Re: [Wikitech-l] Informal English lessons for Wikimedia developers - May 5 or 6
Sounds like no one wrote to Erika. She'd prefer to do Sunday, so the date will be ALBUQUERQUE, 10am-noon, Sun, May 6 2012 MUMBAI, 9:30pm-11:30pm, Sun, May 6 2012 UTC, 16:00-18:00, Sun, May 6 2012 AMSTERDAM, 18:00-20:00, Sun, May 6 2012 Please put your writing into the Etherpad as soon as possible, and at least 24 hours before the session. http://notes.wikimediadc.org/p/english-lessons -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation On 05/02/2012 11:42 PM, Andrew Garrett wrote: I'm also happy to help out, if Erika does want a hand. On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 8:16 AM, Sumana Harihareswara suma...@wikimedia.org wrote: Samat - yes, I know this would be useful for a lot of people, but since this particular volunteer only has a limited amount of time and wants to learn more about software development, I'm choosing to ask her to specifically help our developer community. You can email Erika (cc'd) to let her know which sessions you could attend. -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation On 04/28/2012 06:11 PM, Samat wrote: This initiative would be helpful not just for developers (and thanks for this possibility Erika, Sumana in the name of developers). I would surely participate in a similar lesson... Samat On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 00:00, Sumana Harihareswara suma...@wikimedia.orgwrote: Some Wikimedia developers have requested help improving their English writing skills. Erika Hanson is volunteering her proofreading skills to help by leading interactive proofreading sessions -- we ran a pilot today and it was successful enough that we'll do another one next weekend. Participants paste what they've written into the Etherpad http://notes.wikimediadc.org/p/english-lessons by Thursday night, so Erika has time to read it and mark problem areas in boldface. Then, during the tutorial session, Erika gives the learner lessons in spelling, grammar, punctuation, etc., for about 15 minutes per student. If she has time in the 15 min., she'll then move on to matters of style. Discussion can be within the Etherpad chat. If you want to participate, email Erika (cc'd) with the date/times that you can attend (your 2 choices are below - I don't know whether Erika can do both times or just the more popular 1), and put something you've written into the Etherpad by the end of Thursday. It should be at least 200 words long -- blog entry, email, school essay, whatever. ALBUQUERQUE, 1:30pm-3:30pm , Sat, May 5 2012 UTC, 19:30-21:30 Sat, May 5 2012 AMSTERDAM, 21:30-23:30 Sat, May 5 2012 MUMBAI, 1am-3am Sun, May 6 2012 or ALBUQUERQUE, 10am-noon, Sun, May 6 2012 MUMBAI, 9:30pm-11:30pm, Sun, May 6 2012 UTC, 16:00-18:00, Sun, May 6 2012 AMSTERDAM, 18:00-20:00, Sun, May 6 2012 If people learn effectively from this, then we could repeat it. -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] Informal English lessons for Wikimedia developers - May 5 or 6
I'm also happy to help out, if Erika does want a hand. On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 8:16 AM, Sumana Harihareswara suma...@wikimedia.org wrote: Samat - yes, I know this would be useful for a lot of people, but since this particular volunteer only has a limited amount of time and wants to learn more about software development, I'm choosing to ask her to specifically help our developer community. You can email Erika (cc'd) to let her know which sessions you could attend. -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation On 04/28/2012 06:11 PM, Samat wrote: This initiative would be helpful not just for developers (and thanks for this possibility Erika, Sumana in the name of developers). I would surely participate in a similar lesson... Samat On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 00:00, Sumana Harihareswara suma...@wikimedia.orgwrote: Some Wikimedia developers have requested help improving their English writing skills. Erika Hanson is volunteering her proofreading skills to help by leading interactive proofreading sessions -- we ran a pilot today and it was successful enough that we'll do another one next weekend. Participants paste what they've written into the Etherpad http://notes.wikimediadc.org/p/english-lessons by Thursday night, so Erika has time to read it and mark problem areas in boldface. Then, during the tutorial session, Erika gives the learner lessons in spelling, grammar, punctuation, etc., for about 15 minutes per student. If she has time in the 15 min., she'll then move on to matters of style. Discussion can be within the Etherpad chat. If you want to participate, email Erika (cc'd) with the date/times that you can attend (your 2 choices are below - I don't know whether Erika can do both times or just the more popular 1), and put something you've written into the Etherpad by the end of Thursday. It should be at least 200 words long -- blog entry, email, school essay, whatever. ALBUQUERQUE, 1:30pm-3:30pm , Sat, May 5 2012 UTC, 19:30-21:30 Sat, May 5 2012 AMSTERDAM, 21:30-23:30 Sat, May 5 2012 MUMBAI, 1am-3am Sun, May 6 2012 or ALBUQUERQUE, 10am-noon, Sun, May 6 2012 MUMBAI, 9:30pm-11:30pm, Sun, May 6 2012 UTC, 16:00-18:00, Sun, May 6 2012 AMSTERDAM, 18:00-20:00, Sun, May 6 2012 If people learn effectively from this, then we could repeat it. -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Andrew Garrett Wikimedia Foundation agarr...@wikimedia.org ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
[Wikitech-l] Informal English lessons for Wikimedia developers - May 5 or 6
