Dear Friends,<div><br></div><div>We have started off our Wikipedians of Pune activities very nicely.  So far we have had :</div><div><br></div><div>* One editing session at Sahakarnagar on the following birds by 7th Ornithological Course on Friday 07 January 2011. Dr Satish Pande, Dr Anil Mahabal, self and students of 7th Ornithological Course attended.</div>

<div>- Comon Myna (user subpage)</div><div>- Peregrine Falcon (main article space)</div><div>- White Stork (main article space)</div><div>* Marathi Wikipedia Meetup at SICSR on 08 January 2011. Ashwin Baindur, Sudhanwa Jogalekar, Shirish Agarwal, Anupam Saraph, Mandar Kulkarni, Karunakaran and Harshad Gune attended.</div>

<div>* Commons Meetup at  Shaniwar Wada on 09 January 2011.  Sudhanwa Jogalekar, Shirish Agarwal, Ashwin Baindur, Ashok Bagade, Anand Patankar, Chandan Sharma, Prasad Rasal, Prasad Vaidya attended the meet. Images of Shaniwarwada and outside of Kasba Ganpati mandir were taken.</div>
<div><br></div><div>We now look forward to :</div><div>* Completion of bird editing sessions.</div><div>* 15th January 2011 Meetup at 1830 hrs at SICSR.</div><div><br></div><div>As discussed earler,  we will have a mailing list (this one).</div>
<div><div><br></div><div>Flickr group &quot;WikiPuneri&quot; is being created by Anand Patankar. He will send us all an invite. Two poins regarding the images :</div><div><br></div><div>* Please load your images there with Creative Commons 3.0 License.Here is the url of the license.</div>
<div><br></div><div><a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/">http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/</a></div><div><br></div><div>* Please add at least three keywords to each image :</div><div>- WikiPuneri</div>
<div>- Meetup 09 Jan 2011</div><div>- Shaniwarwada ( or Kasba Ganpati mandir or as relevant)</div><div><br></div><div>We also have a wikipage on Wikimedia.in as collaborative whiteboard. The home page has been created  and is still kachha. Please bookmark it :</div>
</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://wikimedia.in/wiki/WikiPuneri">http://wikimedia.in/wiki/WikiPuneri</a></div><div><br></div><div><div>I personally enjoyed meeting and interacting with each of you. Your energy and enthusiasm really motivate me. I do hope that our small endeavours are like the acorn which leads to a mighty oak tree.  </div>
</div><div><br></div><div>Warm regards,<br><br>Ashwin Baindur<br>------------------------------------------------------<br>
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