WikiConference India 2016/City/First Bids

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We welcome you to place a bid for hosting WikiConference India 2016. The bid consists of two rounds. The first round will be a simple round to encourage participation. The aim of the first round is to confirm the local community support and strength. The first 5 qualifying cities of the first round will participate in the second and final round of bidding with an elaborate plan.

First Round Bidding Criteria

City and proposed venue. This city should have at least a domestic airport.

Wikimedia signatures of active Wikimedia projects editors who commit to be involved in organizing this in your city.

Link to local village pump where the bid has been approved with community consensus (not mandatory but highly recommended).

Proposed overall budget to conduct an event with 500 registered participants (including the accommodation cost for 100 scholarship recipients for 3 days).

Prior experience conducting similar event(s)

Please do indicate the names and contact details of two people from whom any clarifications or queries can be sought regarding your city bid. Please do note that bids need to be supported by consensus from the community and the link to the discussion where this is forthcoming may please be indicated.

Nashik

Nashik

UPDATE: There have been concerns regarding air connectivity to Nashik. This issue is now solved as from Feb 2016, Ojhar airport will start functioning. Ojhar is situated just 20 km Away from Nashik, which is approximately a 30 min ride. (Nashik air services starting from Feb 2016)

About Nashik

Nashik is an ancient city of India, located in the north-west region of Maharashtra. It is the administrative headquarter of the Nashik District and Nashik Division. Nashik is one of the most important cities of Northern Maharashtra. Nashik, in Maharashtra, is situated at a distance of 200 km from Mumbai (Bombay) as well as Pune. The city has become the center of attraction because of its beautiful surroundings and its cool and pleasant climate. Nashik has a personality of its own due to its mythological, historical, social and cultural importance. The city, vibrant and active on the industrial, political, social and cultural fronts, has influenced the lives of many a great personalities. The river Godavari flows through the city. Nashik has developed into an industrial, agricultural, religious, tourist, and educational center in north western Maharashtra.

Contact person(s): Santoshi Tiwari ( 257 Edits 27th November)

                  Contact me at : santoshitiwari17gmail.com or mitkumbhathongmail.com

Contact person(s): Adesh Chopade (312 Edits 30th November)

                  Contact me at : adeshchopadegmail.com

Technology

Many companies like WNS, ESDS and Winjit are based in Nashik. Apart from successful companies, various startups are based in Nashik providing smart solutions related to the field of data management and Internet of things. Many social technologies related initiatives have been established in the city best example of which is Kumbhathon.

Safety

Most important to us, however, is the safety of the attendees. Attendees can come to Nashik and expect a safe and pleasant trip. The best example of Nashik’s competency was the flawless execution of the Kumbhamela.

Accomodation

Nashik has various trend-setting hotels which deliver an enriching experience in terms of service and style. You can find good hotels that suit your needs.

Travel and transportation Details

The nearest airport is the Ojhar airport, situated at a distance of 20 km from Nashik.
Nashik railway station is one of the major stations of the Central Railway. There are a number of trains that connect Nashik to other cities and towns. The railway station is located at such an area, which is easily accessible from different parts of the city. Nashik is 185 km from Mumbai and can reach through NH-3 via Thane-Kasar-Igatpuri. Nashik is 220 km away from Pune. There are several private luxury video coach and state buses available between Nashik and cities like Pune, Shirdi, Aurangabad and Mumbai. Maharashtra State Transport buses connect Nashik to distant places of Maharashtra.

Local Transport

Auto rickshaws are readily available in the city with reasonable fare. Taxis, sumos, public and private buses are also available in the city.

By Air

UPDATE: There have been concerns regarding air connectivity to Nashik. This issue is now solved as from Feb 2016, Ojhar airport will start functioning. Ojhar is situated just 20 km away from Nashik, which is approximately a 30 min ride. (Nashik air services starting from Feb 2016)

By Road

To Reach Nashik by road, you will not only find state transport services but also private buses and other vehicles such as taxis. To get there, you either have to travel around 166 km from the city of Mumbai or 209 km from the city of Pune by road.

