Wikipedia:Meetup/Mumbai/Mumbai3



Wikipedia–Wikimedia Meetup Mumbai, India Meetup 3 Successful विकीपीडिया मिलन : मुंबई-3 सम्पन्न 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m., Sunday, 31 October 2010

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Summary
The Wikipedia/Wikimedia Mumbai meetup is a get-together of wikipedians /wikimedians (contributors and users) to meet up, discuss, share experiences, reach out and advocate for wikipedia and wikimedia. Jimmy Wales, Founder, Wikipedia will be attending and is eager to hear from the local community.

There will be a Community meetup at 6 PM IST followed by a Public talk from 6:30 PM IST.

Pre-Meeting and Post-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 at meetup. Please add your name to the list below and join the india mailing list. shrenik jhaveri

Date and Venue

 * Date and Time
 * 31-October-2010
 * The community meetup with Jimmy Wales - 6:00-6:30 PM IST
 * Public talk by Jimmy Wales - From 6:30 PM IST


 * Venue
 * Sophia Bhabha Hall (800-seater),
 * Sophia College Campus,
 * Bhulabhai Desai Road,
 * Breach Candy,
 * Mumbai-400 026.


 * Help Line
 * 98694 78444 (Kundan Amitabh)

Getting there
The Venue is in South Mumbai. Buses,Taxis are easily available to the venue.

Train
Mumbai Central and Grant Road of Western Railway are the most nearest Railway Stations from the venue.

Buses
From Grant Road: take a 155 (outside the station, to the west) or 132 or 81 (from Nana Chowk, 5 mins from the station). From Mumbai Central: take a 63.

Agenda
Jimmy Wales, Founder of Wikipedia will be attending, he wants to hear from the local community. There is no set agenda, so everyone is free to talk about whatever that might be of interest to the Foundation or the projects. This will be followed by a public talk by Jimmy.

Participants

 * 500 to 600 people attended the meetup.

Attendees

 * 1) Jimmy Wales, Founder of Wikipedia
 * 2) Bishakha Datta, (User:Bishdatta), Board of Trustees, Wikimedia Foundation
 * 3) User:Angpradesh, Kundan Amitabh (coordinating the meetup), founder Angika Wikipedia


 * 1) User:Aalaap (talk), Aalaap Ghag
 * 2) User:Arunram (talk) President, Wikimedia India chapter.
 * 3) User:AshLin (talk), Ashwin Baindur
 * 4) debnathsandeep(talk), bhuto
 * 5) User:Clintong (talk), Clinton Gonsalvez (Wikipedia Contributor / Independent Content Management Consultant)
 * 6) User:HPN (talk), Hari Prasad Nadig, founder Kannada Wikipedia
 * 7) User:i5bala (talk), Balakumar Muthu, CEO/Chief Architect SweetCircles.com, LoveLogger.com
 * 8) User:Kartik mistry (talk), (Just another Wikipedia lover)
 * 9) User:Pranab.salian (talk), Pranab Salian
 * kn:User:Radhatanaya (talk)ರಾಧಾತನಯ
 * 1) User:Mahafreed (talk)
 * 2) User:Mokshjuneja (talk), Moksh Juneja
 * 3) User:prad2609,Pradeep Mohandas,@pradx
 * 4) User:Siddhesh_j (talk), Siddhesh Joglekar, Product Manager, Rediff and blogger, Strat.in
 * kn:User:Shreekant.mishrikoti (talk), Shreekanth Mishrikoti, Kannada Wikipedian
 * 1) User:Utcursch (talk)


