Samat - yes, I know this would be useful for a lot of people, but since
this particular volunteer only has a limited amount of time and wants to
learn more about software development, I'm choosing to ask her to
specifically help our developer community. You can email Erika (cc'd)
to let her know which sessions you could attend.
--
Sumana Harihareswara
Engineering Community Manager
Wikimedia Foundation
On 04/28/2012 06:11 PM, Samat wrote:
> This initiative would be helpful not just for developers (and thanks for
> this possibility Erika, Sumana in the name of developers).
> I would surely participate in a similar lesson...
>
> Samat
>
>
> On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 00:00, Sumana Harihareswara
>
sumanah@wikimedia.orgwrote:
>
>> Some Wikimedia developers have requested help improving their English
>> writing skills. Erika Hanson is volunteering her proofreading skills to
>> help by leading interactive proofreading sessions -- we ran a pilot
>> today and it was successful enough that we'll do another one next weekend.
>>
>> Participants paste what they've written into the Etherpad
>>
http://notes.wikimediadc.org/p/english-lessons by Thursday night, so
>> Erika has time to read it and mark problem areas in boldface. Then,
>> during the tutorial session, Erika gives the learner lessons in
>> spelling, grammar, punctuation, etc., for about 15 minutes per student.
>> If she has time in the 15 min., she'll then move on to matters of
>> style. Discussion can be within the Etherpad chat.
>>
>> If you want to participate, email Erika (cc'd) with the date/times that
>> you can attend (your 2 choices are below - I don't know whether Erika
>> can do both times or just the more popular 1), and put something you've
>> written into the Etherpad by the end of Thursday. It should be at least
>> 200 words long -- blog entry, email, school essay, whatever.
>>
>>
>> ALBUQUERQUE, 1:30pm-3:30pm , Sat, May 5 2012
>> UTC, 19:30-21:30 Sat, May 5 2012
>> AMSTERDAM, 21:30-23:30 Sat, May 5 2012
>> MUMBAI, 1am-3am Sun, May 6 2012
>>
>> or
>>
>> ALBUQUERQUE, 10am-noon, Sun, May 6 2012
>> MUMBAI, 9:30pm-11:30pm, Sun, May 6 2012
>> UTC, 16:00-18:00, Sun, May 6 2012
>> AMSTERDAM, 18:00-20:00, Sun, May 6 2012
>>
>> If people learn effectively from this, then we could repeat it.
>>
>> --
>> Sumana Harihareswara
>> Engineering Community Manager
>> Wikimedia Foundation