Hello all,
We are very pleased to announce the successful registration of the Wikimedia Chapter vide Registrar of Societies, Bangalore Urban District Certificate No: SOR/BLU/DR/1137/10-11 dt 03 Jan 2011.
We have become a formal entity due to the untiring efforts of Wikipedians (in alphabetical order) Anirudh Bhati, Arjuna Rao Chavala, Arun Ramarathnam, Balasundararaman, Gautam John, Hari Prasad Nadig, Srinivas Gunta for over two long years with support from Achal Prabhala, Wikimedia Foundation Advisory Board member, Bishakha Datta, Wikimedia Foundation Trustee and Barry Newstead, Chief Global Development Officer, Wikimedia Foundation.
We would like to place on record the support by Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore, specially its director, Sunil Abraham for extending their office support for chapter and community meetings and registration support by its auditor Mr MN Rao. The efforts of Gautam John and Arun Ramarathnam in working with registration authorities are appreciated.
We are delighted with this development, as Wikimedians all over world are celebrating Wikipedia's Tenth anniversary this week. We have over 60 events happening in India(http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:India). At this juncture, we would like to commit ourselves to taking Wikimedia Movement to greater heights by engaging with Wikimedia Foundation, Wikimedian community in India and all Indians by working with special focus on all Indian languages including English.
With your active participation and support, Chapter can play a key role in enabling access to free knowledge to everyone. In the next few weeks, you will hear more actively from the Chapter on various initiatives. In the mean time, for any questions, please send a mail to executive committee mailing list wikimedia-in-exec@wikimedia.in
Please do check Wikimedia India website http://wikimedia.inhttp://www.wikimfor further updates.
Cheers
On behalf of Wikimedia India Executive Committee,
Arjuna Rao Chavala PS: Please help reduce the noise on the mailing list to the minimum by not sending your appreciation remarks to the entire list and placing the same on wikimedia.in announcement discussion page http://wikimedia.in/wiki/Chapter_Registration_accomplished