On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 7:40 PM, Anivar Aravind anivar.aravind@gmail.comwrote:

Dear Noopur

I request you to not send documents encoded in secret proprietary format. If you want me to read the attached document, please resend it in a free document standard such as txt, html, odf, rtf, pdf in that order of preference.

Anivar, here you go: https://textb.org/t/j2q5o68fc7/

I do not have MS Office either, but gmail helpfully allows one to view the document online and so could help you out.

We just passed celebrating Document freedom Day (http://www.documentfreedom.org/ ) As a known endorser of Open standards and FOSS , I hope CIS will assure all its employees will follow the same principles.

polluted digital environment with secret, private and proprietary digital documents and force other people to live in a dangerous ecosystem. I request you to please resend it in a free document format . Thank you for understanding. Join us in the campaign to create a humane digital society.

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html

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Dear Anivar,

I apologize profusely for sending a doc file. Usually, as in the past, I always send the entire newsletter in the mail. However, this time due to some miscommunication I assumed I had to send across an attachment. I am, of course, fully aware of the problems with sending attachments and that too, non-free formats.

Will be more careful in the future and am sending across the content as text in e-mail itself.

Thanks for pointing it out.

Best,

Noopur

On Mon, 15 Apr 2013 20:20:40 +0530, Anivar Aravind wrote:

Thanks Arun,

But my emphasis was on organisational policy on newsletter format

Anivar

Dear Anivar, Noopur and the Wikipedia Community,

We are extremely sorry for sending a Word attachment. We will send this out as e-mail as we usually do, and additionally provide you a link of the newsletter uploaded on our website. Apologies once again for this mistake.

The newsletter can now also be accessed on our website (http://bit.ly/Zw6R0h).

Thanks, Prasad ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dear All,

Wikimedia Foundation, beginning from September 1, 2012, awarded the Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) a two-year grant of INR 26,000,000 to support and develop free knowledge in India. Consequently, Wikimedia Foundation’s India Program became the Access to Knowledge (A2K) program of CIS. In the third issue of our newsletter for 2013, we are pleased to bring you updates from the Indic Wikipedia Visualisation project, reports of events organised in Goa, and press coverage of the Kannada Wikipedia Workshop held in Mysore.

The A2K team consists of four members based in Delhi: T. Vishnu Vardhan, Nitika Tandon, Subhashish Panigrahi and Noopur Raval, and one member Dr. U.B. Pavanaja who is working from Bangalore office. Archives of our newsletters are here.

Wikipedians from various communities can request for outreach programs, technical bugs, logistics-merchandize and media, public relations and communications at http://bit.ly/TOcXId.

# Indic Wikipedia Visualisation Project

* Visualising Basic Parameters http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/indic-wikipedia-visualisation-project-visualising-basic-parameters (by Sajjad Anwar and Sumandro Chattapadhyay, March 26, 2013): Sajjad and Sumandro bring you a visualisation of the growth of Indic Wikipedia in this first post on Indic Wikipedia Visualisation project.

# Events Organised

* Introductory Wikipedia session at BITS Goa http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/wikipedia-session-at-bits-goa (organised by CIS, Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani, Goa, March 7, 2013). The Access to Knowledge team was invited by Nikhil Dixit from BITS to organise a Wikipedia editing session. Nitika Tandon led the editing session. * Kannada Wikipedia Workshop http://cis-india.org/openness/events/kannada-wikipedia-workshop (organised by CIS, Institution of Engineers, JLB Road, Mysore, March 24, 2013). Dr. U.B. Pavanaja led the event.

# Events Co-organised

* Wiki Women's Day in Goa http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/wiki-womens-day-in-goa (organised by the Wikimedia India Chapter and CIS, Nirmala Institute of Education, Panaji, Goa, March 8, 2013). Nitika Tandon participated in this workshop held on International Working Women's Day, and shares the developments in this report. * Wikipedia Workshop for Kannada Science Writers http://cis-india.org/openness/events/wikipedia-workshop-for-kannada-science-writers (organised by Wikimedia Chapter India, Karnataka Rajya Vijnana Parishath and CIS, Karnataka Rajya Vijnana Parishath Conference Hall, Banashankari 2nd Stage, Bangalore, March 17, 2013). Dr. U.B. Pavanaja participated in the event.

