Yeah, it's very useful if you need some help from people who live there! :-)
On 8/30/07, Sean Whitton <sean(a)silentflame.com> wrote:
Jenny - you might want to join Wikimedia UK's mailing list -
http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/WikimediaUK-l
On 30/08/2007, Sandy Ordonez <sordonez(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
This whole letter was music to my ears, but yes I
think the conference
is a phenomenal idea...and if you want, I can def. get you in touch with
a few people, and I think that you should reach out to UK wikimedia
people to get their input as well, but I' am ALL FOR THIS.
And yes, I really need hlep with wikilove meme.....you guys need to
start the momentum for others to follow :)
sandy
Jennifer Gristock wrote:
> Hi Sean, Hi Sandy, Hi everyone,
>
> Sorry to miss the meeting last night... I read the logs. Were you all
happy
> with the background for the Yoruba press
release I wrote? Should I
paste
> the list of education journals that Sandy
needed somewhere?
>
> I've fallen behind a little bit because my Dad was rushed into
hospital
> very suddenly and he had a very big
operation and we learned that it
is
> cancer. I rushed to Wales earlier this
month, spent some time in the
> Intensive Care Unit with him and now, thank goodness, he is recovering
well
> and he is out of hospital. I wasn't
going to say anything about it,
but
> then I read the logs of the meeting last
night, and I realised I had
been
> missed. Well folks, if I havent replied to
an email, that's why. Sorry
> about that.
>
> Now you all know that I am good at getting things done - the press
release,
> the education journals - if there is another
task I can help with,
please
> just shout. I will get my thinking cap on
[er.. British expression for
I
> will think carefully] about the Wiki Love
Meme.
>
> I want to make things happen. Here's an idea: I would like to organise
a
> 1-day conference in the UK on Wikis,
Academia and Public engagement.
It
> would be hosted in my department and we have
lovely open spaces in our
> building.
>
> I will be asking a contact at a research council to support it
financially,
> but they usually only do it if it is
co-funded and would be attended
by
> some big names. What are the chances of
that, do you think???
>
> If Sandy thinks this is a good idea, I'd love to know who would like
to
> come and we could brainstorm to shape the
idea up a little.
>
> Sorry to miss the meeting once again.
>
> best wishes
>
> Jen/Open Research
>
>
>
>
>
> --On 29 August 2007 22:28 +0100 Sean Whitton <sean(a)silentflame.com>
wrote:
>
>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> Tonight we had a very successful IRC meeting in the ComProj IRC
>> channel and I think that several decisions were reached that should
>> help the future of the group. I will detail these below. Because not
>> all members were present, please feel free to give your comments on
>> the list here, and if you disagree with the conclusions we drew,
>> please say so.
>>
>> The first item was ComProj's current membership roster. I pointed out
>> that the private spreadsheet containing the information provided when
>> people join ComProj was a bit pointless as it remained private and so
>> we agreed it should be put on meta. However, it does contain some
>> confidential information, namely e-mail addresses, real names and
some
>> brief real life bios. Since we do not
want to offend anyone, I intend
>> to filter these out until I get confirmation from individuals that
>> they are happy with their information being listed. I will keep you
>> informed about how I get along with this.
>>
>> The next item was ComProj's organisation. schiste suggested that we
>> get people involved with the group as project managers and just that
-
>> people who may not really be appropriate
for doing projects
>> themselves. He said that lots of people who do communications work do
>> not like project management, so this would allow them to just get on
>> with their specialisation. schiste volunteered to try to find a pool
>> of project leaders from across Wikimedia. Please let him know if you
>> are interested.
>>
>> We now hope to have projects being assigned leaders (the idea is that
>> co-ordinators (me, Sandy, Cary) will do this) and then work can
begin.
>> I aim to do some restructuring of our
pages on meta tomorrow so that
>> this can be slotted in. Hopefully, this will mean that people will
get
>> chance to work at something they really
want to do and projects can
be
>> completed in a more timely manner.
>>
>> As chair I will still be trying to pull stuff together by arranging
>> and organanising meetings and attempting to liaise between project
>> leaders etc. which I think is working reasonably well. It should be
>> made clear that even though we now have three layers of
co-ordinators,
>> project leaders and members, everyone
within ComProj is most
>> definately equal - it's just that we are doing different jobs.
>> Managing a project, for example, is a skill in the same way graphics
>> designing or writing is.
>>
>> Again, please feel free to offer comments. I will be updating you as
I
work on our pages on meta, which I would hope we start
to use more.
[[m:User:Sean Whitton]]
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