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Photowalk
by Anas Chulyodan 25 Feb '11

25 Feb '11

When is the next Bangalore photo walk? Regards! Anas

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Bangalore Wikimeetup 30 with Hisham Mundol on 25 Feb 2011
by CherianTinu Abraham 25 Feb '11

25 Feb '11

Hi, Hisham Mundol was recently hired [1] as an consultant to the Wikimedia Foundation to support the program initiatives in India. Hisham Mundol will be primarily based in India and will be working closely with the Wikimedian community in India. Hisham Mundol is coming to Bangalore to connect with the Wikimedian community in Bangalore. Date : *Friday, 25-Feb-2011 6:30 PM IST * Venue: The Centre for Internet and Society No. 194, 2nd 'C' Cross, 4th Main Domlur 2nd Stage Opposite to Domlur Club Bangalore 560 071 Karnataka http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Bangalore/Bangalore30 Do plan to attend and kindly sign up. About Hisham Mundol : *Hisham Mundol's role will be to design and implement specific pilot programs that encourage many more Indians to become contributors to our projects in Indic languages as well as English. The National Programs initiative will focus on the following areas in the first year:* *Design and implement an India-wide program to increase Wikimedia’s footprint on university and college campuses with students and faculty with the aim of encouraging contributions to Wikimedia projects* *Support the launch and implementation of community-initiated programs that seek to increase the editor base for Wikimedia projects* *Engage with the community and chapter to build a strong relationship among these stakeholder groups and create communications forums that allow for effective partnerships* *As a newcomer to the Wikimedia movement, Hisham’s first task will be to deepen his understanding of us: our history, goals, values, culture and mission. * * * *Hisham was most recently a consultant with the Public Health Foundation of India (in a partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation). He designed and implemented large-scale national programs on HIV/AIDS prevention. He worked to understand the dynamics of hard-to-reach communities by conducting in-depth, on-the-ground analysis (ask him to tell you about his experience talking to drivers while sitting under their trucks). The programs he designed and implemented sought to convince people in large numbers - 400 million young people across the nation - to change very personal behaviours. While we are not tackling issues of such an intimate nature, we do aim to convince large numbers of people across the country to contribute their personal time to Wikimedia projects. During this assignment, Hisham worked closely with public, private and community groups (local and international) to work through the details of the programs and build partnerships for implementing them at scale. He did so in a manner that used persuasion rather than power to build support to move things forward. We think his experience navigating these varied groups position him well to work in the Wikimedia community. His earlier career was in marketing and business development with a number of well-known businesses: Infosys, Accenture, Cadbury and Unilever. This experience positions him well to engage with a movement and organization that is global in nature, in particular to work with a team that is based halfway around the world. * ( Introduction by Barry Newstead , GCDO , Wikimedia Foundation) [1] Regards Tinu Cherian [1] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2011-February/002239.… [2] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/FAQ_Consultancy_for_National_Programs,_India

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GLAM meeting at NGMA, Friday 3 pm, Feb 18
by Achal Prabhala 20 Feb '11