By Train

Railway station of this city is considered as one of the most important railway stations in Central Railway. Therefore, every train passing through that region stops at Nashik.

Similar Events

Wikipedia Workshop:

Wikipedia Workshop was an initiative to bring community together to improve and edit Nashik page on Wikipedia so as the people visiting Nashik will get handful of information about the city. Along with the textual information, the community came together to click photos of Nashik and upload it on Wikimedia. These project was implemented under the supervision of User:AbhiSuryawanshi and Local Co-ordinator Santoshi Tiwari User:SantoshiWiki along with her Wikipedia Nashik club team.

Kumbhathon:

Kumbha Foundation is an organization which worked for the Holy Kumbh-Mela in Nashik. The community driven organization which started off with a few innovators and ideas to ease Kumbhmela- a large gathering of people, with the help of technology. Kumbathon successfully has implemented many projects during kumbhamela. Millions of people were expected to visit Nashik for attending holy kumbhmela.

Smart City Ideation Program:

The Maharashtra government has selected Nashik among 10 other cities in the state under the 'Smart City' project. Nashik Municipal Corporation and Kumbhathon came together to organize an Ideation program in Nashik. It was again a community effort. Different class of people came together to discuss Challenges and ideas to make Nashik, A smart city.(smart-nashik-ideation-program)

Distance to Nashik

From Mumbai - 185 KM

From Delhi - 1222 KM

From Pune - 202 KM

Proposed date

(Tentative date) July 29, 30, 31 2016 (Friday, Saturday, Sunday)

विकिकॉन्फरन्स इंडिया २०१६ आयोजन (नाशिक )

विकिकॉन्फरन्स इंडिया २०१६ आयोजन (नाशिक )

Estimate Budget

Below is tentative expenses considered for 3 Days conference at Nashik

Item	# Of Items	Price (INR)	Total (INR)	Remark
Conference Hall (3 Days, 500 People)	1	300000	0	Taken care by Kumbha Foundation
Seminar Rooms (3 Days, 140/Room)	5	20000	0	Taken care by Kumbha Foundation
Lounge/Green Room (3 Seater Sofa + 2 single sofas)	1	20000	0	Taken care by Kumbha Foundation
T-Shirts	500	150000	0	Taken care by Kumbha Foundation
Local Transportation (1 Day, Bus)	4	24000	0	Nashik Sightseeing, tour. Taken care by Kumbha Foundation
Stationary - ID Card - Notepad - Pen, Pencil	500	22000	0	Taken care by Kumbha Foundation
Food ( 3 Days) - Breakfast (75/Head) - Lunch (250/Head) - Snacks (75/Head) - Dinner ( 250/Head)	500	950000	487500	50% Expenses will be Taken care by Kumbha Foundation
Transportation - Scholarship	100	418000	418000	Approximate price, considering travel by Air and Train.
Accommodation (4 Nights)	100	480000	480000
Administrative Cost (2 People, 6 Month)	2	210000	0	2 Fulltime people will work for the preparation for conference including office space. Taken care by Kumbha Foundation
Internet		100000	100000
Miscellaneous		150000	150000
Total		~~2,844,000~~	1,623,000

Comment: Kumbha Foundation is supporting Nashik Wiki Community to host the 'Wiki Conference India 2016' at Nashik.

