Great to see the combination of vivid age range !!!!<br><br>Congratulations to all of you. Good luck ahead.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 6:48 PM, Arjuna Rao Chavala <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:arjunaraoc@gmail.com" target="_blank">arjunaraoc@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
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<p>Dear Members and Community,
</p><p>At the outset, on behalf of Wikimedia India Executive Committee 
for 2011-12, I would like to thank you all for the support for the 
Chapter during the past  year, as we strived hard to complete the boot 
strapping phase of the Chapter.  I am glad to report that the boot 
strapping phase is now complete, as the Chapter is financially healthy, 
staffed and has conducted AGM and Elections for EC vacancies 
successfully, apart from spearheading Wiki Academy events and 
partnerships with various stakeholders. I would like to place on record 
my thanks to all co-founders and EC team members,volunteers from members
 and community,  Achal, Bishakha, WMF staff,WMF board members, Manuel 
Schneider and partners and consultants for all the contributions and 
support towards reaching this important milestone.
</p><p>Recently we had inducted the newly elected  EC members with an EC
 induction program at Bangalore. As part of it, we have completed the 
office bearer elections for the 2012-13. I would like to introduce the 
new team that has taken charge.
</p><p><br>
</p>
<h2> <span>Sudhanwa Jogalekar</span></h2>
<div><a href="http://wiki.wikimedia.in/File:Sudhanwa1.JPG" title="Sudhanwa Jogalekar" target="_blank"><img src="" alt="Sudhanwa Jogalekar" height="104" width="100"></a></div>

<p>Sudhanwa Jogalekar is an IT professional with expertise in  
Information  security, system  administration, IT infrastructure 
management  etc with over 27 years  experience in the industry.  He is 
an Electrical Engineer from College Of Engineering, Pune with 2  
additional management degrees and a professional certification of ISO 
27001 Lead Auditor.  He  has done many projects for corporates, SMEs and
 Academic Institutions for IT infrastructure, Information Security, 
E-learning etc.
</p><p>He is a well known FOSS evangelist in India and has been 
promoting FOSS for the last 13 years. He has been co-ordinating PLUG 
(Pune GNU/Linux Users Group) for many years and conducting workshops, 
seminars, trainings in/around Pune and other places across India. He has
 contributed to Indic computing activities (Marathi/Devanagari). He has 
released a Marathi font family for free.
</p><p>He is active on various technical and non-technical groups and 
helped  promote Wikimedia projects. He has organised a complete track on
 Wikipedia activites in GNUNIFY 2011. Apart from organising various 
events and activities related to Wikimedia(like launch of Marathi 
Wikisource, participating in CMDA expo etc.), he also co-ordinates 
regular meetups of Wikipedians in Pune (WikiPuneri). 
</p><p>Being a photographer he is involved with various photographers groups and is active in Photographic society of Pune. 
</p><p>He is elected to the Executive Committee in September 2011 and 
served as Chair of City/Language SIGs till Oct 2012. He is elected as  <b>President</b> in Oct 2012. 
</p>
<ul><li>More details available on his website <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.sudhanwa.com/" target="_blank">http://www.sudhanwa.com</a>
</li><li>Email: sudhanwa [at] <a href="http://wikimedia.in" target="_blank">wikimedia.in</a>
</li><li>Wikimedia username: sudhanwa
</li><li>Twitter: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://twitter.com/sudhanwa" target="_blank">@sudhanwa</a>
</li><li>Facebook: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.facebook.com/sudhanwa.jogalekar" target="_blank">http://www.facebook.com/sudhanwa.jogalekar</a>
</li></ul>
<h2> <span>Karthik Nadar</span></h2>
<div><a href="http://wiki.wikimedia.in/File:Karthik.jpg" title="Karthik Nadar" target="_blank"><img src="" alt="Karthik Nadar" height="101" width="100"></a></div>