20 Feb '11

On Friday at 3 pm, a group of us from Bangalore (Arun, Gautam and I) organised a GLAM presentation and meeting at the NGMA (National Gallery of Modern Art, Bangalore http://ngmaindia.gov.in/ngma_bangaluru.asp) with Liam. (Announced here: http://wikimedia.in/wiki/Projects:GLAM_2011/Bangalore_Feb2011) This is a quick update: NGMA is a grand Indian art institution, and the Bangalore museum is it's latest expansion. The director of the museum, Sobha Nambisan, was keen to make this a small meeting for NGMA staff and invited curators/ gallery owners from Bangalore. Of the people present, other than us, there were about 10 NGMA staff, including all the main curators and coordinators, as well as Aashti Mudnani from Gallery SKE (www.galleryske.com) - a leading contemporary art gallery, Suresh Jayaram from 1 Shanthi Road (www.1shanthiroad.com), - an arts centre for residencies and experimentation, Suman Gopinath from Colab - curatorial space for arts and architecture, and Namita Malhotra from Pad.ma (www.pad.ma) - an open video archive. Liam spoke for about half an hour about his experiences at the British Museum, interspersed with questions from the curators present. Following his talk, we had a discussion that lasted another half hour. There was plenty of interest evinced in continuing similar work in Bangalore at the institutions present; questions ranged from fairly interesting ("What can I get out of this?") to the expectedly basic around tenets of Wikipedia - as is perhaps to be expected from a specialist audience in a different field. Gallery SKE, for instance, is already working in-house on looking at ways of enhancing Wikipedia around the artists it represents; 1 Shanthi Road, which is a far looser arts-space, expressed interest in finding ways to document events, happenings and art that might otherwise be lost, and NGMA as a whole - as expressed by Sobha - seemed very interested in following up the conversation, by starting to think about what they would want to get out of a relationship with Wikimedians. Personally, it was very interesting for me to see the intersection between high-culture and Wikimedia, a connection that's not often expressed or articulated in Bangalore or India. Gautam and Arun, who were both at the meeting, have suggested that they could follow up in terms of coordinating community involvement with NGMA and other art galleries present at the meeting, especially in terms of interest expressed at the public CIS meet-up where Liam also spoke. If there is anyone on these lists who'd like to get in touch with any of the institutions mentioned here, please drop either Arun, Gautam or I a line and we'll be delighted to connect you :) Cheers, Achal

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Re: [Wikimedia-in-blr] Fwd: KALA/ NCSI-NET///// A Great Revelation
by gokul das 20 Feb '11

20 Feb '11

Hi All, I am 60 plus and all these years I presume that Galleries,Libraries,Art centres etc are places of worship. But a little reading in one of your blogs changed the whole of my perception.Quote,"However, it seems to me that we have reached a tipping point in the mood of the cultural sector for curators to become guides rather than guards, for museums to be forums rather than temples.'" Unquote. A great revelation for a 60 year old and I have added a new dimension when I look at churches , mosques and temples. Gokuldas Wikian On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 9:29 PM, Arjuna Rao Chavala < arjunaraoc(a)googlemail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > All are welcome to join this talk by Liam.(details enclosed) > > Cheers > Arjun > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Babu Rajendra <Rajendra.Babu(a)capco.com> > Date: Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 3:40 PM > Subject: KALA/ NCSI-NET Talk on Wikipedia and GLAM's by Liam Wyatt > (Wikimedia Foundation's Cultural Partnerships Fellow) on 19th Feb 2011 > To: "lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in" <lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in>, " > lislforum(a)gmail.com" <lislforum(a)gmail.com>, "akelpa(a)gmail.com" < > akelpa(a)gmail.com>, "nmlis(a)yahoogroups.com" <nmlis(a)yahoogroups.com>, " > iatlis.patiala(a)gmail.com" <iatlis.patiala(a)gmail.com>, " > ncsi-net(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in" <ncsi-net(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> > Cc: "liamwyatt(a)gmail.com" <liamwyatt(a)gmail.com>, Arjuna Rao Chavala < > arjunaraoc(a)googlemail.com> > > > Dear LIS Professionals, > Karnataka State Library Association (KALA) and NCSI-NET (an alumni > association of Students and staff of NCSI) are happy to invite you to the > Special Lecture on; > > *Topic: "Wikipedia and GLAMs (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums)" > * > *Speaker: Liam Wyatt *(Wikimedia Foundation’s Cultural Partnerships > Fellow) > *Date and Time: 19th Feb 2011 at 10.30AM* > *Venue: Seminar Hall, National Centre for Science Information (NCSI), > IISc, Bangalore -12* > > *Abstract: * > In this presentation Liam will discuss his project as the "Wikipedian in > Residence" at the British Museum and the current global cultural > partnerships project. He will then talk about the kinds of collaboration > that libraries and librarians can achieve with Wikimedia and also answer any > questions about Wikipedia more generally. > > *About the Speaker: * > Liam Wyatt is the Wikimedia Foundation’s *Cultural Partnerships Fellow*<http://bit.ly/GLAMfellow>(a.k.a GLAM fellow), based in Sydney. He has done his bachelors in > Globalisation. He had been given a one year fellowship to focus on Cultural > Partnerships within the Wikiverse. > His role is to help create systems and processes to make outreach > partnerships more efficient and effective. The key phrase is “capacity > building” as described in his blogpost a few months ago “*How to make > cultural collaborations scale*<http://www.wittylama.com/2010/11/how-to-make-cultural-collaborations-scale/>“. > He believes that now the cultural sector has seen that working with > Wikimedia can be A Good Thing™, that we must have reasonably professional > processes in place for managing those relationships. As a first step in this > he has built a bit of a *GLAM hub on-wiki*<http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM>. > For more details, he can be accessed at this URL *http://glamwiki.org*<http://glamwiki.org/> > He has been Vice President of *Wikimedia Australia*<http://wikimedia.org.au/>and the “ > *Wikipedian in Residence*<http://www.wittylama.com/2010/03/the-british-museum-and-me/>” > at the British Museum. Also, a project officer at *Austlii*<http://www.austlii.edu.au/austlii/>and multimedia coordinator at the > *Dictionary of Sydney*<http://www.dictionaryofsydney.org/www/html/51-project-teams.asp>, > a historian, *podcaster* <http://wikipediaweekly.org/>, *fire-twirler*<http://www.circusoc.com/>, > museuophile, snowboarder, *förman* <http://www.ostgota.nu/>, bartender and > backpacker. > > Thanks and Regards, > Rajendra Babu H > General Secretary > Karnataka State Library Association (KALA) > > > > The information in this email is confidential and is intended solely for the > addressee(s). Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not > an intended recipient, please notify the sender of this email immediately. You > should not copy, use or disseminate the information contained in the email. > Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except > where the sender specifically states them to be the views of Capco.http://www.capco.com/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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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Photos from Liam's visit to Chitrakala Parishat
by Hari Prasad Nadig 19 Feb '11

