Wikipedia:Meetup/Bangalore/Bangalore9

 Wikipedia–Wikimedia Meetup Bangalore, India Meetup 9 3:00–6:00 p.m., Sunday, 10 Janurary 2010


 * What: Wikimeetup Bangalore — Jan 2010
 * When: Sunday, 10 Jan, 2010 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.All are welcome, and we are especially interested in seeing newcomers to join the experienced Wikipedians/Wikimedians. If you are interested in coming, add your name below with.

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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.

The next meetup is in the month of Jan 2010.

Pre-Meeting discussions on the talk page please.

Date and Venue
Date: : Sunday, 10-Jan-2010 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
 * Note: Confirmed with Sunil Abraham of CIS today. --  Tinu  Cherian  - 10:07, 31 December 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.


 * Planned talks


 * WikiProject Banner Tagging using AWB and Kingbotk Plugin - User:Tinucherian
 * Localisation --Rsrikanth05 (talk) [Confirmed with Tinucherian]]
 * Open Discussion on topics of common interest and updates
 * Discussion on plans for Wikipedia Day event in Bangalore on 15-Jan-2010 - Arunram
 * Special outreach program
 * Discussion with Samskrita Bharathi team on Wikipedia Sanskrit. Intend of the session is to create awareness and comeup with a joint plan to leverage Wikipedia as a platform to promote Sanskrit. - Led by User:Arunram

Attended

 * 1) Shijualex
 * 2) Arunram
 * 3) Arjunaraoc
 * 4) User:Ravichandar84
 * 5) Jithesh e j (talk)
 * 6) Vaibhavskulkarni (talk)
 * 7) Rawlife
 * 8) Anoopan
 * 9) Rsrikanth05
 * 10) Naveenpf
 * 11) Kalyan Chakravarthy
 * 12) Arjunram
 * 13) Abdul Muqhtadir
 * 14) Vivek Rp
 * 15) Srinivasan
 * 16) Heather Ford
 * 17)  Gautam John
 * 1)  Gautam John

Signed up

 * 1) Arjunaraoc (talk) 15:53, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
 * 2) Arunram (talk)
 * 3) Rsrikanth05 (talk) Got some personal commitments on that day.. But I guess I might make it.
 * 4) Shijualex (talk) 06:41, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
 * 5) Rameshng (talk)
 * 6) Jithesh e j (talk) 21:45, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
 * 7) Vaibhavskulkarni (talk) 9 January 2010
 * 8) Noopur
 * 9) Naveenpf
 * 10) Rawlife (talk) I am there at the Meetup today.
 * 11) Kiran
 * 12) Srikeit
 * 13) Abdul Muqhtadir
 * 14) Anoopan
 * 1) Anoopan

Regrets

 * 1)  -- Conflicting appointments.

Announcements/Event Notices
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 * Facebook http://www.facebook.com/event.php?invites&eid=233621739071
 * Linkedin http://events.linkedin.com/Wikipedia-Bangalore-WikiMeetup-9/pub/198041
 * Upcoming http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/5190023/KA/Bangalore/Wikipedia-Bangalore-Meetup-9

Post-meetup summary/Blogs/News
Please list post meeting coverage links here.
 * http://vaibhavsk.blogspot.com/2010/01/bangalore-wikipedia-meetup-9.html

Twitter

 * Tweet with #WPMBL9 twitter hashtag http://twitter.com/#search?q=%23WPMBL9

Media coverage
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Photos
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