Wikipedia:Meetup/Bangalore/Bangalore8

 Wikipedia–Wikimedia Meetup Bangalore, India Meetup 8 Successful 3:00–5:30 p.m., Sunday, 20 December 2009 (view · edit · changes)


 * What: Wikimeetup Bangalore — Dec 2009
 * When: Sunday, 20 December, 2009 3:00 PM - 5:30 PM
 * Where: The Centre for Internet and Society ( CIS), Bangalore
 * Who: 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. If you are interested in coming, add your name below with.

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

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.

The next meetup is in the month of December 2009.

Pre-Meeting discussions on the talk page please.

Date and Venue
Date: : Sunday, 20-Dec-2009 3:00 PM IST

Venue: The Centre for Internet and Society No. D2, 3rd Floor, Sheriff Chambers 14, Cunningham Road, Bangalore, Karnataka 560052, India Phone: (+91)-80-4092-6283‎

(Update - Venue confirmed with CIS for 20-Dec-09 --  Tinu  Cherian  - 10:25, 23 November 2009 (UTC))

Getting there
Directions to Cunningham road


 * From Shivaji Nagar Bus stand, come to Indian Express Bus Stop Junction, and go straight to Cunningham Road.
 * From Vidhan Soudha/GPO come directly to Indian Express Bus Stop Junction from there left turn into Cunningham Road.

Directions from Cunningham road to Venue

On Cunningham Road, about half a kilometre from the Indian Express Junction, Center for Internet and Society (CIS) is located behind Wockhardt Hospital (on the same building). This building is right next to Sigma mall.

Google Maps Link Openstreetmap

Agenda

 * Introductions by Wikipedians.
 * Talks made
 * AWB Demo by Tinu Cherian
 * Google Translator toolkit for Wikipedia  - Jagjit Chawla  from Google's translation team
 * Open Discussion on topics of common interest and updates
 * Working with academia in Bangalore - List of Universities. led by Sundar

Attended

 * 1)  Tinu  Cherian 
 * 2) Rsrikanth05 (talk)
 * 3) Philip Tiju
 * 4)  Srikanth (Logic) 
 * 5) Manu Raveendran
 * 6) Mahesh
 * 7) Secki T Jose
 * 8) Gaurang Gupta
 * 9) Jagjit Chawla, Google
 * 10) Srinidhi Viswanatha, Google
 * 11) Deepa Kurup The Hindu
 * 12) Renuka Phadnis, Bangalore Mirror
 * 13) Ankit Jain
 * 1) Manu Raveendran
 * 2) Mahesh
 * 3) Secki T Jose
 * 4) Gaurang Gupta
 * 5) Jagjit Chawla, Google
 * 6) Srinidhi Viswanatha, Google
 * 7) Deepa Kurup The Hindu
 * 8) Renuka Phadnis, Bangalore Mirror
 * 9) Ankit Jain
 * 1) Ankit Jain

Signed up

 * 1) Rsrikanth05 (talk)
 * 2)  Tinu  Cherian 
 * 3) Vivek Rp (talk)
 * 4) Philip Tiju
 * 5) Ganesh Hegde
 * 6)  Srikanth (Logic) 
 * 7) Kiren
 * 8) Jithesh
 * 9) Achitnis (talk)
 * , Akvopedia.org
 * 1) Jagjit Chawla, Google
 * 2) Srinidhi Viswanatha, Google
 * 3) Manu Raveendran
 * 4) Ankit Jain
 * 5) Sharath SEO Expert
 * 6) Anoopan (talk)
 * 7) Vincentvikram
 * , Akvopedia.org
 * 1) Jagjit Chawla, Google
 * 2) Srinidhi Viswanatha, Google
 * 3) Manu Raveendran
 * 4) Ankit Jain
 * 5) Sharath SEO Expert
 * 6) Anoopan (talk)
 * 7) Vincentvikram
 * 1) Anoopan (talk)
 * 2) Vincentvikram
 * 1) Vincentvikram
 * 1) Vincentvikram
 * 1) Vincentvikram
 * 1) Vincentvikram
 * 1) Vincentvikram
 * 1) Vincentvikram

Regrets
But please discuss my latest article: Directory of Environmental Organizations and Resource Persons in Tamil Nadu in my absence. Marcus334 (talk)
 * 1) Good to see Bangapedians increasing. Sorry, I'm unable to attend.
 * 1) Srikeit (Hate to miss it but I have to take this)
 * 2) Arjunaraoc (talk)  I have a conflict with Telugu Literary meet
 * 1) Srikeit (Hate to miss it but I have to take this)
 * 2) Arjunaraoc (talk)  I have a conflict with Telugu Literary meet

Media and Press

 * 1) Dipa Kurup, The Hindu  /confirmed
 * 2) Renuka Phadnis, Bangalore Mirror. /confirmed
 * 3) DNA
 * 4) Mid-Day

Announcements/Event Notices
Please list external links announcing the meet-up here.
 * 1) Facebook Notice http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=188500278514&ref=mf
 * 2) Linkedin Notice http://events.linkedin.com/Wikipedia-Bangalore-WikiMeetup-8/pub/176708
 * 3) MyBangalore.com http://mybangalore.com/events/wikimeetup-bangalore.html
 * 4) Eventsbengaluru.com http://eventsbengaluru.com/2009/12/16/wikipedians-meet-in-bangalore/
 * 5) st-webdevelopment.in http://st-webdevelopment.in/events/2009/11/8th-wikipedia-wikimeetup-bangalore/
 * 6) ambatisreedhar.wordpress.com http://ambatisreedhar.wordpress.com/2009/12/16/wikipedians-meet-in-bangalore-sunday-20-december-2009-300-pm-%E2%80%93-530-pm/

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

Twitter

 * Tweet with #WPMBL8 twitter hashtag http://twitter.com/#search?q=%23WPMBL8

Media coverage

 * 1) Deccan Chronicle Bangalore Ed 20-Dec-09 Page2 - Wikians come face-to-face.
 * 2) Bangalore Mirror 21-Dec-09 Page 4 - Citys Wikipedians come together
 * 3) The Hindu - 22 Dec 09 When the virtual world gets a room.

Photos
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