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CIS-A2K/Community Collaboration/Form/Submitted/WikiForAll- an educational series program

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Basic Information

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Name of the Event/Activity

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  • WikiForAll - orientation and inaugural event

Type of Event/Activity

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  • Orientation and Training
  • This event shall be carried out in association with the Women In Tech collectives (a Socio-Tech research organisation) and iGiver (a non-profit organisation) in collaboration with the CIS-A2K.

Purpose of the Event/Activity

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  • The objective of this event is to introduce Wikimedia and its sister projects to a group of students from a Technical background. Also to focus on a recurrent series of training focussed on Technical subjects to improve the technical and career skills for the students.

Expected start date and end date of the Event/Activity

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  • 20 October 2024

List of users who proposed the Event/Activity

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Program and Metrics

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Agenda/Program of the Event/Activity

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Program Venue: Shri Krishnaswamy College For Women,Chennai Time : 10 AM to 4:30 PM Agenda of the program:

  • An introduction to Open Source and Open Knowledge movements and projects
  • Introduction to Wikimedia and sister projects
  • Brief introduction to Media Wiki and program outline for next 6 months
  • An Interaction session with the students to map their career skills with Wikimedia projects.

Metrics:

  • Number of students who would be contributing on Wikimedia technical projects: 15
  • Number of students who would apply the Wikimedia technical skills in their careers: 10
  • Number of students who identify themselves as women who shall attend this event: 30
  • Blogpost about this event will be released.

Expected Outcomes from the Event/Activity planned

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  • This is an initiative to understand the Academic and industry skill gap and how learning and contributing on Wikimedia can bridge this gap.
  • This program is targeted to understand how newcomers can understand and contribute towards the technical program.
  • A course module which will be exclusively designed for this program shall be released for public use.
  • Initial planning on research report that shall followup the program activities shall be discussed in this Orientation event.

Expected number of attendees

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  • 30

Post Event/Activity Engagement

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Follow-up engagement plan post the event/activity

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  • The event is planned to be a recurrent event for the next 6 months so this program shall focus on the inaguration and planning of the agenda for the follow up months.
  • This program is aimed at widening the Technical Wikimedia communities in India and introduce more developers to the MediaWiki environment.
  • Mentors shall be supporting the students using a Chat group channel to raise any questions or doubts that the students have regarding the Course.

Budget

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  • Accomodation (2 nights) - Rs. 12,000
  • Travel (train) - Rs. 3000
  • Local travel (taxi) - Rs. 3000

Total : Rs. 18,000

Response

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Proposed activity is part of a wider collaboration project that is being shaped up in collaboration between CIS-A2K, proposed community member and few other interested Tech community members. We request @Bhuvana Meenakshi: to create a separate page that captures the wider scope and activities of the project. --Pavan (CIS-A2K) (talk) 11:47, 8 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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