I'm also happy to help out, if Erika does want a hand. On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 8:16 AM, Sumana Harihareswara <[email protected] > wrote:
> Samat - yes, I know this would be useful for a lot of people, but since > this particular volunteer only has a limited amount of time and wants to > learn more about software development, I'm choosing to ask her to > specifically help our developer community. You can email Erika (cc'd) > to let her know which sessions you could attend. > > -- > Sumana Harihareswara > Engineering Community Manager > Wikimedia Foundation > > > On 04/28/2012 06:11 PM, Samat wrote: > > This initiative would be helpful not just for developers (and thanks for > > this possibility Erika, Sumana in the name of developers). > > I would surely participate in a similar lesson... > > > > Samat > > > > > > On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 00:00, Sumana Harihareswara > > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > >> Some Wikimedia developers have requested help improving their English > >> writing skills. Erika Hanson is volunteering her proofreading skills to > >> help by leading interactive proofreading sessions -- we ran a pilot > >> today and it was successful enough that we'll do another one next > weekend. > >> > >> Participants paste what they've written into the Etherpad > >> http://notes.wikimediadc.org/p/english-lessons by Thursday night, so > >> Erika has time to read it and mark problem areas in boldface. Then, > >> during the tutorial session, Erika gives the learner lessons in > >> spelling, grammar, punctuation, etc., for about 15 minutes per student. > >> If she has time in the 15 min., she'll then move on to matters of > >> style. Discussion can be within the Etherpad chat. > >> > >> If you want to participate, email Erika (cc'd) with the date/times that > >> you can attend (your 2 choices are below - I don't know whether Erika > >> can do both times or just the more popular 1), and put something you've > >> written into the Etherpad by the end of Thursday. It should be at least > >> 200 words long -- blog entry, email, school essay, whatever. > >> > >> > >> ALBUQUERQUE, 1:30pm-3:30pm , Sat, May 5 2012 > >> UTC, 19:30-21:30 Sat, May 5 2012 > >> AMSTERDAM, 21:30-23:30 Sat, May 5 2012 > >> MUMBAI, 1am-3am Sun, May 6 2012 > >> > >> or > >> > >> ALBUQUERQUE, 10am-noon, Sun, May 6 2012 > >> MUMBAI, 9:30pm-11:30pm, Sun, May 6 2012 > >> UTC, 16:00-18:00, Sun, May 6 2012 > >> AMSTERDAM, 18:00-20:00, Sun, May 6 2012 > >> > >> If people learn effectively from this, then we could repeat it. > >> > >> -- > >> Sumana Harihareswara > >> Engineering Community Manager > >> Wikimedia Foundation > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > -- Andrew Garrett Wikimedia Foundation [email protected] _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
