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Hi , This is Girish from Bangalore
by Girish Gupta 09 Jan '11

09 Jan '11

Dear WikiPedians, It was great pleasure for me to know that WikiPedia is celebrating its 10th Birthday Anniversary across the Globe. I came to know that It is also celebrating same in Bangalore, India also. I am very much interested in this event. I am ready to volunteer also if you give me chance for it. I am working here in Sony India Software Centre, Bangalore. I also want to attend this great event on 15th January 2011 at IISC campus. Please send me details if possible. I have some of my friends in IISC campus also. Thank in Advance, With Regards, Girish Gupta Sony India Software Centre, Bangalore, Mo. no. (+91)9916788554

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Wikipedia stall at World Samskrit Book exhibition - Call for volunteers
by Arun Ramarathnam 09 Jan '11

09 Jan '11

Dear all: We have just heard from the organisers of the World Sanskrit Book Fair in Bangalore a few hours back, that they are willing to offer us a free stall for wikipedia. As you may be aware we have a wikipedia in Sanskrit and this presents a good opportunity to spread awareness amongs folks interested in Sanskrit and the general public. There are 10,000 delegates from India and many countries around the world. Around 60,000 people (general public) are expected to attend the event. It is being inaugurated by the Chief Minister of Karnataka tomorrow. *Event brochure* http://www.samskritbookfair.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/bookfair-brochur… *Opportunity for us* Make use of the free stall graciously provided by the organisers and spread the work about wikipedia In Indian languages and more specifically in Sanskrit. *Call for wikipedia volunteers for stall* If we get enough volunteers for the WIkipedia we can participate in the event. *Please volunteer.* Wikipedia stall details: http://wikimedia.in/wiki/Projects:World_Sanskrit_Book_fair#Stall_details Interested volunteers please register here. http://wikimedia.in/wiki/Projects:World_Sanskrit_Book_fair#Volunteers_neede… * * *Expectations from volunteers* - Familiarity with Wikipedia - Passion to spread the word about the wikipedia regards Arun

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[Press]: The Hindu : Happy Birthday, Wikipedia!
by CherianTinu Abraham 09 Jan '11

09 Jan '11

The Hindu : Happy Birthday, Wikipedia! http://hindu.com/2011/01/09/stories/2011010952311000.htm Regards Tinu Cherian

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[Press] : MyBangalore.com : Wikipedia to celebrate 10th anniversary with a meet-up in Bangalore
by CherianTinu Abraham 08 Jan '11

08 Jan '11

[Press] : MyBangalore.com : Wikipedia to celebrate 10th anniversary with a meet-up in Bangalore http://www.mybangalore.com/article/0111/wikipedia-to-celebrate-10th-anniver… Regards Tinu Cherian

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Budget for Wikipedia X BLR
by Srikanth Lakshmanan 07 Jan '11

07 Jan '11

Hi all, As you might be knowing by now that there is a 1000 USD grant request I had put is pending with the foundation. We are also reaching out to sponsors to support the event. However in the short run we dont have any money and we might start spending soon for the event. I propose we come up with a draft budget and pool in some money from the group and spend, which can be later reimbursed when we have funds. Help is required in drafting the budget, getting the initial chunk of money. I guess we would start spending early next week for banners,food (primary spends). I request all of you to help in this regard. Thank you. Regards Srikanth.L http://srik.me

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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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