Talk:India Community Consultation 2014/Archive 1

Venue choice

Two practical possibilities for the meeting venue seem to be Bangalore or Mumbai. Please indicate your preference below so we can make the arrangements that would be easiest for the greatest number of people. WMF is committed to bringing all delegates to whatever venue is preferred.

Bangalore

1. ViswaPrabha (വിശ്വപ്രഭ) (talk) 08:50, 21 August 2014 (UTC)
2. Niraj Suryawanshi
3. Joli (talk) 13:33, 22 August 2014 (UTC)
4. Pranabnlp (talk) 16:17, 22 August 2014 (UTC)
5. Ravi (talk) 17:45, 24 August 2014 (UTC)
6. Jayanta Nath -Jayantanth (talk) 04:22, 26 August 2014 (UTC)
7. విశ్వనాధ్.బి.కె. (talk) 13:19, 26 August 2014 (UTC)
8. AniVar (talk) 06:27, 27 August 2014 (UTC)
9. Adv.tksujith (talk) 01:02, 28 August 2014 (UTC)
10. Pavan santhosh.s (talk) 05:38, 29 August 2014 (UTC)
11. Pranayraj1985 (talk) 12:39, 30 August 2014 (UTC)
12. Shyamal (talk) 10:33, 6 September 2014 (UTC) (would actually prefer if this is done without a physical meeting)
13. Vikram Vincent
14. Sodabottle (talk) 01:10, 10 September 2014 (UTC)
15. --Visdaviva (talk) 06:17, 10 September 2014 (UTC)
16. Sundar (talk) 07:02, 10 September 2014 (UTC)
17. ‌Manojk (talk) 09:55, 10 September 2014 (UTC)
18. Rahmanuddin (talk) 17:12, 10 September 2014 (UTC)
19. Pavanaja (talk) 17:14, 10 September 2014 (UTC)
20. --Manuspanicker (talk) 04:40, 11 September 2014 (UTC)
21. Arunram (talk) 08:34, 12 September 2014 (UTC)

Mumbai

1. Niraj Suryawanshi
2. Dhaval^Talk
3. Suyogaerospace^Talk--17:43, 21 August 2014 (UTC)(problem with my login)
4. AbhiSuryawanshi (talk) 19:35, 22 August 2014 (UTC)
5. Abhinav Garule^Talk
6. Yohannvt (talk) 10:11, 23 August 2014 (UTC)
7. Subas Chandra Rout (talk) 09:25, 26 August 2014 (UTC)
8. Harish satpute (talk) 05:25, 27 August 2014 (UTC)
9. Shriamit1 (talk) 09:36, 27 August 2014 (UTC)
10. Kselvarani (talk) 09:40, 27 August 2014 (UTC)
11. Santoshgajre (talk) 10:15, 1 September 2014 (UTC)
12. Bantee (talk) 10:16, 1 September 2014 (UTC)
13. Sagar Markal (talk)
14. Sushant savla (talk) 14:25, 3 September 2014 (UTC)
15. Vikram Vincent
16. Kiran Eranki
17. Pradeep Mohandas
18. Visdaviva (talk) 17:10, 10 September 2014 (UTC)
19. Sankoswal (talk) 17:29, 10 September 2014 (UTC)
20. Nikhil Kawale (talk) 18:02, 10 September 2014 (UTC)

Decision

With the !votes practically tied, and the chapter EC expressing a preference for Bangalore, we will be hosting this event in Bangalore. Asaf Bartov (WMF Grants) talk 04:19, 12 September 2014 (UTC)

Delegates

Please start nominating (self-nomination is okay!) participants for this meeting, noting what communities the participants is active in. Let's aim at finalizing this list no later than September 10th. We will accept any community nominations, and will apply our best judgment regarding nominees not backed by community discussion.

