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Wikipedia–Wikimedia Meetup
Workshop
Kolkata, India

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4:00 p.m - 6:00 p.m. 19 May 2012 Saturday,

WP:MKK11

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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/Kolkata10 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

19-May-2012, Saturday
4:00 PM to 6:00 PM IST

Venue

আত্মবিকাশ সমিতি(Atmabikash Samiti)
77, Satish Mukherjee Road,
Kolkata 700026
West Bengal, India

Nearest Landmarks

Two minutes from Kalighat Metro
Beside Deshbandhu College for Girls
Behind Patanjali Chikitsalaya

Agenda

Meet and connect: Introductions by Wikipedians.
Talks
- Introduction to Wikipedia
- Introduction to Bengali Wikipedia / Wiki projects
- Roadmap for WikiProject Kolkata
Discussions
- Lightening Talks / Discussions (Open forum)
Networking

Participants

Attending

Jayanta Nath
Kalyan Sarkar
Sujay Chatterjee
Pinaki Das
Biswarup Ganguly
Rangan Dutta
Santanu Chandra
Sujay Chandra
Amartya Bag
Debanjan Bandyopadhyay (No way am I missing this)

Interested but not sure

Parthasarathi Banerjee

Press

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

Post-meetup summary/Blogs/News

Twitter/Identica/StatusNet

Hashtag: #WPMKK10

Media coverage

Please list coverage of this event by media here.

Photos

Please upload to commons and add category Commons:Category:Kolkata Meetup 2012-05

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