Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Question about outreach sessions

2012-04-10 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
Heya, I have a small question. This is particularly aimed at Hisham, Nitika and Noopur. How do you guys handle these question. I infer that you guys have conducted nearly 22 odd outreach sessions. How do you answer the Question: Do you get paid to do this? -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan. The

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Question about outreach sessions

2012-04-10 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
There were never T-shirts involved in this session. Never. Not in Coimbatore for sure. An alternative way of saying it is: This isn't a class. I don't want it to be a boring lecture. I'm talking here because I'm passionate about what I do. You don't have to be here if you don't want to. This is no

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Question about outreach sessions

2012-04-10 Thread Anirudh Bhati
On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 1:24 AM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan < parakara.gh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, I have tried this method. Bala and I during the Coimbatore meetup > in December, just said that the session would be more indepth compared > to the previous one. > This is a nice example of separating

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Question about outreach sessions

2012-04-10 Thread Anirudh Bhati
On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 1:53 AM, Arnav Sonara wrote: > "*Where and how else can your voice be heard thousands of times round the > world by different people?*" > Posing such a question in the context of image and file uploads may be fine. However, if we attempt at recruiting editors saying that

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Question about outreach sessions

2012-04-09 Thread Arnav Sonara
I do love to share, "*Where and how else can your voice be heard thousands of times round the world by different people?*". I then show them few audio files I uploaded and placed as an audio pronunciation to the relevant articles, and show them the Page view statistics of that particular file. And

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Question about outreach sessions

2012-04-09 Thread Arun Ganesh
While doing wikipedia/osm workshops, I make it a point to start with the "Why am I doing this and what do I gain by being here" section. This lets everyone understand what the open movement and community is about, and what I personally gained/gain by being a part of it. After this, I let everyone k

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Question about outreach sessions

2012-04-09 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
Hi, I have tried this method. Bala and I during the Coimbatore meetup in December, just said that the session would be more indepth compared to the previous one. -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan. ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@list

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Question about outreach sessions

2012-04-09 Thread Anirudh Bhati
On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 10:39 PM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: > On 04/09/2012 08:00 AM, wikimediaindia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.orgwrote: > > Odia Wikipedia Outreach Programs in Odisha > > This was a very interesting and comprehensive report -- thank you, > Mrutyunjaya Kar! > > I noticed this: >

[Wikimediaindia-l] Question about outreach sessions

2012-04-09 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
On 04/09/2012 08:00 AM, wikimediaindia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org wrote: > Odia Wikipedia Outreach Programs in Odisha This was a very interesting and comprehensive report -- thank you, Mrutyunjaya Kar! I noticed this: > Once we had shown > everyone this, we invited those who were interested