On 12/09/2011 11:59 AM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote:
On 12/09/2011 03:10 AM, wikimediaindia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org wrote:
Date: Sat, 3 Dec 2011 15:02:00 +0530 From: Arnav Sonara sonara.arnav@gmail.com Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Help with an WP outreach event in Gujarat To: Wikimedia India Community list wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Message-ID: CAHUtzBfOjBi3Um4tA2EJ0hW6KvevVBQTAt6pDAXupc=yyd6bJQ@mail.gmail.com 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 Footprintshttp://www.msu-footprints.org/. 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/20111203/0...
Arnav, at Footprints, if you meet people who are interested in contributing to Wikimedia's open source software projects, please do feel free to let them know about our efforts, such as MediaWiki. Here are some flyers or notes that you can use if they are suitable for you.
Ten things technically inclined volunteers can do to help Wikimedia projects: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Sumanah/TechVolunteersCanDo
The "please contribute to MediaWiki" flyer -- https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MediaWiki_flyer_20111116_color.pdf
Also, I am the coordinator for MediaWiki's participation in the Google Summer of Code, a selective paid summer internship for college students who want to work remotely on open source software projects. The homepage for that effort is https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code and I can give you more information.
I hope these are useful to you. Please feel free to translate, print, modify, link, and so on. Thank you! Good luck and best wishes! Hope you can realize great outcomes from this event. :-)