User talk:Iit alumni

This user account is for making the contributions on behalf of Oregon chapter of the Alumni association of Indian Institutes of Technology.IIT

We are building an App called Welcome To Portland!, which is a resource guide for new comers to the city for smooth sailing into Portland. This web/mobile App will help make new immigrants and foreign students feel welcome in the city. To reduce their time to get adjusted, this App will connect them to their ethnic, cultural and educational resources in the city. We will be submitting this App to Portland's CivicApp [1]contest.

We have chosen to use a wiki for adding such content. These wiki pages will be about ethnic restaurants or food cart and ethnic grocery stores. Contributors will also add wiki pages for businesses such as interpreters, ESL tutors, immigration lawyers, notary public with language skills. Contributors will also add listings of local ethnic festivals or events.

We are actively recruiting contributors of different ethnicity, who will add wiki pages to PortlandWiki. These contributors/authors are typically Portland residents who are well settled and are well connected. Some of these will be volunteers/elected officials of local ethnic associations. Others would be immigrant and refugee counselors (primarily from IRCO.

We will use the MediaWiki API to present this content within the web/mobile App. For this purpose, we would like to use PortlandWiki.