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The Wikipedia/Wikimedia Mumbai meetup is a get-together of wikipedians /wikimedians (contributors and users) to meet up, discuss, share experiences, reach out and advocate for wikipedia and wikimedia. Barry Newstead from the Foundation will be attending and is eager to hear from the local community.

Pre-Meeting discussions can be on the talk page please.

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.

Date: : Monday, 20-September-2010 6:00 PM IST

Venue:: The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf Blue Heaven, Linking Road, Opposite Shell Petrol Pump, Bandra West, Mumbai-400050, Tel No 022 67424243

Please come to upstairs level inside cafe.

The Venue is a 7-10 minute walk from Bandra station (west).

Barry Newstead from the Foundation will be attending, he wants to hear from the local community. There is no set agenda, so everyone is free to talk about whatever that might be of interest to the Foundation or the projects.

Attendees

1. Barry Newstead, CGDO, Wikimedia Foundation
2. Bishakha Datta ( User:Bishdatta) , Board of Trustees, Wikimedia Foundation
3. Kundan Amitabh(User:Angpradesh)
4. Pradeep Mohandas
5. Utkarshraj Atmaram (User:Utcursch)
6. Loknath Swain email : loknathswain@gmail.com Founder , PrJankari ( www.prjankari.com )
7. Rekha Sankhala. Digital Bridge Foundation.
8. Prasad Babar
9. VK Bharadwaj vk[at]bardwaj[dot]in
10. Nagarjuna G. nagarjun[at]gnowledge.org (HBCSE TIFR [http://www.gnu.org.in/ FSF India) (User:Nagarjunag)
11. [1] Raj Agrawal
12. Nearly Headless Nick {C} 18:02, 17 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
13. Harriet Vidyasagar [2]
14. Harini Calamur. calamur[at]gmail.com [3] Cogito Media - [4]
15. Ankit Goyal
16. R. Venkateshwaran [5]
17. Roshan Dsilva. roshan[at]homestaysdos.com [6] webmaster HomestaysDOS.com - [7]
18. Sumant Srivathsan [8]
19. Asfaq Tapia
20. Nair Rajiv, Gnowledge Lab,HBCSE, TIFR
21. Ganesh Gajare, Gnowledge Lab,HBCSE,TIFR
22. Amit Dhakulakar,Gnowledge Lab,HBCSE,TIFR
23. Siddharth Ghumre, Gnowledge Lab, HBCSE, TIFR
24. Chandita Mukherjee Comet Media Foundation [9]
25. Mustafa Sidhwa
26. Manisha Pritmani
27. Ravish Shanbhag
28. Lajpat Dhingra
29. Alpesh Gajbe, Gnowledge Lab,HBCSE,TIFR
30. Netra Parikh [www.netraparikh.com]
31. Mahafreed(talk)
32. Arindam Ghosh makghosh [at] gmail [dot] com (User:Makghosh)
33. yogesh barot - yogee89@gmail.com
34. Chirag Bhatia (@Chirag64)

Interested but not attended

1. rahul kanchan
2. Vikrama Dhiman
3. Mohit Nanda (@mohitnanda)
4. Manveer Malhi (@manveermalhi)
5. Rajaram Chinnakkan
6. User:Rohitbd - I would love to attend, but I have lots of office work...
7. Aditya Sengupta
8. Neeraj Pattath - @skyn3t
9. User:arunkhan (@arunkhan) - will try to attend
10. Sushanth Poojary — Virtual labs,IIT Bombay
11. User:shahidfarooqui(@Shahid Farooqui, IIT Bombay)
12. User:Spiritualkinky(@Sachin Korgaonkar, Dombivli)
13. Dinesh Dalvi — Mumbai Will try to attend
14. Keval Vora
15. Mr. Hiten Bhuta [10]
16. Anurag - 6 pm is not the best of times to begin this as those of us coming from their offices would literally struggle to make it on time
17. Hitesh Mehta
18. Yorick Pinto I agree with @ Anurag, 6pm on a Monday is not the best of times for a tweetup.

    This is not a tweetup. :P It is a Wikipedia Wikimeetup. This was arranged owing to Barry's visit to Mumbai. -- Tinu Cherian - 12:00, 20 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Minutes / Report

Wikipedia Mumbai Meetup 1 by Pradeep Mohandas

Twitter

• Tweet with #WPMMU1 twitter hashtag http://twitter.com/#search?q=%23WPMMU1

Identi.ca

• Post at http://identi.ca/group/wwmm with !wwmmi

Media coverage

Please list coverage of this event by media here.

• Mid-day
• NDTV Bengaluru to be the country's Wiki-capital?
• Wikis log into India for their 2nd office- Times of India
• Wikipedia aims to interact in top 10 Indian languages - Economic Times
• Wikipedia to open India office soon - DNA
• Wikipedia to open India office soon - DECCAN HERALD
• Wikimedia to open office in India in six months - LIVEMINT.COM
• Times of India, Mumbai: Wild and Wiki-ed by Mahafreed Irani

Photos

Please upload to commons and add category Commons:Category:Mumbai Meetup Sep10

• Pradeep's Flickr Photoset - Feel free to put it on Wikimedia Commons Prad2609 (talk) 17:50, 20 September 2010 (UTC)Pradeep[reply]
  •  Done . Cross uploaded most of the images to commons too -- Tinu Cherian - 07:16, 21 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• Here are the pics I took. Aditya Sengupta
• And here are the pics Netra Parikh took.