Re: [Wikitech-l] Informal English lessons for Wikimedia developers - May 5 or 6

-- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation On 05/02/2012 11:42 PM, Andrew Garrett wrote: > I'm also happy to help out, if Erika does want a hand. > > On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 8:16 AM, Sumana Harihareswara <sumanah@wikimedia.org >> wrote: > >> 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 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikitech-l mailing list >> Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l