[Wikimediaindia-l] On the spot Chapter membership.

[Jayanta Nath]

Hi,

There are some free and open source minded/Linux group
members around Kolkata,They have some knowledge about Wikipedia's
philosophy. Some of our community member wants joint on spot payment
method,as like we have at WCI2011 . They are not so comfortable with other
method.Although On-spot India Chapter membership is not our main* *project
scope. If India community/Wikimedia India chapter feels wrong, we
can withdrawn this facility from this project.

On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 5:47 PM, Srikanth Lakshmanan <srik.lak at gmail.com>wrote:

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>
> On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 15:39, Jayanta Nath <jayantanth at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 1) On-spot *India Chapter membership* for visitors if they wish.
>>
>
> Was : Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Proposal: Wikipedia participation at 'Kolkata
> Book Fair 2012'
>
> I think we are going for numbers game here. Whats the point of on-spot
> membership? Seriously, does having 50,000 chapter members do any great
> thing for Wikipedia? I seriously fail to understand (in the past, future),
> what can the chapter do with just so many members who do not have an idea
> about Wikipedia community and many of whom may not go beyond attending
> meetups and conferences.
>
> Sorry if am sound odd here, I just dont like this part of chapter, where
> the chapter instead of instilling confidence in community and making them
> members, chooses people who attend a meetup / conference / stall to become
> its members.(In many cases makes someone member of chapter without having a
> clue about it. I personally know this since my friend who happen to
> accompany me to a meetup, just because he had nothing else to spend time is
> a chapter member now) I do not mean any offense to any of those who sign
> up(they may be genuinely interested, good guys), but just fail to
> understand what we are trying to achieve with chapter membership numbers.
>
> --
> Regards
> Srikanth.L
>
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With Warm Regards,
*Jayanta Nath*
Calcutta,West Bengal

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