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noopur

10 Mar 2013 10 Mar '13

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Dear all, I take immense pleasure in (re)introducing Dr. U.B Pavanaja to the entire Wikimedia community! Dr. Pavanaja has joined the Access to Knowledge team at CIS as a consultant from March 4 onward. Those associated with Indian language computing and especially that in Kannada may know him already for having started the first Kannada website: Vishvakannada.com, the first Kannada online magazine, the first Indian language (Kannada) website to receive Golden Web Award, the first Indian language (Kannada) editor for Palm OS and many more firsts. Dr. Pavanaja holds a Master's degree from Mysore University and Ph.D. from Mumbai University. He was a scientist at the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, for about 15 years and has done advanced research in Taiwan. He resigned from BARC in 1997 and dedicated himself fully for the cause of Computer and Indian languages. You could read more about his contributions here [1]. Prior to this he has also worked at Microsoft Research Labs and has been a long time contributor to Kannada Wikipedia. We are very fortunate to have him on board. You can reach him at pavanaja [at] cis-india [dot] org. Please join me in welcoming him to our community :) Thank you, Noopur Links: ------ [1] http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/pavanaja-profile.pdf

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sankarshan

10 Mar 10 Mar

1:46 a.m.

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On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 3:08 PM, noopur <noopur(a)cis-india.org> wrote:

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I take immense pleasure in (re)introducing Dr. U.B Pavanaja to the entire Wikimedia community! Dr. Pavanaja has joined the Access to Knowledge team at CIS as a consultant from March 4 onward.

This is good news. What would be the areas on which Dr Pavanaja is expected to provide guidance? -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <https://twitter.com/#!/sankarshan>

Vishnu t

5:06 a.m.

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Dear Sankarshan, Thank you for your wishes. Pavanaja has joined the CIS-A2K team as the Programme Officer, which was left vacant by Shiju Alex few months ago. He will be a key point of contact for the expansion and growth of Kannada Wikipedia within the team. We are glad to have his huge network and experience that would immensely benefit Kannada Wikipedia. In addition to this his job profile would include the following: • Design & assist in the roll-out PR / digital outreach plan(s) to promote Indic language readers & readership • Design & roll-out PR/on-ground outreach plan(s) to promote Indic language editors and contribution • Assist WMF in rolling out and training the Online Ambassadors for Indic language Wikipedia. • Co-ordinate with WMF to provide technical solutions to resolve current (& potential) issues on Indic languages • Providing ad hoc support to the Community on all aspects of Indic languages as may be deemed necessary. • Any other services as required by your supervisor (Programme Director – A2K Programme) and the Executive Director of CIS in connection with the grant from Wikimedia Foundation. Best regards, Vishnu On 10 March 2013 15:16, sankarshan <foss.mailinglists(a)gmail.com> wrote:

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On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 3:08 PM, noopur <noopur(a)cis-india.org> wrote:

I take immense pleasure in (re)introducing Dr. U.B Pavanaja to the entire Wikimedia community! Dr. Pavanaja has joined the Access to Knowledge

team at

CIS as a consultant from March 4 onward.

This is good news. What would be the areas on which Dr Pavanaja is expected to provide guidance? -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <https://twitter.com/#!/sankarshan> _______________________________________________ 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

sankarshan

5:11 a.m.

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On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 5:36 PM, Vishnu t <visdaviva(a)gmail.com> wrote:

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• Design & assist in the roll-out PR / digital outreach plan(s) to promote Indic language readers & readership • Design & roll-out PR/on-ground outreach plan(s) to promote Indic language editors and contribution • Assist WMF in rolling out and training the Online Ambassadors for Indic language Wikipedia. • Co-ordinate with WMF to provide technical solutions to resolve current (& potential) issues on Indic languages • Providing ad hoc support to the Community on all aspects of Indic languages as may be deemed necessary. • Any other services as required by your supervisor (Programme Director – A2K Programme) and the Executive Director of CIS in connection with the grant from Wikimedia Foundation.

These look fantastic. I'm assuming that these tie in with the plans you had posted (under the pseudonym, during the election phase). Can I impose on your graciousness and ask a bit more about the Online Ambassadors for Indic Language Wikipedia? -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <https://twitter.com/#!/sankarshan>

Vishnu t

9:24 p.m.

