Metakgp:About

Activities	Demo Days
Founded	2014
Founder(s)	Vivek Aithal, Vikrant Varma
Governors	See Governance
Website	https://metakgp.org
Instagram	@metakgp_
Contact	Metakgp:Contact us
Github	github/metakgp
Under TSG	No

MetaKGP is a community of engineers, hackers, and artists from IIT Kharagpur collaborating on projects that help the students. This wiki is an open repository of community knowledge about IIT Kharagpur that anyone can edit. We hang out on Slack, come by and say hi. Links to our other communication platforms can be found here.

History

Metakgp was started by Vivek Aithal and Vikrant Varma at IIT Kharagpur in 2014. After a period of inactivity, it was revived in 2015 with the help of Harsh Gupta and Vivek Rai.

Statistics about top contributors can be found at Special:ContributionScores.

Timeline

29th April 2015: Vikrant met Harsh, Sanyam and Vivek Rai at CCD and discussed the idea of a wiki for IIT-KGP, which he and his roommate Vivek Aithal started last year. Vikrant set up a mediawiki instance on digital ocean.
May-June 2015: metaKGP was met by generous contributions by Vivek Rai, Kumar Abhishek and Harsh Gupta. Though everybody was busy with their intern so we couldn't get a lot done.
28th June 2015: we got the metakgp.org domain
August 2015: we launched metaKGP to the public through shares on our facebook wall.
8th September 2015: we launched our facebook page
13th September 2015: we launched mfqp a tool for searching question papers on the library's previous year question papers website.
16th September 2015: we started publishing (gymkhana) constitution fun facts on our facebook page.
11 Feb 2016: Shashank Saraf generously agreed to let us use the metakgp Google Group name; it was previously used for "Metallurgy and Materials Science- IIT Kharagpur, 2006".

Users' thoughts about metakgp

- Why metakgp? Some motivations and goals. -- Amrav (talk)

- What is metakgp? -- Amrav (talk)

- metakgp wants to give KGP its history. -- Hargup (talk)

Projects

Members of MetaKGP develop various projects, including this wiki. The code is developed on Github, and hosted on DigitalOcean. Each project has maintainers that are responsible for its development and have administrative control over its repository.