Hi, LiAnna. Thanks for sharing this, that is a good idea. I just sent to all Brazilian professors of our network to sound their interest, but I really think 24h is not enough time for they to answer, from my experience of the time professors usually take to answer e-mails. At least this happens with academics in Brazil, not sure how it is in other places (in physics it is the same everywhere).
I also think most professors have no idea what a chapters meeting is, neither what a Wikimedia chapter is. Thus, if I was a professor, I would first wonder what is it and, since I would likely not have time to read all pages to discover it, I would say "no" or simply do not answer. Then, as a suggestion, maybe try to rephrase to something like this would be good "there will be a global meet up that happens every year among wikimedians and we want involve professors involved in the Wikipedia Education Program etc.". My to cents. :) Tom On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 9:23 PM, LiAnna Davis <[email protected]> wrote: > > Are you running an Education Program in your country? Do you want to start > working with instructors and students to improve Wikipedia? Are you > interested in helping shape a global community of program leaders to grow > Wikipedia's use in education worldwide? > > We are thinking about convening an Education Program Leaders Workshop, > where 20-30 program leaders worldwide will gather for one day to build a > global community to share learnings and help each other overcome challenges. > We're considering having this all-day workshop in conjunction with the > Chapters Meeting hosted by Wikimedia Italia on April 19-21 in Milan, but > before we finalize the details, we wanted to see if this would be a > convenient time with enough people to make it worthwhile. > > If you are interested in meeting with other program leaders worldwide, > would you take 5 minutes to fill out a quick survey? > > > https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1T-1KvPYJQwtRMauHk6Xypm733CUmB0wUi3NRZkkp3g8/viewform > > We need responses within 24 hours if possible so we can confirm dates. > More information will be coming later this week. > > Thanks so much for your quick reply! > > LiAnna > > > -- > LiAnna Davis > Wikipedia Education Program Communications Manager > Wikimedia Foundation > http://education.wikimedia.org > (415) 839-6885 x6649 > [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > Education mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education > -- Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) "A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing." _______________________________________________ Education mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education
