Hi All,<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><b id="internal-source-marker_0.8723948320839554" style="font-weight:normal"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;;font-size:medium;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We had our 47th Bangalore meetup </span><b id="internal-source-marker_0.8723948320839554" style="font-weight:normal"></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;display:inline!important">
<b id="internal-source-marker_0.8723948320839554" style="font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style>(</span><a href="http://wiki.wikimedia.in/WP:MBL47" target="_blank" style><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">http://wiki.wikimedia.in/WP:MBL47</span></a><span style>) </span></span></b></p>
<b id="internal-source-marker_0.8723948320839554" style="font-weight:normal"><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;display:inline!important"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">on 10 June 2012 @ our regular venue, CIS Bangalore. This meetup  came out to be  a very special meetup as for most people  it is their first  meetup. </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Some of them got to know about Bangalore meetup from the banner displayed on wikipedia. It was good to know Tinu &amp; Naveen’s efforts are fruitful. </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We had a round of introductions and came to know  energy, enthusiassm. excitement about Wikipedia. Some of the participants are students and showed interest in organising Wiki academies in thier colleges. There is lot of interest in  volunteering to contribute for organizing WCI-2012. Several suggestions were shared about  organizing conferences.</span></p>
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;font-size:15px"></span><br><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">As many participants  are new to Wikipedia, we had a question and answer sesion. Arjuna Rao Chavala answered all their questions giving multiple options to do tasks.</span><br>
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;font-size:15px"></span><br><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Arjuna explained about Wikipedia Zero (</span><a href="http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Zero" style="font-family:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;;font-size:medium"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Zero</span></a><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">) project to make access to Wikipedia free on mobile phones.  He also explained on how to use indic languages in mobiles.</span><br>
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;font-size:15px"></span><br><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">All the participants signed up for India chapter membership and submitted their <a href="http://wiki.wikimedia.in/images/9/9c/WikimediaChapterMembershipFormIndividual.pdf">applications</a>. They all subscribed to <a href="https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-blr">Bangalore mailing lists</a> &amp; <a href="https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/Wikimediaindia-l">India mailing lists</a> too.</span><br>
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;font-size:15px"></span><br><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We winded up our meeting with a photo session.</span></b> <br clear="all">
<div><br></div>-- <br><br><div><br></div><div>Thanks &amp; Regards,</div><div>RadhaKrishna</div><div>Wikimedia Bangalore SIG</div>
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