Wikipedia:Meetup/Bangalore/Bangalore19

 Wikipedia–Wikimedia Meetup Bangalore, India Meetup 19 successful 6:30 p.m., Friday, 24 September 2010

Summary
Barry Newstead, Chief Global Development Officer, Wikimedia Foundation is in town.. So let us catch up to meet him. He is very eager to talk to the Wikicommunity.

Pre-Meeting discussions can be on the talk page please.

Date and Venue
Date: : Friday, 24-September-2010 6:30 PM IST

Venue: The Centre for Internet and Society No. 194, 2nd 'C' Cross, 4th Main Domlur 2nd Stage Opposite to Domlur Club Bangalore 560 071 Karnataka

Intended Audience
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

 * By Road:
 * From MG Road, Brigade Road, Central Business District, Vidhan Soudha - Come straight on Old Airport Road towards Domlur, and take a Left after Steves Gym / Paratha House. Go straight, and continue straight after the Domlur BDA Complex crossroads. 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. Proceed straight towards Indra Nagar by taking the flyover. Take a Left just AFTER the flyover, before 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 AT the flyover proceed towards IndraNagar and proceed as per above to reach.
 * 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.


 * 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

 * Meet and connect: Introductions by Wikipedians.
 * Wikipedia and Wikimedia India introduction - Arunram
 * Talks
 * Barry Newstead, CGDO, Wikimedia Foundation
 * Release of Wikimedia India newsletter
 * Reports from Pune, Mumbai, Delhi community meetings -Bishakha, Anirudh, Barry
 *  Discussions  :
 * Hearing from the community: thoughts on how to stimulate wikipedias etc in India? - Moderated by Bishakha Datta
 * Networking & Snacks.

Participants


Approximately 40 people attended the Wikimeetup.

Attended

 * 1) Barry Newstead, CGDO, Wikimedia Foundation
 * 2) Bishdatta
 * 3) Aprabhala
 * 4)  Tinu  Cherian 
 * 5) Arunram
 * 6)  Srikanth (Logic) 
 * 7) Magician Philip
 * 8) naveenpf
 * 9) Ravishankar
 * 10) Arjunaraoc
 * 11) Shijualex
 * 12) Rameshng
 * 13)  Nearly Headless Nick   {C}
 * 14) SBC-YPR
 * 15) Arafath.riyath
 * 16) Vivek Rp
 * 17) Gurubrahma
 * 18) GKJohn
 * 19) Byju Veedu
 * 20) H P Nadig
 * 21) Sundar
 * 22) Rindo
 * 23) Ezhuttukari
 * 24) Kiran Gopi
 * 25) Parvathi Jayaraj
 * 26) Shahid M
 * 27) Aishwarya Raghavan
 * 28) Shamrez Zack
 * 29) Shalini Nair
 * 30) Balaji Ganesan
 * 31) Sujay
 * 32) Please complete this list ...

Signed up

 * 1) Barry Newstead, CDO, Wikimedia Foundation
 * 2) Bishdatta (talk) 17:29, 13 September 2010 (UTC)
 * 3) Aprabhala - Achal Prabhala
 * 4)  Tinu  Cherian  - 18:33, 10 September 2010 (UTC)
 * 5)  Srikanth (Logic)  19:36, 11 September 2010 (UTC)
 * 6) Arunram (talk)
 * 7) Magician Philip
 * 8) naveenpf (talk) 04:05, 16 September 2010 (UTC)
 * 9)  Nearly Headless Nick   {C}  07:40, 18 September 2010 (UTC)
 * 10) Ravishankar (talk) from Tamil Wikipedia
 * 11) Arjunaraoc (talk) 03:40, 19 September 2010 (UTC)
 * 12) Shijualex (talk) 09:40, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
 * 13) Sujay27 (talk) 10:21, 22 September 2010 (UTC)
 * 14) Rameshng (talk)
 * 15) SBC-YPR (talk)
 * 16) --Arafath.riyath (talk) 15:05, 23 September 2010 (UTC)
 * 17) Kashkomp - Kashyap Kompella
 * 18) Vivek Rp, CEO, Oxi Technologies
 * 19) Abhishek Shivkumar
 * 20) Sunil Abraham, CIS
 * 21) Gurubrahma
 * 22) GKJohn
 * 23) Byju Veedu
 * 24) --H P Nadig \Talk \Contributions 07:27, 24 September 2010 (UTC)
 * 25) Sundar \talk \contribs 10:00, 24 September 2010 (UTC)
 * 26) Balaji Ganesan
 * 27) Rindo
 * 28) Anticipator
 * 29) Shovon
 * 30) Ganesh ranganathan (talk) 08:18, 19 September 2010 (UTC)
 * 31) Kiran Gopi (talk)
 * 32) Samyo (talk)
 * 33) Natrajdr (talk) 11:40, 23 September 2010 (UTC)
 * 34) Ezhuttukari  (talk)

Regrets

 * 1) --Anticipator (talk) 11:19, 24 September 2010 (UTC)

Press

 * 1) CNN-IBN
 * 2) Indian Express

Announcements/Event Notices
Please list external links announcing the meet-up here.

Post-meetup summary/Blogs/News
Please list post meeting coverage links here.

Twitter

 * Tweet with #WPMBL19 twitter hashtag http://twitter.com/#search?q=%23WPMBL19

Media coverage
Please list coverage of event by media here.
 * Mid-Day: "Bangalore to be the country's Wiki-capital?"
 * DNA: Bangalore in fray to become Wikipedia's India capital
 * NDTV : Bengaluru to be country's wiki capital? -
 * Economic Times : Wikipedia aims to interact in top 10 Indian languages -
 * The Hindu : Wikipedia eyes Bangalore
 * MSN : Wikipedia to open India office soon
 * PTI: Wikipedia to open India office soon
 * Indian Express: Will Bangalore be the wiki-capital of India?
 * dailylatestnews.com : Wikipedia Makes an Indian Home
 * IndiaTechOnline: Wikimedia sets up a chapter in India
 * Business Standard Wikimedia adds India chapter
 * Daily Bhaskar : Bangalore is in fray to become Wikipedia's India capital
 * Silicon India: Bangalore leads the race to be country's Wiki-capital
 * Indiainfo.com : Bangalore is in fray to become Wikipedia's India capital
 * Desabhimani newspaper (malayalam)
 * Times of India: "Wiki logs into India for its second office"
 * TimeOut Bangalore:The Wikimedia Foundation is setting up an office in India to get more Indians to contribute to the online encyclopaedia
 * Mathrubhumi ( Malayalam )
 * Pluggd.in : Wikipedia to Open Office in India, Global Exodus of Editors Continues (?)
 * CNN-IBN :   Wikipedia all set to open office in India ( Video )
 * Deccan Herald : Wikipedia to open India office soon

Photos
Please upload to commons and add category Commons:Category:Bangalore Meetup 24Sep2010
 * HPN's flickr photos