[Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia at FOSS / College Events

2010-12-27 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
Hi all,

I suppose Wikipedia stall at FOSS.IN was a great start in reaching out to
FOSS / Student community in India.We must attempt to be present in a
stall at all such similar events which give space for us. I have got a
confirmation from Carte Blanche[1] for a stall and working with Wikipedians
in Chennai for manning the stall on Feb 6. There is also a fossmeet at NIT
Calicut[2] happening around the same time. Any Kerala / Malayalam
wikipedians willing to take it up? We must also keep a watch on huge
technical events at prominent colleges where we would be getting students
from the particular region and having a stall there would give a reach to
about 500-1000 Students(and/or general public).

[1] http://cb.csmit.org/
[2] http://fossmeet.in/2011/

Regards
Srikanth.L
http://srik.me
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia at FOSS / College Events

2010-12-27 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
2010/12/27 Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.com

 Hi all,

 I suppose Wikipedia stall at FOSS.IN was a great start in reaching out to
 FOSS / Student community in India.We must attempt to be present in a
 stall at all such similar events which give space for us. I have got a
 confirmation from Carte Blanche[1] for a stall and working with Wikipedians
 in Chennai for manning the stall on Feb 6. There is also a fossmeet at NIT
 Calicut[2] happening around the same time. Any Kerala / Malayalam
 wikipedians willing to take it up? We must also keep a watch on huge
 technical events at prominent colleges where we would be getting students
 from the particular region and having a stall there would give a reach to
 about 500-1000 Students(and/or general public).

 [1] http://cb.csmit.org/
 [2] http://fossmeet.in/2011/

 Good idea. Just a stall would not get us much, if we are targeting local
language users. We need to do half day academies leveraging the computing
labs in the local colleges. I have done about 5 of them so far and found it
to be quite useful. The report of the recent
onettp://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%AA%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%A1%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%AF%E0%B0%BE:%E0%B0%A4%E0%B1%86%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%80_%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%B0%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%A4/2010-12-07/%E0%B0%A4%E0%B1%86%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%80_%E0%B0%AA%E0%B1%88_%E0%B0%85%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%97%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%B9%E0%B0%A8%E0%B0%BE_%E0%B0%B8%E0%B0%A6%E0%B0%B8%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B8%E0%B1%81in
Telugu with few photos is reported in Telugu wiki newsletter.

I will be happy to support some in Bangalore and other places.

Cheers
Arjun
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia at FOSS / College Events

2010-12-27 Thread Arun Ramarathnam
Hi Srikanth,

Good initiative on securing presence at Carte Blanche. Agree, we need to
participate in as many outreach events as possible.

You may want to consider requesting some Wikimedia promotional material to
be shipped for the event from the foundation office.

Please also list this on the wikimedia.in page.

After discussing with the organizers do call out for any help or assistance
you might need towards Carte Blance. Arjuna, Anirudh and Arun Ganesh ran
stalls at Foss.in. They can give you some experiential pointers that may be
of help for your event.

Also let this list know how many volunteers you may need.

regards
Arun


On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 1:37 PM, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.comwrote:

 Hi all,

 I suppose Wikipedia stall at FOSS.IN was a great start in reaching out to
 FOSS / Student community in India.We must attempt to be present in a
 stall at all such similar events which give space for us. I have got a
 confirmation from Carte Blanche[1] for a stall and working with Wikipedians
 in Chennai for manning the stall on Feb 6. There is also a fossmeet at NIT
 Calicut[2] happening around the same time. Any Kerala / Malayalam
 wikipedians willing to take it up? We must also keep a watch on huge
 technical events at prominent colleges where we would be getting students
 from the particular region and having a stall there would give a reach to
 about 500-1000 Students(and/or general public).

 [1] http://cb.csmit.org/
 [2] http://fossmeet.in/2011/

 Regards
 Srikanth.L
 http://srik.me

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