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Summary[edit]
The Wikipedia Bangalore meetup is a monthly get-together of wikipedians (contributors and users) to meet up, discuss, share experiences, reach out and advocate for wikipedia and wikimedia.
As discussed in the Bangalore Meetup 3 in July, Wikipedians in Bangalore (Bangapedians) 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.
Pre-Meeting discussions can be on the talk page please.
Date and Venue[edit]
Date: : Sunday, 16-May-2010 3:00 PM IST
Please note this is a new venue.
Venue:
The Centre for Internet and Society
No. 194, 2nd 'C' Cross,
Domlur 2nd Stage
Bangalore 560 071
Karnataka
Intended Audience[edit]
Anyone interested in Wikipedia (user, contributor or curious about it). 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. All are welcome, and we are especially interested in seeing newcomers to join the experienced Wikipedians/Wikimedians. If you are interested in coming, please add your name below.
Getting there[edit]
- By Road:
- From MG Road, Brigade Road, Central Business District, Vidhan Soudha - Come straight on Old Airport Road towards Domlur, and take a Left at the Domlur Water Tank. Go straight, and take a Right at the Domlur BDA Complex. Further, go straight, cross bridge over storm water drain, and take Left AFTER The Energy Research Institute [TERI]. You will see Domlur Club on the LEFT. Take a right onto the SECOND lane, opposite the gate of the Club. The CIS building has a white gate and is on the RIGHT-hand side, first gate.
- From Hosur Road, Electronics City, Koramangala, Sarjapur, Bannerghatta - Take Inner Ring Road/Intermediate Ring Road towards the Domlur-Old Airport flyover. Take a Left at the flyover. Proceed till the first signal, and take a Right at the Water Tank, and proceed as above.
- From Old Madras, Road, Indira Nagar, Ulsoor - Take 100feet Road [Under Metro] to Domlur flyover. Take a Right BEFORE the flyover, at the Pedestrian Foot Over Bridge [FOB]. Proceed forward and take the Third LEFT towards TERI. Take a Right before TERI and proceed as above.
- From Old Airport, HAL, Marathalli, Varthur - Come on Old Airport-Varthur Road, cross Domlur flyover, take a Right after the flyover at the Water tank and proceed as above.
- By Bus:
- From Kempegowda Bus Station [Majestic], KR Market, Shivaji Nagar, take a bus towards Old Airport, Domlur and get down at the Water Tank and Proceed as above.
- From Banashankari, Central Silk Board - Take a bus terminating at Domlur. Get down after the Indira Nagar FOB, and walk towards TERI as mentioned above. Take a bus going toward Indira Nagar. Get down before the flyover, walk towards, the Water tank, and proceed as above.
Agenda[edit]
- Meet and connect: Introductions by Wikipedians.
- Talks
- Wikimedia conference Berlin - Experiences and Takeaways - Arunram
- Wikimedia - "Boots on the ground" experiments - What that means
- Updates
- Wikimania 2010 - participation from India.
- Present a talk at Wikimania 2010
- India Chapter formation update
- Chapter selected board seats at WM Foundation.
- Project Birds and coverage of User:Shyamal's efforts on Signpost.
- Signpost coverage of Tamilnadu government efforts to promote Tamil Wikipedia
- Malayalam Wikipedian's meetup at Kochi - update - User:Rameshng
- Discussions
- Bangalore Projects and need for volunteers
- The new style Wikipedia.
- The new wikipedia logo
- The commons image deletion controversy.
- Networking & Snacks.
Live streaming[edit]
- Not available this meetup.
Participants[edit]
Attended[edit]
Signed up[edit]
- -- Tinu Cherian -
- --Anticipator (talk) 12:19, 13 May 2010 (UTC)
- Srikanth (Logic) 05:33, 15 May 2010 (UTC)
- Arunram (talk) 06:41, 16 May 2010 (UTC)
- Philip Tiju
- RameshNG
- HPN
- Omshivaprakash
Regrets[edit]
- --Rsrikanth05 (talk) Will be out of town.
- Naveenpf
- Sundar
- :( Rajesh K Odayanchal (talk)
Press[edit]
Announcements/Event Notices[edit]
Please list external links announcing the meet-up here.
Post-meetup summary/Blogs/News[edit]
Please list post meeting coverage links here.
Twitter[edit]
- Tweet with #WPMBL14 twitter hashtag http://twitter.com/search?q=%23WPMBL14
Media coverage[edit]
Please list coverage of this event by media here.
Photos[edit]
Please upload to commons and add category Commons:Category:Bangalore Meetup May10