In reply to John these are workshops and so the numbers are deliberately
limited. 10 is about right.
The provisional notice was a few months ago but we had to agree the Train
the Trainers contracts in an open tender and this took a while.
The dates of the next ones will be public soon, October and, we hope Early
December.
If we can get thirty people trained and accredited that would be an amazing
start.
As to the clash with the London Wikimeet, four observations:
1. Sorry if we took people away.
2. The Train the Trainers programme is intended to create the momentum to
train the next generation of editors and one of the trainer's jobs will be
to support newbies and lead them into community events.
3. These clashes will happen more and more as we do more and more
activities. Something to celebrate really.
4. We are committed to holding activities all over the country
So if you think you are someone who could be a trainer email Daria in the
office and she will get you on the list.
You don;t need a million edits - just a good understanding of page editing
and the enthusiasm to share your passion with fellow human beings some of
whol may be complete newbies.
Jon
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 5:10 AM, Charles Matthews <
charles.r.matthews(a)ntlworld.com> wrote:
On 15 June 2012 00:57, John Byrne
<john(a)bodkinprints.co.uk> wrote:
I agree that accreditation is something we should
not worry about for the
moment at least, until we have had some practice. But in the future we
may
well find ourselves in situations where other
bodies want to give some
form
of credit/CPE points etc for our sessions in
partnership with them.
I think we should now concentrate on learning to give cracking
workshops, creating opportunities for workshops, pooling workshop
material on the VLE, and getting to the point where we could seriously
offer courses in areas where they are most needed.
Charles
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