gyaan.in meetup #1 September 19, 2009
New Delhi, Delhi 110001
*Reaching the venue*
Costa Coffee is close to the Nirula's outlet in the Outer Circle. There's apparently a pretty popular dhaba called Kake Da Dhaba right across the road in case you need to ask someone for directions. (An auto-wallah will probably recognize that as a landmark rather than Costa Coffee). Connaught Circus Block L is located close to the Minto Bridge exit. In case you need directions or have any other queries, please call me (Ankur Banerjee) at 9871604101.
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*Agenda*
There is no agenda for the meetup as such. We're initially modelling this along the lines of 'tweetups' - meetups where people who know each other on Twitter can meet and get know each other, or catch up with people they already know in real life. So basically this event is for socialising with other Delhi-based quizzers (but if you're dropping in from some other city, you're more than welcome!). You don't have to be a gyaan.in forum member to attend - anyone and everyone's invited. So you can drop in any time between 5 and 7pm because there's no strict 'schedule'.
We plan to hold the first gyaan.in meetup at Connaught Place on Saturday, 19th September 2009. We had a tough time adjusting the event day/timing so that it did not clash with any school exams (many schools have their mid-term exams going on right now). In the end we felt that 19th Sept was a good compromise. No coaching institute has scheduled diagnostic tests around this time because of school exams, so that's one issue solved. It's a 'long' weekend since 21st September is a holiday (Idu'l Fitr); that way, even if you have exams on 22nd of September you will be able to take a few hours off on Saturday. And in case you have an exam on that Saturday, we're scheduling the event in the evening so that you can still make it.
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Added by Ankur Banerjee on September 12, 2009
Comments
Rachit Bhatnagar
Nice but sadly won't be able to join due to the reason we all are probably gathering for :P
Have 2 quizzes on Saturday itself in other colleges of Delhi University followed by the Freshers Party at my college.
Hope its a nice happy meet though :D
Aditya Salapaka
1) Does Costa Coffee have the infrastructure to accommodate all of us? I'm guessing 10+20?
2) Have you taken prior permission for this tweetup, from Costa authorities?
Ankur Banerjee
@Aditya:
1. Costa does have enough space to accommodate those many people. We've held tweetups there where more than 20 people have come.
2. I don't think we need to. We never did for any tweetup and they were okay with it.
Aditya Salapaka
@Ankur *thumbs up* Just remember to bring your laptop!
Ankur Banerjee
@Aditya: I *do* remember that. :)
mmarodia5
a good idea.But what will we do?Are school children allowed? With/without their parents?
Ankur Banerjee
PS - You pay for whatever you order.