Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] A brief Report on OSSCamp at Lucknow, Dated 26-27th March, 2011
Hi Piyush Many thanks for your efforts. Your report is interesting and insightful. You sound like you had a good time too, and that's great! I'm curious about what the student profile was - age, kind of college (IT, engineering, arts, commerce, etc.), location of college, and anything else on the profile of the students. It'll be really good if you can stay in touch with those who you met and see how they are getting along on editing. Sometimes, newbies want to edit but run into difficulties and need a bit of hand holding. Thanks, once again. Hisham Mundol India Programs - Wikimedia Foundation http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_-_India_Programs skype: hisham.wikimedia gtalk: hmun...@wikimedia.org twitter: @mundol On Apr 10, 2011, at 8:38 AM, Piyush Aggarwal wrote: A brief Report on OSSCamp at Lucknow, Dated 26-27th March, 2011 On 26-27th march there was an OSSCamp organised at Babu Banarasi Das Group of Educational Institutions at Lucknow. College has taken the initiative to invite the representatives of various OpenSource communities like Wordpress, Joomla, Mozilla Firefox, Drupal, Php etc. Wikimedia volunteers were also invited for the event. The purpose of the event was to make students aware of the various open source technologies and their advantages. Also, it was an effort to motivate students to come forward and contribute. Students from various colleges were gathered to learn and explore new and different technologies. I went there to represent Wikipedia. My presentation was scheduled on 26th of March, 2011 in the post lunch session. I talked about the different projects of Wikimedia foundation, some Wikipedia statistics, Wikimedia India chapter and discussed the role of volunteers and in the end I tried to motivate them to contribute. Over there, I was surprised to know that awareness of the students towards Wikimedia foundation was minimal. Most of the students over there were not even aware that they can actually edit the contents of Wikipedia. Only couple of them knew about the other projects of Wikimedia foundation other than Wikipedia like Wikitionary , Wikiquotes, commons etc. After the talk, on special request of students I demonstrated the editing process in Wikipedia and took hands on workshop of interested students. Students were very keen and enthusiastic to learn about Wikipedia. The session went on for almost ninety minutes and I had one to one interactions with the students. The inquisitive questions and their high level of interest made me more motivated to explain. Pic1: http://tiny.cc/stu1 Pic2: http://tiny.cc/stu2 Even after the hands on session, many students contacted with different queries. For me also, it was wonderful learning experience. The college authorities and student organisers namely Nitesh Sinha and Abhinav Upadhyay deserves huge round of applause for their tireless effort for organising a successful OSSCamp. Regards, Piyush Aggarwal ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
[Wikimediaindia-l] WikiPuneri Meetup - 09 April 2011
Today's meet saw different participation from last time. For the record we had with us : * The usual suspects - Sudhanwa Jogalekar, Harshad Gune Ashwin Baindur * Budding editor - Arnav Sonara * Newbies - Sudeep Ghiya Saurabh Agrawal * Editors returning back to Wikipedia after a long hiatus - Vijay Kudal Sohel Bohra * Distinguished attendee - Dr Radha Misra, Professor, SNDT Womens College, Pune * Proxy - Manjusha Joshi representing her daughter Shravani (user:Shravanisj on en:WP) The meet started with a short welcome and introductory session. All were informed of the activities being done/planned for Pune Wikipedians - * Editing English Marathi Wikipedias. * Efforts for Commons (sadly not taking off) * Forthcoming GLAM initiative. * Software development efforts at SICSR. * Campus Ambassador program. Mandar Kulkarni spoke about his motivation to edit in Marathi and why this is such a worthwhile and important activity. Mandar regularly features a Marathi article in WikiPuneri. He is the author of more than 600 articles on Wikipedia. The highpoint of the evening was a Skype call with Hisham Mundol. Hisham outlined the Campus Ambassador program and explained that Pune was chosen as the location of the pilot project of the Campus Ambassador scheme. The reasons for choosing Pune included, among others, large number of educational institutions, cosmopolitan student body and established Wikipedia user community. The lessons learnt here would be useful for the next stage when the movement would be moved. In the discussion which followed a number of points were made - * The vacations are due so Hisham/the program needs to move fast. Hisham said he's coming to Pune next week. * The number of active editors in Pune may not suffice keeping in mind the scope of the pilot. Hisham plans to call for campus ambassadors country-wide and involve people who are not yet Wikipedians but interested in participating. * There is a need to approach those in authority in all educational institutions so that the followup will be seen by all as sanctioned by authority and therefore moreachievable. * In Maharashtra, college students need to undergo 100 hours of computer training/involvement which is not syllabus driven. This provides scope for Wikipedia to get involved. * Getting the experiences of Mozilla ambassadors and others in Red Hat etc who have been invoilved in outreach programs will be useful. * Hisham requested that we should meetup with as many contacts as possible when he is in Pune and is open to the idea of Skype talks and cold calls to heads of institutions. Those who had come to the meetup for the first tme were then asked as to how we could help them or how they could help us. The last activity was an editting session for the newbies in which a new concept was tried out. The first two exercises of a newly prepared worksheet for learning editting in Wikipedia : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:AshLin/Academy Next monthly meetup is on 14 May 2011. Meeting when Hisham is here will be intimated by Sudhanwa. Au revoir, Ashwin Baindur ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] A brief Report on OSSCamp at Lucknow, Dated 26-27th March, 2011