Local team

Adesh Chopade ^{(Talk to Me)} 18:30, 12 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Surbhi Dusane ^{(Talk to Me)} 18:37, 12 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Anand Patil (talk) 18:46, 12 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Aishwarya Kolapkar (talk) 18:46, 12 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Mahima Gupta (talk to me) 19:27, 12 october 2015 (UTC)
Tejal Gavate (talk to me) 19:27, 12 october 2015 (UTC)
Vinita Gangurde (talk to me) 21:10, 12 october 2015 (UTC)
Yogiraj Malegaonkar (talk to me) 21:10, 13 october 2015 (UTC)
Kulthe Akash (talk to me) 14:05, 18 october 2015 (UTC)
Viraj Nene (talk) 11:41, 18 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Dusane Akshay (talk to me) 21:54, 18 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
SantoshiWiki (talk to me) 13:15, 19 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
NehaShah2608 (talk to me) 14:25, 19 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Shubham.Bhagat123 (talk to me) 14:25, 19 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
HalkarniNishad (talk) 19:14, 6 November 2015 (UTC)HalkarniNishad[reply]
Shubhamtotala^{(Talk to Me)}07:38, 9 November 2015 (UTC)Shubhamtotala[reply]
Sayalibhadke (Talk to Me) 08:04, 9 November 2015 (UTC)Sayalib[reply]
ManishPandey (Talk to Me)
Akash Shukla C2900i (talk) 14:35, 30 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Suyogaerospace (talk) 17:31, 30 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Catrawalkar (talk) 07:49, 2 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Megha Thete (talk) 15:33, 2 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Support From Nashik Municipal Corporation

This Bid is supported by Nashik Municipal Corporation (NMC). Please check the letter provided by NMC in support of WikiConference 2016.

Supporters

Dusane Akshay (talk to me) 21:54, 18 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Kulthe Akash (talk to me) 22:01, 18 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Tejal Gavate (talk to me) 22:01, 18 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
NehaShah2608 (talk to me) 22:01, 18 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Shubham.Bhagat123 (talk to me) 22:01, 18 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Shubhamtotala (talk to me) 09:30, 22 November 2015 (UTC)Shubham totala[reply]
Rishabh Tatiraju (talk) 20:30, 26 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Adesh31 (talk) 12:45, 28 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Mahima Gupta (talk to me) 16:20, 29 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Vinitagangurde (talk) 05:01, 30 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Suyogaerospace (talk) 17:26, 30 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Like the detailing of the conference and the bid Mokshjuneja (talk) 08:09, 1 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Catrawalkar (talk) 07:47, 2 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
This does look like the best bid and supporting to encourage the team, however I would be a bit worried about lack of air connectivity & lack of experienced Wikipedians in the core team. AroundTheGlobe (talk) 09:22, 30 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for supporting and encouraging Nashik Bid. As for the connectivity issues, Nashik is fairly equidistant from the north and south cities of India. Also it is just 128 kms away from Mumbai (by train). If travelling becomes an issue, how can we expect Wikipedia to reach remote areas?

Having the conference in a city like Nashik is a great way to do Wiki outreach.

Adesh31 (talk) 16:02, 30 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Previous Events

Kumbhathon Team
Group Discussion
Group Photo
Innvators gathered at Kumbhathon
Motivational Speech!
Group Photo
Innovators
Cool drone for taking pictures!
Discussing a project
Meeting
Group Photo Again
Smart City Program
Discussion

Wiki Workshops and Events

Wiki Workshop at SIOM
Nashik Wiki Team
Wiki loves Nashik and Nashik wiki project
Writer from Nashik- Vandana Atre guiding Wiki team for better hindi and marathi writing
Team working on Project at Editathon
Wiki Workshop at Puroshattam School

Media Coverage

Media Coverage about the Wikipedia Workshop held in Nashik.

The Times of India : Over 100 college students volunteer to upload city data on Wikipedia
Maharashtra Times : नाशिक अपडेट साथी विकिपीडियाची कार्यशाळा
DivyaCity : दोन महिन्यांत होणार नाशिक अपडेट Alternate Link
Lokmat नाशिकला विकिपीडिया वर अपडेट करण्याची संधी

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Duty chart

Our work will be evenly distributed among large committee of around 36-40 volunteers which involves 20 online volunteers and 20-30 offline volunteers. We will work with national volunteers to designate tasks. Local team as well as kumbha foundation will provide on ground support. Kumbha foundation is a large organization and it will provide facilities and work hand. The roles will be widely divided as organizing committee,media and publicity committee, Travel and accommodation commitee, Security committee, Help desk committee, Food committee, Hospitality committee, Fun and Filler committee etc.

