Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Experimenting with Virtual Outreach

2012-07-09 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 8:57 PM, Nitika ntan...@wikimedia.org wrote:

 Hi Folks,

 I was thinking of experimenting conducting online outreach.  I want to try
 out if we can do an effective outreach event using a google+ (video)
 hangout.  Virtual outreach has a number of advantages:

 * No investment of time/effort/cost in travel
 * Personal attention to each participant (because of individual
 video/screenshare facilities.)
 * No complications of no laptops available at the venue or a limit on
 creating user names from a single IP address during the event
 * Lower dependency on institutions/college fests to organize an event for
 us.
 * Not limited by physical presence. Sitting in Kanyakumari,  one can
 conduct outreach for interested folks in Kashmir!

 This is just a trial to test if online outreach is effective, doable and
 manageable. This could be one of the ways forward!  (Potentially, we could
 have more community members doing more events with a more diverse audience.)


Hello all,

Adding to the list of advantages, the entire session gets automatically
recorded and is available on Youtube. (So 1 good session will reach much
more people than participants) I recently participated on one such hangout
and happened to talk about Tamil Wiki projects, Translatewiki etc(though as
stop gap arrangement) and can be watched here[1]. It would be great if this
mode of outreach can be tried again. IIRC the first one did not go all well
due to connectivity issues, but we can always try again!

[1] 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?**v=1uwmGhQFgH4http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uwmGhQFgH4

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Srikanth.L
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Experimenting with Virtual Outreach

2012-03-01 Thread Ramesh N G
Great idea..

Wat abt making it for all indic language?
On Mar 1, 2012 8:58 PM, Nitika ntan...@wikimedia.org wrote:

 Hi Folks,

 I was thinking of experimenting conducting online outreach.  I want to try
 out if we can do an effective outreach event using a google+ (video)
 hangout.  Virtual outreach has a number of advantages:

 * No investment of time/effort/cost in travel
 * Personal attention to each participant (because of individual
 video/screenshare facilities.)
 * No complications of no laptops available at the venue or a limit on
 creating user names from a single IP address during the event
 * Lower dependency on institutions/college fests to organize an event for
 us.
 * Not limited by physical presence. Sitting in Kanyakumari,  one can
 conduct outreach for interested folks in Kashmir!

 This is just a trial to test if online outreach is effective, doable and
 manageable. This could be one of the ways forward!  (Potentially, we could
 have more community members doing more events with a more diverse audience.)

 I'm really excited.  Fingers crossed!

 Thanks
 Nitika


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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Experimenting with Virtual Outreach

2012-03-01 Thread Jessie Wild
Great idea, Nitika! Are you going to post some sort of evaluation on how it
goes??

On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 8:36 AM, Ramesh N G rames...@gmail.com wrote:

 Great idea..

 Wat abt making it for all indic language?
 On Mar 1, 2012 8:58 PM, Nitika ntan...@wikimedia.org wrote:

 Hi Folks,

 I was thinking of experimenting conducting online outreach.  I want to
 try out if we can do an effective outreach event using a google+ (video)
 hangout.  Virtual outreach has a number of advantages:

 * No investment of time/effort/cost in travel
 * Personal attention to each participant (because of individual
 video/screenshare facilities.)
 * No complications of no laptops available at the venue or a limit on
 creating user names from a single IP address during the event
 * Lower dependency on institutions/college fests to organize an event for
 us.
 * Not limited by physical presence. Sitting in Kanyakumari,  one can
 conduct outreach for interested folks in Kashmir!

 This is just a trial to test if online outreach is effective, doable and
 manageable. This could be one of the ways forward!  (Potentially, we could
 have more community members doing more events with a more diverse audience.)

 I'm really excited.  Fingers crossed!

 Thanks
 Nitika


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