Hi Pranav,
In India, it is extremely difficult to hairline separate who has done which event. - Chapter, Community and WMF India Programs.

Let us take the case of the Trichy event, the request came to a community member Rsrikanth to the chapter. Nitika was actively involved along with me and Naveen. The chapter signed the MoU and supplied some goodies. Nitika was actively involved in coaching Sohan, a chapter member and Rsrikanth.  One must not also forget that both Hisham & Nitika are also chapter members.

Another event in Chennai (Jaya eng college) , where Subha led, his travel expenses was reimbursed by the Chapter, Subha is a Chapter SIG Chair .. The event is supported by Hisham & Nitika too. Subha is also an India Programs executive.

I actively organize Bangalore Meetups and support several others .. Should I be worrying whether I am doing as a chapter member, board member or a community member?

As with Assam meetup recently, coordinated by Shiju, some of the expenses were met from a personal grant from the Foundation to me & Shiju. 

There was a recent Malayalam Wiki Academy in Bangalore organised by Malayalam Community. Some of them are also Chapter members. People like me and Naveen actively helped the event ..Are we doing as chapter board member or community member? We don't really know.. But we are just genuinely helping the movement, with worrying about what capacity we are doing it.

The various academies that we do, some of the requests comes directly to the chapter, community or India programs, but each supporting each other in different capacities. 

Now Noopur is a GLAM Champion, Chapter member and Delhi SIG Chair and also part of Chapter Communications Team. She now also heads the Communication & PR for the India Programs.

As I explained, it is difficult to separate the contributions of different entities or individuals for the Wikimedia  movement in India.

IMHO, we should be only concerned about the outcomes of the event and not who gets the credit. 


-TC



On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 12:12 PM, <wheredevelsdare@hotmail.com> wrote:
Im a bit confused. IIRC, for the Trichy event, the Chapter signed an MoU, which means it was a chapter outreach session which India Programs may have supported (correct me if I am wrong).

Hisham, can you please divide outreach activities into two - those conducted by India Programs and those conducted by Community/Chapter but supported by India Programs, giving details on how you supported them? Likewise, if the chapter supports an India Programs initiative, it must mention in its report that it was a supportive role and not a chapter event.

As things stand, both the Chapter and India Programs will put in a report stating they conducted x events, which will overlap with one and other, thus not giving a clear picture of who conducted how many events.

From: hisham@wikimedia.org
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2012 12:06:10 +0530
To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] India Program: Community Monthly Report: Feb 2012


I'm starting a monthly update on India Program activities.  The report for February is posted here.  I hope you find it useful.  Please do add comments on the discussion page, or on this mail trail, or offlist to me.

Many thanks.

hisham

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