WikiMeetups/Bangalore/Bangalore54



Monthly Wikipedia/ Wikimedia Meetup in Bangalore.

Date and Venue


Date: : Monday, 25-Feb-2013 Time: 2:00 PM IST

Venue: TBC

Agenda

 * Wikimedia Projects by Mr.Sudhanwa Jogalekar, President, Wikimedia India
 * Access to Knowledge by Mr.Vishnu Vardhan, Director A2K, CIS
 * Extreme Engineering in WikiSpeed Car project by Mr.Joe Justice, Founder WikiSpeed & Mr.Vibhu Srinivasan, MD, Solutions IQ
 * Audience address by Chief Guest, Mr.KS Viswanath, Vice President, Industry Initiatives, NASSCOM
 * Networking

Sudhanwa Jogalekar
Sudhanwa Jogalekar, President, Wikimedia India Chapter, is an IT professional with expertise in Information  security, system  administration, IT infrastructure management  etc with over 27 years  experience in the industry. He is an Electrical Engineer from College Of Engineering, Pune with 2 additional management degrees and a professional certification of ISO 27001 Lead Auditor. He has done many projects for corporates, SMEs and Academic Institutions for IT infrastructure, Information Security, E-learning etc.

He is a well known FOSS evangelist in India and has been promoting FOSS for the last 13 years. He has been co-ordinating PLUG (Pune GNU/Linux Users Group) for many years and conducting workshops, seminars, trainings in/around Pune and other places across India. He has contributed to Indic computing activities (Marathi/Devanagari). He has released a Marathi font family for free.

He is active on various technical and non-technical groups and helped promote Wikimedia projects. He has organised a complete track on Wikipedia activites in GNUNIFY 2011. Apart from organising various events and activities related to Wikimedia(like launch of Marathi Wikisource, participating in CMDA expo etc.), he also co-ordinates regular meetups of Wikipedians in Pune (WikiPuneri).

Being a photographer he is involved with various photographers groups and is active in Photographic society of Pune.

He is elected to the Executive Committee in September 2011 and served as Chair of City/Language SIGs till Oct 2012. He is elected as President in Oct 2012.

Vishnu Vardhan
Vishnu Vardhan is the Programme Director-Access to Knowledge at CIS since February 2013. His experience spans across academics, industry (media) and not-for-profit sectors. Over the last 11 years he has worked in various capacities as researcher, grant manager, teacher, project consultant, information architect and translator. Prior to joining CIS, Vishnu managed the Art, Crafts and Culture portfolio of the Sir Ratan Tata Trust (SRTT); where had spent 5 years in project conceptualization, management and assessment of quality and impact in the not-for-profit sector. Vishnu managed more than 30 projects and funds to the tune of Rs. 160 million. He also anchored SRTT’s automation and knowledge management activities. Vishnu worked as Research Coordinator at Centre for the Study of Culture and Society (CSCS), Bangalore where he a) coordinated the online M.A. in Cultural Studies; b) managed the Library Fellowship programme; c) conceptualized and coordinated national and international workshops and short-term courses in Media and Cultural Studies; and d) helped in building academic institutional partnerships. Vishnu is a superannuated doctoral candidate at the Centre for Media Research, University of Ulster and CSCS, Bangalore.

Joe Justice
Joe Justice (@WIKISPEED) Founder, CEO, WikiSpeed Joe's team tied for 10th place in the mainstream class of the 2010 Progressive Insurance Automotive X Prize, a $10 million challenge for 100+ MPG automobiles. WIKISPEED now uses agile processes to solve problems for social good. Joe has spoken to audiences at TEDx, Denver University, University of California Berkley, Google, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Rotary International, and others about social web application development, project methodology, and agile best practices. He is CEO of WIKISPEED and works at SolutionsIQ, a leading provider of Agile consulting, certified training, coaching, development, and Agile talent services, where he helps clients leverage Agile project management and team development methods to deliver solutions more reliably.

Vibhu Srinivasan
Vibhu Srinivasan (@vibhu_s) Managing Director, SolutionsIQ India Vibhu Srinivasan is an Entrepreneur, Agile Coach, Technologist and currently heads SolutionsIQ India. Vibhu has an extensive technology, process, and consulting background allowing him to work with a diverse set of clients and teams. Vibhu has been practicing agile practices since 1997 (officially called Agile only in 2001).He brings to his consulting, deep rooted passion and practices gained by working in the trenches with hundreds of developers on real projects. He is very passionate about software development and can code in multiple languages. He has helped many teams in their quest for agility. He is a CTO of a early stage start up in Seattle and has an MBA in strategic management from school of business Madison. He has a very solid understanding of building large scale scalable systems having participated in various roles over the years, most recently chief architect for a game, Lead for virtualization product at Microsoft and CTO of his own start-up. He has worked in financial, gaming, visualization domains to name a few. An entrepreneur by choice he is always busy building a company/product and is currently in India heading Solutions IQ a premier provider of Agile consulting and development services in the US.

KS Viswanathan
Mr. K.S. Viswanathan, Vice President, Industry Initiatives, NASSCOM, has around 32 years of general management and leadership experience in the Indian business context, building key executive relationships and a strong customer capital in diverse business environment. His extensive work experience in the IT industry and social sector comprises of developing and executing operational strategies, managing customer engagement programs, and establishing models for customer acquisition and retention. Over the span of his career, Mr. Viswanathan has held strategic & leadership positions at Wipro, Dell, Azim Premji Foundation and Hilleman Laboratories. As the Head for India geography at Wipro Infotech (2003-2008), he led the positive transformation of and business landscape for Wipro in India. He was the first country manager for Dell in India in 2000 and was instrumental in establishing Dell’s direct business model in India. Mr. Viswanathan is a graduate from Birla Institute of Technology and Science (1979 batch). He holds a MBA in marketing from PSG College of Technology (1981 batch).

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Intended Audience
Anyone interested in Wikipedia (user, contributor or curious about it). Wikipedians from any part of India or the world and anyone who is interested in Wikipedia! Meetup is open to members of all Wikimedia projects and Wikipedians from all languages. All are welcome, and we are especially interested in seeing newcomers to join the experienced Wikipedians/Wikimedians. If you are interested in coming, please add your name below.

Signed Up
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 * 1) Subhashish Panigrahi
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Getting there

 * By Road:

Please contact below if you need any guidance to reach venue:
 * Srinivas Rao @ 98457 66565
 * RadhaKrishna @ 99010 79268 (not accessible 2PM-4PM on event day)
 * Sowmyan @ 96329 11650