Some photos from the organisers: http://csmit.org/gallery/index.php?level=album&id=22 (They're released under cc-by-nd, so can't be uploaded to commons. Shrinivasan, is it possible to get only the wiki-related photos released under cc-by-sa suitable for Wikimedia Commons?)
- Sundar "That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted." - George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture ----- Original Message ---- > From: BalaSundaraRaman <sundarbe...@yahoo.com> > To: Discussion list on Indian language projects of Wikimedia. ><wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org> > Cc: Wikita <wikit...@lists.wikimedia.org>; wikimedia-in-...@lists.wikimedia.org > Sent: Mon, February 14, 2011 9:47:29 PM > Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-in-chn] [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia workshop in > Carte >Blanche, Chennai > > A preliminary update about the Carte Blanche event: > 1. Feb 5: > I delivered the inaugural address as chief guest. I spoke about what all > constitute free software and content, why anyone should care (more in the > context of underserved needs of groups of people without market strengths > and > fragmented markets like Indic users), and how all one can contribute. I >pointed > > at the "non-mainstream" projects which are relatively small and needing > contributors as opposed to well-known projects like GNU and Linux. > > 2. Feb 6: > There was a stall for Wikipedia and one for Wikibhasha. Surya Prakash mainly > volunteered at the Wikipedia stall and Mahir and others helped with the > logistics. Saravanan from Microsoft Research helped with both the stalls. > We had workshops in the afternoon with a very good infrastructure provided > by > MIT. However, attendance at the workshops were not as good as for the stalls > (perhaps due to the OS workshop that ran in parallel). Tamil Wikians Surya > Prakash, Manian, Sengai Podhuvan, Mahir, and Paridhimathi and I spoke as > well >as > > provided hands-on tutorials to the participants. Almost all participants >created > > accounts and made their first few edits there. One ILUG member invited us to > post projects for FOSS enthusiasts > at http://wiki.ilugc.in/index.php?title=Projects_List. Saravanan demoed a > special (yet-to-be released) version of WikiBhasha for Tamil and took our > feedback. > > Some photos at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wiki_CB_Chennai > Tamil wiki page: http://j.mp/eLOVOy > > Special thanks to go to Srikanth for connecting us with the organisers and > making all this possible. Thanks to Tinu who drove to deliver the wiki > banners > > to me. > > I request the other volunteers to add further information on this thread. > > - Sundar > "That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium > for > the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted." > - George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture > > > > ----- Original Message ---- > > From: BalaSundaraRaman <sundarbe...@yahoo.com> > > To: Discussion list on Indian language projects of Wikimedia. > ><wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org> > > Cc: wikimedia-in-...@lists.wikimedia.org > > Sent: Thu, February 3, 2011 3:09:15 PM > > Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia workshop in Carte Blanche, Chennai > > > > Hi, > > > > As part of the FOSS event called Carte Blanche (http://cb.csmit.org/) to > > be > > >held > > > > at the Madras Institute of Technology, a Wikipedia workshop is being >conducted > > > > > on February 6 between 9:30 am and 4:30 pm. Following is the proposal, the > >exact > > > > timings will be finalised soon. > > > > * English Wikipedia - general introduction for participation (Sundar) > > * தமிழ் விக்கிப்பீடியா பயிலரங்கு (Tamil Wikipedia Workshop by users > > Manian, > > > Sengai Podhuvan, Paridhimathi, Surya Prakash, and Mahir) > > * Hacking with Wikipedia (Srikanth's previous presentation will be used > > + > > Sundar's introduction to pywikipediabot and a few bot examples + Mahir's >talk > > > > > about templates and other things) > > > > The organisers have kindly agreed to give us a stall as well. If any of >you > > >can > > > > participate or, better still, conduct sessions, you're most welcome. > > On a sidenote, I've been asked to inaugurate the event on Feb 5 at 9:00 > > am. > > >All > > > > are welcome. > > > > - Sundar > > > > > > "That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium >for > > > > the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted." > > - George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimediaindia-l mailing list > > Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-in-chn mailing list > wikimedia-in-...@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-chn > _______________________________________________ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
