Hi Srinivas ( &amp; et all),<div>               If the mail was intended to me alone ( as per the salutation ), this below mail could have sent directly to me ( instead of india wide alias). </div><div><br></div><div>To clarify your comments. </div>
<div>               There was no &quot;recorded&quot; history of any kolkata meetup, till then.  That is why I took the liberty of calling the meetup as 1 ( <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Kolkata/Kolkata1">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Kolkata/Kolkata1</a> ) . I have created the page &amp; announced it ( with link) on the India alias too, very long back. Nobody have informed me/ Shiju or the other organizers ( 2 of them from Kolkata only) about it when we created the Kolkata meetup page.  I trust you also didn&#39;t know about it till then. Having said that, this wasn&#39;t intended to take away any &quot;credit&quot; of someone... </div>
<div><br></div><div>When we thought of a Chennai meetup this year, I remembered the wikicamp , Chennai in 2007 and created a page for this <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Chennai/Chennai1">Chennai1 </a>( just to record the historical data) and called the Nov 2010 meetup as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Chennai/Chennai2">Chennai2</a> .  There may be even more meetups that actually happened between Chennai1 &amp; Chennai2. Bangalore 3rd meetup (held at my home and attended was by you also ) was called Meetup3 , as there were 2 pages for Bangalore and Bangalore2 already created. We are still not sure whether <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Bangalore/Bangalore2">Blore2</a> had actually taken place, but still we created the new meetup page as Bangalore3</div>
<div><br></div><div>If you still have objections on numberings, please move Kolkata1 to Kolkata2 and create a page for Kolkata1. Please get in touch with your friend to get more details on that meetup. That will help us all in knowing more about it. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Please understand these numberings are primarily for tracking purposes and creation of pages.. What matters more is not the numbering or the naming, but the efforts &amp; purpose behind organizing such meetups .</div>
<div><br></div><div>Hope that explains it better.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards</div><div>Tinu Cherian<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 4:47 PM, guru brahma <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:wikibra@yahoo.co.in">wikibra@yahoo.co.in</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div>Dear Tinu,</div>
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<div>from what I understand, an earlier Wikimeetup happened at Kolkata more than a year ago in Joka. I was informed of this by a participant at that earlier event who had expressed inability in attending the current meetup on the relevant page. I met her at a conference in Bangalore recently and got to know this. We may want to exercise caution in branding events as the first meet-up etc., &quot;meet-up&quot; should suffice.</div>

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<div>Regards,</div>
<div>Srinivas Gunta.<br></div>
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<b><span style="font-weight:bold">From:</span></b> CherianTinu Abraham &lt;<a href="mailto:tinucherian@gmail.com" target="_blank">tinucherian@gmail.com</a>&gt;<br><b><span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b> <a href="mailto:wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org" target="_blank">wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org</a><br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b> Tue, 14 December, 2010 7:03:13 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b> [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Wikimeetup1 @ Kolkata, Dec 2010 Photos<br></font><div>
<div></div><div class="h5"><br>Wikipedia Wikimeetup1 @ Kolkata, Dec 2010 Photos <br><a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Kolkata_Meetup_Dec2010" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Kolkata_Meetup_Dec2010</a> <br>
<br>There were around 18+ attendees for the first Wikimeetup @Kolkata . I would like to express my sincere thanks to Jayanata Nath, Indranil Das Gupta &amp; Shiju Alex for all the efforts in putting things together for a successful meetup, at one of the ancient cities of India. Special thanks to Bishakha Datta &amp;
 Achal Prabhala for all the encouragement &amp; support in our efforts. <br><br>One of us will be sending a detailed report on the meetup soon. <br><br>Regards<br>Tinu Cherian <br></div></div></div></div></div><br></div>
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