Not of my business what you do in India, but here is my 2 cents.

I think that a nacional Conference for India is a HUGE job (Comming for a country that is equaly huge, I can imagine the several logistic problems to deslocate people from one city to another).

So my suggestion is to make several "mini-confereces" organized by state (India is organized by states, right?) like the series of Wikipedia
Academies. That will teach local teams all around India to organize small conferences (not bigger than 100 people) and minimize costs and problems. You can always have a nacional conference once every 2 years or so.
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On 24 January 2012 20:46, Ravishankar <ravidreams@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,

I appreciate the wise decision from Indian Wikipedia community to opt out of Wikimania bid until next few years.

Even Wikiconference India need not be an annual event considering the amount of human and financial resources spent on it. What we need is strengthening local communities in each language and city by means of more meetups, unconferences, outreach, on project activity and events with specific goals like hackathons.

Ravi

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