<p>Karthik Nadar is a final year B.Com student from Mumbai, specializing
 in Banking, financing, accounting and insurance. He started his 
contributions to English Wikipedia in mid 2010 and became very active 
from the following year. In English Wikipedia, Karthik has more than 18K
 edits and so far has contributed for 10 Good articles. Started working 
on Indian film related articles, he later on ventured on into political,
 India and Mumbai related articles. Karthik is autoreviewer, rollbacker 
and filemover on the English Wikipedia. He also serves as coordinator 
for WikiProject Mumbai. Karthik is also active on Wikimedia Commons, 
where he has uploaded hundreds of images and has an edit count of 1,250.
 He has fixed some small templates and layout issues on Tamil Wikipedia 
and contributed few articles in Hindi Wikipedia. 
</p><p>In 2011, he was featured on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/L11_1212_WMUK_KarthikB/en" target="_blank">Wikimedia Fundraising banners</a>.
 Subsequently he became active in Wikipedia Mumbai community  and 
contributed  towards organizing second Photo-thon in Mumbai and few 
other events. He volunteered to be part of core team for organising 
&quot;Wiki Loves Monuments 2012 in India&quot; and  played a key role along with 
Naveen Francis in making it a success.
</p><p>He is elected to the Executive Committee during September 2012 and current serves as the <b>Secretary</b>. 
</p><p>Apart from his contributions to Wikimedia Movement, he is an aspiring photo journalist and a passionate drummer. 
</p>
<ul><li>Wikimedia username: Karthikndr
</li><li>Email: Karthikndr<img src="" alt=" at " height="12" width="12"><a href="http://wikimedia.in" target="_blank">wikimedia.in</a>
</li><li>Twitter: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://twitter.com/karthikndr" target="_blank">@Karthikndr</a>
</li><li>Facebook: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://fb.com/karthikndr" target="_blank">fb.com/karthikndr</a>
</li></ul>
<h2> <span>Anirudh Singh Bhati</span></h2>
<div><a href="http://wiki.wikimedia.in/File:Anirudh.png" title="Anirudh Singh Bhati" target="_blank"><img src="" alt="Anirudh Singh Bhati" height="115" width="100"></a></div>

<p>Anirudh Singh Bhati is a technology lawyer based in Ahmedabad.
</p><p>He is a contributor to Wikimedia projects since January 2006 and 
is mostly active on the English Wikipedia project where he is also an 
administrator. He is one of the founding members of Wikimedia Chapter 
(India).
</p><p>He currently serves as the <b>Treasurer</b>.
</p>
<ul><li> Wikimedia: Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington
</li><li> Facebook: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://en-gb.facebook.com/bhati" target="_blank">http://en-gb.facebook.com/bhati</a>
</li><li> LinkedIN: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://in.linkedin.com/in/anirudhbhati" target="_blank">http://in.linkedin.com/in/anirudhbhati</a>
</li><li> Email: anirudh<img src="" alt=" at " height="12" width="12"><a href="http://wikimedia.in" target="_blank">wikimedia.in</a>
</li></ul>
<p><br>
</p>
<h2> <span>Nikita Belavate</span></h2>
<div><a href="http://wiki.wikimedia.in/File:Nikita.jpg" title="Nikita Belavate" target="_blank"><img src="" alt="Nikita Belavate" height="101" width="100"></a></div>

