press meet and a gathering of Kannada Wikipedians

Bymsanjay
A press meet and a gathering of Kannada Wikipedians (online for almost
2 years now) and all those who take interest in Kannada on the internet
will be held on Sunday, April 2nd, 2006, at
Nayana Auditorium, J C Road at 4 PM. There will be talks and
assistance to people on how to use Unicode, how to enable it on your system to
how to use and contribute to a Wiki.

 
You’re welcome to participate in it and take part in what can probably be
the best service to do for Kannada language to grow on the internet.
 
Find out more about the event at:
http://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:PM 

Registration
is free for the event. You can register for the event at:
http://hpnadig.net/Kannada-Wikipedia-Meet

OR

leave a signature
behind from a registered userid on
Kannada Wikipedia. More on registration procedure is at:
http://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:PM#Register_yourself_for_the_event

PS:
Feel free to forward across this mail to all your friends, foes – just anyone
who takes interest in Kannada.

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Tentative Agenda

 

First session

    • Press conference: – Covering the Kannada Wikipedia, Wikimedia
      foundation, GFDL, Mediawiki, Wiki technology, Kannada Wikipedia milestone
      1000 articles, focusing primarily on the local Kannada Language and English
      Language media. (approx 30 minutes)
    • Break: Coffee/Tea break
 

Second session

    • Talk 1: Keynote – by Dr. U
      R Ananthmurthy       (en).
    • Talk 2: Indic, Unicode – what, why and how. (30 minutes)
    • Break: Snacks (20 minutes)
 

Third session

    • Talk 2: Enabling Indic – Unicode on your system. (30 minutes)
    • Talk 3: Mediawiki Usage for larger collaborations. (30 minutes)
    • Talk 4: User Experience on Wikipedia. (20 minutes)
 

Fourth Session

    • Informal discussion: future road map, on getting more people
      involved and misc.
 

Register yourself for the event

Registration procedure:

Fill up this
simple online form

OR

  1. Register on Kannada Wikipedia if you haven’t, yet.
    Remember to fill in your email address while registering on Wikipedia –
    we’ll use that to contact you for the meet.
  2. Leave a comment on the talk page with your signature (Add
    — ~~~~ to put your signature with timestamp on Wikipedia

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