Hindi Wikimedians/Meetups/January 2015

January 2015

We met on 17th and 18th January 2015 to plan broader basic-introductory meet on 14th and 15th February.

Participants :

  • Abhinav Srivastva
  • Abhishek Suryawanshi
  • Ashish Bhatnagar
  • Aniruddha Kumar

Discussed things :

  • Asaf suggestions analysis.
  • Plan two day small meeting for active contributors.
  • 14th and 15th February finalised after community consultation on hi.wikipedia.org
  • Selection of appropriate venue for 14th and 15th February meeting. Everyone is comfortable with Delhi.
  • Logistic management (hotel,conference room, local transport etc)
  • Basic agenda and flow of two day event.

Challenges :

  • Hotels with vacant rooms dont have conference room facility and hotels with available conference rooms dont have enough rooms on 14th and 15th.
  • We need financial help to manage scholarships and logistics.

Action :

  • We visited several hotels and conference rooms to get quotations.
  • Follow-up with existing editors (central notice about meet-up page s active on all Hindi Wikipedia pages))
  • Basic budget draft is ready.

What Next :

  • Plan time-line for two day workshop on 14th and 15th February.
  • Finalise venue and list of participants.
  • Submit grant for approval.
  • Community follow-up for review of designed program.