Grants:PEG/Harish Satpute/Hackathon IIT Bombay 2016/Report


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Project status

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Did you comply with the requirements specified by WMF in the grant agreement?

YES

Is your project completed?

YES

Activities and lessons learned

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Activities

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Preparation
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Organising hackathon required lot of preparation. Multiple things need to taken care by organiser but having 2 years of prior experience of organising Wikipedia hackathon and having good community and volunteer support made our task easy.

It was proposed to accommodate students in the Hackathon so the prior training of these participants were needed. Pre-hackathon Event was organized to make participant more aware about Wikimedia tools, api and technologies

  • Pre-hackathon event (May 30, 2016 )
 
Pre-hackathon Event
 
IITB Hackathon sprint 2
Speakers: Rahmanuddin Shaik (CIS A2K Bangalore)
Abhinav Garule (CIS A2K Pune)
Event Page link

To make student used to Wikimedia technologies, four code sprint were conducted for four week-ends.

  • Code Sprint 1 (June 4, 2016 )

    Speaker: Harish Satpute

  • Code Sprint 2 (June 11, 2016 )

    Speaker: Rahul Deshmukh

  • Code Sprint 3 (June 18, 2016 )

    Speaker : Miss. Kiran Nale.

  • Wikidata session (June 25, 2016)

    Speaker: Titto Dutta (CIS A2K Bangalore)

The event
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  • Having good infrastructure of Indian institute of Bombay. We used hall for the event with seating capacity over 150. Opening ceremony, demonstration session, feedback session and closing ceremony were conducted in this hall.
  • We also used foyer where Hackathon seating arrangements were made.
  • Conference management software was set for registration desk.
  • Every participant was given barcode printed ID card.
  • Multiple cameras with mixer was deployed for the video recording of the event.
  • At the end of the event feedback form were collected from students.
  • Gala dinner was arranged.

Lessons learned

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What worked well?
  • The combination of different level of expertise in group formation worked well.

Groups were formed with 1 mentor+1 group leader+ 3 senior Wikipedians + 2 students. This leads to showcase 100% (Proof of concept) project.

  • Pre-hackathon and sprints to train the student was beneficial.
  • Using barcode and software for registration helped keep track of participation.
  • Local volunteers and Marathi community support.
What didn't work?
  • Heavy rain on the event day caused inconvenience to commute.
  • Due to one day Hackathon participants has to work under tight time line.
What would you do differently if you planned a similar project?
  • In future two days Hackathon can be organized for getting more outcomes.

Learning patterns

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Submit Event Code

Outcomes and impact

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Outcomes

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Provide the original project goal here.
Goal for this event is specified on our PEG Request.
PEG Request
Did you achieve your project goal? How do you know your goal was achieved? Please answer in 1 - 2 short paragraphs.
As the objective specified in the GRANT proposal page our main goal was to develop tools required to Marathi Wikipedia community, for porting the Marathi language encyclopedia to Marathi Wikipedia. We are glad to inform that during this Hackathon we have developed three solutions which will help to make content porting easy. Out of 6 projects showcased 3 were related to Marathi language encyclopedia and Marathi wiki porting work.
Code is available at https://github.com/marathiwiki/
Hackathon images https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_Hackathon_IITB_2016
We have mentioned in our goal that we wanted to involve students in this Hackathon. This helped us to create new volunteers for Wikipedia. These students are now having knowledge of Wikimedia technologies
Media coverage
The event is covered by front line Marathi daily newspaper ‘Loksatta ‘ on cover page by publishing a story on Hackathon at IIT Bombay 2016.
 
IIT Bombay Hackathon news Coverage

Progress towards targets and goals

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Project metrics

Project metrics Target outcome Achieved outcome Explanation
More than 50 attendees 60 attendees
15 % female attendees 32 % female participation
15 new participants (students) 16 new students participated
At least 4 working proof of concept applications 5 proof of concept applications and 1 workable application


 
 
 

Global Metrics

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Metric Achieved outcome Explanation
1. # of active editors involved 60 This is the number of attendees.
2. # of new editors 20 These are the new Participants who worked on Wikimedia technologies first time.
3. # of individuals involved 70 60 attendees + 10 people helped for conducting pre Hackathon events.
4a. # of new images/media added to Wikimedia articles/pages (not tracked) The goal of the event was to write code, not to add content
4b. # of new images/media uploaded to Wikimedia Commons (Optional) (not tracked) The goal of the event was to write code, not to add content
5. # of articles added or improved on Wikimedia projects (not tracked) The goal of the event was to write code, not to add content
6. Absolute value of bytes added to or deleted from Wikimedia projects (not tracked) The goal of the event was to write code, not to add content
Learning question
Did your work increase the motivation of contributors, and how do you know?
Yes definitely. We had feedback session before closing ceremony. In this session most of the participant express themselves that they would like to start wikipedia orientation program at their respective locations to increase technical outreach.
The IIT Bombay Hackathon 2016 student participants carried the motivation in Wikipedia India conference 2016 at Chandigarh by actively participating.


