On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 14:31, Pradeep Mohandas
<pradeep.mohandas(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
On 27 September 2011 14:20, Aditya Sengupta
<apsengupta(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Notwithstanding that- if anyone here wants to deliver a talk at Barcamp,
do get in touch with me, directly. I was looking forward to a "high-level"
talk on the Wikimedia Foundation's activities (past, present and planned) in
India, particularly considering WikiConference is around the corner in
the same city- many of the people who attend Barcamp will likely be types of
people we'd like to attract to the Wikimedia community as contributors, and
who would likely be interested in attending the conference. I say "high
level" versus a talk on the "nitty gritties" of Wikipedia- such as a
session
on how to edit Wikipedia, since most of the folks here will be technically
savvy enough to already know how to do this.
Although I have no idea of Barcamp Mumbai, but generally speaking barcamp
folks are motivated folks, but lack directions. "Nitty gritties" arent
needed much, but then "high level" talk doesnt on what
foundation,chapter,office,others are doing will be like marketing content.
In fact for a newbie, these can be little confusing and unwanted load.Even
for some prolific editors, Chapters mean nothing and they need not
necessarily be aware of it. The best thing is to tell them how they can
contribute and how we can support them to contribute. I had a deck which
might be useful, Please find it at
http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Presentations "Contributing
to Wikipedia -- Introduction". It might need an update though.
I however dont know if this list taking Mumbai list's role additionally.
This should have been there ideally
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Regards
Srikanth.L