Dear Wikimedians,
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 at this link
http://icfoss.in/fs2014.html
Organized by ICFOSS (GoK) this event is set to attract a hundreds of
Free Software enthusiasts. CIS (A2K) is one of the supporters of this
conference.
There is a dedicated track for Wikipedia/Wikimedia during the
conference. We are also planning to set up a Wikipedia stall at the
event and appreciate ML Wikimedians taking lead on this.
We are considering to give travel and stay scholarships for select
Malayalam Wikimedians who are interested to participate in this event
and benefit from it. Could I request one of you to create a page on ML
Wikipedia for this where the ML Wikimedians can come and register their
names, so that we ensure complete transparency in awarding this
scholarships. It would be even better if 2-3 ML Wikimedians can take
lead in working with a CIS-A2K employee to coordinate this on Wiki based
on which CIS-A2K will extend support to the selected Wikimedians.
CIS-A2K will support this as part of its Community Strengthening
Initiatives [1]
Please let me know your suggestions on how we could do this in a better
manner.
Best wishes,
Vishnu
CIS-A2K
[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Draft_Work_plan_J…