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> From: Sumana Harihareswara <sumanah@wikimedia.org>
> To: Arnav Sonara <sonara.arnav@gmail.com>; wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
> Cc:
> Sent: Friday, December 9, 2011 11:36 PM
> Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Help with an WP outreach event in Gujarat
>
> On 12/09/2011 11:59 AM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote:
>> On 12/09/2011 03:10 AM, wikimediaindia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org wrote:
>>> Date: Sat, 3 Dec 2011 15:02:00 +0530
>>> From: Arnav Sonara <sonara.arnav@gmail.com>
>>> Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l]  Help with an WP outreach event in Gujarat
>>> To: Wikimedia India Community list
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>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> This is User:Rangilo_Gujarati here basically from Gujarat and now in
> Pune,
>>> am planning an outreach event most probably a workshop in MS University
>>> Baroda, Gujarat during their forthcoming technical festival
>>> Footprints<http://www.msu-footprints.org/>.
>>> Also am the Campus Ambassador for India Education Program too, I need
> some
>>> input from you guys.
>>>
>>> The organizers of this event have basically no idea about what a
> community
>>> is or how WP works, since I ll be targeting newbies I am planning to
> start
>>> from Introduction to WP, then an editing session and main motto behind
> this
>>> would be to start an active community in Baroda or Gujarat and get the
>>> contributors to EN and GU WP and commons too.
>>>
>>> Now the organizers are asking few questions like "Why anyone
> should attend
>>> it?", "What would be the exclusivity of the workshop?",
> "How can we
>>> (university and attendees) be benefited from this?". They are
> worried too
>>> much about "exclusivity", how to convince them that these
> type of sessions
>>> are some thing more than "exclusively in Footprints",
> "first time in
>>> gujarat" ??
>>>
>>> Since I have no experience in conducting an outreach workshop
> independently
>>> I want your feedback on it, and what possibly should I answer them?.
>>>
>>> Please do reply with your valuable suggestions/critics.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -- Thanks Arnav (ricku). (User:Rangilo_Gujarati)
>>> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Rangilo_Gujarati>
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> Arnav, at Footprints, if you meet people who are interested in
> contributing to Wikimedia's open source software projects, please do
> feel free to let them know about our efforts, such as MediaWiki.  Here
> are some flyers or notes that you can use if they are suitable for you.
>
> Ten things technically inclined volunteers can do to help Wikimedia
> projects: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Sumanah/TechVolunteersCanDo
>
> The "please contribute to MediaWiki" flyer --
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MediaWiki_flyer_20111116_color.pdf
>
> Also, I am the coordinator for MediaWiki's participation in the Google
> Summer of Code, a selective paid summer internship for college students
> who want to work remotely on open source software projects.  The
> homepage for that effort is
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code and I can give you
> more information.
>
> I hope these are useful to you.  Please feel free to translate, print,
> modify, link, and so on.  Thank you! Good luck and best wishes! Hope you
> can realize great outcomes from this event.  :-)
>
>
> --
> Sumana Harihareswara
> Volunteer Development Coordinator
> Wikimedia Foundation
>
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