Wikipedia:Meetup/Bangalore/Bangalore4

Wikipedia–Wikimedia Meetup
Bangalore, India

Meetup 4 Successful
3:00–5:30 p.m., Sunday, 16 August

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• What: Wikimeetup Bangalore — Aug 2009
• When: Sunday, 16 August, 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

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 — 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 Aug 2009.

Pre-Meeting discussions on the talk page please.

Date and Venue

Date:
Sunday, 16-Aug-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
Fax: (+91)-080-4114-8130

How to get there

Location, near Shivajinagar, Vidhana Soudha. From Shivaji Nagar Bus stand , come to Indian Express Bus Stop Junction, and get into Cunnigam Road. From Vidhan Soudha Come Directly to Indian Express Bus Stop Junction from there right turn into Cunnigam Road. On Cunnigam Road you can find the Kingfisher office near Bus stop. There you can find the Wockhardt Hospital. Center for Internet and Society (CIS) is Near that.

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Agenda

• Introductions by Wikipedians.
• Talks made
  • Open Street Map and Wikipedia by User:Planemad
  • Tamil Wikipedia Case study - by Sundar
• Open Discussion is potential outreach and contributory projects that could be taken up by wikipedians
  • working with academia
• Other discussion points

Participants

Attending

1. Arunram (talk) 17:55, 15 July 2009 (UTC)
2. Sundar ^{\talk \contribs} 03:17, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
3. naveenpf (talk) 03:45, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
4. Shyamal (talk) 06:01, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
5. prashanthns (talk) 06:06, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
6. Arjunaraoc (talk) 16:07, 17 July 2009 (UTC)
7. Phoe6 (talk) 04:44, 19 July 2009 (UTC)
8. Karthickbala (talk) 06:42, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
9. Anoopan (talk) 14:20, 26 July 2009 (UTC)
10. Thigala4u Shri 16:03, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
11. Lalit 17:25, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
12. Kiran Jonnalagadda 06:48, 2 August 2009 (UTC)
13. Natrajdr (talk) 10:06, 13 August 2009 (UTC)

Interested to attend but not yet sure

1. Will attend if am in town.College alumni over same weekend Srikanth (speak) 20:05, 15 July 2009 (UTC)
2. Not sure if I will be here in town then. Will be sad to miss out twice in a row. - Godof86 (talk) 11:38, 20 July 2009 (UTC)
3. I am not sure, But i will try if I am at Bangalore.Jigesh (talk) 06:53, 17 July 2009 (UTC)

Regrets

1. I will be out of station due to unavoidable reasons on 15/16 Aug . Hope to meet next time .. I can make it if on 9th/23th Aug -- Tinu Cherian - 17:47, 15 July 2009 (UTC)
2. Hmm, while I like the idea of monthly meetups, I don't think I can do monthly visits to Bangalore!! Sigh... The Silent Contributor (talk) 05:11, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
3. Apologies. Will not be able to attend as I'm avoiding public places and meetings as a precautionary measure against swine flu :-( Regards, SBC-YPR (talk) 05:08, 16 August 2009 (UTC)
4. Will attend if I can. I might not be free during that time.. --Rsrikanth05 (talk) 09:20, 16 July 2009 (UTC) NOT, attending, hurt my finger, so I'm a bit down, plus, same reason as SBC-YPR. --Rsrikanth05 (talk) 07:51, 16 August 2009 (UTC)
5. Not attending, got stuck in some work.--GDibyendu (talk · contribs)

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