CIS-A2K/Events/Train the Trainer Program/2018

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Train the Trainer Program
Train the Trainer (TTT) is a residential training workshop to groom leadership skills among the Indian Wikimedia community members.

2024 event details are here
Date: 19 and 20 October 2024
City: Bhubaneswar, Odisha
Venue: Hotel Hindusthan International

CIS-A2K believes that in every experienced Wikimedian, there is a trainer. A trainer is like a candle that can light up many other candles. Xe can inspire many other Wikimedians. The workshop attempts to groom such trainers. After three successful iterations of Train the Trainer in 2013, 2015, 2016, and 2017, CIS-A2K is going to organize the fifth iteration of the program on 26-28 January 2018 (note 25 January is day zero).

Event details

Dates: 25-28 January 2018 (add this event to your Google calendar or Yahoo calendar)(25th is Pre-event)
Venue: Mysore Fortune JP Palace
City: Mysore, Karnataka
Location Map: Google Map, OpenStreetMap
Etherpad: [1]
Status: Completed

Eligibility

Any active Wikimedian contributing to any Indic language Wikimedia project (including English) is eligible to apply.
An editor must have 500+ edits before 1 November 2017.
Anyone who has interest to conduct offline/real-life Wiki events.
Note: anyone who has already participated in an earlier iteration of TTT, can not apply.

Event

The participants are supposed to arrive at the venue on 25 January and attend all the days of the program. Partial attendance not allowed.
Participants are not allowed to bring friends or relatives to the event, unless it is absolutely necessary (only with prior information and approval).
All participants should bring their laptops. Participants without a laptop have to inform earlier.

Support

Travel support will be provided to participants.
Accommodation will be provided to participants.
Food will be served according to the participant's dietary preferences (non-veg, veg, etc.)

Registration

Please fill this form to show your interest to join. The last date of signing up is 10 December 2017.

In an effort to encourage participation from women and other minorities, at least 20 percent of the participants at TTT 2018 would comprise of women.

Participants

Following wikimedians got selected as participants for Train the Trainer 2018:

Program schedule

25 January (day 0)

6:00 pm to 8:00: Meet and Greet, Introduce yourself

26 January (day 1)

9:30 am to 10:00 am: Introduction to Train-the-Trainer, scope, objectives. Tanveer Hasan and Tito Dutta
10:00 am to 10:20 am: Conducting an event: Pre-event: Tanveer Hasan and Tito Dutta
10:20 am to 11:40 am: Group activity and presentation on Pre-event
11:40 am to 12:00 pm: Tea break
12:00 am to 12:20 pm: Event and Post-event best practices: Tanveer Hasan, Satdeep Gill
12:20 pm to 1:30 pm: Group activity and presentation on event and post-event best practices
1:30 pm to 2:00 pm: Lunch break
2:00 pm to 2:20 pm: Diversity initiatives: Punjabi Wikimedians- Manavpreet Kaur
2:20 pm to 3:00 pm: The Art of Community Review: Best practices for community members to write and review grant proposals -- Rohini Lakshané
3:00 pm to 3:30 pm: Awareness about Wikimedia Movement in India: Satdeep Gill
3:30 pm to 3:45 pm: Tea break
3:45 pm to 4:30 pm: Wikidata in India: Way forward
4:30 pm to 5 pm: Demonstration of tools and gadgets related to photography and commons: Gopala Krishna A

27 January (day 2)

9:00 am to 3:00 pm: Field trip
4:30 pm to 6:00 pm: Studies and group activity following field-trip

28 January (day 3)

9:00 am to 9:30 am: Organizing "Wiki Loves" campaigns: Krishna Chaitanya Velaga
9:30 am to 10:00 am: Organizing "Wiki Loves" campaigns: Group activity
10:00 am to 11:00 am: Revolving cafe on

Wikimedia Commons: Gopalakrishna, Sumit Surai
Wikisource: Prateek, Subodh Kulkarni
Institutional Partnership: Pavan Santosh, Sailesh Patnaik
Support and Safety: Manavpreet and Afifa Afrin

11:00 to 11:15 am: Tea break
11:15 am to 12:00 pm: Organizational responsibilities: Vision, needs-assessment, evaluation: Afifa, Ananth, Bharateshs, Manavpreet, Krishna, Satdeep
12:00 pm to 12:30 pm: Social media best practices and learning pattern: Sailesh Patnaik
12:30 to 1:00 pm: Roadmap
1:00 pm to 1:45 pm: Lunch
1:45 pm to 2:30 pm: Roadmap presentation
2:30 pm to 3:30 pm, conclusion, and feedback

Contact

If you have question, please post on the talk page or email tanveer cis-india.org and tito cis-india.org

Report

Report of the Train the trainer 2018 can be seen at