th anniversary year of Kannada Wikipedia.
Thanks and regards,
Pavanaja
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From: Arjuna Rao Chavala <arjunaraoc(a)gmail.com>
Date: 2013/7/3
Subject: Election-2013 IRC Notice for 6 July 2013 from 9PM to 10PM
To: wmin-members <wmin-members(a)googlegroups.com>
Hi All,
The proposed IRC details are at
http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Election-2013_IRC_Jul2013
Election committee and EC looks forward to interacting with you
Sincerely
For Elections Committee-2013
Arjuna Rao Chavala
Hi All,
Election notice to members of Wikimedia India Executive Committee is
enclosed FYI.
Here are the links on the WMIN wiki
Yesterday's notice with updated links to the nomination page is now
available at
http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Announcements/Election_Notice-2013
Sincerely
For Election Committee
Arjuna Rao Chavala
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From: Arjuna Rao Chavala <arjunaraoc(a)gmail.com>
Date: 2013/7/2
Subject: Election Notice for Wikimedia Chapter Executive Committee-2013
To: wmin-members <wmin-members(a)googlegroups.com>
Date: 2 July 2013
Dear Member,
Subject: Election Notice for Wikimedia Chapter Executive Committee
Elections-2013
The Election Committee appointed by Wikimedia Chapter Executive
Committee(EC) for notifying and conducting the Election to Wikimedia
Chapter EC election, hereby announces the election to the Wikimedia Chapter
EC for the two year term.
A detailed ‘Rules & Regulations for the Election’ is available on wiki (
http://wiki.wikimedia.in/File:WMINElectionAndAppointmentRules.pdf) which
includes the Nomination Form for Candidature (at Page 7). As of now Members
who are on the membership roll as on 15 May 2013 are eligible to
participate in the Election and contest the Election (as per by-laws,based
on the date of election and AGM scheduled for 15 Aug 2013). An electoral
roll will be made available by the EC atleast three weeks before the AGM as
per the MOA. This will includes updates if any to the members list which
will be used for finalizing the slate of candidates as well as for mailing
ballots.
As per the communication from EC, two vacancies are to be filled.
Please note the following details:
1. Date of election: 15 Aug 2013.
2. Timing for voting in person: As per AGM Agenda which will be
communicated by Chapter later.
3. Place of election and for sending postal communication:
Wikimedia Chapter, No.194,
2nd 'C' Cross, Dommaluru 2nd stage,
Bangalore 560071. India.
4. Last date and time of receiving nominations:14 July 2013, 11:59PM IST
Chapter Public Wiki will be used as the electronic medium for submitting
and processing nominations. Each nomination is to be placed on a sub page
and linked from the Elections page. Members proposing and seconding the
candidature as well as the candidate have to sign using their user-ids on
wiki. They also need to identify their membership number on their User
pages for validation. Nomination pages will be locked to prevent editing on
the day following the due date.] The public wiki is available in read only
mode due to maintenance currently. Members will be communicated once the
wiki is available for editing. Nominations can be filed by post also. Such
nominations should be sent to as to reach the registered office well within
deadline.
5. Scrutiny and Publishing Draft slate of candidates: 16 July 2013
5. Last date for withdrawal of nominations: 19 July 2013 11:59PM
6. Publishing final slate of candidates: 20 July 2013
The Executive Committee and the Election Committee will host an IRC on 6
July 2013,Saturday between 9PM and 10PM on IRC channel #wikimedia-in. All
members are requested to make use of this for any clarifications with
Election Committee and Executive Committee
The Election Committee comprises of the following members:
1. Arjuna Rao Chavala
2. Tinu Cherian Abraham
3. Radhakrishna Arvapally
You can contact us or use the membership list for any clarifications or
discussions.
Thanks in advance for your cooperation to conduct the election in free and
fair manner.
Yours truly,
For and on behalf of Election Committee
Arjuna Rao Chavala