South Asia Open Community Call

South Asia Open Community Call
Dates	TBA
Call Time	6 pm to 7 pm, IST
Google Meeeting link	https://meet.google.com/ffs-izis-bow
Etherpad	Etherpad Link

About

The Open Community Calls (OCC) is an online space to share activities like Edit-a-thons, Workshops, and meetups (especially updates related to WikiConference India 2023) with a wider community audience who are contributing to Indic Wikimedia projects and beyond. This is a monthly call where communities come together. Everyone is welcome to participate, share their community activities, and ask questions in the moderated discussions.

• Any community member who is contributing to Wikimedia projects in the Indic language and beyond can join these calls.
• These are monthly calls which will be scheduled every month on a Sunday.
• Please click on this public link and add the Open Community Call calendar to get meeting invitation directly to your calendar, so that you don't miss out on any calls.
• To share your ideas/suggestions/thoughts with the organizers of OCC, you are free to use the talk page.
• Alternatively, you can join the Telegram group for the same

Agenda Proposals

Please add your suggestion/submission for the agenda along with the Presenter's name and the expected duration.

1. TBD
2. TBD
3. TBD

Moderator Sign-up

Interested in moderating one of the Open Community Calls? Sign up below by adding your username. You can also reach out to us at contactwikiconferenceindia.org

1. Aafi
2. Soni
3. TBD

Details of the upcoming meeting

The next Open Community Call is on 24 November 2024.

24 November 2024

Moderator: Soni

• Agenda:

• Opening/Ice Breaker
• Committee Appointment: Ramzy (WMF)
• Best practices around content quality: Selva (Tamil)
• WCI Updates
• Learning Hours: Nivas (CIS-A2K)
• Community Updates -
  • Story of Tulu Wikisource: Kavitha G. Kana
  • Punjabi Community Meet-up: Jassu Gill
  • Wiki Loves Birds India 2024 – Irvin Sabastian/Manoj K
  • Documentation of Tuluvas Aati Month – Bharathesha Alasandemajalu
  • Video Documentation of Onam events in Wikimedia Commons
  • Wiki Conferene Kerala 2024 - Ranjithsiji

• Etherpad Link: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/South_Asia_Community_Call
• Meeting details:

• Date: 24 November 2024
• Timings: 1800 to 1900 [6 – 7 pm] (IST or UTC+0530)
• Meeting Link: https://meet.google.com/ffs-izis-bow

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Previous meetings

27 October 2024

Moderator: Santhosh Notagar

• Agenda:

• Opening/Ice Breaker: 5 mins
• India Rapid Project: 10 mins (Jaqueline Chen, WMF)
• WCI 2025 Updates: 10 mins (Santhosh)
• TTT Update: 10 mins (To be confirmed*) TTT experience stories- From different participants
• Community Updates
  • WTS Update – Kasyap
  • Tamil community activity/in-person improve-a-thon meet: Selva
  • Wikipedia Asian Month 2024 – Santhosh Notagar
  • Wikidata Birthday in Kerala, Wiki Conference Kerala 2024 update: Ranjithsiji
  • Upcoming Hackathon updates by Indic MediaWiki Developers User Group – Rihaan, Rathi
  • Wikiosource conference scholarship update: Balaji

• Etherpad Link: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/South_Asia_Community_Call
• Meeting details:

• Date: 27 October 2024
• Timings: 1800 to 1900 [6 – 7 pm] (IST or UTC+0530)
• Meeting Link: https://meet.google.com/ffs-izis-bow

22 September 2024

Moderator: Shakuntala Marndi

• Agenda:

• Opening/Ice Breaker
• Planned Updates
  • Content Translations Experiment: Purity, WMF
  • Session from Wikipedia Asian Month – Betty and Joyce
  • WCI 2025 Updates: Pavan Santosh
• Community Updates
  • Santali Wiki Conference 2024: Ramjit Tudu
  • Best Practice followed by Tamil Wikipedia community during workshops, in-person improve-a-thons: Selva
  • Punjabi Wikimedians First annual grant proposal: Kuldeep Singh

WTS Update – Kasyap

• Upcoming activities updates:
  • Tamil community activity/in-person improve-a-thon meet: Selva
  • TTT 2024 updates: Chinmayee
  • Wikiosource conference scholarship date extension update: Balaji

• Etherpad Link: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/South_Asia_Community_Call
• Meeting details:

• Date: 22 September 2024
• Timings: 1800 to 1900 [6 – 7 pm] (IST)
• Meeting Link: https://meet.google.com/ffs-izis-bow

