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Re: [Wikimedia-in-blr] Venue for Wiki X
by BalaSundaraRaman 03 Jan '11

03 Jan '11

My preferences: 1 if we have funds. We should confirm availability soon. 3 seems to be a good middle ground. If we expect a good crowd and wouldn't mind the distance, I can vouch for the facilities at IIIT B. I can follow up on this if the majority votes for this. I am an alumnus. - Sundar Sent from Yahoo! Mail on Android

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Re: [Wikimedia-in-blr] Wikimedia-in-blr Digest, Vol 5, Issue 10
by Achal Prabhala 31 Dec '10

31 Dec '10

Message: 5 > Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2010 11:24:45 +0530 > From: Arun Ramarathnam<arunram25(a)gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-in-blr] Venue for Wiki X > To: "Mailing list for Wikimedians / Wikipedians in& from Bangalore, > India"<wikimedia-in-blr(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > Message-ID: > <AANLkTi=ww1DYSmPn8iq7TqTOhizfw0Q_D4LgRd6zvGcn(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Gautam: > Can you try the availability of this place? > > > On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 10:06 AM, Gautam John<gautam(a)prathambooks.org>wrote: > >> Hello: >> >> I'd go with a place as in town as possible but failing which, IIIT >> would be my choice. >> >> There is also this place on Brunton Road: >> >> >> http://bangalore.justdial.com/mother-tekla-auditorium_brunton-road_Bangalor… >> >> http://picasaweb.google.com/birgittacasa/Tekla# >> >> And CIS have had an event there. It's pretty big but a little bit more >> expensive. Mother Tekla is really well located and it would seem like an event that is centrally located will be easier for press people to reach. In terms of costs, is there any chance that UTC (http://www.utcbangalore.in/) has space for us? They are equally well located and apparently charge reasonable rates for the auditorium. I'm not sure how to check but Bangalore NGOs like ALF have had events there and might know. In terms of the other options. I'm not sure it makes sense to hold the event at a commercial firm (not an event like this at any rate). And from previous experience, I've found that the press doesn't easily make it to events held outside central Bangalore. However, this is just my personal opinion, I don't mean to be demanding :) >> Thank you. >> >> Best, >> >> Gautam >> ________ >> http://social.prathambooks.org/ >> >>

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Re: [Wikimedia-in-blr] Wikimedia-in-blr Digest, Vol 5, Issue 11
by Achal Prabhala 31 Dec '10

31 Dec '10

> Message: 3 > Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2010 11:38:49 +0530 > From: Gautam John<gautam(a)prathambooks.org> > Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-in-blr] Venue for Wiki X > To: "Mailing list for Wikimedians / Wikipedians in& from Bangalore, > India"<wikimedia-in-blr(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > Message-ID: > <AANLkTimVwoKmmG=ez1hdSM37_G71rG-WOqbf43+Kfk=d(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > On 31 December 2010 11:24, Arun Ramarathnam<arunram25(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> Can you try the availability of this place? > I did. It is available. For the full day on the 15th they will charge > INR 80K with no charges for the preparatory setup that morning. It's a > great space but a little out of our budget, me thinks. I called Chowdiah just to check charges - 65K for the full day on weekdays, 85K for weekends, so no go it seems (at this price, Mother Tekla would be a better bet). One thing about the TERI space that needs to be brought to their attention is that the toilets smell a little - affecting the main auditorium. The other thing about TERI is that the whole upstairs space comes included in the package, and I think it could seat another 100 people quite comfortably (so that's something to consider). > Thank you. > > Best, > > Gautam > ________ > http://social.prathambooks.org/ >

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Jan 15th planning and Wiki
by Arun Ramarathnam 31 Dec '10

31 Dec '10

Dear all, Have updated the following pages: http://www.wikimedia.in - Added recent and upcoming events http://www.wikimedia.in/Ten - Page for all India Ten events http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangalore - Cleaned up with framework only. Moved specific planning to India wiki. Logic and I expanded the content here... http://www.wikimedia.in/Ten/Bangalore - Bangalore event planning page Please chime in.... Would appreciate review and suggestions to the Agenda for the day. The public event still needs work. Please update the Venue status on the wiki: http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangalore regards Arun

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Venue for Wiki X
by Srikanth Lakshmanan 31 Dec '10

31 Dec '10

Hi all, Time is running out and we need to quickly decide upon the venue for Wiki X event. Few options :- 1 ) TERI, near CIS can seat upto 100-150 will cost us 11.5 k. in the city but lesser Capacity, no seperate spaces for parallel tracks. 2 ) IIIT B, Electronic city - Huge auditorium can seat 300 and even more on other classrooms. Mostly might be free venue, IIITB students attending event and enthusiastic management but distance from city. 3 ) Intuit,Global village, ORR - Can seat upto 150-200 people mostly might be free, slightly out of city, but can attract "IT crowd". Please let the list know of your opinions for us to decide on it sooner. Sooner the better :) Thanks. Regards Srikanth.L http://srik.me

