[Wikiml-l] Wikiml-l Digest, Vol 35, Issue 59

Sunil Prabhakar sunilparavur at gmail.com
Fri Jul 29 08:00:47 UTC 2011 

Congrats Shiju,
Regards
Sunil

On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 1:10 PM, <wikiml-l-request at lists.wikimedia.org>wrote:

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>   1. Re: Fwd: [Wikimedia-in-blr] Welcome to the India Team! :
>      Shiju & Nitika (Anoop)
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> From: Anoop <anoop.ind at gmail.com>
> To: Malayalam Wikimedia Project Mailing list <wikiml-l at lists.wikimedia.org
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> Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2011 13:10:33 +0530
> Subject: Re: [Wikiml-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia-in-blr] Welcome to the India Team!
> : Shiju & Nitika
> ഷിജുവിനും നിതികക്കും ഹാർദ്ദവമായ അഭിനന്ദനങ്ങൾ.
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> On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 1:05 PM, jagadeesh puthukkudi <
> p.jagadeesh11 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> *Congrats shiju.
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>> On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 1:00 PM, Niraksharan ManojRavindran <
>> manojravindran at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> അഭിനന്ദനങ്ങൾ ഷിജൂ
>>>
>>>   On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 11:28 AM, Sreejith K. <sreejithk2000 at gmail.com
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Congrats Shiju.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>>> From: Hisham Mundol <hmundol at wikimedia.org>
>>>> Date: 29 July 2011 12:44
>>>> Subject: [Wikimedia-in-blr] Welcome to the India Team! : Shiju & Nitika
>>>> To: wikimedia-in-blr at lists.wikimedia.org,
>>>> wikimedia-in-chn at lists.wikimedia.org,
>>>> wikimedia-in-del at lists.wikimedia.org,
>>>> wikimedia-in-hyd at lists.wikimedia.org,
>>>> wikimedia-in-mum at lists.wikimedia.org
>>>> Cc: Nitika Tandon <nitika.tandon at gmail.com>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>  cross-posting pan India (apologies if you got/get this through other
>>>> mailing lists.)
>>>>
>>>> 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,
>>>> *
>>>> *
>>>>                *Hisham Mundol*
>>>> *
>>>> *
>>>> ***
>>>>
>>>> Wikimedia <http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home>
>>>>
>>>>  India Programs<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_-_India_Programs>
>>>> *
>>>> *
>>>>
>>>> skype : hisham.wikimedia
>>>>  gtalk : hmundol at wikimedia.org
>>>> **
>>>> twitter : @mundol
>>>> *
>>>>
>>>> *Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share
>>>> in the sum of all knowledge.  Help us make it a reality!*
>>>>
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>> Best Regards,
>> jagadeesh puthukkudi
>> Software Engineer
>> Pioneer Sys
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