Hi,
On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 12:50 AM, Ashwin Baindur <ashwin.bain...@gmail.com> wrote: [snip] > * 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. Small correction here: I was talking about Fedora Ambassadors and not Mozilla ambassadors. Details here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors Check the India specific pages there. I can connect to many previous ambassadors from India. Mozilla campus reps program details are available here: http://www.spreadfirefox.com/studentreps I don't know anyone from Pune there. > * 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 Best regards, -Sudhanwa _______________________________________________ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
