Wikipedia:Meetup/Kolkata/Kolkata4

International Women's Day (IWD), originally called International Working Women’s Day is marked on the 8th of March every year. Theme for International Women's Day 2011:Equal access to education, training and science and technology: Pathway to decent work for women. We are planning Wikimeet Up and Workshop for Women specially for Bengali Wikipedian.  Women's Wiki Workshop(WWW) Kolkata, India Meetup Successful 1:30 p.m -5:30 p.m 18 March 2010 Friday,

Summary
This Wikipedia/Wikimedia Kolkata meetup is a get-together of wikipedians /wikimedians (contributors and users) to celbrate the Tenth Anniversary of Wikipedia by meeting up, discussing, sharing experiences, reaching out and advocacy for wikipedia and wikimedia.

Pre-Meeting discussions can be on the talk page please.

Intended Audience
Anyone interested in Wikipedia/Wikimedia is welcomed to join, regardless of the language or the project including Past, present or future contributors. Anyone supportive or interested in the Wikimedia movement is invited to join us for a casual meetup over coffee. Please add your name to the list below and join the India mailing list.


 * https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-wb West Bengal Mailing alias

Date and Venue


Date: : Friday, 18-March-2011 1:30 PM IST

Venue:: Seagull Arts and Media Resource centre 36C, S.P.Mukherjee Road, Bhowanipur Calcutta 700025 India Phone: 24556942/43

Nearest Metro stop: Jatin Das Park (Rupchand Mukerjee Lane Between Bharati and Bijoli Cinema Hall)

Getting there
Take any bus which will go through Bhabhanipur Area (S P Mukherjee/Ashutosh Mukherjee Road) and get down at the Bharati Cinema Bus Stop
 * By Road:

Get down at the Jatin Das Park Station, get out from Jatin Das Park exit and walk towards Ashutosh College, After Bhabanipur Police station/Bijoli Cinema take left Road just before of Bharati Cinema.
 * By Metro:

Howrah Station and Sealdah or Tollygunge, any transport to Bhowanipur
 * By Train:

Session I

 * Gender Gap in Wikipedia ( 15 min)  by  Bishakha Datta
 * Presentation about Bengali Wikipedia ( 15 min) by Jayanta Nath or Arnab Datta
 * Wikipedia Policy & guideline regarding content.( 15 min) by me or Arnab Datta
 * Question Answer (45 min) by Jayanta Nath or Arnab Datta and Bishakha Datta


 * Tea Break

Session II
Wikipedia Workshop
 * Introduction - Bengali Build-In typing in Bengali Wikipedia
 * Introduction -How to Edit Wikipedia with Wikimarkup
 * Introduction- Online Translation Tool: Google Translation


 * Next meetup
 * Next meetup Planning~ For Common & permanent place for Wikipedia Meet up

Attending
Institution
 * 1) Moumita Ghosh Faculty, Basanti Devi College
 * 2) Barnika Bandyopadhyay Faculty, Basanti Devi College
 * 3) Subhasri Ghosh    Faculty, Institute of Development Studies Kolkata (IDSK)
 * 4) Krishna Soman    Faculty, Institute of Development Studies Kolkata (IDSK)
 * 5) Nandini Ghosh    Faculty, Institute of Development Studies Kolkata (IDSK)
 * 6) Ranjita Biswas    Faculty, Jadavpur University, School of Women's Studies
 * 7) Rimi B. Chatterjee    Faculty, Jadavpur University
 * 8) Swarnali Banerjee    Faculty, Jayaprakash Institute of Social Change
 * 9) Reshma Anjum Faculty, Jayaprakash Institute of Social Change
 * 10) Krishna Dasgupta    Faculty, Lady Brabourne College
 * 11) Peu Ghosh     Faculty, Lady Brabourne College
 * 12) Sumita Saha    Faculty, Lady Brabourne College
 * 13) Basudeb Karmakar Principal, Serampore Girls College
 * 14) Saswati Kar Faculty, Serampore Girls College
 * 15) Kumkum Sarkar Faculty, Serampore Girls College
 * 16) Samata Biswas    Faculty, Sivnath Sastri College

NGO
 * 1) Roop Sen Chief Functionary, Groupe Development
 * 2) Uma  Chatterjee  Chief Functionary, GD Sanjog
 * 3) Shampa Sengupta    Director, Sruti Disability Rights Centre

Individual
 * 1) Rajashi Mukherjee    Development Consultant Media
 * 2) Chandreyee G. D.    The Telegraph

Wikimedia Foundation, India
 * 1) Bishakha Dutt     Trustee
 * 2) Jayanta Nath
 * 3) Arnab Datta
 * 4) Biswaroop Ganguly

Sanhita
 * 1) Soma Sen Gupta    Director
 * 2) Gargi Bannerji    Member
 * 3) Amrita Rudra    Member
 * 4) Shalini Gupta    Member
 * 5) Sirsha Gupta    Member

Interested but not sure

 * 1) Debashis Sikdar

Regrets

 * 1) Diptanshu Das

Best wishes

 * 1) Vaibhav Jain 14:05, 10 March 2011 (UTC)

Announcements/Event Notices

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Twitter/Identica/StatusNet
Hashtag: #WPMKK4

Media coverage
Please list coverage of this event by media here.
 * The Hindustan Times ( Kolkata edition) : "Wiki wants Women"
 * Telegraph (Kolkata)

Photos
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