Summary edit
The Wikipedia Bangalore meetup is a 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 edit
Date: : Sunday, 13-December-2015 4:00 PM IST
Venue:
Wikimedia India,
Work Adda,
No.98/1, MMR Plaza, 1st Floor, Above DCB Bank
Sarjapur Main Road, Jakkasandra, Koramangala 1st Block.
Bangalore - 560034
Location: Google Maps OpenStreetMap
Contact: 9986 99 3336
Landmark: Opposite to and nearby Asia Pacific World School. Our building is in between Kotak Mahindra Bank and the Balini furniture store. We are in the first floor right abobe DCB Bank in a shared working space called WorkAdda.
Directions: Those who are coming by bus need to get down at Jakkasandra bus stop. It is few meters by walk from there.
Intended audience edit
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.
Agenda edit
- Reviving Bangalore Community meetups and activities
- Meeting with Asaf Bartov from the Wikimedia Foundation
- I am particularly interested to hear thoughts from local Wikimedians about opportunities and challenges, and to answer any questions you may have about the Foundation or work in India. Asaf (WMF) (talk) 12:50, 10 December 2015 (UTC)
- Networking and snacks
Participants edit
Add your name as " # ~~~ " if you have an username or else add " # Name"
Attending edit
- Ravishankar (talk) 04:23, 10 December 2015 (UTC)
- Psubhashish (talk) 04:40, 10 December 2015 (UTC)
- Shyamal (talk)
- Arkrishna (talk) 08:22, 10 December 2015 (UTC)
- Vikram Vincent
- Asaf (WMF) (talk) 12:51, 10 December 2015 (UTC)
- Santosh Shingare (talk)
- Dineshkumar Ponnusamy (talk)
- Csyogi (talk)
- Nrgullapalli
- Sundar \talk \contribs 05:16, 12 December 2015 (UTC)
- Omshivaprakash (talk) 05:28, 12 December 2015 (UTC)
- Mayank Agarwal
- Abhinay Visvakarma
- Tito Dutta (talk)
Tentative edit
Regrets edit
- I am out of town. I hope this meetup revives community meetups in Bangalore. -- Rohini (talk) 16:36, 12 December 2015 (UTC)
Best wishes edit
- I will be waiting for a summary of meetup.--Satdeep Gill (talk • contribs 05:08, 10 December 2015 (UTC)
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- Ahmed Nisar (talk) 07:34, 10 December 2015 (UTC)
- Hibayathullah (talk) 12:08, 10 December 2015 (UTC)
- Bodhisattwa (talk) 18:39, 10 December 2015 (UTC)
- Harriet--Outofindia (talk) 01:37, 12 December 2015 (UTC) All the best!. Would have loved to join you all from Mangalore but we have the Global Konkani Music Awards on the Same day!
Press edit
Announcements/Event Notices edit
Please list external links announcing the meet-up here.
Report edit
Introduction edit
The meet-up started with general introduction. Here the participants introduced themselves. Asaf Bartov, senior Programme Officer, WMF, appreciated the way the participants were commenting after each introduction.
WikiConference India 2016 edit
The participants were eager to discuss WikiConference India 2016. So they discussed this topic:
- Who are organizing these events.
- Design if the event.
Google OCR edit
Ravi forwarded a question which he received from User:Bodhisattwa from Bengali Wikipedia - how can WMF help to include Google COR in Indic Wikisource projects.
Post-meetup summary/Blogs/News edit
Twitter edit
- Tweet with #WPMBL59 twitter hashtag http://twitter.com/#!/search/%23WPMBL59
Media coverage edit
Please list coverage of this event by media here.
Photos edit
Please upload to commons and add category Commons:Category:Bangalore Meetup December2015