19 Feb '11

People, As you all know, Liam Wyatt is in town. He was with us visiting ChitraKala Parishath, one of the most respected art institution and cultural organization which is famous for Chitra Santhe and Roerich galleries. Here are some photos from this morning's visit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/hpnadig/sets/72157625955970249/ Cheers, -- Hari Prasad Nadig <http://hpnadig.net>http://twitter.com/hpnadig http://flickr.com/hpnadig

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Liam Wyatt's to speak in Bangalore @ CIS
by Arun Ramarathnam 18 Feb '11

18 Feb '11

Dear all, We are having a special meetup In Bangalore on Saturday, February 19, 2011 (3:15 pm) at CIS. We will be having Liam Wyatt speaking on Wikipedia and GLAM institutions (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums). This talk is open to Wikipedians and the general public. Requesting people who are attending to sign up here - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Bangalore/Bangalore29 Liam Wyatt has been meeting many GLAM institutions in Mumbai and Delhi during this trip. Bangalore is the last leg of his trip. He will also be meeting GLAM institutions in Bangalore on 18th and 19th. It will be an exciting meeting, so please do be there. We had given a heads up in last week's Bangalore meetup. We also hope to have discussions around approaches to work with GLAM institutions In India based on his recent meetings and discussions. warm regards, Arun

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Fwd: Liam/ Wikipedia GLAM discussion @ NGMA @ 3 pm, Feb 18 (Friday)
by Achal Prabhala 17 Feb '11

