Wikipedia:Meetup/Bangalore/Bangalore35

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. Bangalore Wiki community is entering 2 years of regular monthly meetups as the first Bangalore meetup was started on July 2009.

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, 10-July-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


 * Discussions
 * Preview of Oral Citations Project Video - Achal Prabhala, Shiju Alex
 * Bangalore Community Engagement with Wikimedia Chapter


 * Updates
 * Networking

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

Attendees

 * 1) Achal Prabhala
 * 2) Shijualex
 * 3) Sohan Maheshwar
 * 4)  Tinu  Cherian 
 * 5) User:Arjunaraoc
 * 6) Rameshng
 * 7) Sen Marie
 * 8) Sheetal Mahesh
 * 9) B G Mahesh
 * 10)  Lynch
 * 11)  ସୁଭ ପା  Subha Pa Utter2me!
 * 12) Rajesh Kumar
 * 13) Ralph
 * 14) Ansuman Giri

Signed up

 * 1) Achal Prabhala, Member,  Wikimedia Foundation Adv. Board
 * 2)  ସୁଭ ପା Subha Pa Utter2me! 07:57, 6 July 2011 (UTC)
 * 3) User:Arjunaraoc
 * 4)  Tinu  Cherian  - 08:12, 6 July 2011 (UTC)
 * 5) -ansuman (talk) 19:46, 9 July 2011 (UTC)
 * 6) Shijualex (talk) 08:35, 6 July 2011 (UTC)
 * 7)  Lynch  7  (This time, I'll take a bus early, and get there, no matter what :P )
 * 8) Rameshng (talk)
 * 9) Prateekramachandra

Tentative

 * 1) Saikrishna.rao (talk) 07:32, 9 July 2011 (UTC)

Regrets

 * 1) Will sadly be out of town. Rather sad I will miss this milestone meetup. Gkjohn (talk) 07:52, 7 July 2011 (UTC)

Best wishes

 * 1) --Srikant Kedia
 * 2) Would've loved to attend and see the Oral Citations project, but sadly cannot, if you guys can take a video of it and upload to the commons, I'd be happy. Cheers, all the best guys. --Rsrikanth05 (talk)

Announcements/Event Notices
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Post-meetup summary/Blogs/News
The 35th Bangalore Wiki meetup was held on 10July2011 at CIS, Bangalore. This was the 2nd year celebration of Bangalore Community meetups.

It was attended by 14 Wikipedians.

The main agendas for this meetup were:
 * Discussions
 * Preview of Oral Citations Project Video - Achal Prabhala, Shiju Alex
 * The Oral Citations Project is a strategic research project funded by a Wikimedia Foundation grant to help overcome a lack of published material in emerging languages on Wikipedia. It is being undertaken by Wikimedia Foundation Advisory Board member Achal Prabhala as a short-term fellowship.

Shiju introduced the project to the audience and described about the main goal of the project, how may literary, cultural and living customs and important aspects of humanity could be cited with the lively "Oral citations". There was a 45 mins video shown to the audience to explain the whole project and its outcome. The details of the project can be accessed at http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Oral_citations
 * Bangalore Community Engagement with Wikimedia Chapter
 * Arjuna, President, Wikimedia Chapter has spoken about the community engagement with Wikimedia Chapter, registration and EC Elections details.

Twitter

 * Tweet with #WPMBL35 twitter hashtag https://twitter.com/#!/search/%23WPMBL35

Facebook
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Media coverage
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Photos
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