I would suggest not to take it personally, I dont know who Priyanka Prachad is, I dont think shes even attending the Delhi Meet. She's not on the sign-up page from what I see and does not speak for the Delhi community. lol......so does that mean we are all competing for our cities, I didnt get that impression so far. Regards Salmaan On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 10:39 AM, Hari Prasad Nadig <hpnadig(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:

I understand that Tinu, I was laughing at that part. You guys have been so supportive that it never entered my mind, it was a compliment. Regards Salmaan On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 10:57 AM, CherianTinu Abraham <tinucherian(a)gmail.com > Salmanji, > Please don't take it personally either... we are not "competing" for the > cities.. :) > Do note that the journo is from a Bangalore edition newspaper, so obviously > will highlight the "Bangalore part". :) > The journo asked about what are the "chances" for Bangalore, I said my > personal opinions. She asked her "other contacts" in other cities too.. I > also stressed the fact that it is upto the Foundation to decide where this > has to be ( which wasn't mentioned in the article). > > What matters is not where the foundatation office is set up, what is > important is to grow the wiki-community and culture in every corner of the > country. > > Regards > Tinu Cherian > > > On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 10:43 AM, theo10011 <de10011(a)gmail.com> >> I would suggest not to take it personally, I dont know who Priyanka >> Prachad is, I dont think shes even attending the Delhi Meet. She's not on >> the sign-up page from what I see and does not speak for the Delhi community. >> >> lol......so does that mean we are all competing for our cities, I didnt >> get that impression so far. >> >> Regards >> >> Salmaan >> >> >> On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 10:39 AM, Hari Prasad Nadig <hpnadig(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 9:45 AM, Barry Newstead <bnewstead(a)wikimedia.org >>> >>> >>>> So, I guess there is interest in where our office will be. She left >>>> out the following from the info I provided. Probably because it spoiled the >>>> theme of the story. ;-) >>>> >>>> 3 How good are Bangalore chances of being crowned wiki-capital in >>>>>> India? >>>>>> >>>>> We do not plan on having a "wiki-capital in India". We hope that >>>> every city and town will be a wiki-capital. >>>> >>>> >>>> http://www.mid-day.com/news/2010/sep/210910-Wikimedia-foundation-Bangalore-… >>>> >>> >>> :-) >>> >>> If Priyanka Prachad has been quoted right, I'll have to say it is rather >>> unfair to say that "Bangalore has tiny forums and Mumbai has none". >>> There are strong communities from out of Bangalore. Shouldn't need to add >>> that Mumbai has equally strong communities as well. >>> >>> There is diverse language community thriving on Internet from Bangalore. >>> >>> In fact, a community in the local language that I personally maintain ( >>> http://sampada.net) started in 2005 has had regular stream of increasing >>> users all these years. And there are strong communities like Praja ( >>> http://praja.in), Citizen Matters (citizenmatters.in), India Water >>> Portal (http://indiawaterportal.org/) and many more from Bangalore... >>> the list is huge. >>> -- >>> Hari Prasad Nadig >>> http://hpnadig.net | http://twitter.com/hpnadig >>> http://flickr.com/hpnadig >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wikimediaindia-l mailing list >>> Wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimediaindia-l mailing list >> Wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaindia-l mailing list > Wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l > >

Thank you Sir. On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 11:09 AM, CherianTinu Abraham &lt;tinucherian(a)gmail.com > All is well :) > Btw All the best for the Delhi Meetup tommorrow. > > Regards > Tinu Cherian > > On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 11:01 AM, theo10011 &lt;de10011(a)gmail.com> >> I understand that Tinu, I was laughing at that part. >> >> You guys have been so supportive that it never entered my mind, it was a >> compliment. >> >> Regards >> >> Salmaan >> >> >> On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 10:57 AM, CherianTinu Abraham < >> tinucherian(a)gmail.com>> >>> Salmanji, >>> Please don't take it personally either... we are not "competing" for the >>> cities.. :) >>> Do note that the journo is from a Bangalore edition newspaper, so >>> obviously will highlight the "Bangalore part". :) >>> The journo asked about what are the "chances" for Bangalore, I said my >>> personal opinions. She asked her "other contacts" in other cities too.. I >>> also stressed the fact that it is upto the Foundation to decide where this >>> has to be ( which wasn't mentioned in the article). >>> >>> What matters is not where the foundatation office is set up, what is >>> important is to grow the wiki-community and culture in every corner of the >>> country. >>> >>> Regards >>> Tinu Cherian >>> >>> >>> On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 10:43 AM, theo10011 &lt;de10011(a)gmail.com>>> >>>> I would suggest not to take it personally, I dont know who Priyanka >>>> Prachad is, I dont think shes even attending the Delhi Meet. She's not on >>>> the sign-up page from what I see and does not speak for the Delhi community. >>>> >>>> lol......so does that mean we are all competing for our cities, I didnt >>>> get that impression so far. >>>> >>>> Regards >>>> >>>> Salmaan >>>> >>>> >>>> On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 10:39 AM, Hari Prasad Nadig &lt;hpnadig(a)gmail.com&gt;wrote;wrote: >>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 9:45 AM, Barry Newstead < >>>>> bnewstead(a)wikimedia.org>>>>> >>>>>> So, I guess there is interest in where our office will be. She >>>>>> left out the following from the info I provided. Probably because it spoiled >>>>>> the theme of the story. ;-) >>>>>> >>>>>> 3 How good are Bangalore chances of being crowned wiki-capital in >>>>>>>> India? >>>>>>>> >>>>>>> We do not plan on having a "wiki-capital in India". We hope that >>>>>> every city and town will be a wiki-capital. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> http://www.mid-day.com/news/2010/sep/210910-Wikimedia-foundation-Bangalore-… >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> :-) >>>>> >>>>> If Priyanka Prachad has been quoted right, I'll have to say it is >>>>> rather unfair to say that "Bangalore has tiny forums and Mumbai has >>>>> none". There are strong communities from out of Bangalore. Shouldn't need to >>>>> add that Mumbai has equally strong communities as well. >>>>> >>>>> There is diverse language community thriving on Internet from >>>>> Bangalore. >>>>> >>>>> In fact, a community in the local language that I personally maintain ( >>>>> http://sampada.net) started in 2005 has had regular stream of >>>>> increasing users all these years. And there are strong communities >>>>> like Praja (http://praja.in), Citizen Matters (citizenmatters.in), >>>>> India Water Portal (http://indiawaterportal.org/) and many more from >>>>> Bangalore... the list is huge. >>>>> -- >>>>> Hari Prasad Nadig >>>>> http://hpnadig.net | http://twitter.com/hpnadig >>>>> http://flickr.com/hpnadig >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Wikimediaindia-l mailing list >>>>> Wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org >>>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Wikimediaindia-l mailing list >>>> Wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org >>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l >>>> >>>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wikimediaindia-l mailing list >>> Wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimediaindia-l mailing list >> Wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaindia-l mailing list > Wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l > >