The breakdown budget of the grants usage is explained in the same link. The
grant is approved as of now and pending payment.
Regards
Tinu Cherian
On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 9:14 AM, Hari Prasad Nadig <hpnadig(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
I contributed to the Kannada section of the newsletter
last time and going
by my experience It'd be nice if more people from the community are involved
in this effort. Rather than 'recruiting' or handpicking people to do this,
it'd be nice if the effort happens on a wiki (wikimedia.in perhaps?) and
is opened up to the entire community for editing. Given that the nature of
contribution by editors to the wiki is dependent on their free time, no
editor is 'active' all the time.
And looks like this is being funded now:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:WM_IN/Wiki_Community_development_in_I…
I see that *Tinu* and *Shiju* as the contact persons for this grant. Going
by the grants page, $8000 has been set aside?
On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 6:58 AM, Shiju Alex <shijualexonline(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
Dear All,
As all of you know, the first edition of the *Wikimedia India Community
Newsletter*<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_India_Commu…
released by Barry Newstead on 2010 September.
The wikimedians associated with the Newsletter know that much effort had
put behind to bring out the first edition. We all are happy to see that the
newsletter is well received by Wikimedians across the world. There were many
obstacles faced while we were working on the first edition. But the
community was able to overcome all these and bring out the first edition.
There are many lessons learned during this process.
Now almost 3 months had passed after we released the first edition. It is
important that this initiative needs to be carried forward. In the past 2
months many people have asked me about the second edition of the Newsletter.
Even though I voluntarily coordinated the various activities for the first
edition, I am no longer in a position to continue that for the future
editions. It is better to *form a team* *of active Indian Wikimedians* to
coordinate the various activities of the Wikimedia India Newsletter.
I request the help and support from different Indian language wiki
communities to take this initiative forward. The idea is to* form a team
with 2 or 3 active users from each language community* and coordinate the
activities for the Wikimedia India Newletter. *Srikanth Lakshmanan* has
informed me that he will help me to form the initial setup. Once the initial
setup is formed the complete responsibility of the Newsletter rest with this
Newsletter team.
*Eligibility:* The only criteria that needs to be fulfilled to be part of
this initiative is, * the person must be an active wikimedian* in any of
the Indian language wiki community. The person needs to be part of the
language community and should be able to coordinate with the respective
language community to prepare content for the Newsletter. The respective
language community can decide which active users can be part of the
Newsletter team.
Please send a mail to me (shijualexonline(a)gmail.com) and Srikanth (
srik.lak(a)gmail.com) so that we can take this forward.
Thanks
Shiju Alex
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