[Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia at FOSS / College Events

[Arjuna Rao Chavala]

2010/12/27 Srikanth Lakshmanan <srik.lak at gmail.com>

> Hi all,
>
> I suppose Wikipedia stall at FOSS.IN was a great start in reaching out to
> FOSS / Student community in India.We must attempt to be present in a
> stall at all such similar events which give space for us. I have got a
> confirmation from Carte Blanche[1] for a stall and working with Wikipedians
> in Chennai for manning the stall on Feb 6. There is also a fossmeet at NIT
> Calicut[2] happening around the same time. Any Kerala / Malayalam
> wikipedians willing to take it up? We must also keep a watch on huge
> technical events at prominent colleges where we would be getting students
> from the particular region and having a stall there would give a reach to
> about 500-1000 Students(and/or general public).
>
> [1] http://cb.csmit.org/
> [2] http://fossmeet.in/2011/
>
> Good idea. Just a stall would not get us much, if we are targeting local
language users. We need to do half day academies leveraging the computing
labs in the local colleges. I have done about 5 of them so far and found it
to be quite useful. The report of the recent
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Telugu with few photos is reported in Telugu wiki newsletter.

I will be happy to support some in Bangalore and other places.

Cheers
Arjun
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