We had a fairly successful meetup in November and wish its just the begining. The purpose of the mailing list is to get together and discuss on wikimedia activities around Chennai. To start with, it would be great if there is a regular meetup among wikimedians in the city. Meetups need not necessarily be like the one that happened with 40 people turning out. It could be even meeting of 3-4 Wikipedians and share something. As always there would be another 3-4 newbies attending the meetups and getting to know more about wikipedia / wikimedia.

Can one of you take a lead(Mahir / Manian / Amog / SuryaPrakash only currently reside in the city i guess) in helping out and making this happen regularly. As such we dont have a problem with venue, just that we need to book in advance with Thoughtworks. If you have a better place to meet and suits best for attendees, its fine too!. It could be even Marina beach / some other open space, but a hall with projector helps in sharing what people have done. Bangalore meetups typically have 1 or 2 talks every month by one of us on what we do in Wikipedia / How we do. This knowledge sharing helps in getting to know what can be done / how it can be done and also get updates across languages.

Meetups also help in creating a community bonding which would definitely help in outreach activities. We could do something for 10th birthday of wikipedia / say put a stall at Chennai book fair. While it might be too late for us this time, having the meetups will help not miss these opportunities in reaching out to larger public in creating awareness.

Looks like we lost the list of email addresses we collected on the day of meetup, If you know anyone who would be interested, please pass on the email ID to me / ask them to subscribe at https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-chn