25 August 2024

Moderator: Yakshitha

• Agenda:

• Hello and Welcome
• WikiConference India 2025 update
• Wikipedia Asian Month 2024
• Wiki Women Collective: Manavpreet Kaur
• Need Assessment and A2K Work-plan: Pavan Santosh (CIS-A2K)
• Open Community Updates

• Wiki Loves Monuments 2024
• Tamil Wikipedia: A successful story – Handling 4,752 articles in 25 months
• Train The Trainer 2024 updates
• Wikimedia Technology Summit WTS 2024
• Wiki Loves Onam 2024 – campaign that aims to capture and celebrate the essence of the cultural festival in Wikimedia projects

• Etherpad Link: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/South_Asia_Community_Call
• Meeting details:

• Date: 25 August 2024
• Timings: 1800 to 1900 [6 – 7 pm] (IST or UTC+0530)
• Meeting Link: https://meet.google.com/ffs-izis-bow

21 July 2024

Moderator: Aafi

• Agenda:

• Hello and Welcome
• WCI Discussion and Survey Launch (15 mins): Nitesh/Nivas
  • Introducing WCI 2025 Discussions and Timelines
  • Sharing Community Survey
  • Anyone Interested in being part of Committees/Organising Group
• Updates (20 mins)
  • WishList, WMF: Jack Wheeler (15 mins)
  • Fundraising Updates: Rachit (2 mins)
• Open Community Updates (20 mins)
  • Tamil Wikipedia:
    • Tamil Wikipedia Edit-a-thon in Chennai, conducted on 13-Jul-2024
    • Rapid Fund request has been approved by Wikimedia Foundation. This is to conduct In-person Edit-a-thon and Strategic Meet in the month of Sep'24.
    • Planning to conduct online event in Aug'24: 'Special month to add media files from Wikimedia Commons into Tamil Wikipedia articles'

• • TBD
• Etherpad Link: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/South_Asia_Community_Call
• Meeting details:

• Date: 21 July 2024
• Timings: 1800 to 1900 [6 – 7 pm] (IST or UTC+0530)
• Meeting Link: https://meet.google.com/ffs-izis-bow

23 June 2024

Moderator: Navya

• Agenda:

• Hello and Welcome: 5 Mins
• Updates
  • MCDC: 5 Mins
  • Event Registration Tool- Benedict, WMF: 15 mins
  • MinT for Wiki Readers – Uzoma: 10 mins
• Open Community Updates (30 mins)

Hello and Welcome: 5 Mins

Updates - Event Registration Tool- Benedict, WMF: 15 mins - MinT for Wiki Readers – Uzoma: 10 mins Open Community Updates (30 mins)

• • Tribal Culture Photography contest – Gopalakrishn's
  • Movement charter voting process and ratification update ; Manav (5 mins)
  • Wiki Loves Mangaluru; Santosh (3 mins)
  • Updates from Tamil Community : Selva
  • Updates from Telugu Community on Grant proposal: VJ Suseela
  • Technical training, Chennai by CIS-A2K: Bhuvana
  • Kashmiri language project: Sabrina
• AOB

• Etherpad Link: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/South_Asia_Community_Call
• Meeting details:

• Date: 23 June 2024
• Timings: 1800 to 1900 [6 – 7 pm] (IST or UTC+0530)
• Meeting Link: https://meet.google.com/ffs-izis-bow

19 May 2024

Moderator: Chinmayee Mishra

• Agenda:

• Hello and Welcome + Call Agenda (5 mins)
• SAOCC Survey and Next Steps (5 mins)
• WMF Annual Planning (45 mins)
• Community Discussion (30 mins)

• Summit Updates – Shreya Dwivedi (3 mins)
• Hackathon Updates – Vasanth (3 mins)
• Conference Updates: Summit and Hackathon (10 mins)
• ESEAP conference updates: Suyash Divwedi (3 mins)
• Wiki Loves Mangalore – Santosh (3-5 mins)
• Upcoming Mini Hackathon in India – Vasanth (3 mins)
• Wiki Technical Training – Nivas (3 mins)

• Closing – Nitesh (5 mins)

17 March 2024

Moderator: Siva Kosaran, Sri Lanka

• Agenda:

