Wikipedia WikiMeetup
Bangalore, India

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3.15 p.m. 19 Feb 2011 Saturday,

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GLAM is an acronym for Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums. GLAM institutions and Wikipedia have a great opportunity to collaborate with each other.

Liam Wyatt, Wikimedia Foundation’s Cultural Partnerships Fellow, will be speaking in Bangalore. We are using this opportunity to organize events / meetings across India to achieve the following:

• Create greater awareness among wikipedians about GLAM.
• Sharing of Liam's GLAM experiences from various countries.
• Connect with GLAM stakeholders across cities
• Potentially create Special Interest Groups (SIGs) of wikipedians in each of these cities.

India has a wealth of information and knowledge and the GLAM stakeholders play a key role in making some of that public domain knowledge accessible to all.

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

Liam Wyatt is the Wikimedia Foundation’s Cultural Partnerships Fellow (a.k.a GLAM fellow), based in Sydney. He has done his bachelors in Globalisation. He had been given a one year fellowship to focus on Cultural Partnerships within the Wikiverse.

His role is to help create systems and processes to make outreach partnerships more efficient and effective. The key phrase is “capacity building” as described in his blogpost a few months ago “How to make cultural collaborations scale“. He believes that now the cultural sector has seen that working with Wikimedia can be A Good Thing™, that we must have reasonably professional processes in place for managing those relationships. As a first step in this he has built a bit of a GLAM hub on-wiki. For more details, he can be accessed at this URL http://glamwiki.org

He has been Vice President of Wikimedia Australia and the “Wikipedian in Residence” at the British Museum. Also, a project officer at Austlii and multimedia coordinator at the Dictionary of Sydney, a historian, podcaster, fire-twirler, museuophile, snowboarder, förman, bartender and backpacker.

Date: : Saturday, 19-Feb-2011 3:15 PM IST

Venue:
The Centre for Internet and Society
No. 194, 2nd 'C' Cross, 4th Main
Domlur 2nd Stage
Opposite to Domlur Club
Bangalore 560 071, Karnataka

This talk is open to the general public and of course wikipedians/anyone interested in Wikipedia (user, contributor or curious about it). All are welcome, especially interested in cultural institutions (Museums, Galleries, Archives and Libraries) and wikipedia. If you are interested in coming, please add your name below.

• By Road:
  • From MG Road, Brigade Road, Central Business District, Vidhan Soudha — Come straight on Old Airport Road towards Domlur, and take a Left after Steves Gym / Paratha House. Go straight, and continue straight after the Domlur BDA Complex crossroads. Further, go straight, cross bridge over storm water drain, and take Left AFTER The Energy Research Institute [TERI]. You will see Domlur Club on the LEFT. Take a right onto the SECOND lane, opposite the gate of the Club. The CIS building has a white gate and is on the RIGHT-hand side, first gate.
  • From Hosur Road, Electronics City, Koramangala, Sarjapur, Bannerghatta — Take Inner Ring Road/Intermediate Ring Road towards the Domlur-Old Airport flyover. Proceed straight towards Indra Nagar by taking the flyover. Take a Left just AFTER the flyover, before the Pedestrian Foot Over Bridge [FOB]. Proceed forward and take the Third LEFT towards TERI. Take a Right before TERI and proceed as above.
  • From Old Airport, HAL, Marathalli, Varthur — Come on Old Airport-Varthur Road, cross Domlur flyover, take a Right AT the flyover proceed towards IndraNagar and proceed as per above to reach.
  • From Old Madras, Road, Indira Nagar, Ulsoor — Take 100feet Road [Under Metro] to Domlur flyover. Take a Right BEFORE the flyover, at the Pedestrian Foot Over Bridge [FOB]. Proceed forward and take the Third LEFT towards TERI. Take aRight before TERI and proceed as above.

• By Bus:
  • From Kempegowda Bus Station [Majestic], KR Market, Shivaji Nagar, take a bus towards Old Airport, Domlur and get down at the Water Tank and Proceed as above.
  • From Banashankari, Central Silk Board — Take a bus terminating at Domlur. Get down after the Indira Nagar FOB, and walk towards TERI as mentioned above. Take a bus going toward Indira Nagar. Get down before the flyover, walk towards, the Water tank, and proceed as above.

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Attended

1. Arunram (talk)
2. Gautam John
3. Srirambms (talk)
4. Witty Lama of course!
5. SBC-YPR (talk)
6. Arjunaraoc (talk)
7. Ralph
8. Kiranravikumar (from Mysore)
9. Pavan
10. ସୁଭ ପା (Subhashish Panigrahi)

Signedup

1. Arunram (talk)
2. Gautam John
3. Srirambms (talk)
4. Witty Lama of course!
5. SBC-YPR (talk)
6. Arjunaraoc (talk) 05:27, 18 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
7. TheMike •^{Leave me a message!}
8. Kiranravikumar

Regrets

1. Out of Town for Trichy meet -- Tinu Cherian - 09:08, 17 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
2. Would have loved to attend but I'm currently penniless in Pune :( --Srikeit 14:55, 18 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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