Wikimedia-in-blr January 2011

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Update on Wikipedia 10 event [Venue Map]
by Srikanta P 07 Jan '11

07 Jan '11

Hi everyone, I'm attaching the venue map with this email. I couldn't update it on the wiki page. So if this map is OK, then kindly upload it on the wiki page. I'm sure it will help the participants a lot. Regards, Srikanta IIITB

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Bangalore WP10 planning session at 10 PM, pleease join
by Arun Ramarathnam 06 Jan '11

06 Jan '11

Request for all to join th Bangalore planning call. Just Logic, Harsha and me on. We need help from all, please participate. Today is a busy day with a lot of updates. Please join. It is "Namma WP 10 baengaluru event" regards Arun

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'Bangalore loves Wikipedia'
by Hari Prasad Nadig 06 Jan '11

06 Jan '11

'Bangalore loves Wikipedia' is a series of photowalks to capture monuments of Bangalore and thereby contributing photos to the Wikimedia Commons, Wikipedia. There's this first photo walk on Jan 9th 2011 - the route of this walk will cover several old/heritage buildings of Bangalore - Town Hall, LIC Building, City Cor...poration, UVCE, SKSJTI Clock Tower etc. Please join in! http://wikimedia.in/wiki/Bangalore_loves_Wikipedia/Jan-9-2011 http://wikimedia.in/wiki/Bangalore_loves_Wikipedia (and the event page on Facebook): http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=182329365119667 -- Hari Prasad Nadig http://hpnadig.net | http://twitter.com/hpnadig http://flickr.com/hpnadig

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Update on Wikipedia 10 event
by Srikanta P 06 Jan '11

06 Jan '11

Hi, Arun, i happened to visit NIAS last year as part of Mozilla devcamp, it is aptly suited as you have said in the previous mail. I'll just give you points on how things were set up then, 1. The lobby just before the Main Audi was used to register the participants and also to distribute swags at the end of the event. 2. A small covered area which you had mentioned, was used to serve lunch. Most of them had to sit on the grass and have lunch then. 3. As the main audi doesnt have much of power plugin points, getting laptops wouldnt be viable. For registration : 1. I suggest using EventBrite http://www.eventbrite.com/fees/ as its free. It gives a compact registration derails of the delegates. Also we will be able to restrict the number of participants according to the capacity of the audi. 2. If one feels this is complicated then we can as well go with the Google Docs as registration form. For Publicty : 1. I saw Tinucherian would be able to do through main stream media, but once we get done with the registration form, we can start tweeting about it and also pass on to the numerous open source communities. That should help us get the proper audience. I've spread the word on the requirement for volunteers, I hope to see few joining the mailing list shortly Regards, Srikanta On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 10:31 AM, Arun Ramarathnam <arunram25(a)gmail.com>wrote: > Dear all, > > Thanks for the detailed update Srikanth. > > I do think we should move ahead with NIAS (National institute of Advance > studies) as a venue. www.nias.res.in > > - We found it to be very spacious (as you can see from the pictures). > - It has a nice stage and lighting equipment. > - There are multiple halls (auditorium, lecture hall and possibly > another conference room > - They have a foyer that would help us have conversations between > sessions. > - There is ample parking at least 75 cars can easily be parked without > an issue in campus. > - There is a separate space for serving food in a buffet format. > > The institute Directory and head of Admin head were gracious to accept the > request I made to offer this facility to us for free. > > On behalf the whole team, I will go ahead and sent a note to them accepting > the venue and thanking them for the offer. > > We have a great venue. The focus now is on the *content* and * > getting participation*. > > This is a call for you all to please join the* daily calls*. We need more > help and hands on the deck. > There is a lot of work to be done, *We need volunteer time.* Please seek > the wiki for tasks you can volunteer for. > > regards > Arun > > On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 9:26 AM, Srikanth Lakshmanan <srik.lak(a)gmail.com>wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> Arun, Tinu and myself have been working on the venue and we visited the >> NIAS (IISc campus) yesterday. The venue looks good and we would mostly be >> confirming this place soon. Pictures[1]. Arun, can you please confirm >> this? I have applied a grant of 1000 USD for the event.Details[2]. The >> merchandise from foundation is on transit and we would get it in another few >> days. >> >> We still have to work on the content format, speakers, food, PR,printing >> banners, pamphlets etc and a lot more. We are having the daily call for last >> 3 days and participation is very low.It would be great if the participation >> increases from the core wikipedians to support this event to make it a huge >> success. >> >> We shall have the call at 10 pm starting today since some of us are >> getting late.I request you to join the call and help in volunteering for any >> of the above tasks. We need more support to make this event happen at the >> scale we are planning. >> >> Thank you! >> >> Time : 10 pm (starting Jan 6, Daily call) >> Conference id: 1587477 >> Pin: 4254 >> Dial in number : 080 67224444 >> >> [1] http://picasaweb.google.com/srik.lak/NIASVenue >> [2] >> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:WM_IN/Bangalore_Wikipedia_X_Anniversa… >> >> Regards >> Srikanth.L >> http://srik.me >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia-in-blr mailing list >> Wikimedia-in-blr(a)lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-blr >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-in-blr mailing list > Wikimedia-in-blr(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-blr > >

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Update on Wikipedia 10 event
by Srikanth Lakshmanan 06 Jan '11