17 Feb '11

A friendly reminder...in addition to other GLAM events that are happening over the next two days: http://wikimedia.in/wiki/Projects:GLAM_2011/Bangalore_Feb2011 ...please sign up for the NGMA GLAM meeting if you are interested in joining us tomorrow (Friday, Feb 18) at the staff boardroom of the National Gallery of Modern Art, Bangalore @ 3 pm (all the other events listed on the page are public, except this, which is for museum staff, curators, archivists, gallery owners and any interested Wikipedians - sign up required). Cheers, Achal -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Liam/ Wikipedia GLAM discussion @ NGMA @ 3 pm, Feb 18 (Friday) Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 17:35:58 +0530 From: Achal Prabhala <aprabhala(a)gmail.com> To: Mailing list for Wikimedians / Wikipedians in Bangalore, India <wikimedia-in-blr(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Discussion list on Indian language projects of Wikimedia. <wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Dear all, A group of us here in Bangalore have been arranging GLAM sessions on Feb 18/19. NGMA (the National Gallery of Modern Art, Bangalore: http://ngmaindia.gov.in/ngma_bangaluru.asp) will host a semi-public discussion with Liam, NGMA staff, and invited curators/ art gallery owners at their premises on Feb 18, Friday, 3 pm in the NGMA staff boardroom. The other organisations invited are: 1 Shanthi Road (http://www.1shanthiroad.com/), Gallery SKE (www.galleryske.com), Colab (an art and architecture curatorial concern) and pad.ma (www.pad.ma). Wikipedians and other interested folk from Bangalore are welcome to join, but since space is slightly limited, NGMA would prefer to keep this a private event (without press) and ask that you send in your names beforehand. Therefore, if you are interested in this event, could you please add your names here: http://wikimedia.in/wiki/Projects:GLAM_2011/Bangalore_Feb2011#18-Feb Will update http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/India after the event. There are many other events in the planning, and there will be more notifications here as these events are finalised. Cheers, Achal

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Fwd: KALA/ NCSI-NET Talk on Wikipedia and GLAM's by Liam Wyatt (Wikimedia Foundation's Cultural Partnerships Fellow) on 19th Feb 2011
by Arjuna Rao Chavala 16 Feb '11

16 Feb '11

Hi, All are welcome to join this talk by Liam.(details enclosed) Cheers Arjun ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Babu Rajendra <Rajendra.Babu(a)capco.com> Date: Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 3:40 PM Subject: KALA/ NCSI-NET Talk on Wikipedia and GLAM's by Liam Wyatt (Wikimedia Foundation's Cultural Partnerships Fellow) on 19th Feb 2011 To: "lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in" <lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in>, " lislforum(a)gmail.com" <lislforum(a)gmail.com>, "akelpa(a)gmail.com" < akelpa(a)gmail.com>, "nmlis(a)yahoogroups.com" <nmlis(a)yahoogroups.com>, " iatlis.patiala(a)gmail.com" <iatlis.patiala(a)gmail.com>, " ncsi-net(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in" <ncsi-net(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Cc: "liamwyatt(a)gmail.com" <liamwyatt(a)gmail.com>, Arjuna Rao Chavala < arjunaraoc(a)googlemail.com> Dear LIS Professionals, Karnataka State Library Association (KALA) and NCSI-NET (an alumni association of Students and staff of NCSI) are happy to invite you to the Special Lecture on; *Topic: "Wikipedia and GLAMs (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums)"* *Speaker: Liam Wyatt *(Wikimedia Foundation’s Cultural Partnerships Fellow) *Date and Time: 19th Feb 2011 at 10.30AM* *Venue: Seminar Hall, National Centre for Science Information (NCSI), IISc, Bangalore -12* *Abstract: * In this presentation Liam will discuss his project as the "Wikipedian in Residence" at the British Museum and the current global cultural partnerships project. He will then talk about the kinds of collaboration that libraries and librarians can achieve with Wikimedia and also answer any questions about Wikipedia more generally. *About the Speaker: * Liam Wyatt is the Wikimedia Foundation’s *Cultural Partnerships Fellow*<http://bit.ly/GLAMfellow>(a.k.a GLAM fellow), based in Sydney. He has done his bachelors in Globalisation. He had been given a one year fellowship to focus on Cultural Partnerships within the Wikiverse. His role is to help create systems and processes to make outreach partnerships more efficient and effective. The key phrase is “capacity building” as described in his blogpost a few months ago “*How to make cultural collaborations scale*<http://www.wittylama.com/2010/11/how-to-make-cultural-collaborations-scale/>“. He believes that now the cultural sector has seen that working with Wikimedia can be A Good Thing™, that we must have reasonably professional processes in place for managing those relationships. As a first step in this he has built a bit of a *GLAM hub on-wiki*<http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM>. For more details, he can be accessed at this URL *http://glamwiki.org*<http://glamwiki.org/> He has been Vice President of *Wikimedia Australia*<http://wikimedia.org.au/>and the “ *Wikipedian in Residence*<http://www.wittylama.com/2010/03/the-british-museum-and-me/>” at the British Museum. Also, a project officer at *Austlii*<http://www.austlii.edu.au/austlii/>and multimedia coordinator at the *Dictionary of Sydney*<http://www.dictionaryofsydney.org/www/html/51-project-teams.asp>, a historian, *podcaster* <http://wikipediaweekly.org/>, *fire-twirler*<http://www.circusoc.com/>, museuophile, snowboarder, *förman* <http://www.ostgota.nu/>, bartender and backpacker. Thanks and Regards, Rajendra Babu H General Secretary Karnataka State Library Association (KALA) The information in this email is confidential and is intended solely for the addressee(s). Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not an intended recipient, please notify the sender of this email immediately. You should not copy, use or disseminate the information contained in the email. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states them to be the views of Capco.http://www.capco.com/

