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On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 11:28 AM, Sreejith K. <sreejithk2000(a)gmail.com
Congrats Shiju.
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From: Hisham Mundol <hmundol(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: 29 July 2011 12:44
Subject: [Wikimedia-in-blr] Welcome to the India Team! : Shiju & Nitika
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Hi Folks,
I'm really pleased to send out this email welcoming the first 2 new
members of the India Programs team. Just before I introduce them, I thought
I'd share with you the background of their selection.
*Context*
As you might be aware, the Foundation had decided to undertake a
catalyst operation in India to promote the growth of the community and
projects here. The team is expected to be a small, nimble 5 person group.
We had put out 2 job postings - for Indic Initiatives and for
Participation. (Please refer:
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2011-May/003007.html)
We posted them on linkedin and on the Indian FOSS community list as
well as announcing them on various Facebook pages and Twitter feeds.
The response was wonderful. >110 applications for Indic Initiatives and
nearly 175 applications for Participation. These were short-listed to 10 (3
for Indic Language and 7 for Participation.) These were a mix of existing &
previous Wikipedians, Wikipedia newbies and open source advocates.
In June, the shortlisted 10 were interviewed and further down-selected
to 4. These 4 were then further interviewed by a group of other staff
members from the Foundation. I am pleased to inform the community of the
final selected 2.
*Shiju Alex - Indic Initiatives*
Most of you already know Shiju. For those who don't, Shiju is a
long-time Wikipedian [User: shijualex] and is active on Malayalam Wikipedia,
English wikiprojects and Wikimedia Commons, as well as Wikisource and
offline. He has been passionately involved with the establishing and
building of Indic language Wikipedias. He's participated in a series of
outreach activities and is also (jointly) undertaking a grant from the
Foundation for outreach across India. He's a regular member of the
Bangalore community.
Shiju is from Palakkad, Kerala and is married with a 2 year old baby.
He currently works as a Senior Technical Writer with ABB in Bangalore.
Even those of you who know him might not know the following 2 things
that I was lucky to discover during the selection process. Shiju is an MSc
in Physics with a specialisation in Astronomy and Astrophysics - and he
retains a deep interest in anything astronomical. Feel free to quiz him
vigorously on this! He also enjoys trekking and misses his time in Pune
where he could be up & close the gorgeous Sahyadri Hills.
Shiju is going to lead our work on promoting Indic language projects
across India. The challenges are enormous - from technical constraints to
low levels of awareness of these projects to vibrant but nascent
communities. However, these only point to the massive size of the
opportunity for Indic language projects - which is the joint top-2 strategic
priority of the movement in India. After he joins, he'll collaboratively
put together a plan for Indic language projects and work towards quality
execution of high-impact initiatives.
Shiju is currently serving out his notice period so will be able to join
us only around September - October.
*Nitika Tandon - Participation*
Nitika [User:nitika.t] is relatively newer to the community - and has
been brushing up her editing. She's been immersing herself in the Wikimedia
world and attended community meet-ups as well as reviews of the Wikipedia
India Education Program. She is from Delhi - and is currently based in
Mumbai - where she works as a Strategic Partnerships Manager with Directi.
(If you're not aware, they are one of the most prominent internet domain &
solutions providers in India.)
Nitika has an MBA and has also worked on research analytics. A
fascinating detail I discovered about a previous assignment of hers - and
you must ask her about it - is how African drums can be used for management
coaching! She also reliably informs me that there are 7 Spanish dance forms
and she instructs in all of them!
Nitika is going to be working on Participation - which is primarily
focussed on increasing the contributor base of non-Indic language projects,
primarily Wikipedia. One of her first tasks will be to expand the
Wikipedia India Education Program from the Pune pilot to a more national
footprint. She'll also work on other initiatives to promote participation -
and I can foresee Wikimedia Commons being a potential initiative.
Nitika will join us on August 1st.
*Introductions*
I'm going to be scheduling the August Monthly India Programs IRC on
Thursday August 18th to introduce them both to you. Please do join us.
I'll send a reminder closer to the date. Also, needless to say,
they'll be attending a series of community meet-ups over the next months.
In the meantime, please do join me in welcoming them onboard. I'm really
excited because this means that we will now have the capacity and capability
to dramatically accelerate our activities in India.
Warmest Regards,
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