Ten/Faridabad

City
Faridabad

Key contacts

 * Primary wikipedian supporting volunteers: Arunram
 * Primary volunteer contact: Prashant Garg, final year student, Manav Rachna College of Engineering, Faridabad.

Venue
Manav Rachna College of Engineering, Sector 43, Suraj Kund, Badhkal Road, Aravalli Hills Faridabad

Volunteers

 * Prashant Garg, skype: titanicheart.speaks
 * Prashant Garg, skype: titanicheart.speaks

I will make a google doc registration and circulate among volunteers for proper format. We have around 10-15 volunteers who will help us on day of event.

Event highlights

 * Venue details - College campus - MRCE, Faridabad.
 * Expected audience count - 250-300
 * Nature of audience - B.Tech (Engineering Students) from Computer Science/Information Technology / Electronics and Comm./Mechanical Engineering
 * Background of organisers - Experienced Leaders and have conducted a lot of events of national level in past. We are FOSS Evangelists/Developers and Potential Contributors to Wikipedia
 * What programs do you plan
 * 1) Make students aware about how to put information on Wikipedia and guide them to edit live.(Most students believe WikiPedia is one way traffic)
 * 2) Tell them about WikiMedia Foundation and work done so far.
 * 3) Discuss with them other Wiki-Projects which have gain mass support ( WikiEducator/WikiOpenStreetMap etc)
 * 4) Build our community (TechnoKriti) information exchange portal on WikiPedia and BrainStorming for Ideas of Same
 * 5) Networking and Snacks.

Support offered by Volunteers

 * Venue and participants from college
 * Media Coverage
 * Google Doc Registration of Participants
 * Mailing list formation
 * Display of Swag across campus and promotion among peer groups.

Help needed from Wikimedia foundation/chapter/community

 * 1) Potential Speakers on day of event if possible ( plus there expenses )
 * 2) Content on how exactly to promote the event and what message needs to be broadcasted among people
 * 3) After Event what we exactly must expect from volunteers.
 * 4) Swag or any other promotional material (If available ..as time is short )

Questions for volunteer
Yes there may be "unknown" to all Wikipedia Contributors and since we are budding engineering students we thrive hard to learn anything new and exciting. In our college Hindi. They conduct Hindi debates/poem competition and also communicate to each other via mails on hindi only. The group is also supported by a professor. 600 Chairs Seating Capacity. Please see our college auditorium Please see the link We are student driven community and we have authority to conduct events. We will handle everything. See links on facebook and blog
 * What are the nearby colleges in Faridabad?
 * Are there other FOSS groups in Faridabad?
 * Are there any known Wikipedia contributors in your college or in Faridabad?
 * Are you aware of any language group focusing on Hindi WIkipedia/Hindi?
 * What is the size of your college auditorium?
 * Can you email a map of your college in google maps?
 * Does this requires any special approvals from college authorities? Is so who would these be?

Interaction Log

 * Contacted volunteer. 2-Jan
 * Volunteer Prashanth filled out support sheet - 3-Jan
 * Further queries sent - 3-Jan