[Wikimedia-in-blr] Bangalore WikiMeetup 49 on 12 Aug 2012 at 3PM invite

Hi All, * We had our 47th Bangalore meetup (http://wiki.wikimedia.in/WP:MBL47) on 10 June 2012 @ our regular venue, CIS Bangalore. This meetup came out to be a very special meetup as for most people it is their first meetup. Some of them got to know about Bangalore meetup from the banner displayed on wikipedia. It was good to know Tinu & Naveen’s efforts are fruitful. We had a round of introductions and came to know energy, enthusiassm. excitement about Wikipedia. Some of the participants are students and showed interest in organising Wiki academies in thier colleges. There is lot of interest in volunteering to contribute for organizing WCI-2012. Several suggestions were shared about organizing conferences. As many participants are new to Wikipedia, we had a question and answer sesion. Arjuna Rao Chavala answered all their questions giving multiple options to do tasks. Arjuna explained about Wikipedia Zero ( http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Zero) project to make access to Wikipedia free on mobile phones. He also explained on how to use indic languages in mobiles. All the participants signed up for India chapter membership and submitted their applications<http://wiki.wikimedia.in/images/9/9c/WikimediaChapterMembershipFormIndividual.pdf>. They all subscribed to Bangalore mailing lists<https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-blr>&… India mailing lists<https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/Wikimediaindia-l>t…gt;too. We winded up our meeting with a photo session.* -- Thanks & Regards, RadhaKrishna Wikimedia Bangalore SIG