Some initial ideas

Greetings everyone, and welcome to the strategy discussion for India. My task is to facilitate this discussion, and I'm delighted to be talking with you. Firstly, some clarifications: we have members here who work on languages from South Asia and are not necessarily from India - a special welcome to them, and we look forward to working on common areas (and common interests in Wikipedia) together. Secondly, I'm going to start with a few thread suggestions that I think are worth pursuing. Please feel free to add to the discussion, either by moving forward the specific discussion suggested, or by adding new areas that we can work on.

The goal of this exercise is to come up with 2 to 4 strong recommendations backed up by analysis and a plan and process for execution. In keeping with the general theme of things, I've been told we can think big, and I guess that means we should, well, think big :)

As we're all new to this, I thank Philippe, Eugene and Sarah in advance for watching this discussion and steering us back on course should we veer off.

I've been a bit late in getting this off the ground, but hopefully, we're be on track now.

Fantastic! I look forward to seeing what comes of this task force.

Hi Achal, we wikipedians in Bangalore are conducting wiki meetups once in every month from past 8 months. There are lot of issues in local language wikipedias. We are helping the Sanskrit Wikipedia through Samskrita Bharathi. If you are in Bangalore, Can you come for the next Wiki meet which is planned on Feb 14 --Naveenpf 17:52, 17 January 2010 (UTC)