Hi Raghavendra, I am new to Wikimedia Community and I am from Hyderabad - would love to contribute, let me know if you want to discuss and take it forward. regardsAbhijith  --- On Wed, 15/8/12, Karthik Nadar <karthikndr(a)wikimedia.in> wrote: From: Karthik Nadar <karthikndr(a)wikimedia.in> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-in-hyd] Wiki Loves Monuments in Hyd To: "Raghavendra RG Rao" <u.raghavendra(a)gmail.com> Cc: wikimedia-in-hyd(a)lists.wikimedia.org Date: Wednesday, 15 August, 2012, 10:43 PM Hi Rahgavendra, nice to see Hyderabad community is interested for organising the contest :) We would be happy to help you for whatever it takes for organising such an event in your city. Thanks! On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 8:26 PM, Raghavendra "RG" Rao <u.raghavendra(a)gmail.com> wrote: Hi there Just wanted to check if an organising team is already in place for conducting this event in Hyd - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012_in_India  Thought it will be fun to publicise and rope in a lot of people too; had some ideas about the same. Kindly let me know Regards,Raghavendra   _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-in-hyd mailing list Wikimedia-in-hyd(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-hyd -- Thanks and regards,(User:Karthikndr) Karthik Nadar.(Ph: 91-9773608862) -----Inline Attachment Follows----- _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-in-hyd mailing list Wikimedia-in-hyd(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-hyd

Maybe, we may try to cover one area, a weekend. Hyderabad as such has lot to explore. For instance, a day around Charminar, would lead us to the Mecca masjid, Unani medicine university, the famous bangle vending streets of Lad bazar, the chowk where everything thats antique is available, the Gulzar house, Gold shops, cloth shops, all set in corridors and alleys, the purani haveli and the nizam's museum. You name a locality, we have n things to explore as a wikipedian, for photography, information, and what not. On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 12:09 AM, Raghavendra "RG" Rao < u.raghavendra(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: -- Rahimanuddin Shaik నాని ॥రామానుజార్య దివ్యాజ్ఞాం వర్ధతామభివర్ధతాం॥ A new address for ebooks : http://kinige.com

Hi Raghavendra, answering down few points below. On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 10:05 AM, Abhijith Jayanthi < abhijithsince1986(a)yahoo.com&gt; wrote: That's great idea Abhijith, but do focus on *why, *it would generate long time contributors. can share how we worked for our city, and hope it will also work in your city. of word of mouth, and hence create a Facebook group for Hyderabad Wikipedians, you'll get members count because of the work Wikipedia. must be having contacts :) will also do. I'll try to attend if time permits :) My college schedule must help tho, but would be excited to meet. Commons? This is where people lack knowledge, and never participate hence. groups have senior and very high-esteemed photographers, they will be very much interested. This is what we did for Mumbai. see Hyderabad community expanding. Happy to be part :) Raghavendra and Abhijhit, you both can take lead and can happen well. -- Thanks and regards, (User:Karthikndr <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Karthikndr>) *Karthik Nadar.* (Ph: 91-9773608862)

Hi Raghavendra, We can do : Sunday: 8:00 PM (Today)Monday: 8:00 PM (Tomorrow) Kindly confirm, we can use skype or google chat or hangout - abhijith  --- On Sat, 18/8/12, Raghavendra "RG" Rao &lt;u.raghavendra(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: From: Raghavendra "RG" Rao &lt;u.raghavendra(a)gmail.com&gt; Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-in-hyd] Wiki Loves Monuments in Hyd To: "Karthik Nadar" &lt;karthikndr(a)wikimedia.in&gt; Cc: "Abhijith Jayanthi" &lt;abhijithsince1986(a)yahoo.com&gt;om>, wikimedia-in-hyd(a)lists.wikimedia.org Date: Saturday, 18 August, 2012, 10:25 PM Thats great! Good to see some responses going. For a start, i think we should chat up - Abhijith, Tausif and Rahmanuddin. Let us decide on a comfortable time when we can connect over Google+ or something. Would be great if we could do that over this weekend itself (considering that it is a long weekend)  Post which, we can probably post our ideas to the group, after which we can just start off. Kindly suggest a time that would work best. Tomorrow evening would be ideal for me, but ya, anything else in the normal holiday non-sleeping hours (between 1100 and 0100 hours) should also be fine! Cheers,Raghavendra  On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 9:24 PM, Karthik Nadar &lt;karthikndr(a)wikimedia.in&gt; wrote: Hi Raghavendra, answering down few points below. On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 10:05 AM, Abhijith Jayanthi &lt;abhijithsince1986(a)yahoo.com&gt; wrote: Hi Raghavendra, I suggest let us do the plan  - chalk out our strategy and event details - what/when/how; marketing strategy. And then we can approach the media - my view is it is better to have all details chalked out, let me know if you want to do a phone chat or may be meet up to discuss?  