I understand that Tinu, I was laughing at that part.
You guys have been so supportive that it never entered my mind, it was a
compliment.
Regards
Salmaan
On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 10:57 AM, CherianTinu Abraham <tinucherian(a)gmail.com
wrote:
> Salmanji,
> Please don't take it personally either... we are not "competing" for
the
> cities.. :)
> Do note that the journo is from a Bangalore edition newspaper, so obviously
> will highlight the "Bangalore part". :)
> The journo asked about what are the "chances" for Bangalore, I said my
> personal opinions. She asked her "other contacts" in other cities too.. I
> also stressed the fact that it is upto the Foundation to decide where this
> has to be ( which wasn't mentioned in the article).
>
> What matters is not where the foundatation office is set up, what is
> important is to grow the wiki-community and culture in every corner of the
> country.
>
> Regards
> Tinu Cherian
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 10:43 AM, theo10011 <de10011(a)gmail.com
wrote:
>
>> I would suggest not to take it personally, I dont know who Priyanka
>> Prachad is, I dont think shes even attending the Delhi Meet. She's not on
>> the sign-up page from what I see and does not speak for the Delhi community.
>>
>> lol......so does that mean we are all competing for our cities, I didnt
>> get that impression so far.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Salmaan
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 10:39 AM, Hari Prasad Nadig
<hpnadig(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 9:45 AM, Barry Newstead <bnewstead(a)wikimedia.org
>>>
wrote:
>>>
>>>> So, I guess there is interest in where our office will be. She left
>>>> out the following from the info I provided. Probably because it spoiled
the
>>>> theme of the story. ;-)
>>>>
>>>> 3 How good are Bangalore chances of being crowned wiki-capital in
>>>>>> India?
>>>>>>
>>>>> We do not plan on having a "wiki-capital in India". We
hope that
>>>> every city and town will be a wiki-capital.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
http://www.mid-day.com/news/2010/sep/210910-Wikimedia-foundation-Bangalore-…
>>>>
>>>
>>> :-)
>>>
>>> If Priyanka Prachad has been quoted right, I'll have to say it is rather
>>> unfair to say that "Bangalore has tiny forums and Mumbai has
none".
>>> There are strong communities from out of Bangalore. Shouldn't need to
add
>>> that Mumbai has equally strong communities as well.
>>>
>>> There is diverse language community thriving on Internet from Bangalore.
>>>
>>> In fact, a community in the local language that I personally maintain (
>>>
http://sampada.net) started in 2005 has had regular stream of increasing
>>> users all these years. And there are strong communities like Praja (
>>>
http://praja.in), Citizen Matters (citizenmatters.in), India Water
>>> Portal (
http://indiawaterportal.org/) and many more from Bangalore...
>>> the list is huge.
>>> --
>>> Hari Prasad Nadig
>>>
http://hpnadig.net |
http://twitter.com/hpnadig
>>>
http://flickr.com/hpnadig
>>>
>>>
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