Some Wikimedia developers have requested help improving their English writing skills. Erika Hanson is volunteering her proofreading skills to help by leading interactive proofreading sessions -- we ran a pilot today and it was successful enough that we'll do another one next weekend. Participants paste what they've written into the Etherpad http://notes.wikimediadc.org/p/english-lessons by Thursday night, so Erika has time to read it and mark problem areas in boldface. Then, during the tutorial session, Erika gives the learner lessons in spelling, grammar, punctuation, etc., for about 15 minutes per student. If she has time in the 15 min., she'll then move on to matters of style. Discussion can be within the Etherpad chat. If you want to participate, email Erika (cc'd) with the date/times that you can attend (your 2 choices are below - I don't know whether Erika can do both times or just the more popular 1), and put something you've written into the Etherpad by the end of Thursday. It should be at least 200 words long -- blog entry, email, school essay, whatever. ALBUQUERQUE, 1:30pm-3:30pm , Sat, May 5 2012 UTC, 19:30-21:30 Sat, May 5 2012 AMSTERDAM, 21:30-23:30 Sat, May 5 2012 MUMBAI, 1am-3am Sun, May 6 2012 or ALBUQUERQUE, 10am-noon, Sun, May 6 2012 MUMBAI, 9:30pm-11:30pm, Sun, May 6 2012 UTC, 16:00-18:00, Sun, May 6 2012 AMSTERDAM, 18:00-20:00, Sun, May 6 2012 If people learn effectively from this, then we could repeat it. -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] Informal English lessons for Wikimedia developers - May 5 or 6
This initiative would be helpful not just for developers (and thanks for this possibility Erika, Sumana in the name of developers). I would surely participate in a similar lesson... Samat On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 00:00, Sumana Harihareswara suma...@wikimedia.orgwrote: Some Wikimedia developers have requested help improving their English writing skills. Erika Hanson is volunteering her proofreading skills to help by leading interactive proofreading sessions -- we ran a pilot today and it was successful enough that we'll do another one next weekend. Participants paste what they've written into the Etherpad http://notes.wikimediadc.org/p/english-lessons by Thursday night, so Erika has time to read it and mark problem areas in boldface. Then, during the tutorial session, Erika gives the learner lessons in spelling, grammar, punctuation, etc., for about 15 minutes per student. If she has time in the 15 min., she'll then move on to matters of style. Discussion can be within the Etherpad chat. If you want to participate, email Erika (cc'd) with the date/times that you can attend (your 2 choices are below - I don't know whether Erika can do both times or just the more popular 1), and put something you've written into the Etherpad by the end of Thursday. It should be at least 200 words long -- blog entry, email, school essay, whatever. ALBUQUERQUE, 1:30pm-3:30pm , Sat, May 5 2012 UTC, 19:30-21:30 Sat, May 5 2012 AMSTERDAM, 21:30-23:30 Sat, May 5 2012 MUMBAI, 1am-3am Sun, May 6 2012 or ALBUQUERQUE, 10am-noon, Sun, May 6 2012 MUMBAI, 9:30pm-11:30pm, Sun, May 6 2012 UTC, 16:00-18:00, Sun, May 6 2012 AMSTERDAM, 18:00-20:00, Sun, May 6 2012 If people learn effectively from this, then we could repeat it. -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] Informal English lessons for Wikimedia developers - May 5 or 6
Samat - yes, I know this would be useful for a lot of people, but since this particular volunteer only has a limited amount of time and wants to learn more about software development, I'm choosing to ask her to specifically help our developer community. You can email Erika (cc'd) to let her know which sessions you could attend. -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation On 04/28/2012 06:11 PM, Samat wrote: This initiative would be helpful not just for developers (and thanks for this possibility Erika, Sumana in the name of developers). I would surely participate in a similar lesson... Samat On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 00:00, Sumana Harihareswara suma...@wikimedia.orgwrote: Some Wikimedia developers have requested help improving their English writing skills. Erika Hanson is volunteering her proofreading skills to help by leading interactive proofreading sessions -- we ran a pilot today and it was successful enough that we'll do another one next weekend. Participants paste what they've written into the Etherpad http://notes.wikimediadc.org/p/english-lessons by Thursday night, so Erika has time to read it and mark problem areas in boldface. Then, during the tutorial session, Erika gives the learner lessons in spelling, grammar, punctuation, etc., for about 15 minutes per student. If she has time in the 15 min., she'll then move on to matters of style. Discussion can be within the Etherpad chat. If you want to participate, email Erika (cc'd) with the date/times that you can attend (your 2 choices are below - I don't know whether Erika can do both times or just the more popular 1), and put something you've written into the Etherpad by the end of Thursday. It should be at least 200 words long -- blog entry, email, school essay, whatever. ALBUQUERQUE, 1:30pm-3:30pm , Sat, May 5 2012 UTC, 19:30-21:30 Sat, May 5 2012 AMSTERDAM, 21:30-23:30 Sat, May 5 2012 MUMBAI, 1am-3am Sun, May 6 2012 or ALBUQUERQUE, 10am-noon, Sun, May 6 2012 MUMBAI, 9:30pm-11:30pm, Sun, May 6 2012 UTC, 16:00-18:00, Sun, May 6 2012 AMSTERDAM, 18:00-20:00, Sun, May 6 2012 If people learn effectively from this, then we could repeat it. -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
