Re: [Wikipedia-AS] Meeting Assamese Community

Dear all, I'm writing you all to discuss few important things about Assamese Wikipedia and the Wiki community. You all might have read about Vishnu Vardhan, A2K's new programme director has joined the team and he's been meeting wikipedians in various language communities to know more about them and to explore how A2K could support them. Vishnu and I are planning to come down to Assam for few days to meet you all and meet few educational research institutes which could benefit the community. North Eastern Regional Language Centre (NERLC), Guwahati, one of the important research institutes of North Eastern Indian languages has shown interest and are willing to meet. Mrs. Kheuji Sharma from Assamese department has agreed for a meeting on 13th March (Time to be confirmed, mostly afternoon around 12/12.30). We would like to discuss about the interest of the Assamese Community before we meet the faculty of NERLC on an IRC. Will that be possible for you all to join on IRC ( *IRC Channel #wikipedia-as* ) tomorrow around *8/8.30 pm*. This would be for 30 mins and we would discuss about these meetings. Please let us know your availability and any suggestions for change in timing. We also would like to meet the wikipedians in person and invite them to join us for the meeting with Mrs. Sharma. Do let us know about your availability. -- Best! Subhashish Panigrahi Programme Officer, Access To Knowledge Centre for Internet and Society, New Delhi