I really didn't read the entire thread to have a lot of comments, I just have one point I noticed that I wanted to ask - Why is Tory Read conducting the "evaluative study"?
As I recall, her only exposure to India and Wikipedia before this was the research project. And even that had nothing to do with the Education program directly. Is there a reason why she's leading the study? It seems like the same pattern of avoiding knowledgeable and experienced members of the community to focus on the "outside perspective". I thought the only lesson that the team did take away was, you can't do in India what the global education team and Frank did in the US. They don't scale and you need local solutions. I'm pretty sure Ms. Read is a competent researcher and would do a good job but I don't see how Ms. Read's expertise or exposure to India and the Education program would make this process any different from the pattern that brought IEP here. Talking to the staff in SF, or spending a day in Delhi or Pune is not going to give a clear picture at all. Either way, Good Luck. Regards Theo On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 7:22 PM, Ram Shankar Yadav < ramshankarya...@gmail.com> wrote: > Great suggestion Srikanth! > > I totally agree with you on quality, staging and motivation aspects. > > Cheers, > Ram > > > On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 7:12 PM, Srikanth Lakshmanan > <srik....@gmail.com>wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Apart from studying ourselves, It would also be interesting to do a case >> study of similar student participatory programs and take best practices and >> incorporate them. Google Summer of Code would be a classic example, though >> its a summer contract, but some of the aspects are worth comparing. >> >> 1. GSoC has a steep(okay relatively much higher) barrier to entry to >> attract the cream of students inturn the number of students would be >> significantly less. >> 2. Many students continue to contribute to the organization / open source >> in general beyond the contract >> 3. Strong staging process to cross the gates(merging the codeline happens >> mostly post final evaluation) ensures impact of the student does not affect >> the community. >> 4. Many communities are largely happy to participate in GSoC since they >> usually get contributors to the community. >> 5. Communication models that exist in the program, typically there would >> be hardly anyone from the city / country for that matter to mentor. The >> communication happens online inspite of timezone differences. >> 6. GSoC gives a huge money as motivation, but most students join the >> program for reasons beyond money though they swipe the cards :D >> >> There are few students on this list who took the same program with WMF, >> they could share some insights too! >> >> Regards, >> Srikanth L >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimediaindia-l mailing list >> Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaindia-l mailing list > Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l > >
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