-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: Your business card Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 15:00:39 +0530 From: Kiruba @ Kiruba.com kiruba@kiruba.com To: Bishakha Datta bishakhadatta@gmail.com CC: Achal Prabhala aprabhala@gmail.com, wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, Barry Newstead bnewstead@wikimedia.org
Hi Bikasha and Achal,
These are set of old businesscards that was printed last year.
I ran out of my present bunch of cards and since I had to travel to Lavasa for the INK conference, I had to pick my old bunch of unused cards because my new cards got delayed from the printers.
I had consciously been striking out the position clearly on each of the cards ( attached are two photos of the entire bunch and a closeup of one such card) . I'm sorry that the card that your friend got missed out. If in doubt, you can check out with others (though your friend) that I consciously stuck it out.
I, in no way, want to create a confusion especially since our last conversation last year. I have been consciously been clear about my association (or the lack of) with Wikimedia India.
Regards,
Kiruba Shankar CEO, Business Blogging Pvt Ltd +91-98415 97744 Kiruba@Kiruba.com http://twitter.com/kiruba
On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 12:45 PM, Bishakha Datta <bishakhadatta@gmail.com mailto:bishakhadatta@gmail.com> wrote:
Kiruba,
I'd like to suggest that you systematically and sincerely go through all such online and offline references and undo/amend them so that this is inaccuracy is not repeated time and again.
The same issue has already come up many times this year - dealing with, monitoring or policing this is truly not a good use of anyone's time or energy in the wikipedia communities, the India chapter, or at the Foundation level.
It would be most productive if you could do a rigorous and thorough clean up at your end and this matter could be closed once and for all.
Bishakha
On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 12:24 PM, Achal Prabhala <aprabhala@gmail.com mailto:aprabhala@gmail.com> wrote:
Kiruba,
A friend who is at the INK conference in Lavasa sent me this scan of your business card; a card that you handed out yesterday.
Can you please explain to all of us why it says you are a "Director of Wikimedia India" when as you perfectly well know - and has been publicly documented - you have had nothing to do with the chapter formation in India for over a year? As you know, you were asked to leave the founding group because of your promotion of yourself as a Director of a non-existent entity; as you also know, Wikipedians in India were/are extremely annoyed by your false representation.
I'm going to send out a short and clear message to WikimediaIndia-l on the subject of your association with us. Meanwhile, please understand that this is absolutely ridiculous - you are wasting our time, and have done so repeatedly in the past.
Achal
