On 12/09/2011 03:10 AM, wikimediaindia-l-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org wrote: > Date: Sat, 3 Dec 2011 15:02:00 +0530 > From: Arnav Sonara &lt;sonara.arnav(a)gmail.com&gt; > Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Help with an WP outreach event in Gujarat > To: Wikimedia India Community list > &lt;wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org&gt; > Message-ID: > &lt;CAHUtzBfOjBi3Um4tA2EJ0hW6KvevVBQTAt6pDAXupc=yyd6bJQ(a)mail.gmail.com&gt; > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > 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/>g/>. > 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> -------------- next > part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: > http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/attachments/20111203/…