2010/12/27 Srikanth Lakshmanan <srik.lak@gmail.com>
Hi all,

I suppose Wikipedia stall at FOSS.IN was a great start in reaching out to FOSS / Student community in India.We must attempt to be present in a stall at all such similar events which give space for us. I have got a confirmation from Carte Blanche[1] for a stall and working with Wikipedians in Chennai for manning the stall on Feb 6. There is also a fossmeet at NIT Calicut[2] happening around the same time. Any Kerala / Malayalam wikipedians willing to take it up? We must also keep a watch on huge technical events at prominent colleges where we would be getting students from the particular region and having a stall there would give a reach to about 500-1000 Students(and/or general public).

[1] http://cb.csmit.org/
[2] http://fossmeet.in/2011/

Good idea. Just a stall would not get us much, if we are targeting local language users. We need to do half day academies leveraging the computing labs in the local colleges. I have done about 5 of them so far and found it to be quite useful. The report of the recent one in Telugu with few photos is reported in Telugu wiki newsletter.

I will be happy to support some in Bangalore and other places.

Cheers
Arjun