[Wikimedia-in-blr] [Wikimediaindia-l] Liam Wyatt's visit to India

[jayanta nath]

Dear All,

What about Kolkata? We have already finalized a meet-up 12 Feb. We are more
expecting him from Kolkata community.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Kolkata/Kolkata3

On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 1:19 AM, Arun Ramarathnam <arunram25 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Dear Wikimedians,
>
> It's a pleasure to inform you all that Liam Wyatt<http://www.wittylama.com/>will be visiting India between 12th and 19th Feb to focus on
> GLAM <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GLAM_%28industry_sector%29>related initiatives here.
>
> Liam's visit to India is intended to support wikimedia communities to
> explore the possibilities of collaborating with Galleries, Libraries,
> Archives and Museums (GLAM) in strengthening articles on wikipedia of mutual
> interest.
>
> Liam recently became a Wikimedia Fellow -
> http://blog.wikimedia.org/blog/2011/01/19/announcing-our-glam-fellow-liam-wyatt/
>   Liam was the wikipedian in residence<http://blog.wikimedia.org/blog/2010/07/10/the-royal-cup-bridges-wikipedia-and-the-british-museum/> at
> the British Museum last year. Liam has been focussed on GLAM and was
> the convener of the GLAM-WIKI <http://www.wikimedia.org.au/wiki/GLAM-WIKI>event held in Australia in August
> 2009.
>
> It is great to have Liam visiting us. He will be visiting Delhi, Mumbai
> and Bangalore. We hope to make the most of Liam's visit to create more
> awareness for GLAM amongst wikipedians and connect with GLAM stakeholders
> wherever possible.
>
> Liam will also be speaking at the ICLAM<http://www.nift.ac.in/ICLAM_2011/index.htm>conference on the 15th.
>
> For coordinating events during his visit, I  have create a GLAM project
> page on the India wiki, to help us all get started:
> http://wikimedia.in/wiki/Projects:GLAM_2011
> There are city specific pages, each of which has a planning page.
>
> We look forward to all your support and active participation to organize
> events and meeting in various cities. Wikipedians are requested to join the
> discussions in the  planning pages for each city.  .
>
> regards
> Arun
>
> Bangalore, India
> www.twitter.com/arunram
>
>
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