 * 1) User:Aads6690 (talk), Aadish Shinde
 * 2) User:Agr mk (talk), Manish Kr. Agrawal (New Delhi)
 * 3) User:Ankz123 (talk), Ankitraj Thakkar  - student, Dwarkadas .J. Sanghvi College of Engineering.
 * 4) User:annkur (talk), Annkur P Agarwal , Founder OnlyGizmos.com
 * 5) User:chan625 (talk), Chandrakin Agashe, A Regular User & Small Time Contributor
 * 6) Shailesh  Birla (Online Market Analyser and Search Engine Executive)
 * 7) Abhinav  Pande (Webmaster and SEO Executive)
 * 8) Vivek Varghese Cherian
 * 9) User:dhavalhirdhav (talk),  (Dhaval Faria)
 * 10) User:Piykumar (talk), Piyush Kumar
 * 11) User:prolificdyslexic Prolific Dyslexic
 * 12) User:Gryphusnick (talk)
 * 13) User:reddy2go (talk), Dr. Ritesh Reddy
 * 14) User:Rahman infosys (talk), Mujeeb Rahman, Pulpally, Wayanad
 * 15) Sagar Savla fb
 * 16) User:sumeetm90 (User talk:sumeetm90), Sumeet More
 * 17)  Lajpat Dhingra
 * 18)  Pranav Kapoor
 * 19)  Prakash Advani


