The Executive committee of Wikimedia India has held an emergency teleconference on their official DSNL channel on 31 Aug 2014. As salient items on the agenda, the following topics were discussed and decided upon:

1. Earlier, Radhakrishna Arvapally, a senior chapter member and former Chair of Bangalore SIG, was co-opted by an emergency resolution. The resolution was passed unanimously. The resolution had also proposed another senior member. However, due to heavy personal engagements, the second nominee requested the EC to exempt from such considerations.

Radhakrishna was invited to the telecon and was officially welcomed to be part of the EC.

2. Jayanta Nath, a senior Wikipedian from Kolkata and EC member, was unanimously elected as the new President of the Wikimedia India Chapter. Also, Radhakrishna Arvapally and Viswanathan Prabhakaran were elected as the new Secretary and Treasurer of the chapter respectively.

3. Any decision about hiring is kept on hold for now. The current EC agreed together that the opinion of the new EC (emerging through the upcoming general elections) should also be taken on-board for a major decision like this, since they are the ones to deal with the newly hired candidate(s)for a longer term.

4. Another extra ordinary EC Telecon was scheduled to be conducted tentatively on 02 September 2014, 9.00 PM to take up other urgent matters pending for decisions.

This is for the general information for all chapter members and other interested stakeholders.

Thank You,

Jayanta Nath

President

Wikimedia India Chapter