By bluerasberry on 2015-08-02
Every organization which recruits volunteers values their volunteers. Sometimes they even calculate the financial value of their volunteers. This works by recording the cost of a set of volunteer recruitment campaigns, noting how many volunteers become engaged because of those campaigns, then dividing the total cost by the number of volunteers recruited. I am sure […]
Posted in Dhaka, India, non-profit, Wikipedia | Tagged crowdsourcing, grants
By bluerasberry on 2015-07-31
This is an archival copy of the following source: Oza, Nandini; Bhattacherjee, Kallol (22 April 2014). “THE FORGOTTEN HALF“. week.manoramaonline.com. Malayala Manorama. Archived from the original at http://week.manoramaonline.com/cgi-bin/MMOnline.dll/portal/ep/theWeekContent.do?contentId=16673695 on 23 June, 2015. EXCLUSIVE EYEWITNESS REPORT The year was 1968. The house of Damodardas and Hiraba Modi in Vadnagar in north Gujarat was bustling with activity. […]
Posted in India, love | Tagged censorship, Jashodaben, wedding
By bluerasberry on 2015-06-05
As I described in another post this month, the Wikipedia article on Jashodaben has been deleted four times already. In another post from September 2014, I discussed some reasons why I support Jashodaben’s demands for recognition as the Spouse of the Prime Minister of India. There is pressure on the Indian media to avoid discussing […]
Posted in India, rights | Tagged Jashodaben, Narendra Modi, women's rights
By bluerasberry on 2015-06-05
When a topic is not well covered on Wikipedia, that is often an indication that a topic is not accessible or well covered in available sources on the Internet. When I was developing a draft for a Wikipedia article on Jashodaben I searched for all the information I could find. In November I set a […]
Posted in art, India, Wikipedia | Tagged Jashodaben, Narendra Modi
By bluerasberry on 2015-06-05
I have been the primary developer of a Wikipedia article on Jashodaben Narendrabhai Modi, the wife of the prime minister of India. Right now the article does not exist. Soon I will move my draft into Wikipedia’s article space. I anticipate that some people will object. This article has been deleted in Wikipedia’s review process […]
Posted in India, rights, Wikipedia | Tagged Jashodaben, Narendra Modi
By bluerasberry on 2014-09-30
Today, Sunday 28 September 2014, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited New York City to give a speech to the general public at Madison Square Garden. I did not attend the speech, but I was outside protesting Modi’s behavior. I will explain my complaint, the response that I got, and share some details of the […]
Posted in India, legal, religion, Varanasi | Tagged Jashodaben, marriage, money, Narendra Modi
By bluerasberry on 2014-08-12
I talked to some Wikipedians from India at the Wikimania conference. I asked them about the relationship between Wikimedia India, the Wikimedia community in India, the Wikimedia Founation, and the Centre for Internet and Society, a nonprofit organization in India which manages some Wikipedia affairs there. They told me about general conversations among participants in […]
Posted in India, Wikipedia | Tagged Wikimedia chapter
By bluerasberry on 2014-08-02
I am carrying the London book by Seattle’s own Rick Steves. I read the book in his voice, as I used to watch his PBS travel show and liked hearing him live in and around Seattle when he would speak to talk about travel and cannabis. Last time I was in London in December 2006 […]
Posted in England, India, museum | Tagged Winston Churchill, World War II
By bluerasberry on 2014-03-28
This weekend I am attending the Partnerships in Clinical Trials conference in Vegas. I have been talking with friends about clinical trial information as I often do. Just today I was talking with Chuck in advocacy at work about supplies of drugs. He said that he had a report saying that about 80% of prescription […]
Posted in China, Consumer Reports, drug, India | Tagged industrial design, pharma