 * 1) Aakanksh
 * 2) Isar Qureshi, Trainer and consultant
 * 3) Milin Abraham
 * 4) Aditya Venkata Ch
 * 5) Ameaya
 * 6) Gopi Aravind
 * 7) Eshan Arif, Media Student and Entrepreneur.
 * 8) Sandeep Pokkali
 * 9) Akshay T.
 * 10) Swapnil Rajput
 * 11) Rashida S. Arsiwala, Sub-Editor, Spenta Multimedia
 * 12) Ashwani
 * 13) Arjun Bajaj
 * 14) Rekha Bajaj
 * 15) Saptarshi Biswas  - student, Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal
 * 16) S. Basu, Founder, DaulatGuru.com
 * 17) S.S.Behera - Mumbai
 * 18) Unnikrishnan Bhaskaran
 * 19) Prashant
 * 20) Anvita Budhraja
 * 21) Harini CalamurA POVCogito TV
 * 22) Harsh Chaitany
 * 23) Apurva Chaudhary , twitter: @Unitechy
 * 24) Arcopol Chaudhuri , senior correspondent , Daily News Analysis
 * 25) Manish Chauhan - SAP ABAP Consultant - Ivitesse Technologies
 * 26) Dr.Sajith Chandran (Asst. Professor-Jai Hind College)-Indica language-Malayalam (Discussions on Introduction/Contributions)
 * 27) Ronojoy Chatterjee
 * 28) Nivedita Dalvi
 * 29) Samuel Darwin
 * 30) Abhishek Deshpande, Wikipedia Fan, Innovation Consultant
 * 31) Prajakta Dhatrak
 * 32) Surya Dontharaju- Mumbai
 * 33) Naveen Dhanuka
 * 34) Diwaspati, Mumbai
 * 35) Devansh Dixit ( Project Management Consultant)
 * 36) Divyasha Doshi- featurs editor abhiyaan gujrati magazine
 * 37) John D'Souza
 * 38) Ekta M, user
 * 39) Tejas Nair User:Mr._57 (talk) : Creative Writer.
 * 40) Shahid Farooqui, IIT Bombay
 * 41) Alpesh Gajbe (Web Manager - Tata Institute of Social Sciences)
 * 42) Dhiren Gala, Marcom Manager, MAIA Intelligence
 * 43) Darshan Gole, Mumbai
 * 44) Arun Gopal
 * 45) Rohit Gupta
 * 46) Hasitbhai Hemani
 * 47) Tanmay Haldar
 * 48) Hari Iyer
 * 49) Santosh Iyer
 * 50) Suraj Shetty
 * 51) Gaurav Kankariya - SEO and Wikipedia Fan
 * 52) Karan Kashyap, Admin Explore the Web Network, Karan Kashyap
 * 53) Vikash Kashyap
 * 54) Saif Khan, Thane
 * 55) Mohsin Khazi
 * 56) Sandeep Kothari, Software Engineer, Rediff.com
 * 57) Ajit Kulkarni
 * 58) Anand Kulkarni
 * 59) Varun Jain
 * 60) Kashyap Juthani Co-founder www.pocketsafe.in www.bucketbolt.com
 * 61) Denzil Lewis - Geologist
 * 62) Ameya Mahajan
 * 63) Gaurav Makkar
 * 64) Dhruv Matani
 * 65) Vishal Malviya
 * 66) Maitri, Gujaratilexicon
 * 67) Manish Lad
 * 68) Nishant Parekh
 * 69) Sumit Kumar, wikiuser
 * 70) Jaykrishna Nair (http://justonesmartclick.wordpress.com)
 * 71) Jitu Manghnani, wikuser
 * 72) M.K.Menon, Wikipedia User
 * 73) Dr.Dheeraj More, Clinical Physician
 * 74) V R Nataraj
 * 75) Nirliptha BV- student, BIT
 * 76) Prosenjit Mukherjee, Oracle/Teradata DBA.
 * 77) Prakash Paghdal, Wikipedia User
 * 78) Kedar Bhanudas Pagdhare
 * 79) Agam Panwar, A search engine marketing expert
 * 80) Netra Parikh, Pinstorm
 * 81) Kaushal Parsekar, History Student, Wikipedia user and Wikpedia editor
 * 82) Deepak Patel (Pune)
 * 83) Karan Patel
 * 84) Kishor Patel ,Goregaon Mumbai
 * 85) Arun Pattnaik, Entrepreneur-in-Residence, InstaPress
 * 86) Peterson Peter petersonpeter, Entrepreneur
 * 87) Sushanth Poojary - Virtual labs, IIT Bombay
 * 88) Bharat Prajapati
 * 89) Rohan Ranade
 * 90) Shanta Rao
 * 91) Swapna Rao, Thane
 * 92) Suruchi Rao
 * 93) Vallabh Rao, Asst Editor, YourStory.in
 * 94) Siva Prasad Sahoo - Software Engineer(Oracle Apps Technology) - Accenture
 * 95) Priyanko Sarkar
 * 96) Prathmesh Sawant
 * 97) A R Sandeep, Wikimanic
 * 98) Rashmi Sasidharan
 * 99) Dr. Varun Saxena, Corporate Strategy, MNC Pharma firm
 * 100) Aditya Sengupta
 * 101) Prashant Serai - Student, V.E.S. Institute of Technology
 * 102) Anbu Shan, Wikuser, Pm from Pune
 * 103) Neeraj Sharma, wikiuser
 * 104) Shradha Sharma, Founder, YourStory.in
