Heya,<br>I logged into Facebook after a week to find out that Prasanna has psoted a detailed report on the meetup facebook event page.<br>The link to the page is on the meetup page on Meta.<br>Perhaps, Bala, Subha or Ansuman could copy it here<br>
It would explain things from a newcomers point of view.<br>--~~~~<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 12:41 AM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:parakara.ghoda@gmail.com">parakara.ghoda@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Thanks a lot Arjuna. I think February will be good as exams won't be<br>
there then. Meanwhile, I do hope that the Academy in Jan will help up<br>
increase the active community members in Coimbatore for further<br>
meetups to happen.<br>
<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
On 12/14/11, Arjuna Rao Chavala <<a href="mailto:arjunaraoc@gmail.com">arjunaraoc@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Srikanth R,<br>
><br>
> My previous discussion is about wiki academy for journalism students of<br>
> Amrita institution in Coimbatore for Jan 2012. No such event happened in<br>
> 2011.<br>
><br>
> Getting regular meetups happen is a big challenge even in places like<br>
> Bangalore. You can plan for once in two months or so to start with<br>
> encourage people to edit, participate in nearby meetups, wiki academies,<br>
> encourage membership in chapter to grow the movement on a sustainable basis.<br>
><br>
> Cheers<br>
> Arjuna Rao Chavala<br>
> ---------------------<br>
> Sent via mobile<br>
> On Dec 14, 2011 11:10 PM, "Srikanth Ramakrishnan" <<a href="mailto:parakara.ghoda@gmail.com">parakara.ghoda@gmail.com</a>><br>
> wrote:<br>
><br>
>> Heya, this just struck me. Arjuna mentioned to me that there was an<br>
>> Academy held in Coimbatore back in April 2011. Maybe, we could get<br>
>> guys from there to attend the next meetup, provided some experienced<br>
>> community member attends it.<br>
>><br>
>> On 12/13/11, Srikanth Ramakrishnan <<a href="mailto:parakara.ghoda@gmail.com">parakara.ghoda@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> > Thanks for the positive response guys. I'll try and arrange a meetup<br>
>> > in the second week of January. Since the only two Wikipedians are out<br>
>> > of town and it also will be Wikipedia Day, presence of a member of<br>
>> > chapter or foundation would be welcome.<br>
>> ><br>
>> > On 12/13/11, ansuman <<a href="mailto:ansumang@gmail.com">ansumang@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> >> Very nice report. I hope to see more active wikipedians. And hope the<br>
>> >> community grows. You rock, Keep it up.<br>
>> >><br>
>> >> Regards<br>
>> >> ansu<br>
>> >> *<br>
>> >> ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ<br>
>> >> *<br>
>> >> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ansumang" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ansumang</a><br>
>> >><br>
>> >> On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 4:15 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan <<br>
>> >> <a href="mailto:rsrikanth05@gmail.com">rsrikanth05@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> >><br>
>> >>> Heya all,<br>
>> >>> This should've come in elaier but didn't as my lab was shut.<br>
>> >>> To Pradeep, who's been asking for two days,<br>
>> >>> And Noopur, the only other Wikipedian who asked about this meet.<br>
>> >>><br>
>> >>> Our meetup was held at the KG Inst. of Tech [KITE] who offered us an<br>
>> >>> A/C presentation hall for this event.<br>
>> >>> KITE, is a part of KG Information Systems Ltd, one of the city's most<br>
>> >>> respected IT establishments.<br>
>> >>> The meetup space was offered by Mr. Ashok Bkathavatsalam himself, the<br>
>> >>> MD of KGISL, who in turn was told about this meet by Gautam John and<br>
>> >>> Venkat Mangudi. Thanks you two.<br>
>> >>><br>
>> >>> The meetup started at 11am.<br>
>> >>><br>
>> >>> We had ~14-15 attendees, out of which 8 or 9 were part of ILUGC Pondy<br>
>> >>> [Indian Linux User Group Puducherry].<br>
>> >>> One Wikipedian saw the link to the meetup on my signature on an online<br>
>> >>> forum SkyScraperCity and came from Chennai.<br>
>> >>> Bala Jeyaraman, aka Sodabottle joined me a few minutes into the meetup<br>
>> >>> and it was him who spoke for the rest of the day.<br>
>> >>> Pre lunch, we basically spoke on how and why the Wikipedia model<br>
>> >>> worked, the principles of the project, with Bala using the age old<br>
>> >>> debate of whether Coimbatore or Madurai was the second largest city in<br>
>> >>> Tamil Nadu as an example for verifiability.<br>
>> >>><br>
>> >>> Bala explained the ease of typing in Tamil, etc.<br>
>> >>><br>
>> >>> Post lunch, we were joined by two faculty members of KITE, while Mr.<br>
>> >>> Ashok himself stepped in. Interestingly, he himself has an account on<br>
>> >>> the English Wikipedia and contributes too.<br>
>> >>><br>
>> >>> The meetup ended at around 4, we took a few photos. I shall ask<br>
>> >>> Prasanna to upload them soon.<br>
>> >>><br>
>> >>> It was a success, there were three existing Wikipedians, and the rest<br>
>> >>> were interested newcomers. I wouldn't call it an academy though.<br>
>> >>><br>
>> >>> We've not scheduled a meetup for January yet, as the most probable<br>
>> >>> date is 15th Jan [Wikipedia Day] because both Bala and I won't be in<br>
>> >>> town. If anyone from the chapter/foundation can help lead it, I can<br>
>> >>> get people to attend and myself attend virtually thru Skype or so from<br>
>> >>> Kakinada.<br>
>> >>><br>
>> >>> Comments, suggestions most welcome.<br>
>> >>><br>
>> >>> All brickbats my way, bouquets to Bala please.<br>
>> >>><br>
>> >>> --~~~~<br>
>> >>><br>
>> >>> --<br>
>> >>> Regards,<br>
>> >>> Srikanth Ramakrishnan,<br>
>> >>> Sathyamangalam-Gobichettipalayam Star Gazers<br>
>> >>> My Commons uploads, now exceeding 75.<br>
>> >>> <a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:ListFiles/Rsrikanth05" target="_blank">http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:ListFiles/Rsrikanth05</a><br>
>> >>><br>
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>> ><br>
>> ><br>
>> > --<br>
>> > Regards,<br>
>> > Srikanth Ramakrishnan.<br>
>> > Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on December 10th.<br>
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>> Regards,<br>
>> Srikanth Ramakrishnan.<br>
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Regards,<br>
Srikanth Ramakrishnan.<br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Regards,<br>Srikanth Ramakrishnan.<br>Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on December 10th.<br><a href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore" target="_blank">http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore</a><br>
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