Hi friends,
Whoever is coordinating Liam Wyatt's schedule in Mumbai is requested to please arrange the volunteers meetup with him on the evening of 13th if possible. Pune Wikipedians are having an event all day on 12th at GNUNIFY. That will enable us to attend the meetup in time.
Warm regards,
Ashwin Baindur ------------------------------------------------------
hi Ashwin,
We've not finalized a meetup time yet. We've also not frozen a location for the venue.
Arun Ram created this page: http://wikimedia.in/wiki/Projects:GLAM_2011/Mumbai_Feb2011. There are similar pages created for Delhi and Bangalore as well.
We've started listing the institutions in Mumbai here: http://wikimedia.in/wiki/Projects:GLAM_2011/Mumbai_Feb2011/Planning. I know the title says Maharashtra - but it would be great to keep it for institutions in Mumbai till Liam's visit to Mumbai as it would help in planning.
In addition to the several points you passed on from the Pune list, there is also another issue. Indian GLAM institutions have content in various languages. So, even Marathi and English Wikipedians would not cut it. Library in Mumbai has Urdu, Parsi, Kannada, etc. This is not an immediate issue but we might have to involve Wikipedians from other languages soon.
A question which Liam raised on the Mumbai list and which remains unanswered is - if he's asked for a volunteer from the Wikipedia community while talking to folks from the GLAM institution can he point the finger at someone and say that a person would be ready to help. My take on this has been that active Wikipedia editors need to know what this is about first. I've read the documents that Liam has linked to (through WP:GLAM shortlink) and it has left me confused :). So, first, we need to learn about GLAM as Wikipedians first.
It would be great to hear from the planners from Bangalore and Delhi about questions and issues they're facing with this as well.
warm regards, Pradeep
On 1 February 2011 11:24, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.baindur@gmail.com wrote:
Hi friends,
Whoever is coordinating Liam Wyatt's schedule in Mumbai is requested to please arrange the volunteers meetup with him on the evening of 13th if possible. Pune Wikipedians are having an event all day on 12th at GNUNIFY. That will enable us to attend the meetup in time.
Warm regards,
Ashwin Baindur
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On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 11:49 AM, Pradeep Mohandas < pradeep.mohandas@gmail.com> wrote:
hi Ashwin,
We've not finalized a meetup time yet. We've also not frozen a location for the venue.
If Pune wikimedians are joining in the Mumbai meetup during Liam's visit
(which would be great), then maybe a Chembur-side location would be more convenient for them...so they won't have to travel further.
Specially if we are doing separate meeting/s with GLAM institutions - and if the meetup is more for wikimedians to understand and explore the possibilities of GLAM.
We'll discuss this further on the Mumbai list, I guess.
Best Bishakha
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