Re: Pradeep's email, Rachana Sansad is not yet confirmed for the next monthly meetup on Sat 17 September.
I want to suggest that we find new venues for every weekly and monthly meetups. These should not just be at cafes or restaurants, but at NGOs and colleges in Mumbai, whom we should seek to recruit to the conference effort and wider Wikipedia India cause.
Mumbai has a rich tradition of "documentation centres" which are natural allies for our efforts at growing Wikipedia in India. I suggest we hold our weekly meetups at their offices every Thursday until the conference. These groups are scattered all over Mumbai. They include:
* Centre for Education & Documentation, Colaba http://www.doccentre.net * Akshara Centre, Dadar West, http://www.aksharacentre.org * SPARROW: Sound & Picture Archives for Research on Women, Versova http://www.sparrowonline.org * Vacha Library, Santacruz West, http://www.vacha.org.in * Vikas Adhyayan Kendra, Malad West http://vakindia.org * CEHAT: Centre for Enquiry into Health & Allied Themes, Santacruz East http://www.cehat.org * Comet Media Foundation, Lamington Road http://www.cometmedia.org * India Centre for Human Rights & Law, Dongri/Bhendi Bazar http://www.hrln.org * YUVA (Youth for Unity & Voluntary Action), Parel/Dadar http://www.yuvaindia.org
I know the folks in-charge at all these places and we can organise meetups where we can discuss upcoming planning, as well as include their staff, whose job is documentation and research and who should learn more about contributing to Wikipedia.
I can also suggest several colleges/institutes where we can find more recruits include TISS and KRVIA, Rachna Sansad, and the Homi Bhabha Centre at TIFR where Dr Nagarjuna is based. But attracting students is more difficult in the short-term.
We need to develop longer-term collaborations with the generation of activists, scholars and "documentalists" in Mumbai and get them involved in the longer-term effort. Please let me know what you feel about this and I will confirm a venue for the monthly meetup on Sat 17 Sept as well as for next week's Thursday meetup.
Best,
Shekhar
On 08/22/2011 12:00 AM, Moksh Juneja wrote:
Dear Pradeep, We should also consider Bandra also.
On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 23:24, Pradeep Mohandas <pradeep.mohandas@gmail.com mailto:pradeep.mohandas@gmail.com> wrote:
hi, We'd like the meeting to happen in central Mumbai - Sion to Dadar thereabouts. I spoke with Shekhar on the phone and he has offered place at the Rachna Sansad. We do think that we should move the venue around Mumbai without going too much to extremeties. Nagarjuna, we would need service of your gnowledge lab when we hope to do a WikiAcademy in Mumbai. WikiAcademy is where people are helped in editing Wikipedia and are taught some basics and some rules around Wikipedia. We knoww we have an open offer from your end. :) If there are other options in the general location mentioned above Sion to Dadar, please do add it here. warm regards, Pradeep _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-in-mum mailing list Wikimedia-in-mum@lists.wikimedia.org <mailto:Wikimedia-in-mum@lists.wikimedia.org> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-mum
Wikimedia-in-mum mailing list Wikimedia-in-mum@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-mum