[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Re: Your business card

[Achal Prabhala]

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Subject: 	Re: Your business card
Date: 	Fri, 10 Dec 2010 15:00:39 +0530
From: 	Kiruba @ Kiruba.com <kiruba at kiruba.com>
To: 	Bishakha Datta <bishakhadatta at gmail.com>
CC: 	Achal Prabhala <aprabhala at gmail.com>, 
wikimediaindia-l at lists.wikimedia.org, Barry Newstead 
<bnewstead at wikimedia.org>



Hi Bikasha and Achal,

These are set of old businesscards that was printed last year.

I ran out of my present bunch of cards and since I had to travel to 
Lavasa for the INK conference, I had to pick my old bunch of unused 
cards because my new cards got delayed from the printers.

I had consciously been striking out the position clearly on each of the 
cards ( attached are two photos of the entire bunch and a closeup of one 
such card) .  I'm sorry that the card that your friend got missed out. 
  If in doubt, you can check out with others (though your friend) that I 
consciously stuck it out.

I, in no way, want to create a confusion especially since our last 
conversation last year. I have been consciously been clear about my 
association (or the lack of) with Wikimedia India.


Regards,

Kiruba Shankar
CEO, Business Blogging Pvt Ltd
+91-98415 97744
Kiruba at Kiruba.com
http://twitter.com/kiruba




On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 12:45 PM, Bishakha Datta 
<bishakhadatta at gmail.com <mailto:bishakhadatta at gmail.com>> wrote:

    Kiruba,

    I'd like to suggest that you systematically and sincerely go through
    all such online and offline references and undo/amend them so that
    this is inaccuracy is not repeated time and again.

    The same issue has already come up many times this year - dealing
    with, monitoring or policing this is truly not a good use of
    anyone's time or energy in the wikipedia communities, the India
    chapter, or at the Foundation level.

    It would be most productive if you could do a rigorous and thorough
    clean up at your end and this matter could be closed once and for all.

    Bishakha




    On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 12:24 PM, Achal Prabhala
    <aprabhala at gmail.com <mailto:aprabhala at gmail.com>> wrote:

        Kiruba,

        A friend who is at the INK conference in Lavasa sent me this
        scan of your business card; a card that you handed out yesterday.

        Can you please explain to all of us why it says you are a
        "Director of Wikimedia India" when as you perfectly well know -
        and has been publicly documented - you have had nothing to do
        with the chapter formation in India for over a year? As you
        know, you were asked to leave the founding group because of your
        promotion of yourself as a Director of a non-existent entity; as
        you also know, Wikipedians in India were/are extremely annoyed
        by your false representation.

        I'm going to send out a short and clear message to
        WikimediaIndia-l on the subject of your association with us.
        Meanwhile, please understand that this is absolutely ridiculous
        - you are wasting our time, and have done so repeatedly in the past.

        Achal



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