Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Announcing Ravishankar Ayyakkannu as Manager, Strategic Partnerships - Asia

Dear Wikimedia India community, I am thrilled to announce that Ravishankar Ayyakkannu is joining the Global Reach team as a Partnerships Manager Contractor for Asia for the Wikimedia Foundation. As many of you may already know, earlier Ravi served as the Program Director for the Wikimedia India Chapter. He played a significant role in two recent developments from the Indian region, namely, the WikiConference India 2016 and the Government of Tamil Nadu issuing an order releasing all its content in CC-BY-SA license. Ravi is also a proud Wikimedian contributing to many Tamil Wikimedia projects since 2005 and has a specific interest in community building. The Global Reach team will focus on growing Wikimedia projects along the themes of awareness, affordability and offline solutions in the Indian region. Working closely with Smriti Gupta who leads our work in the region, Ravi will strive to build strategic partnerships with government, non-profit, educational and private institutions to achieve this goal. He is very keen to evolve partnership models that ensure the active participation of Wikimedia communities and will appreciate your support on doing so. Please join me in congratulating Ravi! Warm regards, Adele -- *Adele Vrana* *Strategic Partnerships - Global Reach* Wikimedia Foundation +1 (415) 839-6885 ext. 6773 <(415)%20839-6885> avrana(a)wikimedia.org *Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. That's our commitment. Donate. <https://donate.wikimedia.org/>* _______________________________________________ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l