We're starting in 15 minutes at 9pm IST.
Speak soon.
hisham
On Mar 22, 2012, at 7:14 AM, Hisham wrote:
Dear All
Reminder that there's an IRC for the community with India Program on 22nd March at
9:00 pm IST in #wikimedia-office. This session is an open house with no specific topics
to be discussed. (This was scheduled because we ran out of time in the previous IRC. To
avoid spamming lists, I won't be sending this to any other lists apart from this one.
Please do share this mail with whoever you know might be interested.
(To join the IRC, all you have to do is go to:
http://webchat.freenode.net/ and enter a
nickname ( it does not require prior registration) and enter #wikimedia-office as the
channel name.)
I'll send a reminder 15 minutes before the session.
hisham
On Mar 17, 2012, at 7:35 PM, Hisham wrote:
Here's the link that gives the log of this
meeting - for those who couldn't attend.
As planned, the major topic of discussion was the Indic Languages initiatives. We talked
about the overall approach that Shiju has been following with several dozen community
members. We walked through the Medical project - currently underway in Assamese, Telugu,
Oriya (Odia) & Malayalam. (This seeks to create vital articles in Indic wikis with
the help of community members with medical/healthcare background, or users who are
interested in healthcare articles.) During the IRC, Jayanta informed us that the Bengali
community have also started it - which is great. We also discussed the Translated
Articles Enhancement Project which has been started by the Kannada community.
Thank you to every one but a special thank you to the new folks who came on today.
It's always nice to see new faces!
We ran out of time on this IRC. As discussed, I would like to suggest Thursday March
22nd @9pm IST for another IRC. (This is in addition to the IRC planned for March 29th.)
The March 22nd IRCwill be an open house - and will not therefore have a predetermined
agenda.
As always, do visit the India Program page for more information on everything we do.
Best
hisham
On Mar 15, 2012, at 8:45 PM, Hisham wrote:
Reminder that we are starting in 15 minutes.
Do join in! Details below.
hisham
On Mar 15, 2012, at 8:38 AM, Hisham wrote:
Gentle reminder. Do join in.
hisham
On Mar 11, 2012, at 6:41 AM, Hisham wrote:
> Hi Folks
>
> One of the essential things that India Program needs to constantly work out is
keeping the community informed of the work that we are doing - so that this work is
clearer but also to help cross-pollinate ideas amongst a wider set of community members
who might not have been engaged on specific village pump / talk page discussion or
involved in particular activities (e.g. outreach events) or wikiprojects.
>
> We used to have a monthly IRC with the community and India Program. (For those who
are not familiar with IRC, it is an Internet messaging system similar to a regular chat
room. It's very simple to use and you can join in by clicking on the following link:
http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#wikimedia-office.) I have been remiss in
conducting these for the past few months - and I'd like to make amends by restarting,
with a couple of modifications.
>
> a) I'd like to propose fortnightly instead of monthly. (I was wary of doing it
any more frequently than monthly earlier because I didn't know if there would be
enough on the plate to discuss. I have changed my mind now - because there is too much to
discuss to cover in a single monthly session.) I'd like to propose that we do it in
the 1st and 3rd Thursdays of every month at 9pm IST (which is GMT + 0530) - THOUGH NOT
THIS MONTH - BECAUSE I HAVE MISSED THE TIMELINE. Just for March, we will do it on March
15th and March 29th (both at 9pm IST which is GMT + 0530)
> b) I'd like to propose that we do it focussed on specific work streams instead of
general. The reason I say this is that - as with many community meet-ups, folks will give
time to attend a meet-up or participate in an IRC only if there is a topic of relevance to
them. To that extent, we could do one IRC on Indic languages and one on Outreach &
Communications. I'd start both the IRCs with a re-cap of India Programs activities
for the fortnight (or so) prior to the IRC and forward from the IRC - and then we could
talk about either Indic langauges or Outreach & Communications.
>
> The March 15th one will be focussed on Indic Languages and the one on March 29th will
be on Outreach & Communications.