Dear Hari,

I seriously refute the way you are wrongly interpreting my intentions. It is never my intention nor style of work to threaten anyone, least of all a Wikimedian friend like Ravi.

I was only making a legal point that we as a movement should look into and I have very clearly stated that we should take this concern on board. I have also amply stated that my interpretation is up for correction.

Ravi, if you think, event remotely, that I am trying to threaten you, I profusely apologize. If you or the community members think that I was wrong to take the Tamil Wiki 10 celebration example to illustrate a legal point [1], apologies for that too. I was only doing it to state a point without any intention of malice or wrong doing what-so-ever.

Cheers,
Vishnu

[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants_talk:APG/Proposals/2013-2014_round2/The_Centre_for_Internet_and_Society/Staff_proposal_assessment#Additional_concern_that_should_be_taken_on_board

On Wednesday 14 May 2014 01:46 AM, Hari Prasad Nadig wrote:

Ravi,

While I do not approve of the way this has been worded here or presented here by you, it does seem like a veiled threat clearly directed towards you by Vishnu for your speaking out (which has been quite vehement, to be honest). And an apparent threat like this coming in from a Program Director does look very ugly.

The worst thing is that it seems to be trying to distract readers from the actual issues. I sincerely hope that Vishnu shall clear this up with an appropriate step that befits his position and the respect his position merits. 

And I wish and hope these shall not happen in future.

On 14 May 2014 00:58, Srikanth Ramakrishnan <rsrikanth05@gmail.com> wrote:

Is receiving money as an individual from a foreign body in violation of the Act?

If that is so, won't half of India be violating it?

I have a copy of the Act from the Ministry of Law and Justice and it doesn't seem to say so.

On 13 May 2014 19:11, Ravishankar <ravidreams@gmail.com> wrote:

Hey,

Is there a legal threat for Wikimedia community volunteers in India getting Individual engagement grants and grants for running community events from WMF?

An alert regarding this has been raised here:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants_talk:APG/Proposals/2013-2014_round2/The_Centre_for_Internet_and_Society/Staff_proposal_assessment#Additional_concern_that_should_be_taken_on_board

Any professional legal / financial advise will be much appreciated.

Thanks,

Ravi

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