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@wikimedia.in; telugu@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.jpg

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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