To everyone involved in this passionate push, thank you!
regards
Arun
Arun Ramarathnam
Bangalore, India
On Sat, Dec 8, 2012 at 3:42 PM, Outofindia <outofindia(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks Nitika
The person who deserves all the credit and has really worked to make
it possible and pull it together is Prof "Alito Siqueira" of the Goa
University.
Ref accommodation for volunteers please reconfirm with who ever you
have been talking to.
As far as I know, currently two rooms have been booked for you and me
at the University Guest House. December is a tourist filled month in
Goa so the accommodation needs to be confirmed in advance.
If we don't have a formal venue...the steps of the Panjim church in
the city square, in the moonlight or street lights with laptops is a
great place to work. Prof. GN and I have worked there before! We have
a picture too:)
Regards
Harriet
On 12/8/12, Nitika Tandon <ntandon(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Dear All,
I wanted to take this opportunity to thank Harriet Vidyasagar and
Frederick
Noronha for helping us kick start Wikipedia
activities in Goa. They have
put
in a lot of hard work in the past few weeks to
organise Wikipedia
events. So
far we have 3 confirmed events between 12th Dec
and 14th Dec while they
are
still working on squeezing in more events during
these dates. I wanted to
share details of these events with everyone and also invite suggestions.
Details of events
A WikiWorkshop to introduce students and a few faculty on how to edit the
Wikipedia on12th and 13th December from 2.30 pm to 4.30 pm at Goa
University, computer lab. The lab has 24 computers and we will have
about 6
persons with laptops i.e a total of 30 persons.
We got 60 registrations
for
this event but since the lab has limited capacity
we'll only be able to
accommodate first 30 registrations. We're trying to host another academy
for
the remaining 30 sometime on the 14th provided
we're able to arrange for
a
venue. Even if no venue is available; we'll
still try and do a small talk
with these registrations. We definitely don't want to loose out the
opportunity of touching base with 30 more interested people.
We have a meeting scheduled with The Krishnadas Shama State Central
Library,
Patto, Panjim on 13th morning from 10.30 to 12.30
noon to discuss GLAM
opportunities.
Harriet and her team are still trying to organise the following:
Public program to create awareness on about Wikipedia and how to
contribute
at Central Library
Event at NIE where all are invited on the topic of Wikimedia in Schools
and
Wikipedia for Teachers
Calling for participation as volunteers
Frederick is a long time Wikipedian who lives in Goa and will be
available
to provide on ground support for these meetings.
I wanted to check if we
can
have 2 more or at least one more volunteer from
Mumbai or Pune who could
come down to Goa for these events. CIS will be able to support train/bus
travel for these volunteers and Goa University will take care of
accommodation in their university guest house. Please respond at the
earliest so that we can make arrangements accordingly.
Looking forward to hear from al of you. Thanks a ton!
Regards,
Nitika
On 07-Dec-2012, at 12:50 AM, Nitika Tandon wrote:
>
> On 06-Dec-2012, at 1:21 PM, Frederick FN Noronha * फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या *
> فريدريك نورونيا wrote:
>
>> Dear Nitika, Is it possible to get in touch with others who have been
>> contributing to the Goa pages in the past?
> Absolutely! We can invite Wikipedians from Goa and members of
WikiProject
> Goa.
>
>> Also, some of us have bandwidth problems here, otherwise we would have
>> contributed more. Is it possible to set up a small team to continue
this
>> process, in Goa itself, after the
workshop is done?
>>
>> The Central Library has a lot of space and tend to be supportive in
such
>> work. Its Curator, Carlos Fernandes, was
even supportive when Richard
>> Stallman of the FSF visited many years ago. They understand the
>> importance of creating sharable resources. At the library, you can spot
>> some displays of open journal websites, etc which researchers can
freely
>> access. You could build on such
synergies.
> We have a meeting scheduled with the State Central Library on the 13th
Dec
at
10.30am. We can most definitely work out a plan with them. I'm hoping
you'll be able to join for this meeting too.
I have raised a ticket to lift IP rate limit:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42767. Hope it gets
resolved at the earliest.
Thanks
Nitika
--
Harriet Vidyasagar
www.outofindia.net
www.womenofindia.net
INDIA: 91-99011 66276
USA: 1-301-649-2240
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