Chandigarh

City Details

Chandigarh has a domestic airport. We have a budding community in Chandigarh which recently organized their first meetup and we have a strong community in Patiala which is only 60 kilometers from the venue.

Country: India

Contact person(s): Gaurav Jhammat - 2023 edits (29 December 2015)

                  Contact me at : jhammatgauravgmail.com

Contact person(s): Satdeep Gill - 22783 edits (29 December 2015)

                  Contact me at : satdeep_gillyahoo.com

Statement of purpose

Punjabi Community is one of the fastest growing Indic communities right now. We know that this event being organized to access our performance and that we hope to apply for a Wikimania in India soon.
This will be a first of its kind conference in North India. Southern communities have been doing many events and conferences. This will be a chance to activate communities in North India and to build a strong Indian community.
Punjabi Wikimedians has recently received recognition from Wikimedia Foundation as the first User Group in Indic languages. We are a group of dedicated Wikimedians who are motivated by their love of Punjabi language.

Punjabi Community’s interaction with pan-Indian and International Communities

Charan Gill and Satdeep Gill participated in TTT 2013 held at Bangalore.
Satdeep Gill participated in Indian Community Consultation, 2014 held at Bangalore.
Parveer Grewal participated in Swatantra 2014, Thiruvananthapuram.
Gaurav Jhammat and Satdeep Gill participated in Bengali Wikipedia 10th Anniversary Celebration, 2015 held at Kolkata.
Satdeep Gill and Charan Gill participated in Hindi WikiSammelan, 2015 held at New Delhi.
Gaurav Jhammat participated in TTT 2015, Bangalore.
Nachhattar Dhammu participated in MediaWiki TTT 2015, Bangalore.
Satdeep Gill participated in Wikimania 2015 held at Mexico City, Mexico. Satdeep Gill was one among the two who received honorable mentions being considered for Wikipedian of the Year by Jimmy Wales.
Satdeep Gill participated in First Wikisource Conference, Vienna from 20-22 November 2015.
Dr. Manavpreet Kaur represented Punjabi Community at Global Congress on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest, December 15-17, 2015.
Punjabi Wikimedians are going to organize a meetup in early January to select a delegate to represent the organization at Wikimedia Conference, Berlin from 22-24 April 2016. We will also be facilitating Wikimedians in filling their applications for Wikimania 2016.
Satdeep Gill, Charan Gill, Dr. Manavpreet Kaur and Nachhattardhammu have completed #100wikidays challenge. They were the first among Indian Community to complete this challenge successfully. Right now, Nachhattardhammu has started this challenge for the third time and Parveer Grewal, Bhairupa Satwinder, Gaurav Jhammat and Stalinjeet have taken the challenge as well.
Punjabi community members participated and helped in organizing Wiki Loves Food. At least 13 new images were uploaded by Punjabi Wikimedians during this contest.
One of our Wikipedians in Canada, Sukhwant Hundal is a Professor of Punjabi at University of British Columbia. Each year he gives credit based assignments to his students to write Wikipedia articles. Last year he had 8 students and this time 13 students are going to do that.
Paramjit Kaur is a Punjabi Wikipedian from United Kingdom. She works mainly on articles related to Punjabi culture and folklore.
Punjabi Wikimedians User Group received official recognition from Wikimedia Foundation on 18 November 2015. We have been doing various events and workshops before that as well.
Punjabi Community participated in Wikipedia Asian Month and two editors with more than 30 articles were chosen as Wikipedian Asian Ambassador from the Punjabi Community.
We have been doing collaborations with other Wikipedia Communities such as Afrikaans-Punjabi Collaboration and Esperanto-Punjabi Collaboration. We are also planning an edit-a-thon Saanjh to strengthen the bond between Punjabi Wikipedia and Western Punjabi Wikipedia communities.

Similar Events

Punjabi Wikipedia Workshop, Chandigarh (16-17 October 2015)

We recently organized "Punjabi Wikipedia Two-Day Workshop" at Chandigarh, in which 15 active editors of Punjabi Wikipedia were given scholarships to attend the event and around 20 new editors joined from Chandigarh. We had many presentations and sessions on Basic Wiki Editing, ProveIt, HotCat, Content Translation, Visual Editor and other tools as well. We worked real-time and created 44 articles plus 18 entries on Punjabi Wiktionary as well.

