Hi Folks,<div><br><div>This is again a good news to inform you that 34th Bangalore Wiki Meetup is just over!<br clear="all"><br>Bangalore Wiki Community's 34th Meetup was attended by 16 enthusiast attendees.</div><div>
<br></div><div>The meetup went through 2 talks by Tory Read and Achal Prabhala and post talk discussions and networking.<br><br><b>Tory Read’s Talk:</b><br><br><i>[ Tory, being a photographer, artist and journalist in profession works basically in arts, humanity, behavioral approach of humans to a new technology and strategic thinking. ]<br>
<br></i>In her visit to India she has been visiting places, meeting people who are taking part in the WMF initiatives and documenting them in the form of Images/Audio/Video files. For her, photography is a tool to understand how organizations like Wikimedia work. She explained the focus of her ongoing project which is based on making Wikipedia more supportive, how well they could help people, the good and bad points in its organization system, strategic thinking of Wikipedia in India, both in English and regional languages. She has interviewed people of varied personal and professional backgrounds and recorded almost 25 videos which she’d be uploading to commons. She has met Bishakha Datta in Mumbai, visited Pune Pilot Program campus, taken part in interacting with 22 campus ambassadors, attended Kannur Malayalam Wiki Meetup along with Bishakha and Hisham, trvelled Thiruvananthapuram, Ernakulam and interviewed several Malayalam Wikipedians, from a very-young-Wikipedian to a Heart-Stroke-Patient-Wikipedian. Tory would be documenting the history of Wikipedia along with the work pattern, strategic plans, cons and pros of new initiatives based on the behavioral function.<br>
<br><b>Achal Prabhala’s talk:</b><i><br><br>[Achal is an Indian researcher, activist and writer based in Bangalore, Karnataka.<sup><span></span><span></span></sup> He works on intellectual property rights in relation to medicine and knowledge. He also serves on the board of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centre_for_Internet_and_Society_%28India%29" title="" target="_blank">Centre for Internet and Society</a><sup><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achal_Prabhala#cite_note-1" target="_blank"><span></span><span></span></a></sup> and on the Advisory board of the Wikimedia Foundation.<a title="" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achal_Prabhala#cite_note-2" target="_blank"><span></span></a>]</i><br>
<br>Achal, being a part of a long term project on Oral citation has interviewed many people in India (mostly in Kerala and Maharashtra), attended public gathering, folk dances, observed process of traditional liquor skills of local folks in South Africa, interviewed them and recorded their words and action. His work also pervaded to understand how newspapers in a long span of their lives never worked as authentic source of information, media, entertainment industry has popularized languages like Hindi, but the same language has still not reached more scholarly published articles. During a long presentation Achal showed the extensive approach and need of Oral citation in documenting the history of mankind in a more generic way.<br>
<br>Post talks there was few discussions. Arjuna Rao Chavala explained the Bangalore Community Engagement with Wikimedia Chapter and its role as an independent body. The main topics discussed are:
<ul><li>Membership (<i>Membership needs, benefits, role as a Chapter member</i>)<br></li><li>Projects 2011-2012</li><li>Representation of Bangalore in the city SIG</li></ul></div><div>Post discussion Membership forms were distributed. The forms are also avaibale online at <a href="http://wiki.wikimedia.in/File:WikimediaChapterMembershipFormIndividual.pdf" target="_blank">http://wiki.wikimedia.in/File:WikimediaChapterMembershipFormIndividual.pdf</a><br>
<br>Wikipedians also discussed about taking initiatives to start on campus Wiki Workshops in Engineering and Communication/Media Studies Institutes which will bring out students for taking part in Wikimedia initiatives.<br>
<br>Post discussion Wikipedians socialized and had photoshoots. Photos and videos can be found at <a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Bangalore_Meetup_June2011" target="_blank">http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Bangalore_Meetup_June2011</a><br>
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