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 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

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 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

Heartiest congrats Ravi, wish you the very best in taking our movement forward. :) On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 11:44 AM, Manoj Khurana &lt;hello(a)manojkhurana.com&gt; wrote: Congratulations, Ravi. What a good and timely news. We've got a job in hand waiting for you. I mean to say, we need your help, please. As all of us know, Hindi wiki has not seen any offline activity in recent past, despite huge expectations keeping in view the speaker base. Our friend, Suyash is in Bhopal, who is in talks with Atal Bihari Vajpeyee Hindi University. During the initial discussion itself, they have shown so much interest that they invited us for National Science Conference organised at the university by Hindi cell of Bhabha Atomic Research Centre. We participated in that with whatever knowledge/resources we had. You will be glad to know that in the conference, VC announced in his address that the university is soon going for a collaboration with Wikipedia. Now, we all at Hindi Wikipedia do not have any past experience and we are desparately in need of guidance. I do believe this announcement couldn't have come at a better time for us. Suyash has just filed for a rapid grant to arrange a education programme cum wikipedians conference at Bhopal. This is a first for Hindi Wiki and will play a big role to decide the future direction. I once again congratulate you on behalf of all Hindi Wikipedians, and do hope you'll help us in achieving success in our first effort. Regards, Manoj. (u:Anamdas) On 22 Dec 2016 10:44 a.m., "Adele Vrana" &lt;avrana(a)wikimedia.org&gt; wrote: 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 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 _______________________________________________ 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 -- Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur ------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ 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 --

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

Very good news, Congratulations Ravi, Kind Regards, Dhaval On 22 Dec 2016 5:14 am, "Adele Vrana" &lt;avrana(a)wikimedia.org&gt; wrote: _______________________________________________ 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

Congratulations ! On 22 Dec 2016 15:36, &quot;omshivaprakash(a)gmail.com&quot; < omshivaprakash(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: _______________________________________________ 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