Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia's participation in Google Summer of Code

2011-12-03 Thread Yuvi Panda
On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 12:04 AM, Jessie Wild jw...@wikimedia.org wrote: Thanks for sharing this link, Yuvi! As someone completely unfamiliar with the topic, I am wondering if you all consider the issues discussed in that paper still an accurate depiction of the state in education in 2011.

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia's participation in Google Summer of Code

2011-12-01 Thread Yuvi Panda
Not specific to MediaWiki or GSoC, but this document[1] by Shakti Kannan explains a lot about the common issues you'll face if you're doing Open Source advocacy in Indian colleges. [1]: http://www.shakthimaan.com/downloads.html#shakthimaan-indian-challenge-of-floss-advocacy -- Yuvi Panda T

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia's participation in Google Summer of Code

2011-12-01 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
The paper says it so well !! +1000 to that !!! I have been doing FOSS promotion for about 11 years now (www.plug.org.in) and faced same issues all the time. Except that they now know there is something called Linux and open source, nothing much has changed in all these years. You can at least

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia's participation in Google Summer of Code

2011-12-01 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 00:04, Jessie Wild jw...@wikimedia.org wrote: Thanks for sharing this link, Yuvi! As someone completely unfamiliar with the topic, I am wondering if you all consider the issues discussed in that paper still an accurate depiction of the state in education in 2011. Fewer

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia's participation in Google Summer of Code

2011-11-30 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
On 11/30/2011 01:48 AM, wikimediaindia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org wrote: Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 12:00:00 +0530 From: Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.com Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia's participation in Google Summer of Code To: Wikimedia India Community list

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia's participation in Google Summer of Code

2011-11-30 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
Thanks Sumana for the details. Help much in understanding GSoC from student participation angle. Thanks again. Regards, Srikanth L ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia's participation in Google Summer of Code

2011-11-29 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 01:53, Sumana Harihareswara suma...@wikimedia.orgwrote: I managed MediaWiki's participation in Google Summer of Code this year, and could talk with anyone interested in participating, anyone researching it, and anyone who is curious. :-) We try to document our