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Dear Sankarshan, On 10 March 2013 17:41, sankarshan <foss.mailinglists(a)gmail.com> wrote:

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On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 5:36 PM, Vishnu t <visdaviva(a)gmail.com> wrote:

• Assist WMF in rolling out and training the Online Ambassadors for Indic language Wikipedia.

Can I impose on your graciousness and ask a bit more about the Online Ambassadors for Indic Language Wikipedia? As we understand, this would primarily include nurturing local talent that

can help and support the Indian Language Wiki communities on orienting people towards Media Wiki, fix bugs, troubleshoot tech related issues, input methods, OCR etc. The intention is to build strong and effective local interfaces to the various Global developments. Please do suggest if you would like to focus on anything else. Thanks, Vishnu

sankarshan

11 Mar 11 Mar

5:55 a.m.

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On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 9:54 AM, Vishnu t <visdaviva(a)gmail.com> wrote:

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As we understand, this would primarily include nurturing local talent that can help and support the Indian Language Wiki communities on orienting people towards Media Wiki, fix bugs, troubleshoot tech related issues, input methods, OCR etc. The intention is to build strong and effective local interfaces to the various Global developments. Please do suggest if you would like to focus on anything else.

Again, this is a sound idea. Having multiple groups of individuals who can receive input, categorize them, document the problems and solutions and, effectively amplify the highs and lows of the Indic experience on WMF sites is a good step. At some point I'd like to understand more about the plans to identify these individuals, the training they will receive (which, as you pointed out earlier, would be Pavanaja's goal) and, how would one measure the effectiveness of the Ambassadors and, the effort as a whole. During GNUnify 2013 in February you mentioned that the A2K program was having a lot of ideas which were at that point nebulous. Now that there seems to be a structured roll-out, in terms of organization staffing and, initiative plans, it would good to understand the objectives for 2013/2014. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <https://twitter.com/#!/sankarshan>

Pradeep Mohandas

10 Mar 10 Mar

3:40 a.m.

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hi, Welcome Pavanaja. All the best in your endeavours! I was just curious to know if there was an ad for recruitment for this post on the list for this position or not. I could not find the ad herein. If someone who has a link to that post, please share. warm regards, Pradeep Mohandas Pradeep Mohandas How Pradeep uses email? - http://goo.gl/6v1I9 ________________________________ From: noopur <noopur(a)cis-india.org> To: Wikimediaindia l <wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Cc: wikimedia-in-exec(a)lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Sunday, 10 March 2013 3:08 PM Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] [A2K]: Introducing Dr. U.B Pavanaja, Consultant - Indian languages Dear all, I take immense pleasure in (re)introducing Dr. U.B Pavanaja to the entire Wikimedia community! Dr. Pavanaja has joined the Access to Knowledge team at CIS as a consultant from March 4 onward. Those associated with Indian language computing and especially that in Kannada may know him already for having started the first Kannada website: Vishvakannada.com, the first Kannada online magazine, the first Indian language (Kannada) website to receive Golden Web Award, the first Indian language (Kannada) editor for Palm OS and many more firsts. Dr. Pavanaja holds a Master’s degree from Mysore University and Ph.D. from Mumbai University. He was a scientist at the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, for about 15 years and has done advanced research in Taiwan. He resigned from BARC in 1997 and dedicated himself fully for the cause of Computer and Indian languages. You could read more about his contributions here. Prior to this he has also worked at Microsoft Research Labs and has been a long time contributor to Kannada Wikipedia. We are very fortunate to have him on board. You can reach him at pavanaja [at] cis-india [dot] org. Please join me in welcoming him to our community :) Thank you, Noopur _______________________________________________ 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

Vishnu t

5:17 a.m.

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Dear Pradeep, Thank you for your wishes. We are indeed happy to have Pavanaja join the CIS-A2K team.

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I was just curious to know if there was an ad for recruitment for this post on the list for this position or not. I could not find the ad herein. If someone who has a link to that post, please share. Thanks for pointing this out, Pradeep. I have checked CIS Archives. This

announcement was sent out in the CIS main Bulletin to various mailing lists in January 2013. Here is the link http://cis-india.org/about/newsletters/january-2013-bulletin . Unfortunately, we have missed posting this on the WMI mailing list. Sincere apologies for this mistake. We will ensure that this does not get repeated in the future. As a step in this direction, will alert CIS's Publication Manager (who puts together all the newsletters and Bulletins) to post all such information on the WMI list without fail. Warmly, Vishnu

Pradeep Mohandas

5:23 a.m.

