Hello all,<br>
<br>
We are  very pleased to announce the successful registration of the<br>
Wikimedia <span></span><span>Chapter</span> vide  Registrar of 
Societies, Bangalore Urban District Certificate No: 
SOR/BLU/DR/1137/10-11 dt  03 Jan 2011.<br><br>We have become a formal 
entity due to the untiring efforts of Wikipedians (in alphabetical 
order) Anirudh Bhati<span><span style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28);"></span></span>,
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. <br><br>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.<br>

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We are delighted with this development, as Wikimedians all over world 
are celebrating Wikipedia&#39;s Tenth anniversary  this week. We have over 60 events happening in India(<a href="http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:India">http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:India</a>). 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.<br><br><span dir="ltr">With your active  participation and 
support, Chapter can play a key role 
in enabling access to free  knowledge</span> 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  <a href="mailto:wikimedia-in-exec@wikimedia.in" target="_blank">wikimedia-in-exec@wikimedia.in</a><br><br>
Please  do check Wikimedia India website  <a href="http://www.wikim" target="_blank">http://wikimedia.in</a> for further updates.<br><br>Cheers<br><br>On behalf of <br>Wikimedia <span>India</span> Executive Committee,<br>




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Arjuna Rao Chavala<br>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   <a href="http://wikimedia.in">wikimedia.in</a> announcement discussion page <br>
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