That's great idea Abhijith, but do focus on why, it would generate long time contributors.  - abhijith  --- On Fri, 17/8/12, Raghavendra "RG" Rao &lt;u.raghavendra(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: From: Raghavendra "RG" Rao &lt;u.raghavendra(a)gmail.com&gt; Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-in-hyd] Wiki Loves Monuments in Hyd To: "Abhijith Jayanthi" &lt;abhijithsince1986(a)yahoo.com&gt; Cc: "Karthik Nadar" &lt;karthikndr(a)wikimedia.in&gt;in>, wikimedia-in-hyd(a)lists.wikimedia.org Date: Friday, 17 August, 2012, 12:09 AM Hi Abhijith, Was actually waiting to see if we would find any more people who would be interested.  Anyways, as far as i can see, as a part of the plan, we will need to chalk out the following for Hyderabad:  a) Have an overall framework ready - i am sure that would already be in place, from wikimedians in other cities. We might just need to tweak it to suit Hyderabad Famework?? I was part of organising team for Wiki Takes Mumbai II, hence I can share how we worked for our city, and hope it will also work in your city.  b) Started spreading the word around. Was thinking we can involve people who are couchsuring in Hyderabad to be a part of this. This will really help increase the contributions since we do have a decent number of travellers touring Hyderabad in this part of the year You can start involving your friends. I suggest, Facebook is the best way of word of mouth, and hence create a Facebook group for Hyderabad Wikipedians, you'll get members count because of the work Wikipedia. c) It will be great if there was a press release kind of a thing done for the entire event as such from somewhere with atleast a mention of the participating cities. Or, if it is fine, we can provide information to the local editions/newsmen. However, for this, we will need the help and participation of the official members of wikimedia (read, Karthik :-) ) I'll get back after talking to people from Wikimedia India Chapter. They must be having contacts :) d) We can start the event/contest off by having a small briefing session during the first weekend of September. And if we are confident of having a good turnout (or may be even otherwise), we can probably look at conducting this at Lamakaan It will be great if you have a meetup this August end, but early September will also do. I'll try to attend if time permits :) My college schedule must help tho, but would be excited to meet.  e) May be on the first and second weekends, we can organise - "Wiki takes Hyderabad", and on the last weekend, again get together for any queries that people have. I feel the meetings should be brief and to the point, so that the maximum time can be spent in the primary purposing of capturing pictures I suggest meetup should also focus on how and why to upload images to Commons? This is where people lack knowledge, and never participate hence.   How does this sound? Any suggestions/brickbats?Wanna add one more: Try to talk to some photographic societies. Those groups have senior and very high-esteemed photographers, they will be very much interested. This is what we did for Mumbai.   @Karthik, can you let us know what you think?Excited to coordinate with you all, hoping for great to happen and see Hyderabad community expanding. Happy to be part :) Raghavendra and Abhijhit, you both can take lead and can happen well.  Regards,Raghavendra    On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 10:45 PM, Abhijith Jayanthi &lt;abhijithsince1986(a)yahoo.com&gt; wrote: Hi Raghavendra, I am new to Wikimedia Community and I am from Hyderabad - would love to contribute, let me know if you want to discuss and take it forward. regardsAbhijith  --- On Wed, 15/8/12, Karthik Nadar &lt;karthikndr(a)wikimedia.in&gt; wrote: From: Karthik Nadar &lt;karthikndr(a)wikimedia.in&gt; Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-in-hyd] Wiki Loves Monuments in Hyd To: "Raghavendra RG Rao" &lt;u.raghavendra(a)gmail.com&gt; Cc: wikimedia-in-hyd(a)lists.wikimedia.org Date: Wednesday, 15 August, 2012, 10:43 PM Hi Rahgavendra, nice to see Hyderabad community is interested for organising the contest :) We would be happy to help you for whatever it takes for organising such an event in your city. Thanks! On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 8:26 PM, Raghavendra "RG" Rao &lt;u.raghavendra(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: Hi there Just wanted to check if an organising team is already in place for conducting this event in Hyd - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012_in_India  Thought it will be fun to publicise and rope in a lot of people too; had some ideas about the same. Kindly let me know Regards,Raghavendra   _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-in-hyd mailing list Wikimedia-in-hyd(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-hyd -- Thanks and regards,(User:Karthikndr) Karthik Nadar.(Ph: 91-9773608862) -----Inline Attachment Follows----- _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-in-hyd mailing list Wikimedia-in-hyd(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-hyd -- Thanks and regards,(User:Karthikndr) Karthik Nadar.(Ph: 91-9773608862)

