Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] What will I achieve as Programme Director A2K

2012-12-22 Thread sankarshan
Thank you for writing this up. I've two specific bits of discussion
around your email and so have snipped it in a form that keeps it as
relevant as possible.

On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 9:50 PM, Nee Davis davis...@gmail.com wrote:
 So I felt it is more productive to not delve too much into the ‘what’
 question, but focus more on how can we achieve this? Thus the below plan is
 more of an Operational Plan than a vision statement. Further, it is not a
 work-plan as it lacks micro details. What I set out to do below is to
 present an outline of the key tasks and strategies that we could adopt to
 achieve our collective vision in year 1. It should be noted that I have
 deliberately not touched upon some of the activities that are currenly being
 deployed.

I would request a clarification and, extend a suggestion. The first is
- how did the time-line of 60 days come about ? The rationale behind
this question is - does 60 days provide adequate time to dial-back,
correct and move forward ?

The second is around the need to have some form of measurement of
success. For each of the areas, it is probably useful to have
transparent and public measure of success. A trivial question - would
the ability to on-board 5x5 WCLs be a success or, the preparation of a
sustainable training program material be a success and so forth.


-- 
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https://twitter.com/#!/sankarshan

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] What will I achieve as Programme Director A2K

2012-12-22 Thread Pradeep Mohandas


hi,

So, the time line was  These assignments should be posted no later than 22:00 
IST on Thursday 
(the 20th) night. per an email by Jadine Lannon earlier.[1]  It seems f-75 
(Pen name) has not written in yet. What happens to that finalist?

warm regards,
Pradeep Mohandas
How Pradeep uses email? - http://goo.gl/6v1I9

[1] - 
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2012-December/009023.html



From: sankarshan foss.mailingli...@gmail.com
To: Wikimedia India Community list wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org 
Sent: Saturday, 22 December 2012 7:05 PM
Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] What will I achieve as Programme Director A2K

Thank you for writing this up. I've two specific bits of discussion
around your email and so have snipped it in a form that keeps it as
relevant as possible.

On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 9:50 PM, Nee Davis davis...@gmail.com wrote:
 So I felt it is more productive to not delve too much into the ‘what’
 question, but focus more on how can we achieve this? Thus the below plan is
 more of an Operational Plan than a vision statement. Further, it is not a
 work-plan as it lacks micro details. What I set out to do below is to
 present an outline of the key tasks and strategies that we could adopt to
 achieve our collective vision in year 1. It should be noted that I have
 deliberately not touched upon some of the activities that are currenly being
 deployed.

I would request a clarification and, extend a suggestion. The first is
- how did the time-line of 60 days come about ? The rationale behind
this question is - does 60 days provide adequate time to dial-back,
correct and move forward ?

The second is around the need to have some form of measurement of
success. For each of the areas, it is probably useful to have
transparent and public measure of success. A trivial question - would
the ability to on-board 5x5 WCLs be a success or, the preparation of a
sustainable training program material be a success and so forth.


-- 
sankarshan mukhopadhyay
https://twitter.com/#!/sankarshan

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Pen names of the Finalists for the online assignment for the position of Programme Director

2012-12-22 Thread Jadine Lannon

Hello community!

Unfortunately, candidate F-75 has withdrawn their application for the 
position of Programme Director. As soon as this issue has been 
thoroughly discussed by the recruitment committee, I will post an update 
on the mailing list.


However, even though candidate Nee Davis is currently our only 
applicant for the position, we still request that the wikimedia 
community continue to pose questions to Nee Davis' essay until the two 
week question period has ended.


