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Summary

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The Wikipedia Bangalore meetup is a monthly get-together of wikipedians (contributors and users) to meet up, discuss, share experiences, reach out and advocate for wikipedia and wikimedia.

Danese Cooper, Chief Technical Officer, Wikimedia Foundation, Alolita Sharma, Engineering Programs Manager, Wikimedia Foundation will be attending this meetup.

Unfortunately, Erik Moeller is unable to attend due to an early flight out of the country. However, he will be available at the venue at around 1330 hrs.

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

Date and Venue

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Date: : Saturday, 18-December-2010 3:00 PM IST

Venue:
The Energy & Resources Institute (TERI),
Southern Regional Centre,
4th Main
Near to Domlur Club
Domlur 2nd Stage
Bangalore 560 071
Karnataka

Please note the change of venue for this Wikimeetup

Intended Audience

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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.

Getting there

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See Directions- Click on the picture to enlarge
  • By Road:
    • From MG Road, Brigade Road, Central Business District, Vidhan Soudha - Come straight on Old Airport Road towards Domlur, and take a Left after Steves Gym / Paratha House. Go straight, and continue straight after the Domlur BDA Complex crossroads. Further, go straight, cross bridge over storm water drain, and take Left for The Energy Research Institute [TERI].
    • From Hosur Road, Electronics City, Koramangala, Sarjapur, Bannerghatta - Take Inner Ring Road/Intermediate Ring Road towards the Domlur-Old Airport flyover. Proceed straight towards Indra Nagar by taking the flyover. Take a Left just AFTER the flyover, before the Pedestrian Foot Over Bridge [FOB]. Proceed forward and take the Third LEFT. Take a Right before "The Energy Research Institute" [TERI]
      • The above one is the most prefered route .
    • From Old Airport, HAL, Marathalli, Varthur - Come on Old Airport-Varthur Road, cross Domlur flyover, take a Right AT the flyover proceed towards IndraNagar and proceed as per above to reach.
    • From Old Madras, Road, Indira Nagar, Ulsoor - Take 100feet Road [Under Metro] to Domlur flyover. Take a Right BEFORE the flyover, at the Pedestrian Foot Over Bridge [FOB]. Proceed forward and take the Third LEFT towards TERI. You will see TERI building on the right sude.
  • By Bus:
    • From Kempegowda Bus Station [Majestic], KR Market, Shivaji Nagar, take a bus towards Old Airport, Domlur and get down at the Water Tank and Proceed as above.
    • From Banashankari, Central Silk Board - Take a bus terminating at Domlur. Get down after the Indira Nagar FOB, and walk towards TERI as mentioned above. Take a bus going toward Indira Nagar. Get down before the flyover, walk towards, the Water tank, and proceed as above.

Agenda

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  • Meet and connect: Introductions by Wikipedians.
  • Talks
    • Danese's presentation.
  • Discussions and Q&A
  • Networking & Snacks

Participants

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Attended

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  1. Danese Cooper , Chief Technical Officer, Wikimedia Foundation
  2. Alolita Sharma , Engineering Programs Manager, Wikimedia Foundation
  3. Erik Möller , Deputy Director , Wikimedia Foundation ( Erik had to leave early)
  4. Achal Prabhala, Wikimedia Foundation Adv Board Member.
  5. Arunram
  6. Tinu Cherian
  7. Kalyan Varma
  8. Roshan Baladhanvi
  9. Praveen S
  10. Nearly Headless Nick {C} ( Anirudh Bhati)
  11. S Pavithran
  12. Rajesh K Odayanchal
  13. Anoopan (talk)
  14. Legolas (talk2me) ( Avinava)
  15. Arun Ganesh
  16. Srikanth (Logic)
  17. Sundar
  18. B G Mahesh ( CEO, OneIndia.in)
  19. Srijit
  20. Anas
  21. Anoop George
  22. Magician Philip
  23. Vijay Sharma
  24. Visakh V A
  25. Sunil P Thomas
  26. Jayadevan , The Indian Express
  27. Arjunaraoc (talk)
  28. Kiran Chavala
  29. Hari Prasad Nadig
  30. Suma Nadig
  31. Srishti Sethi
  32. Supriya Chaudhary
  33. Abhishek Srivastav
  34. Shamraz Zack
  35. M Shahid
  36. Yuvi Panda
  37. Abhinav Saxena
  38. Anurag Gupta
  39. SBC-YPR (talk) ( Manish)
  40. Ravi
  41. Prashanth Ramdas.