06 Jan '11

Hi all, Arun, Tinu and myself have been working on the venue and we visited the NIAS (IISc campus) yesterday. The venue looks good and we would mostly be confirming this place soon. Pictures[1]. Arun, can you please confirm this? I have applied a grant of 1000 USD for the event.Details[2]. The merchandise from foundation is on transit and we would get it in another few days. We still have to work on the content format, speakers, food, PR,printing banners, pamphlets etc and a lot more. We are having the daily call for last 3 days and participation is very low.It would be great if the participation increases from the core wikipedians to support this event to make it a huge success. We shall have the call at 10 pm starting today since some of us are getting late.I request you to join the call and help in volunteering for any of the above tasks. We need more support to make this event happen at the scale we are planning. Thank you! Time : 10 pm (starting Jan 6, Daily call) Conference id: 1587477 Pin: 4254 Dial in number : 080 67224444 [1] http://picasaweb.google.com/srik.lak/NIASVenue [2] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:WM_IN/Bangalore_Wikipedia_X_Anniversa… Regards Srikanth.L http://srik.me

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IIITB as a venue for Wikipedia 10th Anniversary ??
by Srikanta P 05 Jan '11

05 Jan '11

Hi everybody, I know i'm dropping by at the last hour but I was going through the webpage of 10th anniversary and found out that IIITB has been considered as a potential venue. I saw the email thread where 2 venues have already given their confirmation in hosting the event. I'm a student at IIITB and if you are still in the planning stage, i can just check with our professors if we can host the anniversary event. As it has been discussed in the previous, our college is best suited for parallel talks (classrooms) and also a main talk at the audi. There are a bunch of enthusiastic students who are ready to volunteer. So that might help as well Let me know ASAP. Regards, Srikanta Student, PGDSD, IIIT-B 9880530243

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[[Press]] : The Hindu : Using Wikipedia to change the language of the Web
by CherianTinu Abraham 05 Jan '11

05 Jan '11

* The Hindu : "Using Wikipedia to change the language of the Web"* http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-opportunities/article10… Regards Tinu Cherian

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Some good news - One confirmed venue offer, expecting another by tomorrow
by Arun Ramarathnam 04 Jan '11

04 Jan '11

Dear all, A good development! We have confirmation from of one venue offer from Inuit. And NIAS will confirm tomorrow by 11 AM. Spoke to Director who was very supportive. More later in the evening call. Now to get the content engine moving. Look forward to everyone chipping in, we need help. regards Arun

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Re: [Wikimedia-in-blr] Wikimedia-in-blr Digest, Vol 6, Issue 1
by Mithin Ravindra Kumar 04 Jan '11

04 Jan '11

The Jnana Jyothi Auditorium in Bangalore University, (Near Avenue Road) has a seating of 1200, I guess it would be available easily for such events. But one needs to approach the registrar, for that. Sometimes even they wave of the rent. On 4 January 2011 14:38, <wikimedia-in-blr-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org>wrote: > Send Wikimedia-in-blr mailing list submissions to > wikimedia-in-blr(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-blr > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > wikimedia-in-blr-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > wikimedia-in-blr-owner(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Wikimedia-in-blr digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Wikimedia-in-blr Digest, Vol 5, Issue 11 (Achal Prabhala) > 2. Re: Wikimedia-in-blr Digest, Vol 5, Issue 10 (Hari Prasad Nadig) > 3. Re: Venue for Wiki X (Gautam John) > 4. Re: Venue for Wiki X (Swaroop Rao) > 5. Re: Venue for Wiki X (mahesh(a)oneindia.co.in) > 6. Call today at 9 PM reg. Bangalore Tenth anniversary event > (Arun Ramarathnam) > 7. Re: Call today at 9 PM reg. Bangalore Tenth anniversary event > (Srikanth Lakshmanan) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2010 13:52:59 +0530 > From: Achal Prabhala <aprabhala(a)gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-in-blr] Wikimedia-in-blr Digest, Vol 5, Issue > 11 > To: wikimedia-in-blr(a)lists.wikimedia.org > Message-ID: <4D1D92E3.2040801(a)gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > > > 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/ > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2010 14:52:36 +0530 > From: Hari Prasad Nadig <hpnadig(a)gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-in-blr] Wikimedia-in-blr Digest, Vol 5, Issue > 10 > To: "Mailing list for Wikimedians / Wikipedians in & from Bangalore, > India" <wikimedia-in-blr(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > Message-ID: > <AANLkTimv2fs-1FZpHu7o=cxGzSdVaDW2b004OocAr7aD(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 11:59 AM, Achal Prabhala <aprabhala(a)gmail.com > >wrote: > > > 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. > > > > Agree with Achal on this. > > Cenral college is also something we could check with - centrally located > and > quite good auditorium. > > -- > Hari Prasad Nadig > http://hpnadig.net | http://twitter.com/hpnadig > http://flickr.com/hpnadig >

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Call today at 9 PM reg. Bangalore Tenth anniversary event
by Arun Ramarathnam 04 Jan '11

04 Jan '11

Dear all, Propose a daily sync up call in the run up to the Bangalore Ten anniversary event. We need to sync up to close out many open items. Please do make it to the meeting. Let us catch up tonight at 9 PM IST. Date: *03 January 2011* Time: *09:00 PM IST* Timezone: *Mumbai* Duration: *not specified* Subject: *Wikipedia Tenth anniversary planning call* Message from the organizer: *Please attend a telecon schedule tonight at 9 AM. We need to make rapid progress on many fronts for the 15th Jan event.* And for more access numbers, click here<http://www.sabsebolo.com/site/access_numbers> Enter the following conference id and pin after the prompt: Conference id: *1587477* Pin: *4254* ------------------------------ Sign up for your own conference id for FREE at http://www.sabsebolo.com regards Arun Bangalore, India www.twitter.com/arunram

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