Wikipedia:Meetup/Kolkata/Kolkata6

Wikipedia–Wikimedia Meetup
Workshop
Kolkata, India

Meetup Successful
4:00 p.m -6:00 p.m. 9 July 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/Kolkata6 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, 9-July-2011 4:00 PM IST

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

• Behind Patanjali Chkitsalaya Building
• Beside Deshbandhu College for Girls

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

• Jayanta Nath
• Sujay Chatterjee
• Pinaki Das
• Biswarup Ganguly
• Medha Ganguly
• Ranadeep Das
• Soumya Banerjee
• Kinkar Ghosh
• Prasad Chattoraj
• Tamal Dasgupta
• Amit Shankar Saha
• Souvik Samajder
• Kalyan Sarkar

Attending

1. Sujoy Chatterjee
2. Pinaki Ranjan Das
3. Jayanta Nath
4. Biwarup Ganguly
5. Kalyan Sarkar
6. Tito Dutta
7. Medha Ganguly (talk) 16:11, 1 July 2011 (UTC)

• I am attending and excited. :-D --Tito Dutta (Talk) 07:33, 29 June 2011 (UTC)

Press

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

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Twitter/Identica/StatusNet

Hashtag: #WPMKK6

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