Hi Wikipedians of Bangalore, It is my pleasure to introduce Tory Read to the 34th Wiki Meetup Bangalore.
Tory Read is a writer and social historian with an MA in Journalism and a BA in Comparative Literature from Stanford University. For 25 years, she has documented stories, results and lessons learned for innovative community projects. She has done this extensively in the US, Asia and the Pacific, in a variety of subjects, including environment conservation, education, economic development, juvenile justice, affordable housing, and community media. Her specialty is to tell the story from multiple points of view of the people on the ground doing the work.
Currently,she is a consultant to Wikimedia Foundation. The Foundation asked her to write a story about the growth of Wikipedia in India, including the Foundation's unfolding role, and to capture lessons learned so far. The piece will serve to inform people inside and outside of India about what is happening on the ground, and the lessons learned section will inform the Foundation's future work in India as well as its future work in other areas of the global south.
Tory is equally excited to meet the "much hyped" Bangalore meetups and Wikipedians in Bangalore. I am sure that she is particularly interested in learning the experiences from the Wikipedians of Bangalore. :)
Btw we are also working on some planned talks and discussions for the upcoming meetup on Sunday and will be announced shortly.
Do sign up and hope to see you all there on Sunday.
Date : 12 June 2011, 3PM Sunday
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
Regards
Tinu Cherian