On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 18:40, Noopur <noopur.raval@gmail.com> wrote:

I think the question regarding outreach is being framed in a wrong light here.The problem seriously is not about "what is the point of spending X hours?". The point is, are we making the most of those hours? Do we as a community need to improve (dumb things down, use better methods) our strategies of communication so that we don't waste a lot of our time and still get results. IMHO, it is way too early to expect 1-2 editors to be recruited out of all such events because Wikipedia movement is  too nascent in India to make immediate sense to people. So, there will be at least 1-2 years of just conversation before everyone knows that "Wikipedia can be edited". That is why I strongly believe that we need to keep doing these sessions. 

Noopur,

Care to read my reply once more before misunderstanding? Where have I questioned the need for outreach on the mail? I specifically mentioned *(Effectiveness is totally another thing)* --> which means I am not even talking about effectiveness here, even though I have alternate views on outreach. My sadness was all these things was done for 1 hour slot? Chapter spending time to sign MoU might take atleast 1 hour for Naveen & Co, atleast 10 people planning/mailing in the run up to the event where we have a 1 hour slot. Is that worthy? Enlighten me. I also mentioned the amount of time that was spent last year(again not uttering a word on the effectivity / need of it). Thanks for your understanding.

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Regards
Srikanth.L

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