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Contribute to Kannada Wikipedia to strengthen namma Kannada
by CherianTinu Abraham 26 Dec '10

26 Dec '10

Contribute to Kannada Wikipedia to strengthen namma Kannada http://www.mahesh.com/2010/12/26/column-contribute-to-kannada-wikipedia-to-… Regards Tinu Cherian

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Wikipedia 10th anniversary event @ Bangalore | Volunteer call ...
by CherianTinu Abraham 23 Dec '10

23 Dec '10

Hi folks, As many of you already know , we are celebrating the Wikipedia 10th anniversary event @ Bangalore. More details can be found here : http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangalore With less than 3 weeks to go, we haven't even decided the exact date, venue & the guest speaker and it is high time we all put our efforts into full throttle ! I know Srikanth L ( logicwiki) / Manish ( SBC-YPR) is leading the effort, but we require large number of volunteer contributions to this effort. A larger participation & leadership from the chapter folks is humbly requested, without which we cannot take it forward. Folks who are definitely attending/volunteering , kindly signup as early as possible. http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangalore#Volunteers ( *URGENT*) It is also time to divide the tasks among us . Please "Be Bold" and volunteer :) http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Bangalore#Volunteers.2FTasks_for_each_ac… *URGENT*) We also have to finalise whether we want a morning-evening event or only afternoon-evening event...If we are planning for a morning-evening event, we need to arrange the lunch for the attendees ( either paid or free) . Without arranging lunch ( whether paid /free) , there will be chaos / confusions /delays for an all day event ( prior experience from Chennai wikimeetup event). We need to have some insights on how to meet the operational expenses for the day. It will be great if we have a clear picture of the plans like atleast venue/speaker/lunch/expenses atleast before new year. Requesting help & co-operation from all. Regards Tinu Cherian

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Kannada Wikipedia meet-up on 25th, Saturday in Bangalore
by Hari Prasad Nadig 22 Dec '10

22 Dec '10

A Kannada Wikipedia meet-up has been organized by community members with help from people at Inetframe solutions at Padmanabhanagar, Bangalore on December 25th, Saturdaty at 10.00 AM. The intention is to get together, discuss on various issues, roadblocks on Kannada Wikipedia (including the limitations with input) that are slowing down editors and how to deal with it. There will also be a discussion on Google translation tool being used for translation of Wikipedia articles. Venue:* *Inetframe solutions Pvt. Ltd. #23-26, Sri Kalyani Bhavan, 2nd cross, 2nd main, Sarvabhauma Nagar, Chikkalsandra Bangalore - 560061 08026391661 Call: Narayan Shastri 9880926893 to register or mail me back. Getting there: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Chikkalsandra+M… Meet-up page on Kannada Wikipedia: http://is.gd/j5y9y Do attend! And pass it on to your friends :) P.S: Bangalore community: need some help putting this up on English Wikipedia (as the next meet-up), there are plenty of Kannada speaking editors on English wiki who might find it useful. -- Hari Prasad Nadig http://hpnadig.net | http://twitter.com/hpnadig http://flickr.com/hpnadig

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Re: [Wikimedia-in-blr] Bangalore Wiki-meetup 23
by CherianTinu Abraham 21 Dec '10

21 Dec '10

Blog post by BGMahesh ( one india) on the 23rd meetup. http://www.mahesh.com/2010/12/18/wikimedia-meetup-in-bangalore-my-first-one Regards Tinu Cherian On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 11:18 AM, CherianTinu Abraham <tinucherian(a)gmail.com > wrote: > Just a gentle reminder regarding the Bangalore Wikimeetup23 today @ 3 PM > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Bangalore/Bangalore23 > > > Danese Cooper, Chief Technical Officer, Wikimedia Foundation, Alolita > Sharma, Engineering Programs Manager, Wikimedia Foundation will be attending > this meetup. Unfortunately, Erik Moeller is unable to attend due to an early > flight out of the country. However, he will be available at the venue at > around 1:30 PM. > > Please note the change in the venue this time. It is TERI auditorium , but > very close to CIS office. > > logicwiki & Me will be at the venue by 1-1:30 PM , so if you would like to > help with setting up things, feel free to join us :) > > Regards > Tinu Cherian > > >

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How to organise Bangalore WIkipedia Wikimeetups
by CherianTinu Abraham 21 Dec '10

21 Dec '10

Hi, Bangalore Wikipedia/Wikimedia Wikimeetups are run and organised by volunteers/wikipedians. If you are free, motivated and interested, you are highly encouraged to help organise the next Wikimeetups. We usually meet on every second sunday of every month. This is a To do list/step by step guide on setting up & organising the regular Wikimeetups in Bangalore. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Bangalore/Howtodo Feel free to add anything that I have possibly missed. Regards Tinu Cherian

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