• 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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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: : 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))[reply]

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.

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• 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

1. Sundar (talk · contribs)
2. Shyamal (talk · contribs)
3. HPN (talk · contribs)
4. Ravichandar84 (talk · contribs)
5. Tinu Cherian
6. Rsrikanth05 (talk)
7. Philip Tiju
8. Srikanth (Logic)
9. PlaneMad (talk · contribs)
10. Rameshng (talk · contribs)
11. Rgautham_83 (talk · contribs)
12. GKJohn (talk · contribs)
13. Aditya.nagarajan (talk · contribs)
14. Bjelkeman (talk · contribs)
15. Manu Raveendran
16. Mahesh
17. Secki T Jose
18. Gaurang Gupta
19. Jagjit Chawla, Google
20. Srinidhi Viswanatha, Google
21. Deepa Kurup The Hindu
22. Renuka Phadnis, Bangalore Mirror
23. Ankit Jain

1. Rsrikanth05 (talk)
2. Tinu Cherian
3. Vivek Rp (talk)
4. Philip Tiju
5. Ganesh Hegde
6. Srikanth (Logic)
7. Kiren
8. Jithesh
9. Naveenpf (talk · contribs)
10. PlaneMad (talk · contribs)
11. Rameshng (talk · contribs)
12. Rgautham_83 (talk · contribs)
13. girni_009 (talk · contribs)
14. hspk (talk · contribs)
15. Achitnis (talk)
16. GKJohn (talk · contribs)
17. Aditya.nagarajan (talk · contribs)
18. Bjelkeman (talk · contribs), Akvopedia.org
19. Jagjit Chawla, Google
20. Srinidhi Viswanatha, Google
21. Manu Raveendran
22. Ankit Jain
23. Sharath SEO Expert
24. Nadesai (talk · contribs)
25. Sundar (talk · contribs)
26. Anoopan (talk)
27. arunram (talk · contribs)
28. Syler.mi4 (talk · contribs)
29. Jackerhack (talk · contribs)
30. HPN (talk · contribs)
31. Tanveer86 (talk · contribs)
32. Shyamal (talk · contribs)
33. Vincentvikram

1. 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)
2. Omshivaprakash (talk · contribs)
3. Gingerjoos (talk · contribs)
4. Srikeit (Hate to miss it but I have to take this)
5. Arjunaraoc (talk) I have a conflict with Telugu Literary meet

1. Dipa Kurup, The Hindu /confirmed
2. Renuka Phadnis, Bangalore Mirror. /confirmed
3. DNA
4. Mid-Day

Please list external links announcing the meet-up here.

1. Facebook Notice http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=188500278514&ref=mf
2. Linkedin Notice http://events.linkedin.com/Wikipedia-Bangalore-WikiMeetup-8/pub/176708
3. MyBangalore.com http://mybangalore.com/events/wikimeetup-bangalore.html
4. Eventsbengaluru.com http://eventsbengaluru.com/2009/12/16/wikipedians-meet-in-bangalore/
5. st-webdevelopment.in http://st-webdevelopment.in/events/2009/11/8th-wikipedia-wikimeetup-bangalore/
6. 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/

Please list post meeting coverage links here.

• Tweet with #WPMBL8 twitter hashtag http://twitter.com/#search?q=%23WPMBL8

1. Deccan Chronicle Bangalore Ed 20-Dec-09 Page2 - Wikians come face-to-face.
2. Bangalore Mirror 21-Dec-09 Page 4 - Citys Wikipedians come together
3. The Hindu - 22 Dec 09 When the virtual world gets a room.

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