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(a)wikimedia.org>wrote;wrote: > 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

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(a)wikimedia.org > 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(a)wikimedia.org>wrote;wrote: >> >>> 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(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l