 * 105) Abhishek Singh, Wikipedia User, working @ reliance energy
 * 106) Paramjeet Singh,
 * 107) Chitraparna Sinha
 * 108) Jubin Soni
 * 109) Werner Egipsy Souza, Sales Head, Burgeon Systems
 * 110) Rishiraj Srivastava
 * 111) Kaushik Subramaniam- MM- BIT
 * 112) Subramanian Kalpathi
 * 113) Satish Suggala
 * 114) Abhijeet Tamhane
 * 115) Sandeep D Targe - SEO Manager and a Wikipedia Fan
 * 116) Jitu Teron
 * 117) Alastair Trueger
 * 118) Ranjeet Walunj ranjeet_walunj, Co-Founder thesaplingproject.com
 * 119) Hardik Vaidya-NIT Nagpur,Civil Engineer
 * 120) Shlok Vaidya, Ghatkopar
 * 121) Prashant Vedpathak (IPM @ Accenture)
 * 122) Ishita Verma
 * 123) Vikrant, Nashik
 * 124) Vishal
 * 125) D.Raja Sekhar(AP IIIT),VIZAG.
 * 126) Abhishek Sharma Mba Student
 * 127) Shubham Tayal
 * 128) Niranjana Krishnan
 * 129) Tanvi Bendre
 * 130) Mrunmaiy Abroal, Opera Software
 * 131) Bikram Kesharee Badajena, Business Development Manager, MRH India Pvt. Ltd.
 * 132) Faisal S
 * 133) Vishal J
 * 134) Mamta B. Badajena
 * 135) Bhavesh B Shah
 * 136) Rajesh Bhatia
 * 137) Jinay Gala  - student, Dwarkadas J. Sanghvi College of Engineering, Mumbai.
 * 138) Prakash Maharaj
 * 139) Vijay Kishore
 * 140) Claylan
 * 141) Selena Huang
 * 142) Amith Prabhu
 * 143) Kuldeep Sharma
 * 144) Ishan Parekh - Student, NMiMS University
 * 145) Venkatesh G - @venkatg
 * 146) Sreekanth Kolamala
 * 147) Indranil Bhattacharya - Freelance Digital Artist
 * 148) Sohel Pandorwala - Freelance Digital Artist
 * 149) Deepak Saxena
 * 150) Jyoti
 * 151) Rishabh Chandra
 * 152) Jaya Arya
 * 153) Parul Srivastava
 * 154) Mohammed Alimuddin Ahmed
 * 155) Gourav Nigam
 * 156) Rishikesh
 * 157) Shailendra Pandey
 * 158) Shweta Karwa, UDCT/ICT, Mumbai
 * 159) Jetin Anand
 * 160) Aakash Jain
 * 161) Saffy
 * 162) Pranav Pallav
 * 163) Pravin Gandhi, Software marketing Consultant, Mumbai
 * 164) Ashish Kakar
 * 165) Ramendra Maitra - BPO Services
 * 166) Ajay Anand
 * 167) Pratik Sawant
 * 168) Navjot S Dhanoa- Web Developer
 * 169) Tejas Suthar
 * 170) Anuj Rane
 * 171) Mayank Vijekar
 * 172) Mahesh Makhijani - Associate Consultant(SAP Technical), Capgemini.
 * 173) Sreeyesh Vijayan
 * 174) Anshul Jindal
 * 175) Anshum kawatra
 * 176) Santosh Jayaram
 * 177) Shahzad Wakeel,I.I.T,Mumbai
 * 178) Akshay Kodoori
 * 179) Mayur Meshram
 * 180) Bhumish Khudkhudia
 * 181) Kiran Paranjape
 * 182) Kunj Karia
 * 183) ShahzadWakeel (IITB)
 * 184) Dilkash Wakeel( TISS)
 * 185) Aditi Mittal
 * 186) Amey Morajkar
 * 187) Neeladri Bihari Otta - Associate Business Analyst
 * 188) Sarthak Nevgi- student,VJTI
 * 189) Vinod Patil-Student ICT Mumbai
 * 190) Venu
 * 191) Shashank Singh, VJTI,Mumbai
 * 192) Nimitha Sarma, UMIT,SNDT, Mumbai
 * 193) Rihen Ajmera, Mumbai
 * 194) Jugal Mundra, Mumbai
 * 195) talk:Srini2k9|talk]]),,  - Technology Evangelist, Travel Writer, Blogger
 * 196) Charmaine Mirza, Mumbai
 * 197) Bhagirathi singh, NIT Rourkela
 * 198) Abhishek Sthalekar, Student
 * 199) Ashish Waingankar, Student
 * 200) Prasun Bhowmik, Teach For India Fellow
 * 201) Rukmani Kapoor, Teach For India Fellow
 * 202) Yash Re
 * 203) Karthik.S,IBM india pvt LTD
 * 204) R. Prabhu student, blogger, wikipedia enthusiast.
 * 205) Arindam Ghosh makghosh [at] gmail [dot] com (User:Makghosh)
 * 206) Rishi Arora (User:Arora Rishi)
 * 207) Abhishek Kumar, Associate at Morgan Stanley
 * 208) KEEN intrested:(couldn't come, this time in Delhi)
 * 209) Krishna Singh Nagarkoti Almora Khadiya
 * 210) H Mathur
 * 211) Er. Simanchal Patra
 * 212) Sonu Martolia
 * 213) Saurabh Kumar
 * User:Digamber.tawde
 * 1) Vaseem Khan
 * User:Prabodh1987
 * User:StewDaDa
 * 1) Mehul Ved
