Wikipedia:Meetup/Kolkata/Kolkata1

 Wikipedia–Wikimedia Meetup Kolkata, India Meetup  One  Successful 3:00 - 6:00 p.m. 11 December 2010 Saturday,

Summary
The Wikipedia Kolkata meetup is a regular 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: : Saturday, 11-December-2010 2:30 PM IST Venue: The Computer Society of India (CSI) Bhawanipur College 5, Lala Lajpat Rai Sarani (Elgin Road), 4th Floor Kolkata, West Bengal 700020

Mailing list

 * https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-bd For Bangladesh
 * https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-wb For West Bengal

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 Air Port,(It is suggested for who is new in kolkata take prepaid Taxi, Book for Bhawanipur College Elgin Road ) come straight through VIP Road and EM bye Pass. When Science City Crossing Comes you take right towards Park Circus 5 Point. After Park Circus 5 Point take AJC Bose fly Over Road towords Vidhyasagar Setu,but dont take the fly over, you should go through straight below the bridge towards Minto Park. From Minto Park take left for Sarat Bose Raod and you see first crossing take right for Elgin Road.

Agenda

 * Meet and connect: Introductions by Wikipedians.
 * Talks
 * Introduction to Wikipedia
 * Introduction to Bengali Wikipedia / Wiki projects


 * Discussions
 * Lightening Talks / Discussions (Open forum)
 * 10 years of Wikipedia Saturday, January 15, 2011
 * Google Translation
 * WikiBhasa
 * Networking

Participants
To add your name, click "edit" on the right side. Then add your name and click "save page" button below the edit box. You are also welcome to attend the event without registering your name here.

Attended



 * 1)  Tinu  Cherian  - 14:21, 26 November 2010 (UTC)
 * 2) Jayanta Nath
 * 3) Shijualex (talk)
 * 4) Dr Diptanshu Das
 * 5) Indranil Das Gupta
 * 6) Prof T K Dey
 * 7) Debashis Sikdar
 * 8) Kalyan Sarkar
 * 9) Soma Sen Gupta
 * 10) Pinaki Banerjee -Anandabazar Patrika reporter
 * 11) A K Banerjee
 * 12) Aniruddha Nag
 * 13) Kalyan K R Das
 * 14) GuruDas Nag
 * 15) Shiv Mishra
 * 16) Krishnendu Das
 * 17) A Sajid Ali
 * 18) Suruchi Gupta-The Hindustan Times reporter
 * 19) Debiprasad Chakraborty
 * 20) Jaydip Bhattacharya

Signedup

 * 1) --  Tinu  Cherian  - 14:21, 26 November 2010 (UTC)
 * 2) -- Jayanta Nath 14:32, 26 November 2010 (UTC)
 * 3) --Shijualex (talk) 14:36, 26 November 2010 (UTC)
 * 4) --  D ip ta ns hu Talk 16:55, 28 November 2010 (UTC)
 * 5) Indranil Das Gupta
 * 6) Kalyan Sarkar
 * 7) Sanjib Gourh
 * 8) Debashis Sikdar
 * 9) Sharath Ghosh
 * 10) Krishnendu Sanyal
 * 11) Krishnendu Das
 * 12) Shubhankar Mazumdar
 * 13) Arjun Pakrashi
 * 14) Abhijit Ghosh
 * 15) Aveek Mondal
 * 16) Ulhas Vardhan Golchha
 * 17) Suprobhat Hazra
 * 18) Najmun Nessa
 * 19) Paushali Sahu
 * 20) Avik Sengupta
 * 21) Jaybrata Bhattacharyya
 * 22) Indranil Dasgupta
 * 23) Soumyabrata Ghosh
 * 24) Kamanashish Roy
 * 25) Boudhayan Gupta
 * 26) John Bose
 * 27) Hemant Chabria
 * 28) Kuntal Gupta
 * 29) Abhinaba Dey
 * 30) Stephanie Das Gupta
 * 31) Diti Bhattacharyya
 * 32) Sudeep Deb
 * 33) Arnab Dutta
 * 34) Subhamoy Nath
 * 35) Ranajit Dey
 * 36) Kausik Nath
 * 37) Jayanta  (Talk) 12:18, 27 November 2010 (UTC) - because currently away from Kolkata
 * 38) Binil Varghese
 * 39) Avijit Patra
 * 40) Arindam Ghosh
 * 41) Debamitro Chakraborti
 * 42) Subhodip Biswas
 * 43) Vishnu Gupta
 * 44) Saugat Pal
 * 45) Bhaskarjyoti Roy
 * 46) Jitendra Adhikari
 * 47) Tanweer Morshed
 * 48) Sandipan Dhar
 * 49) Krishnendu Paul
 * 50) Surjya Kumar Das
 * 51) Meejanur Rahaman
 * 52) Harsh Verma
 * 53) Anindya Kumar Banerjee
 * 54) Debleena Bose
 * 55) Soumya Kanti Chakraborty
 * 56) Bastab Chakraborty
 * 57) Sruti Mukherjee
 * 58) Amit Das
 * 59) Debajit Biswas
 * 60) Barid Tarafdar

Regrets

 * 1) --Iball (talk) 17:49, 26 November 2010 (UTC)
 * 2) -- rueben_lys 21:19, 26 November 2010 (UTC)
 * 3) — Legolas ( talk 2 me ) 04:09, 27 November 2010 (UTC) I'm staying in Bangalore at present, hence will be attending that seminar. If by chance I come to Kolkata at that time, I will come for sure.
 * 4) --Dwaipayan (talk) 19:56, 3 December 2010 (UTC) . Not in Kolkata :(
 * 5) --  Rimi   talk  contribs 11:46, 9 December 2010 (UTC) Conducting a Creative Writing Workshop at Creative Arts Studio on 11 and 12 December from 10 to 6. Sorry.
 * 6) -- Leif edling (talk) 16:30, 26 December 2010 (UTC) Had my semester exams :(
 * 7) – Deb ‖ Poke • EditList ‖ 06:01, 4 January 2011 (UTC) Why is it behaving like gecho-dada? I was there & all the fun was here at Bangalore, now finally it's at Kolkata & I can't attend! Wouldn't Saraswati Puja have been a better time? :-|

Wishes

 * 1) Great to see this very welcome event.. For the last few years I have been seeing only the Bangladesh chapter active and really wondered if only they cared for their mother tongue or their wikipedia... So here we are- no longer at the back.. I am proud of you guys.. Keep up the good work. I am in the US and in the middle of a professional rush hour.. But I would be very eager to know how it goes.. My very best wishes. --Dr.saptarshi (talk) 19:46, 29 November 2010 (UTC)

Press

 * 1) Pinaki Banerjee -Anandabazar Patrika reporter
 * 2) Suruchi Gupta-The Hindustan Times reporter

Announcements/Event Notices
Please list external links announcing the meet-up here.
 * http://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=175781849114401
 * http://coffeehouseradda.com/blog/jayantanth/4600
 * http://indiareckoner.net/blog/2010/12/08/wikipedia-meetup-kolkata-11th-december-2010/

Twitter

 * Tweet with #WPMKK1 twitter hashtag http://twitter.com/#search?q=%23WPMKK1

Media coverage
Please list coverage of this event by media here.
 * Hindustan Times : "Making Wikipedia popular in Bengali", 2010 Dec 15, Kolkata edition.
 * Wikipedia enhances its Bong connection December 16, 2010 news.oneindia.in

Photos
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