Greetings to all,
Thank you srikanth for kickstarting this mailing list. The Nov meetup has
really created great expectations and hope it is sustained. As I have moved
to this city recently, I am getting my bearings. But surely will contribute
to whatever extent required.
Surely I would like to meet experienced Wikipedians on using the various
apps and tools provided by wikimedia. Presently I do most of the jobs using
basic editing tools.
Another thought that crossed my mind is that every meet we need not start
from fundamentals..for repeat audience it may be boring. The agenda shd be
flexible.
Will be in touch through this mailing list.
Cheers,
Manian
2010/12/9 Srikanth Lakshmanan <srik.lak(a)gmail.com>
Greetings,
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
Looking forward to see an active Wiki community in Chennai.
PS: Am currently residing in Bangalore, might be able attend some meetups
if they concur with my travel plans to Chennai.
Regards
Srikanth.L
http://srik.me
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