Thanks very much, Ravi and all the community members who are participating in this process, both virtually and in Bangalore. I look forward to meeting and learning from you all.

Two important pieces of additional information:
* Please rsvp your participation by noon on Friday September 19 so that we can confirm travel and lodging as soon as possible. If any of you are nominated, but uncertain about your attendance, do let us know as well, so we can support you as you need.
* As requested, we will put up a draft agenda over the next few days, so that we can design the meeting together. We have asked the facilitator to work with us on this, as requested by some community members. 
** Overall, the agenda for the meeting is likely to cover these issues:

  • Introductions, expectations, ground rules

  • SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats) analysis and sharing stories of individual contributors, diverse language communities and projects

  • SWOT for India and Indic languages across South Asia

  • Visioning for the movement in India

  • Strategies and action plans for the movement going forward (next six months, next year, next two years)

    • Roles, responsibilities and rules of engagement between the different actors in India

However, as different language communities mobilise to offer their thoughts (thanks very much, Ravi!), we'll obviously work with all your suggestions.

Here's to a productive conversation,
Anasuya

On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 6:39 AM, Asaf Bartov <abartov@wikimedia.org> wrote:

Thank you! I'm traveling in the coming 24 hours, but will engage afterwards.

I do join you in encouraging our fellow Wikimedians to offer thoughts and prospects in that talk page.

Cheers,

    A.

On Sep 17, 2014 1:51 AM, "Ravishankar" <ravidreams@gmail.com> wrote:
Asaf,

Thanks for the update.

We will try our best to gather more opinions and official community recommendations at

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:India_Community_Consultation_2014#Agenda

before we enter the October 4 meeting.

Ravi

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