Impact

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What impact did this project have on WMF's mission and the strategic priorities?

  • Increasing reach:
This event helped us to spread the Wikipedia technologies as we have participants across the nation.
  • Encourage Innovation
By using the power of Wikimedia technology and skills of participants. We were able
to develop tools which can be utilized to make more effective use of editors time by reducing repetitive work.

Reporting and documentation of expenditures

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This section describes the grant's use of funds

Documentation

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Did you send documentation of all expenses paid with grant funds to grants at wikimedia dot org, according to the guidelines here? Answer "Yes" or "No".
Yes

Expenses

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Project budget table
Number Item description Unit Qty Cost per unit INR Total cost INR Actual cost INR WMF contribution (INR) Other sources (INR) Notes
1. Travel costs 41,000.00 38520 39000 7000
1.1 Air fair for   technical experts and speakers 4 6250 25000 26620 25000 0 We invited 3 guest for this event. 
1.2 Travel cost for a support expert 1 2000 2000 7000 0 7000 Travelling cost is supported by CSI A2K India
1.3 Accommodation for experts and speakers 4 2500 10000 400 10000 0 Only 2 expert requested accommodation. That was arranged in IIT Bombay guest house which cost us very less.
1.4 local tranportation 4 1000 4000 4500 4000 0 For local travel.
2. Accommodation and meals 33,000.00 44637 25,000.00 18500
2.1 Lunchs 50 200 10,000.00 9500 10,000.00 0 Based on this year participation and menu this was the total amount we spent on lunch.
2.2 Dinner 50 200 10,000.00 9500 10,000.00 0 Based on this year participation and menu this was the total amount we spent on lunch.
2.3 Breaks 2 2X50 50 5,000.00 7137 5000 0.00 Coffee,tea, Cookies and snacks. There were two breaks.
2.4 SingleRooms 15 300 4,500.00 4,500.00 0 4,500.00 Booked rooms for student participants.
2.5 Preparation team housing 7 500 3,500.00 14000 0 14000.00 Our previous booking got cancelled and we made outside IIT campus booking.
3. Venue 87,000.00 96000 20000 73,000.00
3.1 Semi circular Hall 1 10000 10,000.00 10000 0 10,000.00 This semicircular hall is used for opening  closing session ,talks, feedback and discussion  booked by IIT Bombay.
3.2 Foyer 1 7000 7,000.00 7000 0 7,000.00
3.3 Air Conditionar for Hall 10000 10,000.00 10000 0 10,000.00
3.4 Dual Projection System 1 5000 5,000.00 5000 0 5,000.00
3.5 Audio System 2 5000 10,000.00 10000 0 10,000.00
3.6 Video recording of the event 15000 15,000.00 21000 0 21,000.00 There was increment in video recording charges this year.
3.7 Wi-Fi 2 5000 10,000.00 10000 0 10,000.00
3.8 50 400 20,000.00 23000 20000 0.00 23000 was total cost.
4. Materials and gifts 13,000.00 14100 12000 1,500.00
4.1 T-Shirts Per participant 50 240 12,000.00 12600 12000 0 252 rupees per participant t-shirt cost.
4.2 Stickers Per participant 50 5 250.00 750 0 750.00
4.3 Badges Per participant 50 15 750.00 750 0 750
5. Administrative expenses 24,000.00 25886 24000.00
5.1 Event logistick and transportation 4000 4,000.00 4500 4000 0.00
5.2 Banner , Backdrop and Sign board 10000 10,000.00 9430 10000 0.00
5.3 Printing, Stationary, Registration Kit 10000 10,000.00 11956 10000 0.00
TOTAL 1,98,000.00 2,19,143.00 1,20,000.00 100,000.00


Total project budget (from your approved grant submission)
1,98,000.00 INR
Total amount requested from WMF (from your approved grant submission, this total will be the same as the total project budget if PEG is your only funding source)
1,20,000.00 INR
Total amount spent on this project
2,19,143.00 INR
Total amount of Project and Event grant funds spent on this project
1,19,143.00 INR
Are there additional sources that funded any part of this project? List them here.
Yes
IIT Bombay
1,00,000.00 INR
CSI A2K India
7000 INR

Remaining funds

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Are there any grant funds remaining?
Answer YES or NO.
NO
Please list the total amount (specify currency) remaining here. (This is the amount you did not use, or the amount you still have after completing your grant.)
none
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