Hi, LiAnna.
Thanks for sharing this, that is a good idea. I just sent to all
Brazilian professors of our network to sound their interest, but I
really think 24h is not enough time for they to answer, from my
experience of the time professors usually take to answer e-mails. At
least this happens with academics in Brazil, not sure how it is in
other places (in physics it is the same everywhere).
I also think most professors have no idea what a chapters meeting is,
neither what a Wikimedia chapter is. Thus, if I was a professor, I
would first wonder what is it and, since I would likely not have time
to read all pages to discover it, I would say "no" or simply do not
answer.
Then, as a suggestion, maybe try to rephrase to something like this
would be good "there will be a global meet up that happens every year
among wikimedians and we want involve professors involved in the
Wikipedia Education Program etc.".
My to cents. :)
Tom
On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 9:23 PM, LiAnna Davis <ldavis(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Are you running an Education Program in your country? Do you want to start
working with instructors and students to improve Wikipedia? Are you
interested in helping shape a global community of program leaders to grow
Wikipedia's use in education worldwide?
We are thinking about convening an Education Program Leaders Workshop,
where 20-30 program leaders worldwide will gather for one day to build a
global community to share learnings and help each other overcome challenges.
We're considering having this all-day workshop in conjunction with the
Chapters Meeting hosted by Wikimedia Italia on April 19-21 in Milan, but
before we finalize the details, we wanted to see if this would be a
convenient time with enough people to make it worthwhile.
If you are interested in meeting with other program leaders worldwide,
would you take 5 minutes to fill out a quick survey?
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1T-1KvPYJQwtRMauHk6Xypm733CUmB0wUi3NRZkkp3g…
We need responses within 24 hours if possible so we can confirm dates.
More information will be coming later this week.
Thanks so much for your quick reply!
LiAnna
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