Hello everyone,
On 24th January 2012, a small meetup was organized in L.D. College of Engineering Ahmedabad, I thank Kothari Harsh and Shah Smit from the college to organize this on such short notice (less than 24 hours). After the successful photo walk and a small Wiki 11 celebration, I thought this would help out in sustaining a community there too.
The meetup was attended by 7 people in total, I gave them a small presentation of Wikipedia and idea of how exactly the community works and what does a community do. I also shared my experiences as a CA in IEP and as an editor on EN and GU WP too for past 1 year.
After the presentation we had a good discussion on how they can help building a strong community from Gujarat, Kartik Mistry shared his experiences of working collaboratively in FOSS and Debian Community. He blogged http://kartikm.wordpress.com/2012/01/25/meeting-with-arnav/ about this meetup too.
I also showed them Gujarat Transliterationhttp://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:Narayam/Guajrati/Transliterationand Gujarati Inscripthttp://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:Narayam/Gujarati/InScriptof Extension:Narayam which needs help, Kartik has agreed to help us in this. Thanks.
I also showed them the list of places of interest in Ahmedabad which could be developed as articles User:AhsLin/Ahmedabad, which Ashwin created and asked them to start helping out in this too.
I request everyone from the community and WMF to help them as and when required, and lets have one strong community from Gujarat too.
Thanks.
Thanks for posting the report, Arnav. Looks like you guys had a good time. Great going!
anirudh
On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 1:13 PM, Arnav Sonara sonara.arnav@gmail.comwrote:
Hello everyone,
On 24th January 2012, a small meetup was organized in L.D. College of Engineering Ahmedabad, I thank Kothari Harsh and Shah Smit from the college to organize this on such short notice (less than 24 hours). After the successful photo walk and a small Wiki 11 celebration, I thought this would help out in sustaining a community there too.
The meetup was attended by 7 people in total, I gave them a small presentation of Wikipedia and idea of how exactly the community works and what does a community do. I also shared my experiences as a CA in IEP and as an editor on EN and GU WP too for past 1 year.
After the presentation we had a good discussion on how they can help building a strong community from Gujarat, Kartik Mistry shared his experiences of working collaboratively in FOSS and Debian Community. He blogged http://kartikm.wordpress.com/2012/01/25/meeting-with-arnav/about this meetup too.
I also showed them Gujarat Transliterationhttp://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:Narayam/Guajrati/Transliterationand Gujarati Inscripthttp://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:Narayam/Gujarati/InScriptof Extension:Narayam which needs help, Kartik has agreed to help us in this. Thanks.
I also showed them the list of places of interest in Ahmedabad which could be developed as articles User:AhsLin/Ahmedabad, which Ashwin created and asked them to start helping out in this too.
I request everyone from the community and WMF to help them as and when required, and lets have one strong community from Gujarat too.
Thanks.
-- Thanks Arnav (ricku). (User:Rangilo_Gujarati)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Rangilo_Gujarati
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