Hi,

We hosted two Pre-Launch Meet-up back to back. One was on Saturday (09-July-2011) afternoon and another on Monday(11-July-2011) Morning. On Saturday many students were not able to attend due to school timing, Remaining joined on Monday (those students - having holiday on Monday on behalf of Aashadhi Ekadashi.) So for them we conducted second session of Pre-Launch Meet-Up.

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Aim of pre-launch meet-up was to clear up confusions, and to have basic outline to student club.

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We discussed various things regarding Wikipedia Students Clubs, also we highlighted work of "existing" Wikipedia Student Clubs...

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After exploring activities and structures of "USA Wikipedia Student Clubs" Basic Question was still there :

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We did interesting brainstorming session about "Activities" and "Things to do" in Wikipedia Student Club Pune, and we came to several conclusions. Overall Activities : Group Editing Sessions / Editing Collaborations, Trivia Nights , Fun Workshops , Field Visits and documenting our experiences in a public forum , Contests etc.

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We outlined few basic rules like - ANYONE can join Student Club, but if he or she wants to have advantages like Field Visits, Project Experience, its mandatory to make three minor edits per month.

After long discussion, everyone enjoyed Charlie Chaplin's Modern Timeshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Times_%28film%29Movie Clips.

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Next Steps for Wikipedia Student Club Pune :

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Also, Next Important step involves inclusion of Local Community.Including Help of Ashwin Baindur , Sudhanwa Joglekar , Mandar Kulkarni and others for Advisory Board. We are fortunate enough to live in city which is graced by such Wikipedia Devotees. Hope so they will agree to be on Advisory Board of Wikipedia Student Club Pune. Also We need to keep open system, where anyone will be able to join Club.

We will discuss about those issues in next meet up.Also its important to encourage other students to start their own Student Club in respective colleges and schools. We need to work hard on first students club in Pune, if we make it successful [throughout year], other students will start clubs in their own. We need to make sure that everything goes fine with this first club in city.. Those who were not able to attend first meet-up,Hope to have their help/support for next activities..

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Hope to see all of you in next meet-up.

Best Regards,

Abhishek Suryawanshi http://www.facebook.com/AbhishekSuryawanshi Campus Ambassador,*Wikipedia* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:AbhiSuryawanshi

cell :+91 9420542578 skype : abhisheksuryawanshi