On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 11:59 PM, Noopur noopur.raval@gmail.com wrote:
Dear all, I am overwhelmed by the warm welcome :) I sincerely hope to be able to meet all your expectations. Please do not hesitate to guide, correct and suggest things to me. Looking forward to helping the community! Warm Regards Noopur
Congratulations Noopur and best wishes.
Regards Arun
On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 11:46 PM, Debanjan Bandyopadhyay < debastein@gmail.com> wrote:
Congratulations Noopur, now you shall get paid for doing what you love...How awesome is that??
On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 9:47 PM, Pradeep Mohandas < pradeep.mohandas@gmail.com> wrote:
Congratulations! Noopur.
warm regards, Pradeep Mohandas
On 05/03/2012, Sohan Maheshwar sohanmaheshwar@gmail.com wrote:
Hey Noopur
Congratulations!
On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 8:14 PM, Ram Shankar Yadav <
ramshankaryadav@gmail.com
wrote:
Congrats Noopur :)
On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 7:49 PM, Pratik Lahoti pr4tiklahoti@gmail.comwrote:
Welcome and congratulations Noopur! You are indeed very inspiring! :)
Best Wishes, Pratik Lahoti User:BPositive
On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 7:19 PM, Hisham hisham@wikimedia.org wrote:
> Dear All, > > I am pleased to announce that Noopur Raval > ([User:Noopur28http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Noopur28] > has been selected as Consultant to the Wikimedia > Foundationhttp://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home, > and will support Communications for India > Programhttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program. > > > This position will perform 4 key functions. Firstly, it will
support
> communications with our community. This involves a regular set of > updates > (such as newsletters) as well as specific communication projects
such as
> story-telling of local community initiatives (to document
experiences,
> celebrate successes and cross-pollinate ideas.) This is *not* for > day-to-day program communications - which is a core part of each of
our
> responsibilities in the India Program team. Second will be to
support
> media & PR for local community initiatives. The single biggest > challenge > here will to be get more Indic language media coverage to support > community > building efforts. This will be done directly with community members
and
> also in co-ordination with the India Chapter <http://wikimedia.in/
's
> Communications > Media & PR team http://members.wikimedia.in/Communications. The > third aspect is to build and expand existing community social
networks
> (such as WikimediaIndia http://www.facebook.com/WikimediaIndia on > facebook) and to help with the use of social networks to support > community > building. Lastly, there is untapped potential of using digital
outreach
> - > to augment existing physical outreach efforts. We need to (very,
very
> carefully) explore if we can reach out to our large and growing
reader
> base > and inform, encourage and enable them to become editors using online > channels and resources. > > Noopur is a community member and has supported outreach activities
(in
> Ahmedabad<
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Takes_Ahmedabad%3E
> & Delhi <
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Delhi/Delhi6%3E),
> is a member of Delhi > SIG<
http://members.wikimedia.in/City_and_Language_Special_Interest_Groups%3E
> of > the Chapter, has participated in community collaborations like > Collaboration > of the Month http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:INCOTM and
has
> been actively trying to start > GLAMhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Glam in > India. > > Noopur is from Gandhinagar <
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gandhinagar%3E
> and > is graduating from > JNUhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jawaharlal_Nehru_University with > a Master's in Arts & Aesthetics. She has a triple honors Bachelor's > in Media Studies, Literature and Psychology from Christ College, > Bangalore http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christ_College,_Bangalore. > She has interned with Radio Mirchi, Times of India and the Centre
for
> Internet & Society (amongst others) - as well as done some teaching > assignments. She is an active blogger (including for the India Art > Summit, > 2011.) She has published a novella and co-authored an anthology of > poems, > plays & short stories and has co-presented a paper on "Wikiwars"
with
> [User:Srikeit.] She is also an amateur photographer and has
contributed
> to > Commons<
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Noopur28%3E
> as > well as other platforms. > > The Communications position has taken a long time to fill. The
initial
> call for selection was in > September<
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2011-September/004252....
.
> I reported back to the community in > December<
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2011-December/006055.h...
> that > I had failed to find the right candidate and hence the delay. There > were a > number of deserving candidates and this selection has taken time
because
> of > the need to find the most suitable profile for a complex role. This > role > requires the right mix of an academic foundation in communications, > domain > expertise as well as adequate familiarity with our community. It
also
> requires adaptability and strong learning skills - because so much
of
> what > we are trying to do is pioneering. I am confident that she brings
the
> right level of experience and competencies - and I'm very excited
by
> the > opportunity of making a step jump in the impact of communications
for
> our > community. > > Do join me in welcoming Noopur. She will start on March 12 and
will be
> based in New Delhi. > > Best > > hisham > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaindia-l mailing list > Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l > >
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