Wikipedia:Meetup/Bangalore/Bangalore6

Wikipedia–Wikimedia Meetup
Bangalore, India

Meetup 6 Successful
3:00–5:30 p.m., Sunday, 11 October

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• What: Wikimeetup Bangalore — Oct 2009
• When: Sunday, 11 October, 2009 3:00 PM - 5:30 PM
• Where: CIS office, Bangalore, India
• 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

The Wikipedia Bangalore meetup is a regular get together of wikipedians (contributors and users) to meet up up, discuss, share experiences, outreach and advocacy of wikipedia.

As discussed in the Bangalore Meetup 3 in July, wikipedians in Bangalore 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 October 2009.

Pre-Meeting discussions on the talk page please.

Date and Venue

Date:
Sunday, 11-Oct-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)-080-4092-6283‎

(Update - Venue confirmed with CIS on 28-Sep-09 - Arunram (talk) 06:00, 28 September 2009 (UTC)) i am pradeep kumar mai aapko love karta hoo aapka dosat

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.
• Talks made
  • Querying Wikipedia using Pywikipedia. by Kiran Jonnalagadda
  • Case study of Kannada Wikipedia. by HP Nadig
• Open Discussion on topics of common interest and updates.
  • Wikipedia at FOSS.IN, 2009 Bangalore - led by Atul Chitnis
  • Wikipedia Outreach.

Participants

Attended

(From left) Shyamal, omshivaprakash, HPN, Ravichandar84, Logicwiki, Tinucherian, Rsrikanth05, Achitnis, Jackerhack, GKJohn,Aditya.nagarajan, naveenpf, Vikram, w:en:User:RaktimD, Noopur, Srikeit, Arjunaraoc

1. Srikanth (ping me)
2. H P Nadig ^{\Talk \Contributions}
3. Rsrikanth05 (talk)
4. Gautam John
5. Tinu Cherian
6. Atul Chitnis ( Achitnis (talk · contribs) )
7. Shyamal (talk)
8. Srikeit
9. Kiran User:Jackerhack
10. naveenpf (talk)
11. Noopur
12. Arjunaraoc (talk)
13. User:VincentvikramVikram Vincent
14. Aditya Nagarajan User:Aditya.nagarajan
15. User:RaktimD
16. omshivaprakash
17. Ravichandar84-The Enforcer_{Office of the secret service}

People who had signed up for attending

1. Srikanth (ping me)
2. --H P Nadig ^{\Talk \Contributions}
3. Rsrikanth05 (talk)
4. Tinu Cherian
5. Gautam John
6. Sundar ^{\talk \contribs}
7. Shyamal (talk)
8. Arjunaraoc (talk)
9. Bhavya Siddappa
10. Supreeth
11. Ilango Djearamane
12. Srikanth Thunga
13. Atul Chitnis ( Achitnis (talk · contribs) ) ( via Linkedin)
14. Omshivaprakash H ( via FB)
15. Anuj Agrawal (via Linkedin)
16. Deepan Chakravarthy (via Linkedin)
17. User:Jackerhack
18. Muralidharan Narayanaswamy (via Linkedin)
19. Ramprasad Rajendran (via Linkedin)
20. Varun Garde (via Linkedin)
21. Deepak Rajanikanth User:rajanideep
22. Srikeit
23. naveenpf (talk)
24. Dhanasekar
25. Bharath Kamaraj
26. Jijoy User:Tigerxx
27. Shyam George User:Eng shyam
28. Aditya Nagarajan User:Aditya.nagarajan
29. Raktim D User:RaktimD

Interested to attend but not yet sure

1. Vipin Hari || talk
2. Sanath311 (talk)
3. nareshkumarhk (talk)
4. Anoopan --Anoopan (talk)
5. Ravichandar84-The Enforcer_{Office of the secret service} 10:13, 3 October 2009 (UTC)
6. Pradeep Kumar Bojan
7. Janakiram MSV ( via Linkedin)
8. Himanshu Sheth (via Linkedin)
9. Kinshuk Sunil (via Linkedin)
10. Prashant Kulkarni (via Linkedin)
11. Sachin Gupta (via Linkedin)
12. Sachin Garg ( via Linkedin)
13. Shrikant Narasimhan(via Linkedin)
14. Subramanian Nanjappan (via Linkedin)
15. User:Thejeshgn (via Linkedin)
16. Jeevan Kumar (via Linkedin)
17. Prashant Y (via Linkedin)
18. Rajesh K User:Rajeshodayanchal
19. Deepak Venkatesan User:D4dpak
20. Youknowwho303 (talk) (with Rsrikanth05)
21. Devaraj Natarajan User:Devav2

Regrets

1. Arunram (talk) (conflicting work commitments)
2. Gingerjoos (talk) (out of Bangalore)
3. prashanthns (talk) 09:11, 9 October 2009 (UTC)
4. thigala4u Shri 11:42, 10 October 2009 (UTC)

Announcements/Event Notice

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1. Linkedin Event notice
2. Facebook event notice
3. Orkut event notice
4. Twitter Tweet
5. MyBangalore.com

Meeting coverage/Post-meetup summary/Blogs/News

Please list post meeting coverage links here.

Twitter

• Tweet with #WPMBL6 twitter hashtag http://twitter.com/#search?q=%23WPMBL6
• Jimmy Wales commented " I strongly support this... " on seeing the event notice on Facebook.

Media coverage

None

Photos

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