Wikipedia:Meetup/Bangalore/Bangalore39

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 August 2009.

As discussed in the Bangalore Meetup 3 in August, 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-November-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 140feet 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 off before the flyover, walk towards, the Water tank, and proceed as above.

Agenda
Victor Grigas has been a Wikipedia editor since 2005 and currently works as a storyteller at the Wikimedia Foundation in San Francisco. He is currently working on the 2011 fundraiser and will be in Bangalore and Mumbai to conduct interviews and gather stories from Indian Wikipedians to help more fully represent the global face of Wikipedia. More information about his storytelling project is available here.
 * Talks
 * Fundraising 2011-Indiastorytelling by Victor Grigas


 * Discussions


 * Updates
 * Networking

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

Attended

 * 1) Sajeer Fazil
 * 2) RadhaKrishna
 * 3) Subha^Talk2me
 * 4) --  Tinu  Cherian  - 04:30, 27 October 2011 (UTC)
 * 5) Arjuna Rao Chavala
 * 6) User:victorgrigas
 * 7) naveenpf (talk) 04:52, 29 October 2011 (UTC)
 * 8) User:elemswee
 * 9) Gautam John
 * 10) Arunram (talk)
 * 11) User:Namwiki
 * 12) Ravichandar84

Signed up

 * 1) Subha^Talk2me
 * 2) --  Tinu  Cherian  - 04:30, 27 October 2011 (UTC)
 * 3) Arjuna Rao Chavala
 * 4)  aηsuмaη   ༽Ϟ
 * 5) User:victorgrigas
 * 6) naveenpf (talk) 04:52, 29 October 2011 (UTC)
 * 7) User:elemswee
 * 8) Sajeer Fazil
 * 9) RadhaKrishna
 * 10) User:Namwiki
 * 11) User:Dhoni

Tentative

 * 1) User:Sohanmaheshwar

Regrets

 * 1) Srirambms (talk) :(

Announcements/Event Notices
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Twitter

 * Tweet with #WPMBL39 twitter hashtag https://twitter.com/#!/search/%13WPMBL39

Facebook
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Media coverage
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Photos
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