Wikipedia:Meetup/Kolkata/Kolkata5

Wikipedia–Wikimedia Meetup
Workshop
Kolkata, India

Meetup Successful
3:00 - 6:00 p.m. 11 June 2011 Saturday,

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Summary

The Wikipedia Kolkata meetup is a regular get-together of wikipedians (contributors and users) to meet up, discuss, share experiences, reach out and advocate for wikipedia and wikimedia.

The meetups are intended to be structured as follows —Introductions, a few focused talks by Wikipedians to share experience / expertise followed by demos and open discussions on topics of common interest. Pre-Meeting discussions can be on the Wikipedia_talk:Meetup/Kolkata/Kolkata5 please.

Intended Audience

Anyone interested in Wikipedia/Wikimedia is welcomed to join, regardless of the language or the project including Past, present or future contributors. Anyone supportive or interested in the Wikimedia movement is invited to join us for a casual meetup over coffee. Please add your name to the list below and join the India mailing list.

• https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-wb West Bengal Mailing alias

Date and Venue

Date: : Saturday, 11-June-2011 3:00 PM IST

Venue::
77, Satish Mukherjee Road,
Calcuta 700026
India
Landmarks -
Rashbihari Avenue Crossing ( Kalighat Metro Station)

• Behind Patanjali Chkitsalaya Building
• Beside Deshbandhu College for Girls

Contact No. : 9836294438 (Jayanta Nath)/ 9830020971 (Indranil Das Gupta)

Getting there

• By Train:

Howrah Station and Sealdah any transport to Tollygunge.

Agenda

• Meet and connect: Introductions by Wikipedians.
• Talks
  • Introduction to Wikipedia
  • Introduction to Bengali Wikipedia / Wiki projects
• Discussions
  • Lightening Talks / Discussions (Open forum)
• Networking

Participants

Attended

1. Naman Agarwal
2. Aditya Jalan
3. Medha Ganguly
4. Parthapratim Bannerjee
5. Shyamanjan Sur
6. Souvik Samajdar
7. Orin Basu
8. Sujoy Chatterjee
9. Pinaki Ranjan Das
10. Jayanta Nath
11. Biwarup Ganguly
12. Kalyan Sarkar

Attending

1. Shovon (talk)
2. Biswarup Ganguly (talk) 09:53, 1 June 2011 (UTC)
3. Medha Ganguly

Interested but not sure

1. Rahul Ghose

Regrets

1. Diptanshu Das

Press

1. Press may contact Jayanta Nath ( jayantanth at gmail dot com ) Ph:9836294438

Announcements/Event Notices

• http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=150727971663456

Post-meetup summary/Blogs/News

Twitter/Identica/StatusNet

Hashtag: #WPMKK5

Media coverage

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Photos

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