Wikipedia:Meetup/Bangalore/Bangalore27

Summary
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
Date: : Sunday, 13-Feb-2011 3:00 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

 * Talks
 * Invited Video Talk via Skype @ 4:30 PM IST
 * Wiki loves monuments
 * Talk by Lodewijk Gelauff from Wikimedia Nederlands. He is Vice chair and International contact for Wikimedia Nederlands. He is also a member of Wikimedia's chapter's committee.
 * Project intended to photograph as many of the 50,000 national monuments (“rijksmonument“) throughout the Netherlands. These included archeological sites in Drenthe, the canal houses in Amsterdam, and the Royal Palace in The Hague.
 * If you would like to follow the talk on skype, connect with skype id arunram25
 * Discussions
 * Wiki Ten Bangalore Celebration
 * Thank you note to volunteers who participated.
 * Experiences from the community initiative.
 * Retrospective: what was done well and what needs improvement.
 * India GLAM events and Liam Wyatt's visit to India — Bangalore specific plans.
 * Liam Wyatt in Bangalore :18-Feb (Fri) to 19-Feb (Sat).
 * Tomasz Finc & Arthur Richards in Bangalore : 2/16 - 2/19. 2/16 or 2/17 would be best as Arthur leaving on 2/18.
 * Updates
 * Wikimedia India chapter
 * Update on participation in World Sanskrit Book fair event - Arunram, Vishal others.


 * Update on participation in Carte Blanche event - Sundar
 * Bangalore loves Wikipedia initiative. Intro and call for participation.-Suma Nadig
 * Experience at Kannada Saahithya Sammelan - Suma Nadig
 * Networking & Snacks

Participants
Add your name as " # " if you have an username or else add " # Name"

Attended

 * 1)  Tinu  Cherian 
 * 2) Ralph A
 * 3) Arjunaraoc (talk)
 * 4) B M Harsha
 * 5) Sriram S
 * 6) Shilpa S
 * 7) Lozil
 * 8) Suma Nadig
 * 9) Sundar \talk \contribs
 * 10) Arunram (talk)
 * 11) Dr. Eukesh Ranjit
 * 12) T N Harsha Vardhan
 * 13) ସୁଭ ପା (Subhashish Panigrahi)
 * 14) Kamlesh Rao
 * 15) Santhosh
 * 16) Magician Philip

Signed up

 * 1) ସୁଭ ପା (Subhashish Panigrahi)
 * 2)  Tinu  Cherian 
 * 3) Melvin Simon
 * 4) B.M.Harsha
 * 5) Chandrashekhar Pomu Chavan
 * 6) Srirambms (talk)
 * 7) Bhawani Shankar Mahapatra
 * 8) T N Harsha Vardhan
 * 9) Arjunaraoc (talk) 07:16, 4 February 2011 (UTC)
 * 10) Arunram (talk) 16:35, 5 February 2011 (UTC)
 * 11) Deepak Panigrahy
 * 12) Lozil Noronha
 * 13) Asutosh kar
 * 14) Sundar \talk \contribs 11:54, 10 February 2011 (UTC)
 * 15) Dr. Eukesh Ranjit
 * 16) Suma Nadig
 * 17) Shilpa S
 * 18) Magician Philip
 * 19) KB Santosh


 * 1) P.srikanta (talk)
 * 2) Thej
 * 3) Mujeeb Rahman, Pulpally, Wayanad (talk)
 * 4) Kamlesh

Regrets

 * 1) --H P Nadig \Talk \Contributions 14:45, 9 February 2011 (UTC)
 * 2)  The Mi ke  •Wassup doc? 16:01, 12 February 2011 (UTC)

Announcements/Event Notices
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