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hi Vishnu, Was this sent to ANY Wikipedia list, at all, out of curiosity? warm regards, Pradeep Pradeep Mohandas How Pradeep uses email? - http://goo.gl/6v1I9 ________________________________ From: Vishnu t <visdaviva(a)gmail.com> To: Pradeep Mohandas <prad2609(a)yahoo.com>om>; Wikimedia India Community list <wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Cc: "wikimedia-in-exec(a)lists.wikimedia.org" <wikimedia-in-exec(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Sent: Sunday, 10 March 2013 5:47 PM Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [A2K]: Introducing Dr. U.B Pavanaja, Consultant - Indian languages Dear Pradeep, Thank you for your wishes. We are indeed happy to have Pavanaja join the CIS-A2K team.

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I was just curious to know if there was an ad for recruitment for this post on the list for this position or not. I could not find the ad herein. If someone who has a link to that post, please share.

Thanks for pointing this out, Pradeep. I have checked CIS Archives. This announcement was sent out in the CIS main Bulletin to various mailing lists in January 2013. Here is the link http://cis-india.org/about/newsletters/january-2013-bulletin . Unfortunately, we have missed posting this on the WMI mailing list. Sincere apologies for this mistake. We will ensure that this does not get repeated in the future. As a step in this direction, will alert CIS's Publication Manager (who puts together all the newsletters and Bulletins) to post all such information on the WMI list without fail. Warmly, Vishnu

Arun Ramarathnam

5:40 a.m.

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Dear Vishnu, Is there any further hiring planned for the A2K team? regards Arun On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 5:53 PM, Pradeep Mohandas <prad2609(a)yahoo.com>wrote;wrote:

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hi Vishnu, Was this sent to ANY Wikipedia list, at all, out of curiosity? warm regards, Pradeep Pradeep Mohandas How Pradeep uses email? - http://goo.gl/6v1I9 ------------------------------ *From:* Vishnu t <visdaviva(a)gmail.com> *To:* Pradeep Mohandas <prad2609(a)yahoo.com>om>; Wikimedia India Community list <wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> *Cc:* "wikimedia-in-exec(a)lists.wikimedia.org" < wikimedia-in-exec(a)lists.wikimedia.org> *Sent:* Sunday, 10 March 2013 5:47 PM *Subject:* Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [A2K]: Introducing Dr. U.B Pavanaja, Consultant - Indian languages Dear Pradeep, Thank you for your wishes. We are indeed happy to have Pavanaja join the CIS-A2K team. I was just curious to know if there was an ad for recruitment for this post on the list for this position or not. I could not find the ad herein. If someone who has a link to that post, please share. Thanks for pointing this out, Pradeep. I have checked CIS Archives. This announcement was sent out in the CIS main Bulletin to various mailing lists in January 2013. Here is the link http://cis-india.org/about/newsletters/january-2013-bulletin . Unfortunately, we have missed posting this on the WMI mailing list. Sincere apologies for this mistake. We will ensure that this does not get repeated in the future. As a step in this direction, will alert CIS's Publication Manager (who puts together all the newsletters and Bulletins) to post all such information on the WMI list without fail. Warmly, Vishnu _______________________________________________ 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

Vishnu t

9:29 p.m.

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Dear Arun, On 10 March 2013 18:10, Arun Ramarathnam <arunram25(a)gmail.com> wrote:

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Dear Vishnu, Is there any further hiring planned for the A2K team?

Right now all the positions are filled as per the the contract CIS has with WMF. Unless and until any one of us leaves the A2K team, we will not be planning on any fresh recruitment. Should there be any such developments will surely let you and other friends on the list know. Have a good day! Warmly, Vishnu

Vishnu t

9:27 p.m.

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Dear Pradeep, Only the A2K Newsletter goes to the WMI and various other mailing lists and not the overall CIS Newsletter (in which this was announced). As mentioned earlier, there was an oversight on our part to not have included this in the January Bulletin. Apologies again. We will ensure not to repeat this. Warmly, Vishnu On 10 March 2013 17:53, Pradeep Mohandas <prad2609(a)yahoo.com> wrote:

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Anirudh Bhati

10:46 a.m.

