Dear All,
I wanted to take this opportunity to thank Harriet Vidyasagar and Frederick Noronha for
helping us kick start Wikipedia activities in Goa. They have put in a lot of hard work in
the past few weeks to organise Wikipedia events. So far we have 3 confirmed events between
12th Dec and 14th Dec while they are still working on squeezing in more events during
these dates. I wanted to share details of these events with everyone and also invite
suggestions.
Details of events
A WikiWorkshop to introduce students and a few faculty on how to edit the Wikipedia on12th
and 13th December from 2.30 pm to 4.30 pm at Goa University, computer lab. The lab has 24
computers and we will have about 6 persons with laptops i.e a total of 30 persons. We got
60 registrations for this event but since the lab has limited capacity we'll only be
able to accommodate first 30 registrations. We're trying to host another academy for
the remaining 30 sometime on the 14th provided we're able to arrange for a venue. Even
if no venue is available; we'll still try and do a small talk with these
registrations. We definitely don't want to loose out the opportunity of touching base
with 30 more interested people.
We have a meeting scheduled with The Krishnadas Shama State Central Library, Patto, Panjim
on 13th morning from 10.30 to 12.30 noon to discuss GLAM opportunities.
Harriet and her team are still trying to organise the following:
Public program to create awareness on about Wikipedia and how to contribute at Central
Library
Event at NIE where all are invited on the topic of Wikimedia in Schools and Wikipedia for
Teachers
Calling for participation as volunteers
Frederick is a long time Wikipedian who lives in Goa and will be available to provide on
ground support for these meetings. I wanted to check if we can have 2 more or at least one
more volunteer from Mumbai or Pune who could come down to Goa for these events. CIS will
be able to support train/bus travel for these volunteers and Goa University will take care
of accommodation in their university guest house. Please respond at the earliest so that
we can make arrangements accordingly.
Looking forward to hear from al of you. Thanks a ton!
Regards,
Nitika
On 07-Dec-2012, at 12:50 AM, Nitika Tandon wrote:
On 06-Dec-2012, at 1:21 PM, Frederick FN Noronha * फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या * فريدريك نورونيا
wrote:
Dear Nitika, Is it possible to get in touch with
others who have been contributing to the Goa pages in the past?
Absolutely! We can
invite Wikipedians from Goa and members of WikiProject Goa.
Also, some of us have bandwidth problems here,
otherwise we would have contributed more. Is it possible to set up a small team to
continue this process, in Goa itself, after the workshop is done?
The Central Library has a lot of space and tend to be supportive in such work. Its
Curator, Carlos Fernandes, was even supportive when Richard Stallman of the FSF visited
many years ago. They understand the importance of creating sharable resources. At the
library, you can spot some displays of open journal websites, etc which researchers can
freely access. You could build on such synergies.
We have a meeting scheduled with
the State Central Library on the 13th Dec at 10.30am. We can most definitely work out a
plan with them. I'm hoping you'll be able to join for this meeting too.
I have raised a ticket to lift IP rate limit:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42767. Hope it gets resolved at the
earliest.
Thanks
Nitika