Dear all:<div><br></div><div>This is a gentle reminder to all wikimedians to attend the Bangalore monthly meetup #27. The highlight of today&#39;s session is a invited talk by Lodewijk Gelauff from Wikimedia Nederlands.</div>
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<br></div><div>The talk will be sharing experiences from the  recent project <u>Wiki loves Monuments.</u> The <span style="font-family:sans-serif;line-height:18px">Project intended to photograph as many of the 50,000 national monuments (“rijksmonument“) throughout the Netherlands. These included archeological sites in Drenthe, the canal houses in Amsterdam, and the Royal Palace in The Hague. </span></div>

<div><br></div><div>The project received wide coverage on Wikimedia&#39;s blog as well as signpost. The scale of the project and the application of best practices from earlier events were significant. <a href="http://wikilovesmonuments.nl/" target="_blank">http://wikilovesmonuments.nl/</a></div>

<div>  </div><div>Today&#39;s talk is part of a series of invited speakers to share experiences and best practices at Bangalore meetups/events. Earlier speakers have been <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">Liam Wyatt (Australia), </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; ">Asaf Bartov (Israel), </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">Josh Lim (Philipines) and </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 59, 18); font-family: &#39;Lucida Grande&#39;, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 13px; ">Belayet Hossain (Bangaldesh).</span></div>
<div><br></div><div><div>Meetup starts at 3 PM IST. lodewijk&#39;s talk is at 4:30 PM IST. Skype details on the website.</div><div><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Bangalore/Bangalore27" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Bangalore/Bangalore27</a></div>
</div><div><br></div><div>regards</div><div>Arun</div><div><br></div><div><b><u>AGENDA</u></b></div><ul style="line-height:1.5em;list-style-type:square;margin-top:0.3em;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0.5em;margin-left:1.5em;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;font-family:sans-serif">

<li style="margin-bottom:0.1em"><b>Talks</b><ul style="line-height:1.5em;list-style-type:square;margin-top:0.3em;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0.5em;margin-left:1.5em;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px">

<li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">Invited Video Talk via Skype @ 4:30 PM IST<ul style="line-height:1.5em;list-style-type:square;margin-top:0.3em;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0.5em;margin-left:1.5em;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px">

<li style="margin-bottom:0.1em"><b><a href="http://wikilovesmonuments.nl/" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration:underline;color:rgb(51, 102, 187);background-color:initial;padding-top:0px;padding-right:13px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;background-repeat:no-repeat no-repeat" target="_blank">Wiki loves monuments</a></b></li>

<li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">Talk by <a href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Effeietsanders" title="meta:User:Effeietsanders" style="text-decoration:underline;color:rgb(51, 102, 187);background-color:initial;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;background-repeat:initial initial" target="_blank">Lodewijk Gelauff</a> from <a href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Nederland" title="meta:Wikimedia Nederland" style="text-decoration:underline;color:rgb(51, 102, 187);background-color:initial;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;background-repeat:initial initial" target="_blank">Wikimedia Nederlands</a>. He is Vice chair and International contact for Wikimedia Nederlands. He is also a member of Wikimedia&#39;s <a href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Chapters_committee" title="meta:Chapters committee" style="text-decoration:underline;color:rgb(51, 102, 187);background-color:initial;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;background-repeat:initial initial" target="_blank">chapter&#39;s committee</a>.</li>

</ul></li></ul></li><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em"><b>Discussions</b><ul style="line-height:1.5em;list-style-type:square;margin-top:0.3em;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0.5em;margin-left:1.5em;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px">

<li style="margin-bottom:0.1em"><a href="http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangalore" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration:underline;color:rgb(51, 102, 187);background-color:initial;padding-top:0px;padding-right:13px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;background-repeat:no-repeat no-repeat" target="_blank">Wiki Ten Bangalore Celebration</a><ul style="line-height:1.5em;list-style-type:square;margin-top:0.3em;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0.5em;margin-left:1.5em;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px">

<li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">Thank you note to volunteers who participated.</li><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">Experiences from the community initiative.</li><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">Retrospective: what was done well and what needs improvement.</li>

</ul></li><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em"><a href="http://wikimedia.in/wiki/Projects:GLAM_2011" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration:underline;color:rgb(51, 102, 187);background-color:initial;padding-top:0px;padding-right:13px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;background-repeat:no-repeat no-repeat" target="_blank">India GLAM events</a> and Liam Wyatt&#39;s visit to India — Bangalore specific plans.<ul style="line-height:1.5em;list-style-type:square;margin-top:0.3em;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0.5em;margin-left:1.5em;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px">

<li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">Liam Wyatt in Bangalore :18-Feb (Fri) to 19-Feb (Sat).</li><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">Tomasz Finc &amp; Arthur Richards in Bangalore : 2/16 - 2/19. 2/16 or 2/17 would be best as Arthur leaving on 2/18.</li>

</ul></li></ul></li><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em"><b>Updates</b><ul style="line-height:1.5em;list-style-type:square;margin-top:0.3em;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0.5em;margin-left:1.5em;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px">

<li style="margin-bottom:0.1em"><a href="http://wikimedia.in/wiki/Main_Page" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration:underline;color:rgb(51, 102, 187);background-color:initial;padding-top:0px;padding-right:13px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;background-repeat:no-repeat no-repeat" target="_blank">Wikimedia India chapter</a></li>

<li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">Update on participation in <a href="http://samskritbookfair.org/" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration:underline;color:rgb(51, 102, 187);background-color:initial;padding-top:0px;padding-right:13px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;background-repeat:no-repeat no-repeat" target="_blank">World Sanskrit Book fair event</a> - <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Arunram" title="User:Arunram" style="text-decoration:underline;color:rgb(6, 69, 173);background-color:initial;background-repeat:initial initial" target="_blank">Arunram</a>, Vishal otherspdate on participation in <a href="http://cb.csmit.org/" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration:underline;color:rgb(51, 102, 187);background-color:initial;padding-top:0px;padding-right:13px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;background-repeat:no-repeat no-repeat" target="_blank">Carte Blanche event</a> - <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Sundar" title="User:Sundar" style="text-decoration:underline;color:rgb(6, 69, 173);background-color:initial;background-repeat:initial initial" target="_blank">Sundar</a></li>

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<li style="margin-bottom:0.1em"><ul style="line-height:1.5em;list-style-type:square;margin-top:0.3em;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0.5em;margin-left:1.5em;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px">

<li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">Bangalore loves Wikipedia initiative. Intro and call for participation.-<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Sumanadig" title="User:Sumanadig" style="text-decoration:underline;color:rgb(6, 69, 173);background-color:initial;background-repeat:initial initial" target="_blank">Suma Nadig</a></li>

<li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">Experience at Kannada Saahithya Sammelan - <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Sumanadig" title="User:Sumanadig" style="text-decoration:underline;color:rgb(6, 69, 173);background-color:initial;background-repeat:initial initial" target="_blank">Suma Nadig</a></li>

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