On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 16:51, Sohan Maheshwar <sohanmaheshwar(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
The organizers cut short our time because of their problems with the
internet connection and the fact that they had to shoe-horn a sponsors
presentation in the same time slot as ours.
This is bad. You asked for / were given only 1 hour slot? that too with out
a lab / proper internet? #fail. What is the point of signing MoU and all
for this. Even if this 1 hour / rest of the stuff went well, I wonder if it
makes sense for 2 persons to travel for 12+ hours / spend a weekend to talk
for 1 hour. Anyone else who feels it makes sense, please enlighten me. Last
year we spent 8+ hours on stall, 2.5 hours on the academy part.
(Effectiveness is totally another thing)
Also, the fact that i'm a working professional and
you are a student
should not have anything to do with it. Bottom-line is that the NIT-T
organizers should have treated us better. We do not need five-star
type accommodation. But some simple courtesy is expected of them. Also,a
week prior to the event, Saagar had promised me transport to and from the
venue. The fact is that they did not seem to really care too much about the
WikiAcademy and treated it like they were doing us a favour.
Courtesy could have been better, but facilities may not always be (Esp in
tier 2 cities). So please try and adjust (if you were asked to travel in
public transport). Yes, they do/might treat you like they are doing you a
favour(I don't see why they would really care), in fact they actually do
*some* favour in giving space for us. The interest you (I barely know you
btw) and I have towards Wikipedia might not be same any organizer at these
events will have. They might have extra interest on swags etc. Most Tech
fests are not run/attended by students with noble intentions of learning
something technical etc.(At best they learn team work, organizational
skills) I said part of the statement about attendees on this list here[1]
In short, when going to a college, keep your expectations to bare minimum
be it on the audience / organizers. If something was good, do appreciate,
otherwise accept it as reality on Indian conditions. There is nothing to be
ashamed / unpatriotic in accepting certain things as Indian reality.
[1]
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2012-January/006554.h…
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Regards
Srikanth.L