 * 2) Yorick Pinto
 * 3) VK Bharadwaj
 * 4) Kishor Kulkarni
 * 5) Siji Sunny
 * 6) User:Joy1963 - Jayanta Bhattacharya, almost sure to attend this time.
 * 7) Urja K
 * 8) DR R K Sharma
 * 9) User:Sachinvenga
 * 10) Arjav Mehta    }
 * 11) Rishaad Amlani } childhood friends of Jimmy Wales
 * 12) Jalaj P. Jha
 * 13) Puneet Rekhade - WikiUser
 * 14) Nikhil Akhouri- Wiki lover
 * 15) Arun Gopal-Wikimaniac
 * 16) Tejas a
 * 17)  Max Viwe
 * 18) Sohini Dey
 * 19) Josevivekk (talk) 07:04, 28 October 2010 (UTC)Jose Vivek K - Not a wide user of Wikipedia, but loves all features and using from 5 years.
 * 20) Mukesh Yadav
 * 21) Azam Ansari--wiki fan
 * 22) Haroon Bijli, Enthusiast
 * 23) Saurabh Garg
 * 24) Dhanraj Chakraborty - Website Content Writer
 * 25) Naresh Agrawal - Wiki lover and frequent visiter
 * 26) Amith Chandhran User:Amithchandhran Business Lawyer - Wikilover.
 * 27) Rohith RUser:Rohithmvk
 * 28) Ravi Kartheek User:RaviKartheek
 * 29) Ninad Watve --Poticecream (talk) 12:17, 28 October 2010 (UTC) Wikian
 * 30) Abhishek Sarangan
 * 31) Arnab Ghosal
 * 32) Aman Singh
 * 33) Ashish Chavan
 * 34) Gourav Sally- Journalist
 * 35) Abhishek Mane
 * 36) Shyam Suresh --[Someone who worships this website]
 * User:vgautham_91
 * 1) Abhinaba Mukherjee
 * 2) Nivedita Misra, student
 * 3) keval malde
 * 4) Dr.Siddhesh Shere
 * 5) Sushanth.Nair a.k.a Aristocrat[hope to catch up with it]
 * 6) Sorabh Talwar
 * 7) Bandia Bhau
 * 8) Rajesh
 * 9) Naveen
 * 10) Venkat Iyer - BSDE
 * 11) Rupesh Bhurke from DgFlick Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
 * 12) Shrijeet Raorane
 * 13) Galaxy Web Services
 * 14) Kunwar Manoj Kumar Raghav
 * 15) Ashish Cecil Murmu
 * 16) Bandish Bhoir, Dombivli
 * 17) Swadesh Saxena,Indore (one who love this website)
 * 18) Ajay Rathore,Bhopal
 * 19) Mutembei Kariuki
 * 20) Priyank Shah
 * 21) Kishor Patel
 * 22) User: K. Jimreeves
 * 23) user: Jayesh Panchal
 * 24) Noorul Ameen K
 * 25) Anirban Mitra
 * 26) Dr.Abhishek Ghosh
 * 27) Preyas Pandya
 * 28) M. Naga Laxmi,hyderabad
 * 29) Prof. KR Chowdhary, MBM, Jodhpur
 * 30) Sapna Ranka
 * 31) BRIJESH KUMAR SINGH,HYDERABAD (A.P)- http://twitter.com/brijkrsingh
 * 32) User: Nandan Vaidya http://identi.ca/gotunandan
 * 33) User:Mital_d_vora
 * 34) Sambit Mitra, Opera House.
 * 35) Hatim Kanpurwala.
 * 36) Narendra Kumar Jarugu
 * 37) Vikas Mulchandani
 * 38) Phani Bhaskar Nadella [Freelance Business Consultant, Bangalore, India]
 * 39) Alim Ahmed [Automobile Expert, Mumbai, India]
 * 40) Krishna Mohan Jha (Interactive Media Professional, Mumbai, India)
 * 41) Kaustav Kanti Paul (Student, ITM, Navi Mumbai)
 * 42) Daniel Christopher (Musician) Bangalore India
 * 43) Shardul Vaidya
 * 44) Manoj Barhate - Vfx Artist n (Wiki Lover)
 * 45) Sambath Kumaar (FaceBook) - Engineering Student, Coimbatore
 * 46) Arun Kamath
 * 47) ER. DIGVIJAY SINGH KATARIA
 * 48) Vineeth V G (to see you all and to hear ya all)
 * 49) Ranjith Sutari (talk) Don't want to miss this event but........
 * 50) Zameer Vikamsey
 * 51) Dikssha Dinesh
 * 52) Divyajana Prashansa
 * 53) Shafique Ansari User:shafiqmodern
 * 54) Binoy Lobo
 * 55) Vikram Sabbithi
 * 56) Paritosh Sanghavi
 * 57) Shruti Goswami (wiki addict)[want to desperately attend but may not b able to! :( ]
 * 58) Mohammed Wasim
 * 59) Mayur Bakhai
 * 60) Raghunandan Hegde
 * 61) Roshni Nuggehalli
 * 62) NASIRUDDEEN SALEEM LOHARBold text
 * 63) Akshay Kashyap
 * 64) Farha Shaheen:):(
 * 65) Sagar jamadar
 * 66) Uden Zimba
 * 67) Praveenkumar Batra
 * 68) Vikas Maurya "not in Mumbai now :("
 * 69) Mahalakshmi Srinivasan
 * 70) Prathamesh
 * 71) Vedang
 * 72) Roshan Jadhav
 * 73) TejasChaudhari