Online Competitions and Edit-a-thon

We have also done many online competitions and edit-a-thons which have helped in improving Punjabi Wikipedia. Some of the examples are:

Punjabi Wikipedia Article Writing Competition (1-30 November 2014)
Punjabi Wikipedia International Women's Day Edit-a-thon (6-8 March 2015)
Punjabi Wikipedia 13th Anniversary Edit-a-thon (1-30 June 2015)
Wikipedia Asian Month (1-30 November 2015)

Upcoming Collaborations with International Communities

We believe in making a united Indian sub-continental community and we are helping in organizing collaborative edit-a-thons with communities from Nepal and Pakistan.

Saanjh (15th January 2016 to 31st January 2016) is a collaborative edit-a-thon between Punjabi Wikipedia and Western Punjabi Wikipedia.
Nepal-India Wiki-Friendship Edit-a-thon aims to improve the relationship between the Wikipedia communities from both the countries.

Media Coverage

Wikimedia Blog

Other Media In English

Other Media In Punjabi

Pre-Conference and Post-Conference Events

Workshops in Chandigarh

We are planning to have at least one Wikipedia workshop at the host institute to get students acquainted with Wikipedia. We can choose interested students to volunteer for the event as well.
We are planning to organize at least 5 workshops in educational institutes in Chandigarh to ensure more participation.
We also plan to do some workshops in other regions of Punjab which will help in attracting more participation in the Conference.
We expect to create more than 100 accounts during this period.

Wikipedia Indian Month, 2016

Wikipedia Indian Month, planned to be organised in April, 2016, is a month-long Edit-a-thon in all Indic language Wikipedias, in order to learn about the diverse cultures of India. It will help build collaborative relations and increase communication among different Indic language communities. Wikimedia communities from other countries are also welcome to participate in the event. This event is inspired by the successful completion of Wikipedia Asian Month, 2015, where Wikipedians from all over the world joined hands to build articles on Asia in their respective languages. Wikipedia Indian Month aims to involve more than 100 participants from 10 Wikimedia communities from all over the world and create more than 1000 articles in respective languages.

Meetings

We will be having meetings with different organizations and institutes with hopes of possible collaborations:

Panjab Digital Library has digitized a lot of books and many of them are in public domain. We will try to collaborate with them to get those books on Wikisource.
Language Department, Punjab has published many important books. We hope to collaborate with them to get their content in Creative Commons License.
We also plan to educate publishers about the benefits of CC licenses.

Friendly Space Policy

First Aid

University campus has a dispensary where first aid will be provided in case of any small accident.

Ambulance

An ambulance will be present 24 hours at the conference venue.

Local Team

Supporters

Community Consensus

Link to local village pump.

Tentative Dates

29,30,31 July 2016

Most of our volunteers are post-graduate students and they will be done with their semester end exams by June 2016.

Plan A

Plan A is to organize the event at an educational institute.

Proposed Venue

Chandigarh University (a private university on the outskirts of Chandigarh) has offered to give Infrastructure support. They have signed a letter of support and we are working on getting a copy of that to upload here.

Merits

Volunteers from the institute.
Fits to the budget.
Chandigarh University has offered High Speed Internet.
Hostel Accommodation at the venue.
Coordinator at the proposed venues has previous experience of editing Punjabi Wikipedia.
We can easily get around 50 volunteers from the host institution as well.

