Dear Nabij ji,

Looking forward for your confirmation on time and venue for the meeting today? Can others also join us face to face meeting? Otherwise it seems that its just me and Saroj for today' meeting
Regards

Hempal Shrestha

On Jan 16, 2015 8:33 PM, "Mahalaxmi Silwal" <malulaxmi7@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear all
I will try to be present  online . All are doing good . 
anyway, good luck .
regards
Mahalaxmi Silwal.

On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 6:41 AM, Krish Dulal <krish.dulal@gmail.com> wrote:
I will be present in Meta page. Good luck to all.
Krish

Sound good to me . what about New Baneswor Area ? 2 PM ?

Thanks,
Saroj


On Fri, Jan 16, 2015, 16:34 Hempal Shrestha <hempalshrestha@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear Nabin ji, 

Sure, tomorrow Saturday will be fine with me. How are others placed for tomorrow. Can other working committee members also join us for the meeting? 

If so, can we meet for an hour or two in the second half. Say after 1:30 PM. Any area in the ktm downtown (durbar marg or so) of the city would be great for me. If preferred we can have a meeting in my office in Putalisadak area as well. Do suggest about suitability and timing. If needed please call me or text me at my number 9851077031. Also, can you please share your contact number as well. 

With kind regards, 

Hempal Shrestha
G.P.O Box: 5501
1753 Ramshah Path, Near Nepal Share Market, 
Putalisadak, Kathmandu, Nepal

On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 4:00 PM, Ganesh Paudel <gpaudel@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear All,
In person meeting is good idea. But I am a bit sick with flu due to cold. I don't seem to be able to meet for Saturday.

Let's start writing on Meta page and discussion will kicks off.

Regards
Ganesh

On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 10:17 PM, Nabin Sapkota <nboycreationnepal@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi All,


Thanks for the confirmation Hemal ji. With respect to the re-allocation of the grant budget for the aforementioned two initiatives and others , I strongly support the idea to have a face-to-face meeting before writing up in meta page.


I would like to suggest coming Saturday afternoon for meet-up anywhere in Kathmandu.


Best Regards,

Nabin Sapkota

Coordinator, Wiki Loves Earth 2014, Nepal




On 14 January 2015 at 12:32, Hempal Shrestha <hempalshrestha@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear Alex and Team,

Thanks for clearing the confusion. So, now we can move ahead with planning for the final re-allocation for the above two initiatives. Nabin ji, Ganesh ji, can you please add the planned writeup in the re-allocation meta page for review and approval by the WMF.

Also, is there any other important activities that might we can conclude within the re-allocation budget? If so, please suggest. 

Further, can we have a face-to-face meeting as well soon to final out the details for completion of the re-allocation. I would request confirm participation of At-least the Initiative lead and the working comittee team members for this meeting. Please suggest, what time, date and venue will be best suited for all.

With kind regards, 

Hempal Shrestha
G.P.O Box: 5501
1753 Ramshah Path, Near Nepal Share Market, 
Putalisadak, Kathmandu, Nepal

On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 1:20 AM, Alex Wang <awang@wikimedia.org> wrote:
Hi Hempal,

Sorry, I'm still not sure if the question is directed at me or your team?

Please note that I will be on vacation January 1-11th. If you would like me to review and approve a reallocation request before then, please post it on the discussion page of the grant. Otherwise, we can discuss it when I am back.

Cheers,

Alex

On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 12:49 AM, Hempal Shrestha <hempalshrestha@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear Alex, 

Thanks. Regarding confusion, I wanted to be clear along with the community beforehand for planning and implementing the award program. 

As updated, the current status of the WLE 2014 and WLM 2014 competition is completed. We have already published the final 10 winners from both the competition. 

And in this stage, I want to seek input in advance if there exist any inconsistency (if any) with the WMF grants re-allocation process for rewarding the winners who have already been selected and now being planned for their reward under this new re-allocation process? Just don't want that this question arises in the later stage of program implementation. 

With kind regards

Hempal Shrestha 

With kind regards, 

Hempal Shrestha
FOSS Solutions : A Knowledge Collaboration Enterprise
G.P.O Box: 5501
1753 Ramshah Path, Near Nepal Share Market, 
Putalisadak, Kathmandu, Nepal

On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 11:26 PM, Alex Wang <awang@wikimedia.org> wrote:
Hi Hempal,

Thanks for the info. Please let me know what the confusion is so I can help clarify.

Cheers,

Alex

On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 3:54 AM, Hempal Shrestha <hempalshrestha@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear Ganesh ji, Nabin ji, Alex, 

Thanks for your both suggestion for possible re-allocation of the remaining funds from our last program on Wikipedia Expansion Program in Nepal. 

1. Ganesh ji, Outreach activities to the other cities (outside of Kathmandu Valley) would be a good initiative. But for that we will need to have commitment of atleast 3-4 Nepali Wikipedians in advance for the Wiki Travel outside Kathmandu valley for the entire duration. Do we have tentative lead and team members who will be ready to travel to other cities for the Wiki-Travel? 

2. Nabin ji, Awarding the Winners for WLE 2014 and WLM 2014 is indeed a good practice to continue with. As you remember the last year's WLM was coordinated by Saroj ji and Mahalaxam ji and the winners of WLM 2013 were also rewarded   (Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2013_in_Nepal) as per the budgeted reward amount incorporated in the expansion project in advance.  

The current situation of both the WLE 2014 and WLM 2014 competition are completed and closed. The submission of photos by the users is over for both the competition in their due time.  Selection and declaration of the top 10 winning contributors for both WLE 2014 and WLM 2014 has also been made. Now, we are in the process of felicitating the winners of both the competition. And hence we are looking forward for possible re-allocation of the remaining funds for rewarding these winners.  

Here, I have a little confusion about any constraints in the process (if any) regarding budgeting for the fund for rewarding the winners who are already selected and declared. Hence, I would seek more clarity and suggestion from Alex and fellow Wikipedians. Once we have more clarity on this constraints, we can confidently move ahead with rewarding the winners of WLE 2014 and WLM 2014 as we concluded for WLM 2013 winners. 

Nabin ji, I have followed following links to verify above information, please correct me if there are some more information to add to it.

Information for WLE 2014:

Information for WLM 2014:

With kind regards

Hempal Shrestha 

With kind regards, 

Hempal Shrestha
FOSS Solutions : A Knowledge Collaboration Enterprise
G.P.O Box: 5501
1753 Ramshah Path, Near Nepal Share Market, 
Putalisadak, Kathmandu, Nepal

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