Thanks Krishna for the update, looking forward to contribute in such a good initiative.
Best Regards, Rajeeb Dutta. (U: Marajozkee) Sent from my iPhone > On 06-Jul-2019, at 11:06 PM, Krishna Chaitanya Velaga <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Greetings from the Wikipedia and Education User Group. > > We are delighted to bring to you the Working Groups of the Wikipedia & > Education User Group > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_%26_Education_User_Group/Get_involved!#Working_Groups>[1]. > These groups comprise people who are interested in working in various focus > areas related to Wikimedia & Education - Mentorship, Resource Development, > Tech Infrastructure, and Global Outreach. These working groups work in > their focus areas to help the global EduWiki community in their ongoing > work and further development. We will be launching these working during > Wikimania 2019, where we will be having more details on this. > > However, owing to the needs of technology in our work, we would like to > launch the “Tech Infrastructure Working Group > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_%26_Education_User_Group/Working_Groups/Tech_infrastructure>”[2] > at the earliest possible. > > This group aims to prioritize technological tools for scaling educational > initiatives across the movement. The members of the group are uniquely > qualified to identify gaps in tools that will help us run educational > programs. They will work together to identify needs, prioritize tool > development, and manage that process. The group will also provide > recommendations on securing funding to develop tech resources, and also > advocate at various organizational levels to bring the necessary technical > infrastructure to reality. > > The group, as its first project will be working on a global survey that is > to be commissioned by the user group in the coming weeks. The survey will > be focused on identifying the tech needs of the EduWiki community, more > specific to the Program and Events Dashboard. This survey will serve a base > for further development work in this area. > > In this context, I would like to invite interested community members to > sign up to be members of this group on the Meta-Wiki page[2] of the group. > Expected time commitment is 3-4 hours a week. > > Let me know if you have any questions. > > Thanks and regards, > > Krishna Chaitanya > > On behalf of the Wikipedia & Education User Group > > [1] https://w.wiki/5ip > > [2] https://w.wiki/53N > _______________________________________________ > Education mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education _______________________________________________ Education mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education
