January 20th, 2006

It looks like I am going to be at Calcutta, India for two weeks around the end of February and would like to get together with WordPress and blogging folks from that region.

March 4th (Saturday) is the tentative date for the meetup and my initial thoughts are to meet at the Park Hotel (on Park Street). I will post updates as and when they develop.

I would like to judge the level of interest. Please leave a comment if you are interested. Also, please link to this post if it would help to get the word out.

[EDIT]: Not sure if people realize this or not, but I am originally from Calcutta, India. My fiance’ and I are going to visit my parents for a couple of weeks and this is more of a pleasure trip than anything business. Any business conducted will be incidental and will have less priority. I am also glad to know that there is such a concentration of bloggers in Mumbai and Chennai. How about independant blog meetups there?

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Mark Ghosh

An avid fan of business, education, technology and finance. I lead a lean, highly focussed and capable team of Java Back End developers and Front End developers through a maze of complex software wizardry to fulfill the web maintenance needs of a large chemical manufacturer. As per Myers-Briggs Personality Types, I am an ESTJ. I pride in a project completed on time and according to plan. My hobbies include all kinds of technology, anything that I can taste and anything that goes fast or flies in the air. I like to read business books and comics in my spare time.

Web: https://weblogtoolscollection.com

Ajay says:

1/20/2006 at 1:59 pm

You are welcome to visit Chennai, India too. It’s close to Bangalore also. You’d find a great many bloggers in this part of India.

S.K says:

1/20/2006 at 9:42 pm

I am thrilled!
I am a long time user of WP. I live at Chennai in southern India.
I will try and make it to the Meetup, God willing!

I am looking forward to meet with the great nerdy brains like Mark Gosh 🙂

Cheers!

S.K

1/20/2006 at 9:44 pm

Ajay,

Are you at Chennai (FKA Madras)?

Contact?

Regards,
S.K

Navin says:

1/21/2006 at 1:32 am

Hey – I’m in Chennai too, and it’d be brilliant to meet up!

1/21/2006 at 3:58 am

What about a visit to Mumbai?

Naina Redhu says:

1/21/2006 at 4:59 am

Yeah, why Calcutta? Why not Mumbai? I’d really like to know! Does Calcutta have more blogging folks? [ I’ll be stumped if that’s true! It would be wodnerful of course, but my assumption that the tech cities like Bangalore and Mumbai had more blogging folks will be dashed! ]

I’m in Mumbai and while getting to Calcutta is next to impossible – when you do organize something in Mumbai, I’ll be there. I’ll put the word out on my three WP blogs 🙂

aJ says:

1/21/2006 at 9:40 am

Maybe cos he might have some work there? Maybe some sightseeing there?

1/21/2006 at 9:41 am

I would love to attend it but work pressures at that time would not allow me to travel to Calcutta.
But great to know you will be coming to India 🙂

Srinivasan R says:

1/21/2006 at 10:25 am

I am also from Chennai and I use WordPress 2.0 for my Free Software Blog.
I would be glad if you could come to Chennai.

Abdul Aziz says:

1/22/2006 at 2:56 pm

Even I am wondering why you are going to Calcutta. It would have been great if you could drop by in Mumbai for a day or too.

Arun Agrawal says:

1/23/2006 at 12:01 am

Finally a comment from someone in Calcutta 😉

Yeah! I will be thrilled to meet you. Please pass on your contact details to my email address and it will be pleasure to co-ordinate and catch you there.

I will pass on the information to my other blogger friends also and some of them might love to come along. If there is something I can help you with while you are in Calcutta, please let me know. I will be happy to help.

Arun

Sthitaprajna says:

1/23/2006 at 1:45 am

Not sure I’ll can make it to a Calcutta meet in March..though I might be 400km away, holidaying at my parents’.. You’ll get a much bigger WP userbase, and blogger concentration for that matter around Bangalore/Chennai/Mumbai. Hope the meet in Calcutta goes well too 🙂
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cheers

Rakesh Ojha says:

1/23/2006 at 4:03 am

Hi I’m in Delhi and would have loved the thought of the meet in delhi. But Alas! will not be able to make it to Calcutta.

Will keep a tap of the event.

Rakesh

Kuwait Dude says:

1/23/2006 at 4:35 am

http://www.kuwaitblogs.com/link.html

Please help. How do people make up icons like the ones seen in the above link? is there a website I can make these kind of icons?

I know this is not the right place to ask, but, please help

1/23/2006 at 1:52 pm

Yeah, I am in Chennai (Formerly Madras). Looks like there are a number of bloggers from India. Also there are a number of Ajays here. I do follow Ajay D’Souza’s blog, then there’s another ajay here. We should probably start off a wordpress Chennai group or WordPress India group or Ajay Group 😛

1/24/2006 at 5:58 am

Ajay, Gimme the URL of your blog.

Mine is http://blog.cyberbrahma.com/
Plus I have some more sites!

Regards

1/24/2006 at 6:01 am

Hi Navin,

“Thidder thaththuvam”!

Ok, I blog in Thamizh too (in unicode). Itz here:

http://kichu.cyberbrahma.com/

1/25/2006 at 11:44 pm

Heh! Ok, so you are originally from Calcutta [ sweet 🙂 ]
Of course, the idea of independent blog meets is fantastic. There is already one blog meetup happening in Mumbai on the 31st of January at Cafe Coffee Day at 6 p.m. Bandra, Carter Road. More details here on my blog. I’m going for the Mumbai meetup – would have been nice to meet with you Mark! Maybe some other time!

Have fun at Calcutta and do tell us how it goes.

3/1/2006 at 12:04 pm

Hi Mark

Is the program final? Where and how do we meet? Send me an email on my email address attached to this post.

varun krishnan says:

3/1/2006 at 11:51 pm

Hi !!! me from chennai and into php/mysql/opensource wordpress since 2001

Manoj Gursahani says:

4/12/2007 at 5:31 am

Hey, lemme know when u’re visiting mumbai