Unconference Session: South Asian Meet and Greet | wmhack 2025
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Hey everyone! 👋

We are organising an Unconference session: South Asian Meet and Greet at the Wikimedia Hackathon 2025 in Istanbul.

🗓 When: May 3rd, 2025 (Tomorrow)
🕚 Time: 11:00–11:30 AM
📍 Where: Lobby Level Room, Wikimedia Hackathon Venue

This is a casual meetup for folks from or interested in South Asia to connect, share experiences, and explore ideas to collaborate. Whether you're a longtime contributor or just getting started, you're welcome to join!

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✅ Please add this to your calendar, spread the word, and show up!
Looking forward to seeing many of you there.

Ref: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2025/Program

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Partcipant List:

Rachit Sharma, WMF
Parthiv, Kerala, was with WMF, student/volunteer (Boston)
Gopa, Rubix Cube
Manimaran: Chennai, FOSS enthusiast, Mobile App Developer and other book reading applications
Jay: UP, Wikimedians since 2015, MediaWiki + Toolforge (People are awesome by Redbull)
Manavpreet: 15 years in the movement, started as an editor, now with WMF. Working on creating a repository for skills and tasks. Fun: Forensic Medicine and body farm. Working with the foundation
Robert: Singapore, organising since Wikimaia Singapore. Running Wikimedians of SG USG. Analytics consultant. Admin on En.Wp and maintain the Wikiania Wiki. Editing, userscripts, templates etc. Been in a choir since over 20 decades (Octo, base).
Ranjith Siji: Kerala Wikimedians, 20th anniversary in Editing Wikipedia. OSM and Admin in Ml.Wp
Kabir Singh: Wikimedia since 2024, Delhi, LDH in Lingua Libre, Love Cats!
Pushkar (DelhI): GSOC 2024, providing the data- working on Lingua Libre. Gym a lot!
Puneet, 2023, intern GSOC, contributing to the technical infra. Watch movies in 2x
Akbar Ali: Kerala but based in Dubai, started Wiki contributions in 2010. Use mainly py.wiki bot.
Sudhanshu: Jaipur, language team, doing white boarding and designing. Passionate about AI- Running and Coffee
KCV: Editor to Technical spaces, working at P&T Wikimedia, dashboards. Mechanical Engg, Design Masters and Data Scientist
Chinu: Odia Community, Photographer, started with commons, source and Wikipedia. Now focus on as a community organizer.
Angel: Been since 2024, GSOC intern, Media Wiki extensions, student. Pay the guitar and a pet cobra.
Shashwat, India, started GSOC 2022, contribute to Wiki Edutation. Tracking edits to Wikipages. Chess
Jinoy: Kerala India, 2010. WikiData,
Manoj: Contributing since 2008, WikiData, more involved in WikISource, Commons and WikiData. Part of DevCollective. Maintiaing libraries. Birdwathcing.

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