[Events] bootcamp structure - another perspective

[Sumana Harihareswara]

"GLAM Boot Camp is a 3-day training workshop for Wikipedians interested
in gaining the knowledge and skills necessary to assist with GLAM-Wiki
projects."

http://blog.wikimediadc.org/2013/06/new-faces-for-glam-wiki-our-experience-hosting-glam-boot-camp/

I thought people on this list might be interested in seeing how they did
this.

"We designed a program that was ... a lot more structured than most
unconferences, but with more practical sessions than a traditional
conference. It was something between a Wikipedia Academy, where
newcomers are taught how to edit Wikipedia, and a campus ambassador
training. You can see our program here
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/Boot_Camp#Program . We
generally moved from presentation-heavy to discussion-heavy sessions.
... The second day we moved into more practical matters, going through
the whole 'lifecycle' of a Wikimedia project, and talking about specific
events and projects. By the third day, we spent more time in discussion,
getting the boot campers to articulate their own visions of GLAM-Wiki
and how they personally could contribute to it. We ended up having
unplanned breakout sessions a couple of times because attendees were
excited with ideas as we showed them things like our one-page guide that
needed improvement."

In my experience, it's super useful to be able to explain the
"lifecycle" of whatever system you're trying to get people to contribute
to.  So that was a good reminder to me.

Also, this was a three-day bootcamp with subsidies for participants to
travel and stay in the area for three days.  Not a model most OpenHatch
events can follow, but on rare occasions, perhaps for
train-the-trainers, it may be useful.

-Sumana
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Sumana Harihareswara
Engineering Community Manager
Wikimedia Foundation