Estimate Budget

Item	Details	Cost
Conference Hall	(3 Days, 300 People)	18,000
Seminar Halls	5 Halls (3 Days, 100 People each)	30,000
SWAG	300 T-shirts, Notepads, Pens etc.	1,50,000
Food	3 Breakfasts (150 people), 3 Lunches (300 people), 4 Dinners (150 people), 6 Tea/Coffee (300 people)	5,00,000
Travel Scholarships	100 Scholarship recipients	15,00,000
Accommodation	100 scholarships -50 volunteers -(4 Nights)	6,00,000
Internet	Chandigarh University has offered free Internet	-
Local Transportation	To go sight-seeing	1,00,000
Miscellaneous	Unforeseen	1,02,000
Total	Estimate Cost	30,00,000

Duty Chart

User	Edit Count	Role in the Conference
Charan Gill	47179	Organizing Committee, Scholarship& Awards Committee
Satdep Gill	21615	Organizing Committee, Fund management Committee, Event Conduct Committee, Redressal Committee
Nachhattar Dammu	7731	Organizing Committee, Hospitality Committee, Reception, Registration & Help Desk
Parveer Grewal	4023	Organizing Committee, Fund management Committee, Scholarship & Awards Committee
Harvinder Chandigarh	2605	Media and Publicity, Accommodations and Security & Safety, Advertisement Committee
Gaurav Jhammat	1593	Organizing Committee, Scholarship& Awards Committee, Redressal Committee, Event Conduct Committee
Param Munde	1164	Accommodations and Security & Safety, Advertisement Committee
Gurbakhshish Chand	880	Organizing Committee,Reception, Registration & Help Desk, IT Support, Record Maintenance Committee
Stalinjeet	731	Media and Publicity, Advertisement Committee
Nitesh Gill	695	Reception, Registration & Help Desk,Social Events Committee, Record Maintenance Committee
Dr. Manavpreet	357	Media and Publicity,Reception, Registration & Help Desk, Social Events Committee
User:Bhairupa satwinder	204	Redressal Committee,Hospitality Committee
Keshu	197	Reception, Registration & Help Desk, Social Events Committee
Wikilover90	162	Venues Infrastructure and Facilities, Redressal Committee
Lillottama	147	Reception, Registration & Help Desk,Social Events Committee
Jaswant Jass	143	Redressal Committee, Event Conduct Committee
Virpal Kaur	55	Reception, Registration & Help Desk,Social Events Committee
pa:User:Kawalpreet	26	Record Maintenance Committee, Reception, Registration & Help Desk
Harpreet Sandhu	129	Organizing Committee, Venues Infrastructure and Facilities, IT Support

Ahmednagar

City Details

City - Ahmednagar
State - Maharashtra

Ahmednagar is a small and equi-distant centralised place with educational hub city and Pune airport is just 3 and half hour away, Pune airport to Ahemadnagar taxi services would be easily available. Five majior districts of Maharashtra are equidistant namely Pune, Aurangabad, Nasik, Jalgoan and Bid besides Wai in western Maharashtra which is main place for Marathi Wishvkosha hub of encyclopedic writer of Marathi is also just a four hours journey from Ahmednagar.

Besides Ahemdnagar is easily accessible by trains from all corners of India since trains to Ahemednagar ply from Dhanbad, Nagpur, Mumbai, Pune, Bangalore, Chennai, Goa, Delhi and many more places.

As location importance of the location is concerned is near by from education hub Pune, Ahemednagar is known across India for few things Ralegan Siddhi a successful model of village development Ralegn Siddhi of Anna Hazare is just an hours journey so as religios places like Shirdi which is well known for Saibaba, Besides one of the first literary acomplishment in Marathi language Dnyaneshwari was written by Sant Dnyaneshwar at Newasa in Ahemednagar district. Newasa is known for its archeological importance too. At the same time brief encyclopedia of Indian History "The Discovery of India" was written by India's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru during his imprisonment in 1942–46 at Ahmednagar Fort.