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Indian academicians on Wikipedia?
by CherianTinu Abraham 16 Feb '11

16 Feb '11

Hi, A reporter is doing a story on Indian academicians on Wikipedia.. . If you know about any academicians / people from the education system who edit Wikipedia, it would be great help.. Are there anyone in the India mailing list ? Please drop *a personal mail to me* with the contact informations , if so. Thanks in advance. Regards Tinu Cherian

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Bangalore meetup #27 today - Invited speaker - Lodewijk Gelauff
by Arun Ramarathnam 16 Feb '11

16 Feb '11

Dear all: This is a gentle reminder to all wikimedians to attend the Bangalore monthly meetup #27. The highlight of today's session is a invited talk by Lodewijk Gelauff from Wikimedia Nederlands. The talk will be sharing experiences from the recent project *Wiki loves Monuments.* The Project intended to photograph as many of the 50,000 national monuments (“rijksmonument“) throughout the Netherlands. These included archeological sites in Drenthe, the canal houses in Amsterdam, and the Royal Palace in The Hague. The project received wide coverage on Wikimedia's blog as well as signpost. The scale of the project and the application of best practices from earlier events were significant. http://wikilovesmonuments.nl/ Today's talk is part of a series of invited speakers to share experiences and best practices at Bangalore meetups/events. Earlier speakers have been Liam Wyatt (Australia), Asaf Bartov (Israel), Josh Lim (Philipines) and Belayet Hossain (Bangaldesh). Meetup starts at 3 PM IST. lodewijk's talk is at 4:30 PM IST. Skype details on the website. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Bangalore/Bangalore27 regards Arun *AGENDA* - *Talks* - Invited Video Talk via Skype @ 4:30 PM IST - *Wiki loves monuments <http://wikilovesmonuments.nl/>* - Talk by Lodewijk Gelauff<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Effeietsanders> from Wikimedia Nederlands<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Nederland>. He is Vice chair and International contact for Wikimedia Nederlands. He is also a member of Wikimedia's chapter's committee<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Chapters_committee> . - *Discussions* - Wiki Ten Bangalore Celebration<http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangalore> - Thank you note to volunteers who participated. - Experiences from the community initiative. - Retrospective: what was done well and what needs improvement. - India GLAM events <http://wikimedia.in/wiki/Projects:GLAM_2011> and Liam Wyatt's visit to India — Bangalore specific plans. - Liam Wyatt in Bangalore :18-Feb (Fri) to 19-Feb (Sat). - Tomasz Finc & Arthur Richards in Bangalore : 2/16 - 2/19. 2/16 or 2/17 would be best as Arthur leaving on 2/18. - *Updates* - Wikimedia India chapter <http://wikimedia.in/wiki/Main_Page> - Update on participation in World Sanskrit Book fair event<http://samskritbookfair.org/> - Arunram <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Arunram>, Vishal otherspdate on participation in Carte Blanche event<http://cb.csmit.org/> - Sundar <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Sundar> - - Bangalore loves Wikipedia initiative. Intro and call for participation.-Suma Nadig<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Sumanadig> - Experience at Kannada Saahithya Sammelan - Suma Nadig<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Sumanadig>

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