# Upcoming Event (Co-organised)

* Telugu Wiki Mahotsavam 2013 http://cis-india.org/openness/events/telegu-wiki-mahotsavam-2013 (co-organised with the Telegu Wikipedia community, Hyderabad, April 9 to 11, 2013). Vishnu Vardhan is participating in this event as a speaker. A public event will be held on April 11 from 5.00 p.m. to 8.00 p.m. at Golden Threshold (Sarojini Naidu's house) in Hyderabad.

# Events Participated In

* Wikipedia Women's Workshop Bangalore 2013 http://cis-india.org/news/wikipedia-womens-workshop-bangalore-2013 (organised by Wikimedia India, Servelots Infotech, Jayanagar, Bangalore, March 8, 2013). The event was covered by Kannada Prabha http://cis-india.org/news/wikipedia-womens-workshop-bangalore-2013 on March 9, 2013. Dr. U.B. Pavanaja participated in the event. * Wikipedia at Avenir http://cis-india.org/news/wikipedia-at-avenir (organised by the Wikipedia community, Netaji Subhash Engineering College, Kolkata, West Bengal, March 11, 2013). Dr. T. Vishnu Vardhan participated in this event.

# Event Report from Other Organisations

Wikipedia Community members helped the Higher Education Innovation and Research Applications Programme (HEIRA) of CSCS Bangalore organize a day-long workshop on ‘Digital Literacy’ at Ahmednagar College, Ahmednagar, Maharasthra on January 17, 2013. Tanveer Hasan of HEIRA shares with us the developments in this report http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/ahmednagar-marathi-wikipedia-workshop-report.

# Media Coverage

* Kannada Wikipedia Workshop, Mysore http://cis-india.org/news/kannada-wikipedia-workshop-report-in-prajavani (Prajavani, March 25, 2013).

*About CIS http://cis-india.org/about/newsletters/* CIS was registered as a society in Bangalore in 2008. As an independent, non-profit research organisation, it runs different policy research programmes such as Accessibility, Access to Knowledge, Openness, Internet Governance, and Telecom. The policy research programmes have resulted in outputs such as the e-Accessibility Policy Handbook for Persons with Disabilities http://cis-india.org/about/advocacy/accessibility/blog/e-accessibility-handbook with ITU and G3ict, and Digital Alternatives with a Cause? http://cis-india.org/about/digital-natives/front-page/blog/dnbook, Thinkathon Position Papers http://cis-india.org/about/digital-natives/front-page/blog/position-papers and the Digital Natives with a Cause? Report http://cis-india.org/about/digital-natives/front-page/blog/digital-natives-with-a-cause-a-report with Hivos, etc. We have conducted policy research for the Ministry of Communications & Information Technology, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, etc., on WIPO Treaties http://cis-india.org/about/a2k/blog/cis-analysis-july2011-treaty-print-disabilities, Copyright Bill http://cis-india.org/about/a2k/blog/analysis-copyright-amendment-bill-2012, NIA Bill http://cis-india.org/about/internet-governance/front-page/blog/cis-feedback-to-nia-bill, etc.

CIS is accredited as an observer at WIPO. CIS staff participates in the Standing Committee for Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) meetings regularly held in Geneva, and participate in the discussions and comments on them from a public interest perspective. Our Policy Director, Nirmita Narasimhan won the National Award for Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities http://cis-india.org/about/accessibility/blog/national-award from the Government of India and also received the NIVH Excellence Award http://cis-india.org/about/news/nirmita-nivh-award.

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Thanks Prasad

On 15-04-2013 19:40, Anivar Aravind wrote:

Dear Noopur

I request you to not send documents encoded in secret proprietary format. If you want me to read the attached document, please resend it in a free document standard such as txt, html, odf, rtf, pdf in that order of preference. We just passed celebrating Document freedom Day (http://www.documentfreedom.org/ ) As a known endorser of Open standards and FOSS , I hope CIS will assure all its employees will follow the same principles.

polluted digital environment with secret, private and proprietary digital documents and force other people to live in a dangerous ecosystem. I request you to please resend it in a free document format . Thank you for understanding. Join us in the campaign to create a humane digital society.

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html

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