Signedup

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  1. Danese Cooper , Chief Technical Officer, Wikimedia Foundation
  2. Alolita Sharma , Engineering Programs Manager, Wikimedia Foundation
  3. Arunram
  4. -- Tinu Cherian - 15:22, 26 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  5. Srikanth (Logic) 16:21, 26 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  6. Legolas (talk2me) 04:04, 27 November 2010 (UTC) The great GA promoter, lol[reply]
  7. naveenpf (talk) 04:05, 27 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  8. Rameshng (talk)
  9. Magician Philip
  10. Kiran Gopi (talk)
  11. Ashok Bhat (talk)
  12. Arjunaraoc (talk) 00:35, 30 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  13. prashanthns (talk) 05:30, 30 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  14. Anoopan (talk) 06:14, 30 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  15. Melvin Simon
  16. Santhosh KB
  17. Shayan Anwer
  18. Nidhin Chandrasekhar
  19. Anas (anazcp) 19:35, 2 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  20. Pavithran (talk)
  21. Sundar
  22. Shamrez Zack
  23. Vivek Rp
  24. Deepak Panigrahy
  25. Divya Chakravarthy
  26. R Pooran Prasad
  27. Visakh VA
  28. Mohd Shahid
  29. Kalyan Varma
  30. Praveen Selvasekaran
  31. Vijay Sharma
  32. Srishti Sethi
  33. Sumankumar Panchal
  34. Roshan
  35. Nearly Headless Nick {C} 08:07, 16 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  36. SBC-YPR (talk) 08:28, 18 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  37. Rajesh K Odayanchal (talk)
  38. Rahul Baskaran - Interested but Office constraints.
  39. Vamsi
  40. Kaveer ...iam a good listener...i guess its obvious i wont talk(just making sure)
  41. Anirudh Ranganath (User:narasimhanator) Interested, possibility of coming is high though not confirmed
  42. Aravind Ramachandran - Interested, but not yet confirmed
  43. Shyam K -Interested. Will mostly attend :)
  44. Prasanna Mukundan
  45. Gautam John
  46. Anoopan
  47. Vikram Vincent
  48. Deepak Rajanikanth
  49. Sridhar Pabbisetty
  50. Pradeep Banavara
  51. Jerry Mannel
  52. Govinda Sambamurthy
  53. Thejesh GN (talk) 11:25, 16 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  54. Prashanth R
  55. Sujith T John
  56. Vivek Rp

Regrets

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  1. Erik Möller , Deputy Director , Wikimedia Foundation ( Erik will have to leave by 2:30 PM )
  2. Kiran Jonnalagadda -- will be away cycling the Tour of Nilgiris.
  3. Rama Vijjapurapu , Wish I can attend. Need to go to Airport to drop my parents off.
  4. Anirudh Ramachandran, Medical issues.

Best Wishes

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  1. Prithi - Have a nice, healthy and progressive interaction!!

Press

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  1. Jayadevan , The Indian Express
  2. B G Mahesh ( CEO, Oneindia.in)

Announcements/Event Notices

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  1. Wikimapia Link for location - http://wikimapia.org/#lat=12.9633355&lon=77.6395226&z=18&l=0&m=b
  2. Facebook event notice http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=170464139659853
  3. Linkedin Event notice http://events.linkedin.com/Wikipedia-Wikimeetup-23-Bangalore/pub/509026

Post-meetup summary/Blogs/News

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Please list post meeting coverage links here.

Twitter

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Media coverage

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Photos

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Please upload to commons and add category Commons:Category:Bangalore Meetup 18Dec2010