Reports/Wikimedia India/Jul-Sep2013

Dear all, Greetings from Wikimedia India !

Organisational Updates
Membership: Membership count as of 30th September is 140.

Donations: Wikimedia India did not receive any donations in the July-September quarter.

Board Meetings: Board meeting was held on 14th August, which was attended by Karthik, Pranav, Nikita and Viswa wherein all the resolutions was signed which was passed electronically earlier. Annual General Meeting was held on 15th August 2013 in Bangalore. You can find the Annual Report of the Chapter. Election to appoint two board members to replace the outgoing EC members Sudhanwa and Bala was also held. Moksh and Jayantha was then elected. Please find the announcement here.

Launches: This month, Wikimedia India saw one of a major achievement where the junior minister for Human Resources development Shashi Tharoor announced that the portal created for open educational resources with content powered by the central government’s academic wing will be under creative commons license cc-by-sa.

Conducted

 * Wiki Academy, St Josephs College of Engineering Chennai
 * Wiki Sanskrit Sangotsaw
 * Wikimedia India Annual General Meeting
 * Wikipedia Mumbai meetup 22
 * Wiki Loves Monuments: Wikimedia India conducted Wiki Loves India for the second consecutive time, wherein the contest received 11,000+ images (entries).
 * Tamil Wikipedia Tenth Anniversary

More

 * A round-up of Wikimedia events, academies and initiatives around the nation are updated here.

Media coverage

 * India Launches School Education Portal Under Creative Commons License. NextBigWhat. 13 August 2013.

Grants Funded

 * 1) Wikimedia India funded the Wiki Loves Monuments 2013 in India
 * 2) Wikimedia India also partially funded the Tamil Wikipedia 10th anniversary

We look forward to your continued support and active participation. Best, On behalf of Wikimedia Chapter (India) Karthik Nadar, Secretary.