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- 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
[edit]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
[edit]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
[edit]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
[edit]- Introductions by Wikipedians.
- Talks made
- AWB Demo by Tinu Cherian
- Google Translator toolkit for Wikipedia [1] [2] - 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
Participants
[edit]Attended
[edit]
- Sundar (talk · contribs)
- Shyamal (talk · contribs)
- HPN (talk · contribs)
- Ravichandar84 (talk · contribs)
- Tinu Cherian
- Rsrikanth05 (talk)
- Philip Tiju
- Srikanth (Logic)
- PlaneMad (talk · contribs)
- Rameshng (talk · contribs)
- Rgautham_83 (talk · contribs)
- GKJohn (talk · contribs)
- Aditya.nagarajan (talk · contribs)
- Bjelkeman (talk · contribs)
- Manu Raveendran
- Mahesh
- Secki T Jose
- Gaurang Gupta
- Jagjit Chawla, Google
- Srinidhi Viswanatha, Google
- Deepa Kurup The Hindu
- Renuka Phadnis, Bangalore Mirror
- Ankit Jain
Signed up
[edit]- Rsrikanth05 (talk)
- Tinu Cherian
- Vivek Rp (talk)
- Philip Tiju
- Ganesh Hegde
- Srikanth (Logic)
- Kiren
- Jithesh
- Naveenpf (talk · contribs)
- PlaneMad (talk · contribs)
- Rameshng (talk · contribs)
- Rgautham_83 (talk · contribs)
- girni_009 (talk · contribs)
- hspk (talk · contribs)
- Achitnis (talk)
- GKJohn (talk · contribs)
- Aditya.nagarajan (talk · contribs)
- Bjelkeman (talk · contribs), Akvopedia.org
- Jagjit Chawla, Google
- Srinidhi Viswanatha, Google
- Manu Raveendran
- Ankit Jain
- Sharath SEO Expert
- Nadesai (talk · contribs)
- Sundar (talk · contribs)
- Anoopan (talk)
- arunram (talk · contribs)
- Syler.mi4 (talk · contribs)
- Jackerhack (talk · contribs)
- HPN (talk · contribs)
- Tanveer86 (talk · contribs)
- Shyamal (talk · contribs)
- Vincentvikram
Regrets
[edit]
- Good to see Bangapedians increasing. Sorry, I'm unable to attend.
But please discuss my latest article: Directory of Environmental Organizations and Resource Persons in Tamil Nadu in my absence. Marcus334 (talk) - Omshivaprakash (talk · contribs)
- Gingerjoos (talk · contribs)
- Srikeit (Hate to miss it but I have to take this)
- Arjunaraoc (talk) I have a conflict with Telugu Literary meet
Media and Press
[edit]- Dipa Kurup, The Hindu /confirmed
- Renuka Phadnis, Bangalore Mirror. /confirmed
- DNA
- Mid-Day
Announcements/Event Notices
[edit]Please list external links announcing the meet-up here.
- Facebook Notice http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=188500278514&ref=mf
- Linkedin Notice http://events.linkedin.com/Wikipedia-Bangalore-WikiMeetup-8/pub/176708
- MyBangalore.com http://mybangalore.com/events/wikimeetup-bangalore.html
- Eventsbengaluru.com http://eventsbengaluru.com/2009/12/16/wikipedians-meet-in-bangalore/
- st-webdevelopment.in http://st-webdevelopment.in/events/2009/11/8th-wikipedia-wikimeetup-bangalore/
- 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
[edit]Please list post meeting coverage links here.
- Tweet with #WPMBL8 twitter hashtag http://twitter.com/#search?q=%23WPMBL8
Media coverage
[edit]- Deccan Chronicle Bangalore Ed 20-Dec-09 Page2 - Wikians come face-to-face.
- Bangalore Mirror 21-Dec-09 Page 4 - Citys Wikipedians come together
- The Hindu - 22 Dec 09 When the virtual world gets a room.
Photos
[edit]Please upload to commons and add category Commons:Category:Bangalore Meetup Dec09