On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 10:13 AM, ansuman <ansumang@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello all, 

FYI.. in a bit advance, most probably the announcement will be on Wikimedia-l by tomorrow. :-)

http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/12/16/new-individual-engagement-grantees-to-engage-community-with-tools-and-outreach/

Congratulations

to

all,

 and Arun Ganesh (User:Planemad) from India along with Hugo Lopez (User:Yug) from France, their project has been approved, https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Wikimaps_Atlas.

Arun, I look forward to seeing the developments as you move ahead with this project. All the best.

Regards,
Ansuman
IEG committee member

Thank you Ansuman,

The Wikimaps Atlas is a an ambitious endeavor to create possibly the largest repository of ready to use free maps for the world and fix the huge shortage of maps that currently plague many Wikimedia projects. Please read our project page for full details on what we plan to achieve: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Wikimaps_Atlas

On behalf of Hugo as well, I would like to thank everyone from the Indian community for taking the time to review the proposal, providing feedback and your valuable support. Its been a lengthy dream to do this and we are really excited to get this level of support from everyone including the WMF to get this project off the ground.

With the support of this grant, both Hugo and me who have spent considerable time creating maps for WIkipedia, will be able to take a break from our working life to dedicate our effort to develop this resource. We plan to start work only in March, and you can hear more on the progress and the inputs we will require from the community in the coming months.

--

Arun Ganesh

(planemad)

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