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Summary
[edit]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
[edit]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
[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.
Getting there
[edit]![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/Directions_to_TERI_Domlur_Bangalore.png/250px-Directions_to_TERI_Domlur_Bangalore.png)
- 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 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]
- 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
[edit]- Meet and connect: Introductions by Wikipedians.
- Talks
- Danese's presentation.
- Discussions and Q&A
- Networking & Snacks
Participants
[edit]![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Bangalore_Wikimeetup23_1564.jpg/200px-Bangalore_Wikimeetup23_1564.jpg)
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Bangalore_Wikimeetup23_1612.jpg/200px-Bangalore_Wikimeetup23_1612.jpg)
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Bangalore_Wikimeetup23_1549.jpg/200px-Bangalore_Wikimeetup23_1549.jpg)
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Bangalore_Wikimeetup23_1569.jpg/200px-Bangalore_Wikimeetup23_1569.jpg)
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6a/Bangalore_Wikimeetup23_1617.jpg/350px-Bangalore_Wikimeetup23_1617.jpg)
Attended
[edit]- Danese Cooper , Chief Technical Officer, Wikimedia Foundation
- Alolita Sharma , Engineering Programs Manager, Wikimedia Foundation
- Erik Möller , Deputy Director , Wikimedia Foundation ( Erik had to leave early)
- Achal Prabhala, Wikimedia Foundation Adv Board Member.
- Arunram
- Tinu Cherian
- Kalyan Varma
- Roshan Baladhanvi
- Praveen S
- Nearly Headless Nick {C} ( Anirudh Bhati)
- S Pavithran
- Rajesh K Odayanchal
- Anoopan (talk)
- — Legolas (talk2me) ( Avinava)
- Arun Ganesh
- Srikanth (Logic)
- Sundar
- B G Mahesh ( CEO, OneIndia.in)
- Srijit
- Anas
- Anoop George
- Magician Philip
- Vijay Sharma
- Visakh V A
- Sunil P Thomas
- Jayadevan , The Indian Express
- Arjunaraoc (talk)
- Kiran Chavala
- Hari Prasad Nadig
- Suma Nadig
- Srishti Sethi
- Supriya Chaudhary
- Abhishek Srivastav
- Shamraz Zack
- M Shahid
- Yuvi Panda
- Abhinav Saxena
- Anurag Gupta
- SBC-YPR (talk) ( Manish)
- Ravi
- Prashanth Ramdas.
Signedup
[edit]- Danese Cooper , Chief Technical Officer, Wikimedia Foundation
- Alolita Sharma , Engineering Programs Manager, Wikimedia Foundation
- Arunram
- -- Tinu Cherian - 15:22, 26 November 2010 (UTC)
- Srikanth (Logic) 16:21, 26 November 2010 (UTC)
- — Legolas (talk2me) 04:04, 27 November 2010 (UTC) The great GA promoter, lol
- naveenpf (talk) 04:05, 27 November 2010 (UTC)
- Rameshng (talk)
- Magician Philip
- Kiran Gopi (talk)
- Ashok Bhat (talk)
- Arjunaraoc (talk) 00:35, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
- prashanthns (talk) 05:30, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
- Anoopan (talk) 06:14, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
- Melvin Simon
- Santhosh KB
- Shayan Anwer
- Nidhin Chandrasekhar
- Anas (anazcp) 19:35, 2 December 2010 (UTC)
- Pavithran (talk)
- Sundar
- Shamrez Zack
- Vivek Rp
- Deepak Panigrahy
- Divya Chakravarthy
- R Pooran Prasad
- Visakh VA
- Mohd Shahid
- Kalyan Varma
- Praveen Selvasekaran
- Vijay Sharma
- Srishti Sethi
- Sumankumar Panchal
- Roshan
- — Nearly Headless Nick {C} 08:07, 16 December 2010 (UTC)
- SBC-YPR (talk) 08:28, 18 December 2010 (UTC)
- Rajesh K Odayanchal (talk)
- Rahul Baskaran - Interested but Office constraints.
- Vamsi
- Kaveer ...iam a good listener...i guess its obvious i wont talk(just making sure)
- Anirudh Ranganath (User:narasimhanator) Interested, possibility of coming is high though not confirmed
- Aravind Ramachandran - Interested, but not yet confirmed
- Shyam K -Interested. Will mostly attend :)
- Prasanna Mukundan
- Gautam John
- Anoopan
- Vikram Vincent
- Deepak Rajanikanth
- Sridhar Pabbisetty
- Pradeep Banavara
- Jerry Mannel
- Govinda Sambamurthy
- Thejesh GN (talk) 11:25, 16 December 2010 (UTC)
- Prashanth R
- Sujith T John
- Vivek Rp
Regrets
[edit]- Erik Möller , Deputy Director , Wikimedia Foundation ( Erik will have to leave by 2:30 PM )
- Kiran Jonnalagadda -- will be away cycling the Tour of Nilgiris.
- Rama Vijjapurapu , Wish I can attend. Need to go to Airport to drop my parents off.
- Anirudh Ramachandran, Medical issues.
Best Wishes
[edit]- Prithi - Have a nice, healthy and progressive interaction!!
Press
[edit]- Jayadevan , The Indian Express
- B G Mahesh ( CEO, Oneindia.in)
Announcements/Event Notices
[edit]- Wikimapia Link for location - http://wikimapia.org/#lat=12.9633355&lon=77.6395226&z=18&l=0&m=b
- Facebook event notice http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=170464139659853
- Linkedin Event notice http://events.linkedin.com/Wikipedia-Wikimeetup-23-Bangalore/pub/509026
Post-meetup summary/Blogs/News
[edit]Please list post meeting coverage links here.
- Wikipedia meetup in Bangalore, my first one : Mahesh.com
- Wikipedia Meetup in Bangalore, This time in TERI : CIS blog
- Tweet with #WPMBL23 twitter hashtag http://twitter.com/#search?q=%23WPMBL23
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 18Dec2010