Participating in the Worldwide Indexing Event

https://www.familysearch.org/blog/en/participate-2017-worldwide-indexing-event/

October 20th to the 22nd, 2017 will be the annual worldwide indexing event from FamilySearch.org. Instructions for participating in the event are in a blog posted by FamilySearch shown above. The thrust of this year's event is to assist more people and using the new online indexing website. The overall purpose of the event is explained as follows:

As in years past, the purpose of the event will be to unite the international indexing community around the common goal of making more historical records searchable online for free. Last year’s event broke the previous records with more than 100,000 indexers helping to index over 10,000,000 records.

My wife and I recently assisted a large ward youth group in an indexing activity. Because of the web-based program, the activity was a decided success. The activity took place at the BYU Family History Library in two classrooms with computers. The web-based indexing program allowed all of the individuals to participate without having the necessity downloading their program to each computer.  With the now older desktop-based program we would have spent a great deal of time getting the individuals up to speed by downloading programs and then logging in. During the activity, we very much appreciated the features and ease-of-use of the new web-based indexing program.