Hi Hisham, First of all, thanks a lot for finding my report insightful. Yes, I had a good time over there and it was a great learning opportunity for me as well, because you learn more by explaining something to others. Secondly, regarding the profile, there were students from different colleges of Lucknow (specially IT Engineering) and the college (*Babu Banarasi Das Group of Educational Institutions*) in which the camp was help itself is a private university running many undergraduate and graduate programs in fields like Engineering, IT, Pharmacy, Architecture, Business, Dentistry etc. So, students from various backgrounds were present to learn and explore. As far as age is concerned, most of the students were fall in the age bracket of 18-25 years. The college is located on Lucknow-Faizabad Road. Lastly, yes, I'm in touch with the students over there specially those who attended the editing session, as I know that we all need a little push in the beginning. Thanks Regards, Piyush Aggarwal On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 12:47 PM, Hisham Mundol hmun...@wikimedia.orgwrote: Hi Piyush Many thanks for your efforts. Your report is interesting and insightful. You sound like you had a good time too, and that's great! I'm curious about what the student profile was - age, kind of college (IT, engineering, arts, commerce, etc.), location of college, and anything else on the profile of the students. It'll be really good if you can stay in touch with those who you met and see how they are getting along on editing. Sometimes, newbies want to edit but run into difficulties and need a bit of hand holding. *Thanks, once again.* * * *Hisham Mundol India Programs - Wikimedia Foundation* *http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_-_India_Programs* skype: hisham.wikimedia gtalk: hmun...@wikimedia.org twitter: @mundol On Apr 10, 2011, at 8:38 AM, Piyush Aggarwal wrote: A brief Report on OSSCamp at Lucknow, Dated 26-27th March, 2011 On 26-27th march there was an OSSCamp organised at *Babu Banarasi Das Group of Educational Institutions* at Lucknow. College has taken the initiative to invite the representatives of various OpenSource communities like Wordpress, Joomla, Mozilla Firefox, Drupal, Php etc. Wikimedia volunteers were also invited for the event. The purpose of the event was to make students aware of the various open source technologies and their advantages. Also, it was an effort to motivate students to come forward and contribute. Students from various colleges were gathered to learn and explore new and different technologies. I went there to represent Wikipedia. My presentation was scheduled on 26th of March, 2011 in the post lunch session. I talked about the different projects of Wikimedia foundation, some Wikipedia statistics, Wikimedia India chapter and discussed the role of volunteers and in the end I tried to motivate them to contribute. Over there, I was surprised to know that awareness of the students towards Wikimedia foundation was minimal. Most of the students over there were not even aware that they can actually edit the contents of Wikipedia. Only couple of them knew about the other projects of Wikimedia foundation other than Wikipedia like Wikitionary , Wikiquotes, commons etc. After the talk, on special request of students I demonstrated the editing process in Wikipedia and took hands on workshop of interested students. Students were very keen and enthusiastic to learn about Wikipedia. The session went on for almost ninety minutes and I had one to one interactions with the students. The inquisitive questions and their high level of interest made me more motivated to explain. Pic1: http://tiny.cc/stu1 Pic2: http://tiny.cc/stu2 Even after the hands on session, many students contacted with different queries. For me also, it was wonderful learning experience. The college authorities and student organisers namely Nitesh Sinha and Abhinav Upadhyay deserves huge round of applause for their tireless effort for organising a successful OSSCamp. Regards, Piyush Aggarwal ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] India Office Location: Selection Criteria Invite to Comment
Shared some personal inputs at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Foundation_-_India_Programs/Office_Location I welcome the community to participate in the discussion. Kindly be civil in the discussions and the purpose of this is to help the foundation in making a decision and not lobbying for a place :) Please share your thoughts and inputs effectively. Regards Tinu Cherian On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 10:39 AM, Hisham Mundol hmun...@wikimedia.orgwrote: Hi Folks As many of you are aware, one of the decisions India Programs needs to take is where to locate the office. On a sub-page tof India Programs ( http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_-_India_Programs/Office_Location), I've put together the selection criteria that are currently going into the decision, as well as the list of towns/cities to be evaluated. Can I request you to have a look these, and share your views on the Talk page (or directly with me, if you prefer.) I'd appreciate any kind of comments, and from as many community members as possible. For instance, you could mention if any additional criteria should be included, or if some existing one(s) should be deleted, or if any particular weightage(s) is high/low. Also, I've put down the list of towns/cities currently being considered. I've deliberately kept an additional column for any other location. Please discuss the name(s) of any other town/location. You'll notice that I haven't actually put the scores down for each town/city; that's the next step. Thanks! * * *Hisham Mundol* *India Programs - Wikimedia Foundation* *http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_-_India_Programs* skype: hisham.wikimedia gtalk: hmun...@wikimedia.org twitter: @mundol ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
