Dear Community
After writing this open letter to the community almost 3 months back, I am
glad to announce that we have been regularly updating the community through
our monthly reports. I am also glad to announce that in the last 3 months,
we have also successfully featured 3 wikimedians from 3 differnet
communities.
Regarding updates on conducting the Annual General Meeting for 2014-2015, I
am glad to announce that inspite of all challenges , we are in the last
stages of completing our Financial Audit for 2014-2015. As soon as the
Audit is done, we shall be announcing the AGM.
Last year, WMIN was involved in many programs, but the community has been
largely unaware because we were not updating them. We plan to submit all
our backlog monthly reports of last year soon. Since February,Inspite of
WMIN not having an employee & the majority of the efforts put
towards meeting our Compliances, we are still involved in programs.
- Infrastructure Scholarship is being continued to Bodhisattwa & Rudra
Pratap Sinha. For more details, please check out our page of Infrastructure
Scholarship <http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Infrastructure_Scholarship>
- WMIN is being involved in the organizing of WikiConference India 2016
& EC members are on the various planning teams.
Regarding our financial situation, WMIN is still in process of renewing our
FCRA license, due to which we are unable to receive funds from WMF
We will be updating the community soon on our latest developments.
Thanks
Yohann Thomas
yohannvt(a)gmail.com
On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 10:49 PM, Yohann Thomas <yohannvt(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I am forwarding this email since my official wikimedia
india email is
still getting blocked.
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From: Yohann Thomas <yohannvt(a)wikimedia.in>
Date: Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 10:45 PM
Subject: Open letter to the community
To: Wikimedia Chapter India Google group <wmin-members(a)googlegroups.com>om>,
Wikimedia India Community list <wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Cc: EC Wikimedia India <wikimedia-in-exec(a)lists.wikimedia.org>rg>,
Ravishankar Ayyakkannu <ravidreams(a)wikimedia.in>
Dear Community
I regret to inform you that Wikimedia India has not been give periodic
updates regarding the activities of the chapter. This is in spite of the
fact that the last year, we have been doing many activities & making great
strides in reaching out to the community.Apart from that,Wikimedia India
has also not been open about the obstacles which currently our organization
is facing.
1.) No Monthly Reports were being circulated by the Office Bearer’s at
Wikimedia India. Major updates regarding to different activities were given
to the community, but a periodic update was not given to the community The
Executive Committee (EC) along with the Program Director recognize the
negligence in this regard. An assurance regarding the same has been
provided in this regard. On the first Monday of every month, we shall be
submitting our monthly report to the community.
2.) Inability to Conduct Annual General Meeting for 2014-2015: The Office
Bearers have already been apologetic in this regard. An assurance has been
provided that efforts are being undertaken to process it as soon as
possible.
3.) Current Financial obstacle faced by the Chapter: We are in Process of
renewing our FCRA license , but due to this,the Chapter at present is
facing financial challenges.
To tackle these problems ,we are taking guidance from senior community
members & founding members of the chapter. We hope to resolve these issues
soon & continue with all the good work we have been doing so far.
--
Yohann Thomas
Executive Committee Member
Wikimedia India
http://wikimedia.in/