Wikipedia:Meetup/Bangalore/Bangalore59

Summary
The Wikipedia Bangalore meetup is a get-together of wikipedians (contributors and users) to meet up, discuss, share experiences, reach out and advocate for wikipedia and wikimedia.

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-December-2015 4:00 PM IST

Venue: Wikimedia India, Work Adda, No.98/1, MMR Plaza, 1st Floor, Above DCB Bank Sarjapur Main Road, Jakkasandra, Koramangala 1st Block. Bangalore - 560034

Location: Google Maps OpenStreetMap

Contact: 9986 99 3336

Landmark: Opposite to and nearby Asia Pacific World School. Our building is in between Kotak Mahindra Bank and the Balini furniture store. We are in the first floor right abobe DCB Bank in a shared working space called WorkAdda.

Directions: Those who are coming by bus need to get down at Jakkasandra bus stop. It is few meters by walk from there.

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.

Agenda

 * Reviving Bangalore Community meetups and activities
 * Meeting with Asaf Bartov from the Wikimedia Foundation
 * I am particularly interested to hear thoughts from local Wikimedians about opportunities and challenges, and to answer any questions you may have about the Foundation or work in India. Asaf (WMF) (talk) 12:50, 10 December 2015 (UTC)


 * Networking and snacks

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

Attending

 * 1) Ravishankar (talk) 04:23, 10 December 2015 (UTC)
 * 2) Psubhashish (talk) 04:40, 10 December 2015 (UTC)
 * 3) Shyamal (talk)
 * 4) Arkrishna (talk) 08:22, 10 December 2015 (UTC)
 * 5) Vikram Vincent
 * 6) Asaf (WMF) (talk) 12:51, 10 December 2015 (UTC)
 * 7) Santosh Shingare (talk)
 * 8) Dineshkumar Ponnusamy (talk)
 * 9) Csyogi (talk)
 * 10)  Nrgullapalli
 * 11) Sundar \talk \contribs 05:16, 12 December 2015 (UTC)
 * 12) Omshivaprakash (talk) 05:28, 12 December 2015 (UTC)
 * 13) Mayank Agarwal
 * 14) Abhinay Visvakarma
 * 15) Tito Dutta (talk)

Regrets

 * 1) I am out of town. I hope this meetup revives community meetups in Bangalore. -- Rohini (talk) 16:36, 12 December 2015 (UTC)

Best wishes

 * 1) I will be waiting for a summary of meetup.--Satdeep Gill (talk • contribs 05:08, 10 December 2015 (UTC)
 * 2)   ƬheStrike  Σagle  
 * 3) Ahmed Nisar (talk) 07:34, 10 December 2015 (UTC)
 * 4) Hibayathullah (talk) 12:08, 10 December 2015 (UTC)
 * 5) Bodhisattwa (talk) 18:39, 10 December 2015 (UTC)
 * 6) Harriet--Outofindia (talk) 01:37, 12 December 2015 (UTC) All the best!. Would have loved to join you all from Mangalore but we have the Global Konkani Music Awards on the Same day!

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

Introduction
The meet-up started with general introduction. Here the participants introduced themselves. Asaf Bartov, senior Programme Officer, WMF, appreciated the way the participants were commenting after each introduction.

WikiConference India 2016
The participants were eager to discuss WikiConference India 2016. So they discussed this topic:
 * 1) Who are organizing these events.
 * 2) Design if the event.

Google OCR
Ravi forwarded a question which he received from User:Bodhisattwa from Bengali Wikipedia - how can WMF help to include Google COR in Indic Wikisource projects.

Twitter

 * Tweet with #WPMBL59 twitter hashtag http://twitter.com/#!/search/%23WPMBL59

Media coverage
Please list coverage of this event by media here.

Photos
Please upload to commons and add category Commons:Category:Bangalore Meetup December2015