*Cross-posting to reach mass, apologies if you have already read it.*
Hi all,
greeting from Wiki Loves Monuments India core team.
We are happy and please to let you informed that the global photography
contest Wiki Loves Monuments 2012 (WLM) kicks off today, while India
participates along and competes with other 35 nations. On behalf of the
core team and Wikimedia India chapter, we are inviting you to participate
in the month long contest, which runs from *1st of September to 31st of
September*.
- List of monuments in India is now ready, which qualifies for the
contest.[1]
- All the images should be uploaded under a different upload campaign
created for WLM in India.[2]
- All the photos participating in the contest must be self taken. Images
can be old, but should be uploaded before 30th of September.
- Participants must have their email-id enabled in Wikimedia Commons to
be eligible for prizes
- Creativity, natural, and importance to Wikipedia will be given prime
importance by Jury
- The default license will be CC-BY-SA 3.0
- Remember, this is a contest, hence *prizes are to be won*.
- We also have a Facebook group[3] and a Facebook page[4]
Do participate and share among your friends to make the contest big in
India. It will be our pride, if we showcase our heritage globally, being
very much patriotic :) All the best to all.
1.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_India/Wiki_Loves_Monumen…
2.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:UploadWizard&campaig…
3. https://www.facebook.com/groups/wikilovesmonumentsindia/
4. https://www.facebook.com/WikiLovesMonumentsIndia
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Thanks and regards,
(User:Karthikndr <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Karthikndr>)
*Karthik Nadar.*
(Ph: 91-9773608862)
The architect of sugar learning platform is visiting our lab
from 27th-29th. On 28th he is giving a public lecture at 4pm. Please
consider this note as my invitation to come down to meet him and listen to
his lecture. Please also forward this message to your other colleagues
whom we met at HBCSE the other day.
Walter Bender, the founder of Sugar Labs, and an architect of the Sugar
learning platform originally developed for the One Laptop Per Child
(OLPC), now available generally, will talk about the platform and its
adoption. Sugar Learning platform is now used by millions of children
worldwide. He will be speaking on how the Sugar Learning platform has been
designed for "Learning to Learn."
About Walter Bender:
Walter Bender is a technologist and researcher who has made important
contributions in the field of electronic publishing, media, and technology
for learning. Bender is on leave as a Senior Research Scientist at the MIT
Media Lab which he led as executive director between 2000 and 2006. More
recently, Bender served as president of One Laptop per Child for Software
and Content where he coordinated the development of software and content
including the Sugar interface for the XO-1 Children's Machine computer.
When: Tuesday 28 August 2012, 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Where: G-4, NIUS Building,
Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
V. N. Purav Marg, Mankhurd
Mumbai 400088
To know more about Sugar Labs visit: http://sugarlabs.org
To know more about One Laptop Per Child visit: http://laptop.org
To know more about Walter Bender http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Bender
regards
Nagarjuna
Hi Mumbai Wikipedians,
hope all is well :)
With a week remaining for the global contest Wiki Loves Monuments and with
India participating this year, was wondering if we Mumbaikars can do
something to the make the contest bigger in India.
Hoping all to share their ideas. The primary aim is to make the contest
bigger in India, and to compete greatly with all other 30-33 countries
participating worldwide.
Thanks!
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Thanks and regards,
(User:Karthikndr <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Karthikndr>)
*Karthik Nadar.*
(Ph: 91-9773608862)
The founder of Sugar labs, Walter Bender, will be in India from about 21-29
August (i.e. now) and will speak at HBCSE in Mumbai on 28 August, 4-6 pm,
for those interested in furthering the importance of good quality primary
education. It is an open, public, meeting.
Sugar is the platform developed for the xo NetBook under the olpc program,
and is available on most general purpose computers today, and also on a pen
drive for a test drive before installation. It provides children with a
playground to learn, with communication and collaboration key ingredients.
Interested persons needing to know more about the Mumbai program may
contact me offlist. His full schedule will be posted shortly, as he is
also visiting Guwahati, Goa and Delhi.
On Aug 22, 2012 1:11 AM, "nazmu66(a)gmail.com" <nazmu66(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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> Here in India most of Rural Pre & Primary School education level going
down interms of Quality. There huge nos of kids being the prey of quality
less education.
> So next gen is being destroyed in the name of total literacy. Lets
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*Cross posting!*
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Hi all,
We’re calling for volunteers to help in the global contest to be held in
India; Wiki Loves Monuments 2012, to be held from 1st of September to 30th
of September. We warmly invite interested volunteers to step forward to
contribute to this global contest.
Something about Wiki Loves Monuments 2012:
Wiki Loves Monuments 2012 will be a global public photo contest around
monuments, organized by Wikimedia chapters and groups. In 2010, this was
organized for the first time in the Netherlands , and in 2011 it was
organized in 18 European countries . In total, more than 165,000 pictures
of European monuments were uploaded in 2011.
The following will be the tasks involved:
1. Prepare lists for every states/cities
2. Co-ordinate small events to be held in your local
city<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments/Organizing_a…>
3. Coordinating and volunteering on-venue task, etc
4. Indic languages translations
Do sign-in here:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012_in_Indi…
*
Also join-in our Facebook group:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/wikilovesmonumentsindia/
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Thanks and regards,
(User:Karthikndr <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Karthikndr>)
*Karthik Nadar.*
(Ph: 91-9773608862)
FYI
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Sunil Abraham <sunil(a)mahiti.org>
Date: Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 2:41 PM
Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Volunteer for CIS's A2K programme director
recruitment committee
To: Wikimedia India Community list <wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Cc: wikimedia-in-exec(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Dear Wikimedians,
I would like to request members of the Indian Wikipedia community to
nominate themselves to serve on the CIS's A2K Programme Director
recruitment committee. This programme will hopefully receive large
grant from Wikimedia Foundation and we would greatly benefit from
community input during the hiring process of the new Programme
Director.
The volunteer must be experienced Wikipedian, based in India [ as we
cannot afford international travel for the interviews] and must have
sufficient managerial experience [including experience with conducting
interviews]. The volunteer should be able to spare time in September
to review applications remotely and also conduct face-to-face
interviews for 2 days either in Bangalore or Delhi.
Those who fit the description are requested to nominate yourself by
sending me an email with a profile and relevant URLs before COB 25th
August 2012.
I will publish a long list on cis-india.org on 29th August, after
removing those nominations that don't have the required
qualifications. The volunteer to serve on the recruitment committee
will be selected from the long list by using IETF's Publicly
Verifiable Nominations Committee (NomCom) Random Selection[1].
The other members of this recruitment committee will consist of
1. One of the existing independent consultants [Hisham, Nitika,
Noopur, Shiju or Subha]
2. One member from the Wikipedia Chapter (Wikimedia India Program
Trust) community. To be nominated by the Chapter Executive Committee.
3. Executive Director of CIS - me.
The recruitment committee will be responsible for screening the long
list of eligible applications and conducting one-on-one face-to-face
interviews with the short list of applicants.
Best wishes,
Sunil
[1] http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3797.txt The random seeds will be the
30 August 2012 result for the following national lotteries - Australia
(http://www.lotto.com.au/), UK (http://www.national-lottery.co.uk) and
USA (http://www.powerball.com or http://www.usamega.com)
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