I would also add that, do have a physical meet, that would help for a better brain storming session. Do add me for your online meets, I can share my experience at Mumbai Photowalk :) On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 9:40 AM, Karthik Nadar &lt;karthikndr(a)wikimedia.in&gt;wrote;wrote: -- Thanks and regards, (User:Karthikndr <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Karthikndr>) *Karthik Nadar.* (Ph: 91-9773608862)

My headsets don't work, so I would be just typing, is this possible? On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 1:53 PM, Raghavendra "RG" Rao < u.raghavendra(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: -- Thanks and regards, (User:Karthikndr <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Karthikndr>) *Karthik Nadar.* (Ph: 91-9773608862)

Hi Karthik, Yes, I have added you over - it is at 8 pm - abhijith  --- On Sun, 19/8/12, Karthik Nadar &lt;karthikndr(a)wikimedia.in&gt; wrote: From: Karthik Nadar &lt;karthikndr(a)wikimedia.in&gt; Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-in-hyd] Wiki Loves Monuments in Hyd To: "Raghavendra RG Rao" &lt;u.raghavendra(a)gmail.com&gt; Cc: "Abhijith Jayanthi" &lt;abhijithsince1986(a)yahoo.com&gt;om>, wikimedia-in-hyd(a)lists.wikimedia.org Date: Sunday, 19 August, 2012, 7:46 PM Anmyone joining for discussion today?? My skype id is Karthikndr and that is same everywhere! On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 1:53 PM, Raghavendra "RG" Rao &lt;u.raghavendra(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: Of course, we will meet-up eventually. But then, an online forum is better to ideate with the internet at your disposal, and also probably with the presence of remote participants  8pm today sounds perfect to me for a discussion  Do pass me your skype and google ids My id on both skype and google is - u.raghavendra Cheers,Raghavendra   On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 1:44 PM, Karthik Nadar &lt;karthikndr(a)wikimedia.in&gt; wrote: I would also add that, do have a physical meet, that would help for a better brain storming session. Do add me for your online meets, I can share my experience at Mumbai Photowalk :) On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 9:40 AM, Karthik Nadar &lt;karthikndr(a)wikimedia.in&gt; wrote: Hi Raghavendra and Abhijhit, Post chat, do write a report to the Hyderabad mailing lists again.  On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 9:04 AM, Abhijith Jayanthi &lt;abhijithsince1986(a)yahoo.com&gt; wrote: Hi Raghavendra, We can do : Sunday: 8:00 PM (Today)Monday: 8:00 PM (Tomorrow) Kindly confirm, we can use skype or google chat or hangout - abhijith  --- On Sat, 18/8/12, Raghavendra "RG" Rao &lt;u.raghavendra(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: From: Raghavendra "RG" Rao &lt;u.raghavendra(a)gmail.com&gt; Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-in-hyd] Wiki Loves Monuments in Hyd To: "Karthik Nadar" &lt;karthikndr(a)wikimedia.in&gt; Cc: "Abhijith Jayanthi" &lt;abhijithsince1986(a)yahoo.com&gt;om>, wikimedia-in-hyd(a)lists.wikimedia.org Date: Saturday, 18 August, 2012, 10:25 PM Thats great! Good to see some responses going. For a start, i think we should chat up - Abhijith, Tausif and Rahmanuddin. Let us decide on a comfortable time when we can connect over Google+ or something. Would be great if we could do that over this weekend itself (considering that it is a long weekend)  Post which, we can probably post our ideas to the group, after which we can just start off. Kindly suggest a time that would work best. Tomorrow evening would be ideal for me, but ya, anything else in the normal holiday non-sleeping hours (between 1100 and 0100 hours) should also be fine! Cheers,Raghavendra  On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 9:24 PM, Karthik Nadar &lt;karthikndr(a)wikimedia.in&gt; wrote: Hi Raghavendra, answering down few points below. On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 10:05 AM, Abhijith Jayanthi &lt;abhijithsince1986(a)yahoo.com&gt; wrote: Hi Raghavendra, I suggest let us do the plan  - chalk out our strategy and event details - what/when/how; marketing strategy. And then we can approach the media - my view is it is better to have all details chalked out, let me know if you want to do a phone chat or may be meet up to discuss?  That's great idea Abhijith, but do focus on why, it would generate long time contributors.  - abhijith  --- On Fri, 17/8/12, Raghavendra "RG" Rao &lt;u.raghavendra(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: From: Raghavendra "RG" Rao &lt;u.raghavendra(a)gmail.com&gt; Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-in-hyd] Wiki Loves Monuments in Hyd To: "Abhijith Jayanthi" &lt;abhijithsince1986(a)yahoo.com&gt; Cc: "Karthik Nadar" &lt;karthikndr(a)wikimedia.in&gt;in>, wikimedia-in-hyd(a)lists.wikimedia.org Date: Friday, 17 August, 2012, 12:09 AM Hi Abhijith, Was actually waiting to see if we would find any more people who would be interested.  Anyways, as far as i can see, as a part of the plan, we will need to chalk out the following for Hyderabad:  a) Have an overall framework ready - i am sure that would already be in place, from wikimedians in other cities. We might just need to tweak it to suit Hyderabad Famework?? I was part of organising team for Wiki Takes Mumbai II, hence I can share how we worked for our city, and hope it will also work in your city.  b) Started spreading the word around. Was thinking we can involve people who are couchsuring in Hyderabad to be a part of this. This will really help increase the contributions since we do have a decent number of travellers touring Hyderabad in this part of the year You can start involving your friends. I suggest, Facebook is the best way of word of mouth, and hence create a Facebook group for Hyderabad Wikipedians, you'll get members count because of the work Wikipedia. c) It will be great if there was a press release kind of a thing done for the entire event as such from somewhere with atleast a mention of the participating cities. Or, if it is fine, we can provide information to the local editions/newsmen. However, for this, we will need the help and participation of the official members of wikimedia (read, Karthik :-) ) I'll get back after talking to people from Wikimedia India Chapter. They must be having contacts :) d) We can start the event/contest off by having a small briefing session during the first weekend of September. And if we are confident of having a good turnout (or may be even otherwise), we can probably look at conducting this at Lamakaan It will be great if you have a meetup this August end, but early September will also do. I'll try to attend if time permits :) My college schedule must help tho, but would be excited to meet.  e) May be on the first and second weekends, we can organise - "Wiki takes Hyderabad", and on the last weekend, again get together for any queries that people have. I feel the meetings should be brief and to the point, so that the maximum time can be spent in the primary purposing of capturing pictures I suggest meetup should also focus on how and why to upload images to Commons? This is where people lack knowledge, and never participate hence.   How does this sound? Any suggestions/brickbats?Wanna add one more: Try to talk to some photographic societies. Those groups have senior and very high-esteemed photographers, they will be very much interested. This is what we did for Mumbai.   @Karthik, can you let us know what you think?Excited to coordinate with you all, hoping for great to happen and see Hyderabad community expanding. Happy to be part :) Raghavendra and Abhijhit, you both can take lead and can happen well.  Regards,Raghavendra    On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 10:45 PM, Abhijith Jayanthi &lt;abhijithsince1986(a)yahoo.com&gt; wrote: Hi Raghavendra, I am new to Wikimedia Community and I am from Hyderabad - would love to contribute, let me know if you want to discuss and take it forward. regardsAbhijith  --- On Wed, 15/8/12, Karthik Nadar &lt;karthikndr(a)wikimedia.in&gt; wrote: From: Karthik Nadar &lt;karthikndr(a)wikimedia.in&gt; Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-in-hyd] Wiki Loves Monuments in Hyd To: "Raghavendra RG Rao" &lt;u.raghavendra(a)gmail.com&gt; Cc: wikimedia-in-hyd(a)lists.wikimedia.org Date: Wednesday, 15 August, 2012, 10:43 PM Hi Rahgavendra, nice to see Hyderabad community is interested for organising the contest :) We would be happy to help you for whatever it takes for organising such an event in your city. Thanks! On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 8:26 PM, Raghavendra "RG" Rao &lt;u.raghavendra(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: Hi there Just wanted to check if an organising team is already in place for conducting this event in Hyd - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012_in_India  Thought it will be fun to publicise and rope in a lot of people too; had some ideas about the same. Kindly let me know Regards,Raghavendra   _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-in-hyd mailing list Wikimedia-in-hyd(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-hyd -- Thanks and regards,(User:Karthikndr) Karthik Nadar.(Ph: 91-9773608862) -----Inline Attachment Follows----- _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-in-hyd mailing list Wikimedia-in-hyd(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-hyd -- Thanks and regards,(User:Karthikndr) Karthik Nadar.(Ph: 91-9773608862) -- Thanks and regards,(User:Karthikndr) Karthik Nadar.(Ph: 91-9773608862) -- Thanks and regards,(User:Karthikndr) Karthik Nadar.(Ph: 91-9773608862) -- Thanks and regards,(User:Karthikndr) Karthik Nadar.(Ph: 91-9773608862)