Flickr Communities can connect Offline through "Hello, India!"

Yahoo! India has hosted unique community events for Flickr across Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore this month to provide an offline platform for Flickr photo and video enthusiasts. Designed around the theme “Hello, India!”, these community events celebrated the growing success of Flickr in India and served as a vibrant platform for people to connect with their communities, meet new friends and exchange their exciting experiences.

“Hello, India!” community events brought together nearly 200 Flickr community members in each city and helped them connect through the language of photography. Flickr offers a compelling online photo-sharing platform that is at the centre of people’s online lives. Yahoo! India already boasts of over 2.29 million Flickr users with over 12,500 groups connected with the term “India”. Globally, Flickr already has over 4 billion photo and video uploads and a monthly unique visitors of 85.9 million, worldwide.

“We are all photographers now documenting and sharing individual perspectives that make up a collective memoir of the world,” said David Fusco, Flickr International Project Manager. “We appreciate one another’s contributions. We learn, we share, we grow, it is what makes Flickr so special.”

"Flickr has established itself as the eyes of the world, with millions of people all over the planet sharing photos and video of every imaginable aspect of life," said Arun Tadanki, Managing Director, Yahoo! India.

Flickr also has an open application programming interface (API) that allows anyone to write their own programme in new and different ways. The Flickr App Garden is a place where developers can showcase the applications they have created.