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Hello all, I haven't seen a job announcement related to the relevant position either on the Wikimedia India (WMI?) mailing list or on any of the local mailing lists. Thanks, Anirudh On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 1:17 PM, Vishnu t <visdaviva(a)gmail.com> wrote:

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Dear Pradeep, Thank you for your wishes. We are indeed happy to have Pavanaja join the CIS-A2K team.

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Vishnu t

9:33 p.m.

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Dear Anirudh, This announcement was sent out in the CIS main Newsletter in January. Due to oversight it was not included in the A2K Newsletter, which gets posted to WMI mailing list along with few other language and city mailing lists. We are deeply apologetic for this slip-up and will ensure that this does not get repeated in the future. Thank you for your understanding. Best regards, Vishnu On 10 March 2013 23:16, Anirudh Bhati <anirudhsbh(a)gmail.com> wrote:

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Dear Pradeep, Thank you for your wishes. We are indeed happy to have Pavanaja join the CIS-A2K team.

Arun Ramarathnam

5:04 a.m.

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Welcome Pavanaja! Good to have someone like you join the wikimedia movement. regards Arun On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 3:08 PM, noopur <noopur(a)cis-india.org> wrote:

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** Dear all, I take immense pleasure in (re)introducing Dr. U.B Pavanaja to the entire Wikimedia community! Dr. Pavanaja has joined the Access to Knowledge team at CIS as a consultant from March 4 onward. Those associated with Indian language computing and especially that in Kannada may know him already for having started the first Kannada website: Vishvakannada.com, the first Kannada online magazine, the first Indian language (Kannada) website to receive Golden Web Award, the first Indian language (Kannada) editor for Palm OS and many more firsts. Dr. Pavanaja holds a Master’s degree from Mysore University and Ph.D. from Mumbai University. He was a scientist at the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, for about 15 years and has done advanced research in Taiwan. He resigned from BARC in 1997 and dedicated himself fully for the cause of Computer and Indian languages. You could read more about his contributions here <http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/pavanaja-profile.pdf>. Prior to this he has also worked at Microsoft Research Labs and has been a long time contributor to Kannada Wikipedia. We are very fortunate to have him on board. You can reach him at pavanaja [at] cis-india [dot] org. Please join me in welcoming him to our community :) Thank you, Noopur _______________________________________________ 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

CherianTinu Abraham

6:55 a.m.

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Congratulations Pavanaja ! Regards Tinu Cherian On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 3:08 PM, noopur <noopur(a)cis-india.org> wrote:

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Omshivaprakash | Wikimedia

8:24 a.m.

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Congratulations! It's nice to have someone like you to help Kannada Wikipedia community to grow further! On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 7:25 PM, CherianTinu Abraham <tinucherian(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:

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Congratulations Pavanaja ! Regards Tinu Cherian On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 3:08 PM, noopur <noopur(a)cis-india.org> wrote:

** Dear all, I take immense pleasure in (re)introducing Dr. U.B Pavanaja to the entire Wikimedia community! Dr. Pavanaja has joined the Access to Knowledge team at CIS as a consultant from March 4 onward. Those associated with Indian language computing and especially that in Kannada may know him already for having started the first Kannada website: Vishvakannada.com, the first Kannada online magazine, the first Indian language (Kannada) website to receive Golden Web Award, the first Indian language (Kannada) editor for Palm OS and many more firsts. Dr. Pavanaja holds a Master’s degree from Mysore University and Ph.D. from Mumbai University. He was a scientist at the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, for about 15 years and has done advanced research in Taiwan. He resigned from BARC in 1997 and dedicated himself fully for the cause of Computer and Indian languages. You could read more about his contributions here<http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/pavanaja-profile.pdf>df>. Prior to this he has also worked at Microsoft Research Labs and has been a long time contributor to Kannada Wikipedia. We are very fortunate to have him on board. You can reach him at pavanaja [at] cis-india [dot] org. Please join me in welcoming him to our community :) Thank you, Noopur _______________________________________________ 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

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Adethya Sudarsanan

9:11 a.m.

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Congrats, Dr. Pavan . . . Wish you the best, always. Regards, Ade. S On 10 March 2013 15:08, noopur <noopur(a)cis-india.org> wrote:

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