Pune Pilot kick-off trip agenda
The following is the schedule for the India Campus Program kick-off trip in June 2011.
Date | Location | Activity | Details | Confirmed meeting times | Notes/Materials |
Sunday, May 29 – Tuesday, May 31 | SFO–MUC-DEL–IDR–PNQ | Annie and Frank fly to India | Estimated arrival time at Pune airport: 5:05 pm | – | Hisham coming by same flight (DEL-IDR-PNQ) |
Wednesday, June 1 | The O Hotel, Koregaon Park, Pune-1 | Annie and Frank meet with Hisham to confirm the agenda and plan for the following days | – | 9:00 am - 01:00 pm | – |
Wednesday, June 1 | Symbiosis International University | Meeting with Chandan Chatterjee, Director of the Symbiosis Institute of Media and Communication | New batch orientation is scheduled on June 3-4th | 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm | Make sure that we ask about the option of having a table at their orientation event. Symbiosis International University will provide a car service to and from the Lavale campus |
Wednesday, June 1 | Symbiosis International University | Meeting with Rajesh Panda, Deputy Director of the Symbiosis Institute of Business Management | – | 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm | – |
Thursday, June 2 | The O Hotel, Koregaon Park, Pune-1 | PREPARATION TIME | – | 9:00 am – 11:00 am | – |
Thursday, June 2 | Symbiosis School of Economics (SSE) | Meeting with Professor Ishita Ghosh, Professor Jyoti Chandiramani, and the Director of the Symbiosis School of Economics | – | 11:00 am - 01:00 am | – |
Thursday, June 2 | College of Engineering, Pune | Meeting with Dr. A.D.Sahasrabudhe, Director | – | 1:00pm - 3:00 pm | Interested and will call faculty. Meet at conference room of Electrical Engineering Department |
Thursday, June 2 | Symbiosis Institute of Computer Science & Research (SICSR) | Lalit S. Kathpalia, Director & Harshad Gune, Deputy Director | – | 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm | They have said that we can treat them as signed up |
Thursday, June 2 | The O Hotel, Koregaon Park, Pune-1 | Train-the-trainer with 3–5 local Wikipedians who will assist us with the training on the weekend | – | 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm | – |
Thursday, June 2 | The O Hotel, Koregaon Park, Pune-1 | Drinks and dinner with 3–5 local Wikipedians who participated in the train-the-trainer | – | 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm | – |
Thursday, June 2 | The O Hotel, Koregaon Park, Pune-1 | Monthly India Programs IRC | – | 9:00 pm – 10:00 pm | Frank & Annie and PJ & Srikeit can join in and we can introduce them to the India community as well as discuss the program |
Friday, June 3 | The O Hotel, Koregaon Park, Pune-1 | Tory Read (Journalist) arrives in Pune | – | – | – |
Friday, June 3 | Centum Learning | Meeting with Ashish Suri | – | 9:00am - 11:00 am | TO BE CONFIRMED: He will call interested faculty. |
Friday, June 3 | PES Modern College Of Engineering,Pune | Meeting with Mrs K R Joshi (Principal) & Preeti Mulay (Placement Officer) | – | 11:00am - 01:00 pm | Will call interested faculty |
Friday, June 3 | Symbiosis Institute of Computer Studies and Research (SICSR) | Meeting with Lalit S. Kathpalia, Director of SICSR | – | 1:00pm - 3:00 pm | note from hisham: this will be with Dr Vidya and Vice Chancellor Patwardhan if we can get them (otherwise we would already have met with Lalit on June 2 and therefore this meeting becomes redundant) |
Friday, June 3 | Shreemati Nathibai Damodar Thackersey Women’s University (SNDT), Pune | Meeting with Prof Radha Misra, Head of Dept. | – | 3:00pm - 5:00 pm | She will call Principal Mrs. Veena Sant & Vice Principal Dr. Rachna Vishwanathan, & Hemangi Gore (computer lead) |
Friday, June 3 | The O Hotel, Koregaon Park, Pune-1 | Dinner Annie, Hisham and Frank with Tory Read | – | 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm | – |
Saturday, June 4 | Symbiosis Institute of Computer Science & Research (SICSR) | First Wikipedia Campus Ambassador training in India (Day 1) | … | 09:30 am - 05:00 pm | - |
Saturday, June 4 | t.b.d. | Community Meetup & Drinks with Community/Campus Ambassadors | … | 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm | - |
Sunday, June 5 | Symbiosis Institute of Computer Science & Research (SICSR) | First Wikipedia Campus Ambassador training in India (Day 2) | … | 09:30 am - 05:00 pm | - |
Sunday, June 5 | Symbiosis Institute of Computer Science & Research (SICSR) | Press Briefing, Photo Ops & Interviews | … | 05:00 pm - 07:00 pm | - |
Monday, June 6 | PNQ–DEL | Hisham flies back to Delhi | Departure time from Pune airport: 19:10 pm | – | – |
Tuesday, June 7 | PNQ–TBS–FRA | Frank flies to Germany to attend Wikipedia conference (will get back to SFO on June 15) | Departure time from Pune airport: 5:25 am | – | – |