A big +100 to Ravishankar's message.

Welcome aboard, Vishnu and Dr Niranjana.

And to all on this list: can we please give the new A2K team the space, the good faith, and the openness so they can start to do what they need to do without feeling like people are nipping at their heels?

Can we please put the politics, suspicions, and judgements aside and give them a break? This atmosphere seems the very opposite of a welcome.

Can we please give them a level playing field?

Best
Bishakha

On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 10:17 AM, Ravishankar <ravidreams@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi all,

My best wishes for the new A2K team.

A sincere request to all Indian Wikimedians:

CIS has been given a grant by WMF. Let CIS do their job in peace and let them be answerable to the grant review committee.

Just because they are located in India and working on Indian Wikimedia projects, I don't think they need to answer every question from the community. Especially, hiring related questions and when they are yet to start work.

The former Indian Wikimedia office was burnt out precisely because of this negative approach from the community.

If the community needs to strengthen the movement, either work on your own language Wikimedia projects or join the India Wikimedia chapter and take it forward.

Ravi

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