Interested But Not attended

 * 1) veryintrested:(couldn't come "Shivam Sharma" (shivam28sharma@yahoo.com)
 * 2) Looking forwad to meet in future events. I will be attending the next event in USA."Rasananda Behera, DTM" (behera.r@gmail.com)

Announcements / Event Notices / Pre-Meetup Media Coverage

 * The Economic Times - Wikipedia set to expand presence in Global South : Founder Jimmy Wales To Visit India To Increase Awareness
 * DNA: Meet Wikipedia founder in Mumbai next Sunday
 * CIOL : Wikimedia to open India operation, soon
 * Times of India - Wikipedia Founder to make Mum pit-stop by Mahafreed Irani
 * यासंदर्भातील माहिती मराठीतून पाहण्यासाठी येथे क्लिक करा.

Slide Presentation

 * Jimmy Wales presentation on Slideshare (downloadable).

Media coverage / News / Reports
Please list coverage of this event by media here.
 * 1) BBC: Wikipedia to open first office outside the US in India
 * 2) Hindustan Times: Wikipedia woos Indians, wants them to be more active
 * 3) (AFP): Wikimedia sees boost for languages online with India office
 * 4) The Hindu: Wikipedia turns to India
 * 5) The Financial Express: WIKIWALLAHS
 * 6) memeburn.com: Wikipedia to open first office outside US in India
 * 7) Tech2.in.com The Near Future Of Free Knowledge In India: Jimmy Wales Speaks
 * 8) duniyalive.com Wikipedia to launch its office in India
 * 9) datacenterdynamics.com Reports say India growth spurs Google and Wikipedia data center projects
 * 10) (Spanish Wikinews): Fundación Wikimedia abrirá oficina regional en India
 * 11) thomsons.asia: Wikipedia to expand to India
 * 12) thinkdigit.com: Wikipedia looks to set up its second office in India to power its next growth spurt
 * 13) Bangalore Mirror : "The benevolent monarch"
 * 14) Hindustan Times : Wikipedia to set up office in India
 * 15) Sify : Wikimedia to open first non-US office in India
 * 16) Indiamag.in : Wikipedia to Open its First Non-US Office in India
 * 17) Wootnews: Wikipedia sets up in India
 * 18) Mynews.in : Wikipedia’s office to be set up in Mumbai
 * 19) Rediff : India: Wikipedia's next target
 * 20) Wiki’s new home in India by Suruchi Gupta, Hindustan Times, Kolkata.

Blogs/Micro-blogs

 * 1) Parallel Spirals - Jimmy Wales and the third Wikipedia Meetup
 * 2) Vivek Varghese Cherian's Blog on the 3rd Wikipedia Meetup 2010,Mumbai
 * 3) OnlyGizmos feature on the Wikipedia Mumbai meetup, with an interview

Twitter

 * Tweet with #WPMMU3 twitter hashtag http://twitter.com/#search?q=%23WPMMU3

Photos / Videos
Please upload to commons and add category Commons:Category:Mumbai Meetup 31Oct10
 * 1) Pradeep's photos on Flickr - http://www.flickr.com/photos/pradx/tags/wpmmu3/ - please help move to Commons
 * 2) Vivek Varghese Cherian's Photos - http://vivekvc.freeshell.org/photos/wikipedia-mumbai-meetup-2010/
 * 3) HPN's photos on Flickr  http://www.flickr.com/photos/hpnadig/sets/72157625169890509/with/5138475339/

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