Hey,
I believe that it will be a very good event. In Bangladesh we are participating in our Ekushe Book Fair (biggest book fair arranged in Dhaka) for the last 6years. We got very positive response there and got some wikipedians who are very active in Bengali Wikipedia now.
Another thing is, on the weekend more people will visit the book fair, so some volunteers can stand with a banner and some leaflet of Wikipedia near the fair gate. We have experienced that it attracts more people and many of them ask the volunteers to know more about the wikipedia.
thanks nasir khan saikat On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 10:32 AM, Nitika ntandon@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hey,
Thanks for the initiative Debanjan!!
For those who don't know - Debanjan is an extremely active Campus Ambassador of the India Education Program. I'm glad that he is coming forward and helping us out in other outreach programs as well. And I would encourage other Campus Ambassadors to take extra initiatives and involve themselves in other programs too.
Thanks Nitika
On 25-Nov-2011, at 2:11 AM, Debanjan Bandyopadhyay wrote:
Jayanta da,
Please do inform me about this, I might not not be to help you in the on-ground organization part as I will be in Pune, but will try to come to Kolkata in January and help volunteer for this event. Looking very much forward for it, lets really make this happen, this will be a huge
outreach.
-- Regards, Debanjan*
- Lets make this world a better and more informative place*
On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 9:51 PM, Anindya Kumar Banerjee akb.now@gmail.comwrote:
Distribute Wiki stickers to all visitors.
This will help as all visitors will at least spread the news as word of mouth.
Best Wishes A.K.Banerjee
On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 3:39 PM, Jayanta Nath jayantanth@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
my thoughts below....
- On-spot *India Chapter membership* for visitors if they wish.
- Distribute Chapter Brochures, Welcome to Wikipedia Brochure.
- Distribute Bengali Wikipedia Brochures.
- Need 3/4 dedicated volunteers for 12 days 1PM-8PM
- Contiguous running videos regarding Wikipedia ( Jimmy speech,
Wikimania/WCI event images, and many more) 6) Display all banner and etc 7) Need one hired staff for collecting Cash and etc and work for India Chapter membership. ( if possible) 8) Short Quiz contest for visitors. 9) Q&A for visitor (Need 3/4 dedicated volunteers for 12 days 1PM-8PM)
anything new thought/feedback/suggestions are welcome.
On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 2:13 PM, Naveen Francis <naveenpf@wikimedia.in
wrote:
Hi Jayanta,
Can you please co-ordinate this helping Tuhin Khanrah ? I can send you Chapter Brochures, Welcome to Wikipedia Brochure and
few
swags.
On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 2:03 PM, Tuhin Khanrah <
tuhin.khanrah@gmail.com
wrote:
Dear all, I also support the proposal. I think this will be a big showcase to 15 lac people. Regards, Tuhin Khnarah.
On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 1:11 PM, Bishakha Datta <
bishakhadatta@gmail.com
wrote:
> When is the book fair? And can someone please forward this to the
chapter?
> > Bishakha > > On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 11:01 AM, Kalyan Sarkar <
kalyan.sarkar@gmail.com
>> wrote: > >> I support the proposal. >> >> I think Wikimedia India chapter should earnestly consider
showcasing
the
>> success in the Indic language projects, the campus ambassador
programs
> and >> Wiki Conference India 2011 at the Kolkata Book Fair 2012. This
would
be
> a >> major outreach program, that would boost the growth of Wikimedia > projects >> in India, eastern India and the North East in particular. >> >> Thanks and regards, >> Kalyan Sarkar >> >> >> On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 11:34 PM, Debanjan Bandyopadhyay < >> debastein@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> +1 >>> Even I agree. This will be a major outreach in terms of
Wikimedia
> India >>> Chapter and the Wikipedia Kolkata Community. >>> >>> Not necessary to promote only bengali Wikipedia but even english >> Wikipedia >>> can be promoted. This is a major outreach and the Chapter really > needs to >>> look into it. >>> >>> -- >>> Regards, >>> Debanjan* >>> >>> - Lets make this world a better and more informative place* >>> >>> >>> On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 9:52 PM, Biswarup Ganguly < >>> gangulybiswarup@gmail.com >>>> wrote: >>> >>>> Dear Sir, >>>> >>>> The 'Kolkata Book Fair' has been organized by the
'Publishers &
>>>> Booksellers Guild' is one of the most prestigious and active > cultural >>>> event in India for last thirty five years. It is the world's
largest
>>>> non-trade book fair, Asia's largest book fair and the most
attended
>>>> book fair in the world. Other than books it houses television,
radio
>>>> and other multimedia companies as well. >>>> >>>> I think that, the presence of Wikipedia in physically to the
coming
>>>> 'Kolkata Book Fair 2012' will be a most valuable way to reach
a
very
>>>> large number of well learned persons to increase it's user
growth.
>>>> >>>> It is learned from a verbal reliable source that in 2010 the
stall
>>>> charge was about Rs. 500/- per squire feet. The minimum space > allotted >>>> of 100 sqft. Apart from the fair space there will be other
costs
> (viz. >>>> decorations, lights, projector & computers with mobile
broadband
> etc) >>>> involved to have the exhibition successfully. >>>> >>>> I propose for consideration to make a twelve day show to the >>>> 'Wikimedia India Chapter' for the exhibition. The detail of
the
> guild >>>> is placed below: >>>> >>>> *********************** >>>> GUILD HOUSE >>>> 2B Jhama Pukur Lane, Kolkata 700 009 >>>> West Bengal, India >>>> Telephone: +91-33-2360 4588, 2354 4417 >>>> Fax: +91-33-2360 4566 >>>> E-mail: guild@cal2.vsnl.net.in,pbguild@vsnl.net >>>> http://www.kolkatabookfaironline.com/index.php >>>> *********************** >>>> With regards. >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Biswarup Ganguly >>>> Phones: >>>> +919830022449 >>>> +919433005886 >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Wikimedia-in-WB mailing list >>>> Wikimedia-in-WB@lists.wikimedia.org >>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-wb >>>> >>>