Wikipedia:Meetup/Kolkata/Kolkata8

Wikipedia–Wikimedia Meetup
Workshop
Kolkata, India

Meetup Successful
4:00 p.m -6:00 p.m. 15 January 2012 Sunday,

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Summary

The Wikipedia Kolkata meetup is a regular get-together of Wikipedians (contributors and users) and Wikimedians to talk, discuss, share ideas and experiences, and reaching out and advocating the use of Wikipedia and other sister projects hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation. This meetup is being organized by Jayanta Nath, Wikimedia India Kolkata SIG Lead, along with other community members from Kolkata.

The meetup is structured as follows:

• Introductions
• Focused talks by Wikipedians - sharing experience and expertise
• Demonstrations and open discussions on topics of common instrust

Please discuss the event here: Wikipedia talk:Meetup/Kolkata/Kolkata8.

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

15-January-2012, Sunday
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

• Wikimedia India Chapter 1st Anniversary
• Wikipedia 11th Anniversary celebrations.
• Kolkata Bookfair 2012: Planning

Registration

We kindly ask all visitors/attendee/participant to magistrate so that we can set up enough seats and order enough refreshment. It is compulsory for visitors/attendee/participant.

Registration Form

• Please Fill up this Registration Form

Attended

1. Jayanta Nath
2. Kalyan Sarkar
3. Pinaki Das
4. Biswarup Ganguly
5. Medha Ganguly
6. Sucheta Ghoshal
7. Bishakha Datta
8. Ankita Sinha
9. Deepon Saha
10. Nitika Tandon
11. Shankhamita Choudhury
12. Neelanjan Dasgupta
13. Manoj Kumar Sinha
14. Santanu Chandra
15. Sujay Chnadra
16. Subhamay Ghoshal
17. Swapna Ghoshal
18. Mohak Prince
19. saurav
20. Ayan Choudhury

Attending

1. Jayanta Nath
2. Kalyan Sarkar
3. Sujay Chatterjee
4. Pinaki Das
5. Biswarup Ganguly
6. Medha Ganguly
7. Sucheta Ghoshal
8. Bishakha Datta
9. Shoubhik Bose
10. Deepon Saha
11. Nitika Tandon
12. Shankhamita Choudhury

Regrets

1. Debanjan Bandyopadhyay - Will still be in Pune at that point of time, will celebrate with the Pune community, so won't miss Wikipedia.

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