Dear Wikimedia & Education community,
Greetings from the Wikipedia and Education User Group.
We are delighted to bring to you the Working Groups of the Wikipedia & Education User Group https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_%26_Education_User_Group/Get_involved!#Working_Groups[1]. These groups comprise people who are interested in working in various focus areas related to Wikimedia & Education - Mentorship, Resource Development, Tech Infrastructure, and Global Outreach. These working groups work in their focus areas to help the global EduWiki community in their ongoing work and further development. We will be launching these working during Wikimania 2019, where we will be having more details on this.
However, owing to the needs of technology in our work, we would like to launch the “Tech Infrastructure Working Group https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_%26_Education_User_Group/Working_Groups/Tech_infrastructure”[2] at the earliest possible.
This group aims to prioritize technological tools for scaling educational initiatives across the movement. The members of the group are uniquely qualified to identify gaps in tools that will help us run educational programs. They will work together to identify needs, prioritize tool development, and manage that process. The group will also provide recommendations on securing funding to develop tech resources, and also advocate at various organizational levels to bring the necessary technical infrastructure to reality.
The group, as its first project will be working on a global survey that is to be commissioned by the user group in the coming weeks. The survey will be focused on identifying the tech needs of the EduWiki community, more specific to the Program and Events Dashboard. This survey will serve a base for further development work in this area.
In this context, I would like to invite interested community members to sign up to be members of this group on the Meta-Wiki page[2] of the group. Expected time commitment is 3-4 hours a week.
Let me know if you have any questions.
Thanks and regards,
Krishna Chaitanya
On behalf of the Wikipedia & Education User Group