Nominated Username	Active in...	Coming from (city)	Comments if any	link to relevant on-wiki or mailing list consultation/nomination
ViswaPrabha	ml,en,sa, outreach	Thrissur, Kerala	WMIN Treasurer	ml Wikipedia, WMIN delegate
Ramesh NG	ml	Bangalore		ml Wikipedia
Adv. TK Sujith	ml	Alappuzha, Kerala		ml Wikipedia
Shiju Alex	ml	Bangalore	Former WMF India Programs staff and Malayalam community veteran	ml Wikipedia
Netha Hussain	ml	Kozhikode, Kerala		ml Wikipedia
Kannan Shanmukham	ml	Kozhikode, Kerala		ml Wikipedia
Manu	ml	Kerala		ml Wikipedia
Erfan Ebrahim Sait	ml	Alappuzha, Kerala		ml Wikipedia
Manoj K	ml	Thrissur, Kerala	ml (Wikisource)	ml Wikisource
Hrishikesh.kb	ml	Kozhikode, Kerala	ml Wikisource	ml Wikisource
Anivar Aravind	en, ml wikisource ,commons	Bangalore		ml Wikisource
Jayanta Nath	bn	Kolkata	WMIN Board Member	WMIN delegate, also from Bengali Community
Dr. B. Ekbal	ml outreach	Kottayam	WMIN Board Member	WMIN delegate
Sowmyan Tirumurti	Chapter	Bangalore	WMIN Exec. Manager	WMIN delegate
Karthik Nadar	en	Mumbai	WMIN board member	WMIN delegate
Nikhil Kawle	en	Bangalore	WMIN Board Member	WMIN delegate
Nikita Belavate	mr, en, outreach	Mumbai	WMIN Board Member	WMIN delegate
Niraj Suryawanshi	mr	Pune, Maharashtra
Sumana Koundinya / Shubha	sa	Bangalore
Pavithrah and/ or Omshivaprakash	ka	Bangalore
Shyamal	en	Bangalore
Ashwin	en	Mumbai
Tinu Cheriyan Abraham	en	Bangalore	Former WMIN Board member
Arjunaraoc	en	Bangalore	Former WMIN president
Arun Ramaratnam	en	Bangalore	Former WMIN Board Member
Bisakha Datta	meta	Mumbai?	WMF Board Member
Bala	ta	Coimbatore	Former WMIN Board Member
Sudhanwa	mr	Pune	Former WMIN President	[Nomination on Mr Wiki
Suyogaerospace	en	Mumbai
Joli Rumi Borah	as	Bangalore
Pranab Jyoti Bhuyan	as	Bangalore
Ankita Sinha	wikibooks	Kolkata
Abhinav Garule	en	Pune	Self-nominated
Yohann Thomas	en	Pune
Dhaval S. Vyas	gu	London, UK	Community backed nomination	Majority of Community supports this name. Few others want to Join if more people are allowed, which I am listing below
Kartik Mistry	gu	Mumbai	Withdrawing due to uncetainity of avaibilty on Oct 4-5	Self-nomination on local wiki
Sushant savla	gu	Mumbai	Self-nomination on local wiki	Self-nomination on local wiki
Vihang	gu	Ahmedabad	Self-nomination on local wiki	Self-nomination on local wiki
Hari Prasad Nadig	kn	Bangalore
Ansuman	or	-
Pranav Curumsey	en	Mumbai
Srikanth Ramakrishnan	en	Bangalore	Former WMIN board member
Subas Chandra Rout	or	Bhubaneswar	Self-nominated
Abhishek Suryawanshi	mr/hi	Pune	VP WMNYC	[Nomination on Mr Wiki
Shantanu Mahajan	mr wikisource	Pune	Admin mr Wikisource
Abhay Natu	mr wikipedia	Colorado Springs, CO	Admin, 'crat - mr Wikipedia	Most active editor+cleanup guy, Discussion initiated
Ahmed Nisar	te	Pune	Community nominated	Community consultation on Telugu Wikipedia
Viswanadh B.K.	te	West Godavari	Community nominated	Community consultation on Telugu Wikipedia
Pavan Santhosh Surampudi	te	Hyderabad	Community nominated as IEGrantee	Community consultation on Telugu Wikipedia
Pranayraj Vangari	te	Hyderabad	Nominated by Pavan Santhosh Surampudi
Vikram Vincent	en	Bangalore, Mumbai	on behalf of FSMK, FSMM, FSMI	discussion on core group mailing lists
Kiran Eranki	en,te	Hyderabad, Mumbai	FSMM
Sanket Oswal	en	Pune
Ravishankar Ayyakkannu (Ravidreams)	ta	Coimbatore	Tamil Wikipedia community nominated	Nomination approved in local village pump
BalaSundaraRaman Lakshmanan (Sundar)	ta, en	Bangalore	Tamil Wikipedia community nominated, Founding WMIN board member	Nomination approved in local village pump. Attendance subject to availability. Bangalore resident not needing lodging or travel help.
Bala Jeyaraman (Sodabottle)	ta, en	Chennai	Tamil Wikipedia community nominated, Former WMIN board member	Nomination approved in local village pump
Sibi Kanagaraj	ta, gender gap outreach	Chennai	Secretary, Free Software Foundation, Tamilnadu	Revised nomination approved in local village pump
C. R. Selvakumar	ta	Chennai	Professor, University of Waterloo, Canada	Revised nomination approved in local village pump
T. Shrinivasan	ta, commons, mediawiki	Chennai	President, Chennai Linux user group;Founder, FreeTamilEbooks.com
Rahimanuddin Shaik	te	Bangalore	Program Officer, CIS-A2K
U.B. Pavanaja	kn	Bangalore	Program Manager, CIS-A2K
T. Vishnu Vardhan	te, meta, en	Bangalore	Program Director, CIS-A2K
Sunil Abraham	--	Bangalore	Executive Director, CIS
Satdeep Gill	pa	Patiala	Administrator on Punjabi Wiki	Self Nomination

Hi Ankita Sinha, I think every things is fine. Are you represent whole wikibooks community of all language or only english wikibook? as per global user contributions , I can find 57 edits in English Wikibook as your contribution, no other wikibooks. I think, it is better for you to represent English WikiBook. And also I would request to you please follow the India Community Consultation 2014#How will those delegates be selected and discuss on-wiki as per requested. Thank you.Jayantanth (talk) 22:54, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

Anivar? Again this poser? [1] :-(--Praveen:talk 08:26, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

I have given my word to my family that I will join them for the European trip during Eid-ul-adha. We have scheduled the trip from 3-8 October. I will not be able to attend the community consultation as I will be holidaying with my family during that time. I am interested in knowing the key points of discussion and the conclusions drawn. I strongly suggest that a summary of the discussion be posted on meta and all Indic mailing lists for the benefit of users like me who cannot make it in person to the event. All the best for the community consultation and I hope that everybody have a productive discussion. I will be delighted to provide any feedback/comment over mail or on-wiki if that is needed. --Netha Hussain (talk) 18:01, 12 September 2014 (UTC)