Contact person(s):

संतोष दहिवळ contact at
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santoshdahiwal@rediffmail.com
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Mahitgar contact at
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mahitgar@gmail.com
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Budget

Estimate Budget

Item	Details	Cost
Conference Hall	(3 Days, 500 People)	2,40,000
Seminar Halls	2 Halls (3 Days, 250 People each)	60,000
SWAG T-shirts, Notepad, Pen, Clear Bag	500 People	1,50,000
Food	3 Breakfasts (500 people), 3 Lunches (500 people), 4 Dinners (500 people), 6 Tea/Coffee (500 people)	9,00,000
Transportation - Scholarship	100	8,00,000
Accommodation	100 scholarships -50 volunteers -(4 Nights)	4,00,000
Internet	Looking to get it for free	1,00,000
Local Transportation	To go sight-seeing	80,000
Miscellaneous	Unforeseen	1,00,000
Total	Estimate Cost	28,30,000

Proposed overall budget to conduct an event

WCI 2016 host city selection announcement

Following is the report handed over by the WCI 2016 host city selection jury. On behalf of all the volunteers involved in WCI 2016, we thank the jury for their valuable time and commitment in arriving at this decision. --Ravi (talk) 12:48, 18 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

WCI 2016 host city selection announcement

The five member panel of jury nominated by the Wikimedia communities of India at large, has assessed all available information from the bids presented for conducting and successfully completing the upcoming Wikimedia Conference India - 2016 and from several interactive sessions through the internet relay chat, has asserted to choose CHANDIGARH as the winning host.

Of the three bids, the one from Ahmednagar was rejected at an early stage for lack of sufficient documentation and presentation. The remaining two cities showcased their bids in an attractive and thorough manner. The Jury adapted several parameters as shown below. Weightages are given in parentheses:

Thoroughness and degree of realistic projections demonstrated through the bid (6%)
Additional Financial support and cost efficiency (10%)
Available Infrastructure and logistics as projected (23%)
Previous Experience in conducting large scale Wikimedia-related events (10%)
Accessibility and facilities for inbound travel from different parts of India (6%)
Strength and dedication of the actual field team on ground (25%)
Potential outcomes to the advantage of Wikimedia movement in general and participating Indic communities in particular (15%)
Perceived Risks of abandoning, postponing or cost over-running of the program (5%)

The jury has appreciated the tireless efforts put into the bids by both teams viz. Nashik and Chandigarh. According to the individual members of jury, both bidders have scored neck-to-neck in each parameters. Chandigarh came up with a score of 72.91 % against a runner-up score of 69.69% by Nashik.

Participated Members of the jury:

Ashwin Baindur (User:AshLin)
Abhay Nathu (User:अभय नातू)
Kalyan (User:BengaliHindu)
Netha Hussain (User:Netha Hussain)
Viswanathan Prabhakaran (User:Viswaprabha)

References

[1] ttp://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/tech-news/tech-touch-to-make-Nashiks-kumbh-Mela-a-success/articleshow/47838354.cms?from=mdr

[2] ttp://www.kumbha.org/

[3] ttp://maharashtratimes.indiatimes.com/maharashtra/nashik/digital-city/articleshow/47871445.cms

[4] ttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiConnect/Pilot_Project

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WikiConference India 2016/City/First Bids

Nashik

About Nashik

Technology

Safety

Accomodation

Travel and transportation Details

Local Transport

By Air

By Road

By Train

Similar Events

Distance to Nashik

Proposed date

विकिकॉन्फरन्स इंडिया २०१६ आयोजन (नाशिक )

Estimate Budget

Local team

Support From Nashik Municipal Corporation

Supporters

Previous Events

Wiki Workshops and Events

Media Coverage

Duty chart

Chandigarh

City Details

Statement of purpose

Punjabi Community’s interaction with pan-Indian and International Communities

Similar Events

Punjabi Wikipedia Workshop, Chandigarh (16-17 October 2015)

Online Competitions and Edit-a-thon

Upcoming Collaborations with International Communities

Media Coverage

Wikimedia Blog

Other Media In English

Other Media In Punjabi

Pre-Conference and Post-Conference Events

Workshops in Chandigarh

Wikipedia Indian Month, 2016

Meetings

Friendly Space Policy

First Aid

Ambulance

Local Team

Supporters

Community Consensus

Tentative Dates

Plan A

Proposed Venue

Merits

Estimate Budget

Duty Chart

Ahmednagar

City Details

Local Team

Supporters

Local village pump

Budget

Estimate Budget

WCI 2016 host city selection announcement

References