Grants:PEG/Srikanth Lakshmanan- Wikimedians in Bangalore/Bangalore Wikipedia X Anniversary Celebration

Funded

This submission to the Wikimedia Foundation Grants Program was funded in the fiscal year 2010-11. This is a grant to a group.

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This grant was approved in the amount of $600 for food, coffee, and snacks.

Legal name of chapter: Not a chapter grant / Group request
Grant contact name: Srikanth Lakshmanan
Grant contact user-name or e-mail: srik.lak@gmail.com
Grant contact title (position): Volunteer
Project lead name: Srikanth Lakshmanan
Project lead user-name or e-mail: srik.lak@gmail.com
Project lead title (position), if any: Volunteer

Full project name: Wikipedia 10th Anniversary Celebration at Bangalore
Amount requested (in USD): 1000
Provisional target start date: 07 Jan 2011
Provisional completion date: 15 Jan 2011

Budget breakdown

Food, Coffee & Snacks : USD 600
Posters,Brochures,Publicity,logistics : USD 400

Excess funds(if any) would be used for future Bangalore wikimedia events / Wikimedia events coordinated by Bangalore wikipedians in others places.

Grant Transfer

Update: February 01, 2011

The Bangalore event was mainly covered by local sponsors and while some bill payments are still pending, in the event that this Bangalore event is fully covered by local sponsors, we would like permission to transfer these funds to the Wikimedia Chapter in India for general use by the Chapter.

Project scope

Wikimedia Bangalore is an active community of wikimedians across different Indian language Wikiprojects who regularly meet,discuss, share experiences, reach out and advocate for wikipedia and wikimedia. Wikipedia X is great opportunity for the wikimedian volunteers in the city to reach out to a larger audience in general public. A day long event is being planned on Jan 15,2011 -- Bangalore page on Ten wikipedia

Organising a wikimeetup for editors and general public.
Recruiting new editors, volunteers of all forms into movement with increased awareness.
Publicising Wikipedia 10th Anniversary celebrations.
Encouraging joint, collaborative projects between various special interest groups and Wikipedians at the meetup.

Project goal

To reach out to wide cross section of society about Wikipedia and get more participation from people from all walks of life into the movement and publicize Wikipedia as a movement and bring more awareness.

Non-financial requirements

Foundation has been supportive shipping tenwiki:Design/Merchandise for few.
Permission to use logo on banners / publicity material etc.

Fit to strategy

The project aims to increase awareness among the general public in Bangalore,India. The special focus to geography like India where there is a long way to go for the movement make this perfectly fit to the strategy

Other benefits

We believe this experience of hosting one day event will be useful for hosting future large scale Wikipedia events like Wikimedia India Conference or Wikimania in future.

Measures of success

Increased Awareness,a successful meet of atleast 200 community members / Wikipedia enthusiasts in the city of Bangalore and increased participation in Wikimedia activities going forward