• Welcome and Ice Breaker- 5 mins (Moderator)
• Focused Agenda:
  • Movement Strategy or Movement Charter Session- 25 mins
• Key Updates:
  • Wikimedia Places Update: Amal and Jazmin (WMF)
  • Call for candidates for the UCoC Coordinating Committee (U4C): Ramzy, WMF
  • Gender Campaign Update :
    • Gender Campaign Updates- Masana, WMF
    • Nitesh (CIS-A2K: She Leads)
• Open Community Updates

• Etherpad Link: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/South_Asia_Community_Call
• Meeting details:

• Date: 17 March 2024
• Timings: 1800 to 1900 [6 – 7 pm] (IST or UTC+0530)
• Meeting Link: https://meet.google.com/ffs-izis-bow

18 February 2024

Moderator: Chinmayee Mishra

• Agenda:

• Welcome and Ice Breaker- 5 mins (Moderator)
• Movement Strategy Session- 30 mins (Kaarel)
• Updates from WMF
  • Newcomers Onboarding Tools- 10 mins (Benoit Evellin, WMF)
  • South Asia Regional Grants Committee- 5 mins (Jacqueline Chen, WMF)
  • Wikimedia Foundation Affiliates Strategy – 5 mins (Suyash Divwedi or Manavpree Kaur)
• Open Community Updates- 15 mins
  • Tulu Community In-Person Events or Activities: Babitha Shetty

• Etherpad Link: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/South_Asia_Community_Call
• Meeting details:

• Date: 18 February 2024
• Timings: 1800 to 1900 [6 – 7 pm] (IST or UTC+0530)
• Meeting Link: https://meet.google.com/csu-ftjo-vcz

21 January 2024

Moderator: Shabab Mustafa

• Agenda:

• Welcome and Introduction to the call
• Movement Strategy
  • Presentation
  • Activity
• Open for community updates
• TBD

• Etherpad Link: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/South_Asia_Community_Call
• Meeting details:

• Date: 21 January 2024
• Timings: 1800 to 1900 [6 – 7 pm] (IST or UTC+0530)
• Meeting Link: https://meet.google.com/csu-ftjo-vcz

17 December 2023

Moderator: Sanjog

• Agenda:

• Welcome and Introductions- 5 mins (Sanjog)
• Introduction to Movement Strategy- 30 mins (Kaarel)
• Open Community Updates- 20 mins

• Updates from Indic MediaWiki Hackathon- 5 mins (Nivas and Gopa)
• Updates from Indic Oral Culture Project- 5 mins (Amrit Sufi)
• Update from Punjab WikiEducation Program- 5 mins (Jagseer)

• AOB and Closure- 5 mins

• Etherpad Link: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/South_Asia_Community_Call
• Meeting details:

• Date: 17 December 2023
• Timings: 1800 to 1900 [6 – 7 pm] (IST or UTC+0530)
• Meeting Link: https://meet.google.com/mzk-bxrt-vis

19 November 2023

Moderator: RockyMasum

• Agenda:

• Introduction and Icebreaker activity: 10 mins
• Announcements & Community Updates: 23-25 mins

• Updates from Bangladesh Chapter by Tanvir Rahman: 10-15 mins
• Hindi Community activity updates by Praveen/Rachit: 5 mins
• Wikimania 2024 Scholarships announcements by Rachit: 3 mins

• Major Changes to the Open Community Call by Nivas: 10 mins
• Activity on Movement Strategy by Nivas/Rachit/Praveen: 15-20 mins

• Etherpad Link: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/South_Asia_Community_Call
• Meeting details:

• Date: 19 November 2023
• Timings: 1800 to 1900 [6 – 7 pm] (IST or UTC+0530)
• Meeting Link: https://meet.google.com/ubk-ugun-qzu

29 October 2023

Moderator: Nitesh

• Agenda:

• Opening: 3 mins
• Affiliate strategy and AffCom elections: 15 mins
• Stories from recent events:

• WWC 2023: 10 mins
• TTT 2023 : 10 mins

• Community Spotlight:

• Maithili Wikimedians User Group: 7 mins
• Karavali Wikimedians Project: 5 mins

• Etherpad Link: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/South_Asia_Community_Call
• Meeting details:

• Date: 29 October 2023
• Timings: 1800 to 1900 [6 – 7 pm] (IST or UTC+0530)
• Meeting Link: https://meet.google.com/ubk-ugun-qzu

10 September 2023

Moderator: Nitesh

• U4CBC (Universal Code of Conduct Building Committee) Conversation
• Learning experience from Wikimania Participants
• Community Update

• Etherpad Link: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/South_Asia_Community_Call
• Meeting details:

• Date: 10 September 2023
• Timings: 1800 to 1900 [6 – 7 pm] (IST or UTC+0530)
• Meeting Link: https://meet.google.com/ubk-ugun-qzu

16 July 2023

Moderator: Nitesh and Nivas

• Agenda:

• Opening and Welcome – 4 mins
• Streaming "WikiConference India 2023 — Recap and Highlights" – 6 mins
• Global Council Draft by MCDC (Ciell, Manav, Runa) – 35 mins
• Upcoming WMF fundraising campaign in India (Julia) – 10 mins
• Open space for Communities, Closing, and next call update – 5 mins

• Etherpad Link: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/South_Asia_Community_Call
• Meeting details:

• Date: 16 July 2023
• Timings: 1800 to 1900 [6 – 7 pm] (IST or UTC+0530)
• Meeting Link: https://meet.google.com/ubk-ugun-qzu

18 June 2023

Moderator: Yakshitha

• Agenda:

• Welcome and Introductions
• WCI 2023 Updates – 10 mins

• Honorarium for attendees
• Report
• Blogs & Films

• Movement Charter Drafting Committee Updates – 10 mins
• WikiWomenCamp (Info on Scholarships) – 5 mins
• GLAM Conference (Info on Scholarships) – 5 mins
• LanguageWiki Celebrations – 10 mins

• Punjabi Wikipedia – 5 mins
• Kannada Wikipedia – 5 mins

• Updates from CIS-A2K work – 5 mins*

Etherpad Link: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/South_Asia_Community_Call

• Meeting details:

• Date: 18 June 2023
• Timings: 1800 to 1900 [6 – 7 pm] (IST or UTC+0530)
• Meeting Link: https://meet.google.com/ubk-ugun-qzu

21 May 2023

• Agenda:

• Welcome and Introductions
• Updates from WCI

• WCI 2023 Overview
• Stipend Update
• Your best memory from WCI in one word- Open Question

• Next Steps

• Video- Work in Progress
• Reporting and Feedback

• WikiCelebrate
• Leadership Development Working Group Updates
• Any Community Updates
• AOB

• Etherpad Link: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/South_Asia_Community_Call
• Meeting details:

• Date: 21 May 2023
• Timings: 1800 to 1900 [6 – 7 pm] (IST or UTC+0530)
• Meeting Link: https://meet.google.com/ubk-ugun-qzu

16 April 2023

• Agenda:

• Conference updates
• Pre-conference activity update
• Board of Trustees lead affiliate strategy interaction during WCI
• Anual Program Plan & Fundraising
• Women’s Month Datathon update
• Stories by Communities

• Etherpad Link: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/South_Asia_Community_Call
• Meeting details:

• Date: 16 April 2023
• Timings: 1800 to 1900 [6 – 7 pm] (IST or UTC+0530)
• Meeting Link: https://meet.google.com/ubk-ugun-qzu

19 March 2023

• Agenda:

• Hello and Introductions- 5 mins
• CIS-A2k and CPUG- Women’s Month DataThon- 5 mins (Suyash)
• Wikimania and Upcoming Hackathon- 10 mins (Rachit)
• WCI Updates- 30 mins (Nitesh/Nivas)

• Program Updates
• Scholarship Updates
• Self Funded Updates
• Key Announcement Dates
• Pre-Conference Activities

• Open Question- 10 mins

• Etherpad Link: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/South_Asia_Community_Call
• Meeting details:

• Date: 19 March 2023
• Timings: 1800 to 1900 [6 – 7 pm] (IST or UTC+0530)
• Meeting Link: https://meet.google.com/yqw-uevi-uhp

19 February 2023

• Agenda:

• Conference update & Update about Meta page updates: 5 mins
• Programs update & Pre-conference activity: 10-12 mins
• Other Community activities:

• Hardware Donation Program: 3-5 mins
• 2nd Wiki Technology Summit by Kasyap: 2-3 mins
• Women's health edit-a-thon announcement by Netha: 3-5 mins

• Brief Introduction to Diversity&Inclusion (D&I) at conference and why by Manav: 3-5mins

• Privacy & Digital Safety by Max from the WMF legal team: 10-15 mins

• Scholarship updates: 15 mins
• FAQ update & AOB: 5 mins

• Etherpad Link: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/South_Asia_Community_Call
• Meeting details:

• Date: 19 February 2023
• Timings: 1800 to 1900 [6 – 7 pm] (IST or UTC+0530)
• Meeting Link: https://meet.google.com/kst-ddre-ran