On 17-Dec-2013, at 8:07 pm, Pradeep Mohandas
<prad2609(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
Here's hoping for better maps on all Wikimedia!
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Congrats :-) It is a very interesting project.
On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 6:09 PM, Arun Ganesh
<arun.planemad(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 10:13 AM, ansuman
<ansumang(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hello all,
FYI.. in a bit advance, most probably the announcement will be on Wikimedia-l by
tomorrow. :-)
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/12/16/new-individual-engagement-grantees-to-…
Congratulations to all, and Arun Ganesh (User:Planemad) from India along with Hugo Lopez
(User:Yug) from France, their project has been approved,
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Wikimaps_Atlas.
Arun, I look forward to seeing the developments as you move ahead with this project. All
the best.
Regards,
Ansuman
IEG committee member
Thank you Ansuman,
The Wikimaps Atlas is a an ambitious endeavor to create possibly the largest repository
of ready to use free maps for the world and fix the huge shortage of maps that currently
plague many Wikimedia projects. Please read our project page for full details on what we
plan to achieve:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Wikimaps_Atlas
On behalf of Hugo as well, I would like to thank everyone from the Indian community for
taking the time to review the proposal, providing feedback and your valuable support. Its
been a lengthy dream to do this and we are really excited to get this level of support
from everyone including the WMF to get this project off the ground.
With the support of this grant, both Hugo and me who have spent considerable time
creating maps for WIkipedia, will be able to take a break from our working life to
dedicate our effort to develop this resource. We plan to start work only in March, and you
can hear more on the progress and the inputs we will require from the community in the
coming months.
--
Arun Ganesh
(planemad)
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