Thank you for your patience,

Jadine


On 2012-12-18 12:50 PM, Jadine Lannon wrote:

Hello Wikimedia Community,


I would just like to share the pen names and email addresses that our
two finalists for the position of Programme Director with CIS's A2K
Programme will be using to post their online assignment[1] on the
community mailing list:

1. Pen Name: Nee Davis
Mail ID: davis...@gmail.com

2. Pen Name: f-75
Mail ID: editgirl2...@gmail.com


These assignments should be posted no later than 22:00 IST on Thursday
(the 20th) night. The community will then be given two calendar weeks to
reply to these posts on the mailing lists and pose questions to the
candidates. This two week period will span from the 21st of December,
2012, to the
4th of January, 2013.


Please keep an eye out for these posts!

Thank you,

Jadine



[1] Both finalists will prepare a 1200 words (approx. two pages) essay
on what they will do/achieve as Programme Director of the A2K programme
over a year's time, using the A2K programme work plan
(https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Programme_Plan)
as a reference. 300 words must be written about the first 60 days (2
months) of their work.

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Summit India 2013 for Spoken Indian Language Wikipedia!

2012-12-22 Thread sankarshan
On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 10:05 PM, Abhishek Suryawanshi
i.abhishek.suryawan...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hi Pradeep,

 We have updated FAQ page,

 P.S : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Summit_India/FAQs

 Do let us know if you have any suggestions :-)

The Facebook page for the club is a closed group and, the wikipedia
page has sparse information. You may want to elucidate a bit more in
the FAQ itself.


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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Summit India 2013 for Spoken Indian Language Wikipedia!

2012-12-22 Thread sankarshan
On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 11:09 PM, Abhishek Suryawanshi
i.abhishek.suryawan...@gmail.com wrote:
 Facebook Page for Summit : https://www.facebook.com/WikipediaSummitIndia

 Facebook Group for Summit :
 https://www.facebook.com/groups/WikipediaSummitIndia/

 Page as well Group is open to all from beginning.

The page for the Club at Pune. Your FAQ entry on what the club is
about provides two links - one is a closed group and the other has
sparse population.

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] What will I achieve as Programme Director A2K

2012-12-22 Thread Nee Davis
Hi Sankarshan,

Thanks for engaging and the revert.

Re. 1: The assignment specifically required that I specify what I would
achieve in the first two months. So tried to specify it where ever
possible. But should you have any specific questions or suggestions on
this, would be happy to listen.

Re. 2: You are very right that there needs to be a measurement of success.
And I think this has been clearly outlined in the A2K Programme Plan. What
I have done was break it down to what ought to be achieved in Year 1 and
based on that designed some key interventions. So the 5x5 WCLs and the
Training programme (listed as Outputs) are more precisely tools to meet the
outcomes of the A2K programme. Thus it is equally important to get the
right bunch of WCL and also have the right Training imparted to them, which
if implemented as planned should achieve the desired results.

Anymore feedback is welcome.

Look forward.


On 22 December 2012 19:05, sankarshan foss.mailingli...@gmail.com wrote:

 Thank you for writing this up. I've two specific bits of discussion
 around your email and so have snipped it in a form that keeps it as
 relevant as possible.

 On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 9:50 PM, Nee Davis davis...@gmail.com wrote:
  So I felt it is more productive to not delve too much into the ‘what’
  question, but focus more on how can we achieve this? Thus the below plan
 is
  more of an Operational Plan than a vision statement. Further, it is not a
  work-plan as it lacks micro details. What I set out to do below is to
  present an outline of the key tasks and strategies that we could adopt to
  achieve our collective vision in year 1. It should be noted that I have
  deliberately not touched upon some of the activities that are currenly
 being
  deployed.

 I would request a clarification and, extend a suggestion. The first is
 - how did the time-line of 60 days come about ? The rationale behind
 this question is - does 60 days provide adequate time to dial-back,
 correct and move forward ?

 The second is around the need to have some form of measurement of
 success. For each of the areas, it is probably useful to have
 transparent and public measure of success. A trivial question - would
 the ability to on-board 5x5 WCLs be a success or, the preparation of a
 sustainable training program material be a success and so forth.


 --
 sankarshan mukhopadhyay
 https://twitter.com/#!/sankarshan

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