WMF India Visit Feb 2014

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This page describes the agenda for a visit by Wikimedia Foundation staff and volunteers to Bangalore, India, between Feb 10th and Feb 16th, 2014

The group[edit]

  1. Garfield Byrd (WMF's Chief of Finance and Administration)
  2. Anasuya Sengupta (WMF's Senior Director of Grantmaking)
  3. Sydney Poore (volunteer member of the Funds Dissemination Committee FDC)
  4. Bishakha Datta (WMF trustee) - only on 15,16 Feb

Context and Purpose[edit]

WMF staff have been visiting partner organizations and communities over the past few months, to learn more about their context, achievements and challenges. More recently, FDC members have been joining them in this effort. Currently, WMF staff and FDC members are visiting Germany.

One purpose of this visit is to conduct working meetings with the Foundation's two major partners and grantees in India: the Wikimedia India (WMIN) chapter and the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS), operating the Access To Knowledge (A2K) programme.

Additionally, we would like to meet as many Wikimedians as we can, via a community meetup in Bangalore, and to make ourselves available over digital channels (at least taking advantage of being in the same timezone) to community members across India, via open group discussions over IRC. We are also open to discussion with any interested smaller groups or individuals, over Skype, Hangout, or telephone, time permitting.

See the agenda below, and please feel free to sign up for the meetup or the conversations, and to raise topics you would like to see addressed, on the talk page.

We greatly regret that logistical issues are preventing us from visiting other communities in person this time around, and from attending the Telugu community's 10th anniversary celebrations in Vijayawada.

Agenda[edit]

Tuesday, Feb 11th[edit]

  • Meetings with CIS-A2K team
  • no IRC session this evening

Wednesday, Feb 12th[edit]

  • Meetings with CIS-A2K team
  • open IRC session in evening: 8-9pm (channel #wikimedia-in)

Thursday, Feb 13th[edit]

  • no IRC session this evening

Friday, Feb 14th[edit]

  • open IRC session in evening: 8-9pm (channel #wikimedia-in)

Saturday, Feb 15th[edit]

  • meetings with Wikimedia India Executive Committee
  • joint working sessions with WMIN EC and CIS-A2K team
  • Bangalore meet-up! 5pm at TERI - The Energy and Resource Institute (close to CIS) - 4th Main Rd, Domlur II Stage, Domlur, Bangalore, Karnataka 560008.
  • IRC session at 8pm (#wikimedia-in)

Sunday, Feb 16th[edit]

  • joint working sessions with WMIN EC and CIS-A2K team continued if necessary
  • Meetings with WMIN EC

Bangalore community meetup[edit]

5pm Saturday 15 February 2014. At TERI (The Energy and Research Institute), 4th Main Rd, Domlur II Stage, Domlur, Bangalore, Karnataka 560008.

Interested in attending[edit]

  1. Hari Prasad Nadig
  2. Sanket Oswal
  3. Shyamal
  4. Yohann Thomas
  5. Niraj Suryawanshi
  6. Jeph Paul
  7. Arunram (talk)
  8. Manjunath (talk)
  9. ViswaPrabha (വിശ്വപ്രഭ) (talk) 18:17, 12 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  10. Kiran Ravikumar
  11. Subhashish Panigrahi