Wikipedia:Meetup/Kolkata/Kolkata17
Summary
[edit]The Wikipedia Kolkata meetup is a monthly get-together of wikipedians (contributors and users) to meet, discuss, share experiences, reach out and advocate for Wikipedia and wikimedia. The meetups are projected to be arranged 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.
Date and Venue
[edit]- Date: 9 July 2016 (Saturday)
- Time: 6:00 PM IST
- Venue: Academy of Fine Arts 2, Cathedral Rd, Maidan, Kolkata, West Bengal 700020
Intended audience
[edit]Anyone who has contributed or is willing to contribute to Wikipedia and its sister projects. Members of all Wikimedia projects and Wikipedians from all languages.
Agenda
[edit]- Stand up meeting (based on Scrum) 10 minutes
- Each member will get 1-2 minutes to share the following status updates
- 1. What did I do after the last meetup till this meetup?
- 2. What am I planning to do after this meetup till next meetup?
- 3. What problems am I facing?
- Announcements 10 minutes
- 1. Program calendar
- 2. Query page for community
- 3. Timing & venue for next meetups
- Discussion on WCI 2016 10 minutes
- 1. Is there any help that the community can offer to participants?
- 2. Participants can briefly share their plan.
- Discussion on SOW 30 minutes
- 1. Identifying common topics (subject matter) that we can work on as a team
- 2. Identifying timelines & PICs to lead those activities
- Tutorial 30 minutes
- 1. How to use Commonist to upload and categorize photos? (Sukanta)
- 2. How to rename files in Commons? (Santanu)
- 3. How to upload non-free images? (Kalyan)
- Editathon/Hands on 30 minutes
- 1. Punjab Editathon (Mourya & Ananya)
- 2. Edit other topics & Wikimedia sister projects
- 3. Clarify doubts by working in pairs
Participants
[edit]Sign up using " # ~~~ " if you have an account or else add "# Your Name", under the appropriate section.
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Attending
[edit]- Sukanta Pal (talk) 05:33, 7 July 2016 (UTC)
- BengaliHindu (talk) 08:29, 8 July 2016 (UTC)
- tanmay bir (talk)
- Atudu (talk) 19:58, 9 July 2016 (UTC)
Interested but unsure
[edit]Best wishes
[edit]Event report
[edit]Introduction
[edit]Attendees
[edit]- Santanu Chandra 18:57, 10 July 2016 (UTC)
Venue
[edit]Academy of Fine Arts 2, Cathedral Rd, Maidan, Kolkata 700020
Time
[edit]6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
Outcomes
[edit]- Create a working calendar as suggested by Sujay Chandra
- Discussion about the tentative date of Photo walk:- 11th Dec-2016/18th Dec-2016/15th Jan-2016. Proposed Co-ordinators: Sumit Surai and Indrajit Das
- Date and Time for Meet Up 2nd Saturday of every month from 3:00PM to 6:00 PM.Community is going to reserve the slot at Academy of Fine Arts Upto Mar'17
- Tapas Deb asked for common Queries relevant to edit and any other issues.Kalyan Sarkar suggested to open an account in Stackexchange.com
- Regarding the Wikiconference participation,there was a discussion about the procedure for supporting a Volunteer. The volunteer will raise the issue in community Village Pump along with the clear idea of participation and how the community will be benefited through the participation-By 17th July, the community members will vote for acceptance or rejection of the process.Approval of full/partial amount at actual basis will also be decided in the same procedure.
- Community members can request to Sumita Roy Dutta for any lightning talk in WCI2016
- Focus on West Bengal:Present members suggested about articles covering following topics.Ananya Mondal Suggested to open a page to write down the West Bengal Related Articles. Members present in the meet up took responsibilities of listing the topics. Any other members can also add in the list.
- Dance: Ananya Mondal
- Painting : Kalyan Sarkar
- Sculpture: Kalyan Sarkar
- Dress: Tapas Deb
- Food: Sukanta Pal
- Festivals: Santanu
- Music: Santanu
Training
[edit]- Sukanta Pal discussed the procedure of using Commonist to upload images
- Santanu discussed the procedure of File moving
Post-meetup summary/Blogs/News
[edit]Photos
[edit]Expenditure Statement
[edit]- Venue Booking - ₹300/-
- Snacks - ₹97/- + 1 disposable Water bottle (at ₹20/-) - ₹117/- Sum Total: - ₹417/-