Thank you so much Subhashish for the round-up. Best,
Gautam ________ http://social.prathambooks.org/ On 14 June 2011 13:26, Subhashish Panigrahi <psubhash...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Folks, > This is again a good news to inform you that 34th Bangalore Wiki Meetup is > just over! > > Bangalore Wiki Community's 34th Meetup was attended by 16 enthusiast > attendees. > The meetup went through 2 talks by Tory Read and Achal Prabhala and post > talk discussions and networking. > > Tory Read’s Talk: > > [ Tory, being a photographer, artist and journalist in profession works > basically in arts, humanity, behavioral approach of humans to a new > technology and strategic thinking. ] > > In her visit to India she has been visiting places, meeting people who are > taking part in the WMF initiatives and documenting them in the form of > Images/Audio/Video files. For her, photography is a tool to understand how > organizations like Wikimedia work. She explained the focus of her ongoing > project which is based on making Wikipedia more supportive, how well they > could help people, the good and bad points in its organization system, > strategic thinking of Wikipedia in India, both in English and regional > languages. She has interviewed people of varied personal and professional > backgrounds and recorded almost 25 videos which she’d be uploading to > commons. She has met Bishakha Datta in Mumbai, visited Pune Pilot Program > campus, taken part in interacting with 22 campus ambassadors, attended > Kannur Malayalam Wiki Meetup along with Bishakha and Hisham, trvelled > Thiruvananthapuram, Ernakulam and interviewed several Malayalam Wikipedians, > from a very-young-Wikipedian to a Heart-Stroke-Patient-Wikipedian. Tory > would be documenting the history of Wikipedia along with the work pattern, > strategic plans, cons and pros of new initiatives based on the behavioral > function. > > Achal Prabhala’s talk: > > [Achal is an Indian researcher, activist and writer based in Bangalore, > Karnataka. He works on intellectual property rights in relation to medicine > and knowledge. He also serves on the board of the Centre for Internet and > Society and on the Advisory board of the Wikimedia Foundation.] > > Achal, being a part of a long term project on Oral citation has interviewed > many people in India (mostly in Kerala and Maharashtra), attended public > gathering, folk dances, observed process of traditional liquor skills of > local folks in South Africa, interviewed them and recorded their words and > action. His work also pervaded to understand how newspapers in a long span > of their lives never worked as authentic source of information, media, > entertainment industry has popularized languages like Hindi, but the same > language has still not reached more scholarly published articles. During a > long presentation Achal showed the extensive approach and need of Oral > citation in documenting the history of mankind in a more generic way. > > Post talks there was few discussions. Arjuna Rao Chavala explained the > Bangalore Community Engagement with Wikimedia Chapter and its role as an > independent body. The main topics discussed are: > > Membership (Membership needs, benefits, role as a Chapter member) > Projects 2011-2012 > Representation of Bangalore in the city SIG > > Post discussion Membership forms were distributed. The forms are also > avaibale online at > http://wiki.wikimedia.in/File:WikimediaChapterMembershipFormIndividual.pdf > > Wikipedians also discussed about taking initiatives to start on campus Wiki > Workshops in Engineering and Communication/Media Studies Institutes which > will bring out students for taking part in Wikimedia initiatives. > > Post discussion Wikipedians socialized and had photoshoots. Photos and > videos can be found at > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Bangalore_Meetup_June2011 > > Thanks > ସୁଭପାSubhashishPanigrahi > ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ > _______________________________________________ > Wikipedia Odia (Oriya) mailing list > wikipedia...@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-or > facebook.com/OdiaWiki > Tweet @OdiaWiki > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaindia-l mailing list > Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l > > _______________________________________________ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
