Wikipedia:Meetup/Bangalore/Bangalore5

Wikipedia–Wikimedia Meetup
Bangalore, India

Meetup 5 Successful
3:00–5:30 p.m., Sunday, 13 September

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• What: Wikimeetup Bangalore — Sep 2009
• When: Sunday, 13 September, 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 September 2009.

Pre-Meeting discussions on the talk page please.

Date and Venue

Date:
Sunday, 13-Sep-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

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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Agenda

• Introductions by Wikipedians.
• Talks made
  • Creating vector illustrations using Inkscape by Shyamal
  • Wikimania 2009 - The experience and takeaways. by Gautam John
• Open Discussion on topics of common interest and updates.
  • Open Discussion is potential outreach and contributory projects that could be taken up by wikipedians.
  • Working with academia.
  • Proposal of a Wikipedia takes Cities in Bangalore.
  • Other discussion points.

Participants

Standing from left: User:Logicwiki, User:arjunaraoc, User:HPN, User:jackerhack, User:Varungarde, User:Shyamal, User:GKJohn, User:Arunram and User:kiranchavala.

Attended

1. Srikanth
2. HP Nadig
3. Arunram
4. Arjuna Rao
5. Varungarde
6. Shyamal
7. Kiran Jonnalagadda
8. GK John
9. Kiranchavala

People who had signed up for attending

1. Srikanth (ping me) 14:57, 26 August 2009 (UTC)
2. Varun (talk) 09:52, 8 September 2009 (UTC)
3. Aditya (talk)
4. Supreeth (talk)
5. Prabhu raJ (talk)
6. Kailash P, Kailash.n72@gmail.com, 9916906711
7. Indramani Das, 9886406388
8. Kiran Manohar, 9036142674
9. Arunram (talk) 05:01, 13 September 2009 (UTC)

Interested to attend but not yet sure

None

Regrets

1. Out of station -- Tinu Cherian - 11:07, 25 August 2009 (UTC)
2. Out of station -- naveenpf (talk) 12:53, 25 August 2009 (UTC)
3. Won't be attending any till November or December. Rsrikanth05 (talk)

Post-meetup summary/Blogs/News

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Media coverage

None.

Photos

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