Wikipedia:Meetup/Bangalore/Bangalore6
- What: Wikimeetup Bangalore — Oct 2009
- When: Sunday, 11 October, 2009 3:00 PM - 5:30 PM
- Where: CIS office, Bangalore, India
- Who: Wikipedians from any part of India or the world and anyone who is interested in Wikipedia! Meetup is open to members of all Wikimedia projects and wikipedians from all languages. If you are interested in coming, add your name below with ~~~.
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Summary
The Wikipedia Bangalore meetup is a regular get together of wikipedians (contributors and users) to meet up up, discuss, share experiences, outreach and advocacy of wikipedia.
As discussed in the Bangalore Meetup 3 in July, wikipedians in Bangalore will meet up every month on the 2nd or 3rd Sunday at 3 PM.
The meetups are intended to be structured as follows — Introductions, a few focused talks by wikipedians to share experience / expertise followed by demos and open discussions on topics of common interest.
The next meetup is in the month of October 2009.
Pre-Meeting discussions on the talk page please.
Date and Venue
Date:
Sunday, 11-Oct-2009 3:00 PM IST
Venue:
The Centre for Internet and Society
No. D2, 3rd Floor, Sheriff Chambers
14, Cunningham Road, Bangalore,
Karnataka 560052, India
Phone: (+91)-080-4092-6283
(Update - Venue confirmed with CIS on 28-Sep-09 - Arunram (talk) 06:00, 28 September 2009 (UTC))
Agenda
- Introductions by Wikipedians.
- Planned talks
- Building a local language community and language tools to edit Wiki. - HPNadig
- AWB Demo - Tinucherian
- Open Discussion on topics of common interest and updates. (please list your name)
- Outreach projects - Bangalore IT.biz - Wikimedia participation. - Arjuna Rao
- Outreach projects - Update on Mangalore Wikiacademy - HPNadig
- City and Language Special Interest Groups (SIGs) - Arunram
- Outreach projects - Future Wiki Academies - Sundar, Arunram
- Outreach projects - Kannada Wikipedia wikipedians to join Monthly meetups at CIS.
- Advocacy - Govt Kannada Encyclopedia project - what can wikipedians do? - HPNadig
- Working with academia in Bangalore - List of Universities. - <Owner needed>
- Proposal of a Wikipedia takes Cities in Bangalore. - <Owner needed>
- Other discussion points.
Getting there
Directions to Cunningham road
- From Shivaji Nagar Bus stand , come to Indian Express Bus Stop Junction, and go straight to Cunningham Road.
- From Vidhan Soudha/GPO come directly to Indian Express Bus Stop Junction from there left turn into Cunningham Road.
Directions from Cunningham road to Venue
On Cunningham Road, about half a kilometre from the Indian Express Junction, Center for Internet and Society (CIS) is located behind Wockhardt Hospital (on the same building). This building is right next to Sigma mall.
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Participants
Attending
- Srikanth (ping me) 18:07, 13 September 2009 (UTC)
- --H P Nadig \Talk \Contributions 06:38, 14 September 2009 (UTC)
- Rsrikanth05 (talk)
- -- Tinu Cherian - 04:06, 28 September 2009 (UTC)
- * Gautam John
Interested to attend but not yet sure
Regrets
- Arunram (talk) 15:34, 26 September 2009 (UTC) (conflicting work commitments)
Post-meetup summary/Blogs/News
Please list post meeting coverage links here.
Meeting coverage
Photos
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External links
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