Hi All,
The 46th Wikipedia Wikimeetup at Bangalore (
http://wiki.wikimedia.in/WP:MBL46) was conducted in a new Venue, at the
Alcatel-Lucent office in Manyata Embassy Tech Park. This new venue, which
is in Northern side of Bangalore, is intended to gather more north side
wikipedians in the future. This is different from our regular venue
Wikimedia India Chapter office ( CIS building), where we were hosting most
of our previous Wikimeetups of Bangalore. We plan to rotate the venues at
the different corners of Bangalore in the future so as to attract more
interested people.
This meetup was just after 2 weeks after the special meetup 45, which Barry
& Hisham attended. The venue was new and it announced on short notice too,
Nevertheless it was good to see 5 Wikipedians attending this meetup, the
first meetup at the new location.
We initially tried to have Google-Hangout, but due to technical
difficulties, we were not successful. Hence Arjuna Rao, who tried
connecting with us remotely couldn’t participate further.
We were happy to meet the Telugu SIG chair Rahmanuddin, who had recently
relocated to Bangalore :)
We discussed about the feasibility to submit a bid for Bangalore city as
the venue for the WikiConference 2012.
We discussed the various approaches that are needed to cater to different
spectrum of people in Bangalore through Wiki Academies. Also, it was
suggested the use of about MiFi devices at WikiAcademies & meetups, where
there may be lack of internet facilities at the venue.
Tinu Cherian said that he is working on creating a separate namespace for
WikiAcademies & Wikimeetups on wiki.wikimedia.in, that allows anonymous
edits, thereby avoiding the need to register for an user account for people
to sign up for the event.
We also proposed the introduction of (person-independent) mail addresses
like bangalore(a)wikimedia.in; telugu(a)wikimedia.in etc) to contact
experienced Wikipedians who can ready to help.
Our Bangalore Meetups are incomplete without the photos sessions, so don’t
miss them :)
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bangalore_Meetup_May_2012_17.16.43.j…
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Bangalore_Meetup_May_2012
We would also like to thank Alcatel-Lucent for giving us this beautiful
conference for the meetup.
Our next monthly meetup (47th) is on June 10, 2012.
http://wiki.wikimedia.in/WikiMeetups/Bangalore/Bangalore47
https://www.facebook.com/events/294049667355329/
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Thanks & Regards,
RadhaKrishna
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Arkrishna
Next Wikimedia Bangalore Meetup on 10th June
http://wiki.wikimedia.in/WP:MBL47
