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Dear Wikimedians,<br>
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This e-mail is to take your suggestions about the below proposal.<br>
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As some of you may know that Swatantra 2014 (5th International Free
Software Conference, Kerala) is being held in Trivandrum during
December 18-20, 2014. More details can be found at this link <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://icfoss.in/fs2014.html">http://icfoss.in/fs2014.html</a>.
Organized by ICFOSS (GoK) this event is set to attract hundreds of
Free Software enthusiasts. CIS is one of the supporters of this
conference.<br>
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There is a dedicated track for Wikipedia/Wikimedia during the
conference. We are also planning to set up a Wikimedia stall at the
event. We are hoping to have ML Wikimedians take lead on this.<br>
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We are considering to give travel and stay scholarships for select
Wikimedians from across India, who are interested to participate in
this event and benefit from it. This will also be a great
opportunity to meet and interact with Malayalam Wikimedia community.
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CIS-A2K is considering to support upto 2 Wikimedians from each
language community. Interested Wikimedians will be asked to put up a
request, along with a statement of purpose, in their respective
Wikimedia Village pumps and will request the community members to
second them. Based on the community response CIS-A2K will decide on
providing travel and stay scholarships. CIS-A2K will support this as
part of its Community Strengthening Initiatives [1]
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Please let us know your suggestions on the above process and share
your inputs on how we could do this in a better manner. We would
like to put out a call by November 10. We will be open to receiving
your feedback until November 7, 2014.<br>
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You could also leave your feedback on Meta here [2]<br>
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Best wishes,
<br>
Vishnu
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[1] <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Draft_Work_plan_July_2014_-_June_2015#Community_Strengthening_Initiatives">https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Draft_Work_plan_July_2014_-_June_2015#Community_Strengthening_Initiatives</a><br>
[2] <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://bit.ly/1tBuWpT">http://bit.ly/1tBuWpT</a><br>
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