<p>Nikita Belavate is a pre-final year student of 5 year M-tech 
Integrated degree in Biotechnology and Bioinformatics.   She is based in
 Mumbai.
</p><p>She attended  &#39;Wiki-Conference India&#39; held in Nov-2011, which 
gave her the exposure  to Wikipedia Community at large. She was inspired
 by  the event and became active English Wikipedian in December 2011. 
She helped conduct meetups, photo-walks and  outreach sessions in 
Mumbai. Her interests include encouraging and improving  women 
participation in Wikipedia and other projects.
</p><p>She is elected to the Executive committee  in Sep 2012 and is  
the first female Executive Committee Member to serve on board of 
&#39;Wikimedia India&#39;. She currently serves as <b>Member</b>
</p>
<ul><li>Wikimedia User Handle: Nikita
</li><li>Email:     <a href="http://nikita.sb" target="_blank">nikita.sb</a>[at]wikimedia[dot]in
</li><li>Facebook:  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://en-gb.facebook.com/nikitabelavate" target="_blank">nikitabelavate</a>
</li></ul>
<h2> <span>Pranav</span></h2>
<div><a href="http://wiki.wikimedia.in/File:Pranav.jpg" title="Pranav" target="_blank"><img src="" alt="Pranav" height="100" width="100"></a></div>
<p>Pranav is a Consultant in the field of Marketing Management based in Mumbai and currently
works with a Social Media firm..  He has been associated with the
Wikimedia Movement since 2006 as an editor and image contributor. He
holds a B.Com degree from the University of Mumbai and an MBA from
Strathclyde Business School, Glasgow. Pranav served
as the Chairman of the Organising Committee for WikiConference India
2011 (WCI) organised jointly by Wikimedia Mumbai Community and Wikimedia India, with active involvment of
11 teams consisting of over 50 volunteers. He was granted  a Fellowship
from the Wikimedia Foundation for this task. Apart from WCI, Pranav
has been one of the few Wikipedians instrumental in hosting of several
community Meetups, Photowalks, Workshops and Academies in Mumbai.
</p><p>He is the first person to sign up as a member of Wikimedia 
Chapter using electronic funds transfer of membership fees. In September
 2012, Pranav was elected to the Executive Committee of Wikimedia 
chapter and currently serves as <b>Member</b>. In addition to this he devotes time to other charitable/philanthropic activities as
well,serving as a Member of the Board of Trustees of four Mumbai based
Public Charitable Trusts which operate in Health, Education and other
functional areas.
</p><p><br>
Twitter: @Curumsey
</p><p>Email: pranav [at] wikimedia [dot] in
</p>
<h2> <span>Srikanth Ramakrishnan</span></h2>
<div><a href="http://wiki.wikimedia.in/File:SrikanthR.jpg" title="Srikanth Ramakrishnan" target="_blank"><img src="" alt="Srikanth Ramakrishnan" height="133" width="100"></a></div>

<p>Srikanth Ramakrishnan is a 20-year old student based out of 
Coimbatore, Chennai and Bangalore. He has been a contributor to the 
English Wikipedia since 2005 and has been a regular at Bangalore meetups
 since 2009. He has also held various outreach sessions across Tamil 
Nadu. On Wikipedia, his primary interests  include editing transport, 
Indian economy, JAVA programming area articles.
</p><p>He is elected to Wikimedia India Executive Committee in Sep 2012 and currently serves as a <b>Member</b>.
</p>
<ul><li> Wikimedia: User:Rsrikanth05, <a rel="nofollow" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Rsrikanth05" target="_blank">en-wiki User page</a>
</li><li> Email: srik.ramk<img src="" alt=" at " height="12" width="12"><a href="http://wikimedia.in" target="_blank">wikimedia.in</a>
</li></ul>
<h2> <span>Viswa Prabha</span></h2>
<div><a href="http://wiki.wikimedia.in/File:Viswa.jpg" title="Viswa Prabha" target="_blank"><img src="" alt="Viswa Prabha" height="113" width="100"></a></div>

<p>Viswanathan Prabhakaran is an engineer, project manager and 
technology consultant by profession. After acquiring his B.Tech. in 
Electrical Engineering from the Government Engineering college, Thrissur
 in 1986, he initiated his career in computer industry. Keeping pace 
with the rapid evolution of technology, he has aligned his career path 
with industrial automation, communications, laboratory science etc. 
finally culminating into advanced biomedical engineering. 
</p><p>He has travelled extensively both within and outside India and 
has lived and worked with a vast mixture of cultures and communities. He
 is elected to Wikimedia India EC in Sep 2012 and currently serves as a <b>Member</b>
</p><p>At present, he is living in his home town in Kerala, occasionally
 travelling,  spending most of his time voluntarily for social causes 
and the Wikipedia movement.
</p>
<ul><li>E-Mail: viswaprabha [at] <a href="http://wikimedia.in" target="_blank">wikimedia.in</a>
</li><li>Wikipedia+: User: ViswaPrabha
</li></ul>
<p><br>
</p><p><br>
We are confident that under the new EC&#39;s leadership Wikimedia Movement 
and Chapter in India will grow  to greater heights in the year to come. 
We request you all to extend the support and actively engage with 
Wikimedia India to achieve the vision of sharing free knowledge with 
every one for building a Knowledge Society.
</p><p>Please join me in wishing the new team all success.
</p>Cheers<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
Arjuna Rao Chavala<br>
President,Wikimedia India<br>
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<br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><font color="#666666"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Thanks</span><br>Arnav (ricku).</font><br><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Rangilo_Gujarati" target="_blank">(User:Rangilo_Gujarati)</a><br>
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