Ηi John ,
I am Nikos Papadimoulis from Greece and we have in mind with
the local Wikimedia association to organise some GLAM events...Though
things are not clear yet we would like to be in touch with you regarding
the Europeana project.
We hope in the next days to start a project with the
Municipal Gallery Katsigras, since we are waiting an official response for
that ....So, although we are not a country of your interest we would like
to be in contact with you and learn more about the projekts you are running
...
Best regards ,
from Wikimedia Greece
2012/5/23 John Andersson <johnandersson86(a)hotmail.com>
Sorry for cross-posting.
Dear everybody,
My name is John Andersson and I have recently been hired by Wikimedia
Sweden (WMSE) as the Event manager for the project *Europeana Awareness*[1],
a project that amongst other things has the goal of creating a closer cooperation
between the Europeana Foundation (and its vast network of GLAM
institutions) and the Wikimedia community and by doing so increase
awareness of the work done by Europeana (hence the project name). The
project leader for WMSE's part of the Europeana Awareness is Lennart
Guldbrandsson, a.k.a. User:Hannibal, who many of you already know. I will
however be responsible for the day-to-day operations.
First of all I would like to give you a short presentation about myself
so that you know who I am (if this understandably bores you, you can skip
the following paragraph) and secondly I will present the projects that I
will work with during the coming 18 months.
I will start working full time on the 11th of June but until then I am
working merely 35 percent as I am currently at the very end of my
university studies at the Master programme in European Studies at
Gothenburg University, finishing up my Master's thesis that focuses on
decision-making in the Arctic Council's working groups. This time last year
I worked as a trainee at the European Parliament's Secretariat in Brussels
for 5.5 months and from before that I have a Bachelor of Science from Umeå
University. During my Bachelor I spent one semester in the U.S. as an
exchange student. I have been an administrator on the Swedish language
version for 6 years now and have contributed with hundreds of articles and
photos. On a more personal note I enjoy learning new things, experiencing
new cultures, traveling, meeting friends and reading a good book.
Two major tasks that I will work with are firstly the co-organization of
a number of GLAM conferences in some of the European countries that have
active Wikimedia Chapters that are working with GLAM issues, as well as to
organize a European wide competition called Wiki Loves Public Art (WLPA),
obviously inspired by the super successful Wiki Loves Monument competition.
I am hoping to help in organizing events in Sweden, Poland, UK, France,
Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium. Currently I am working on organizing
the first event, an Edit-a-thon in Leuven, Belgium.[2] If you are
planning to organize a GLAM event in any of these countries I hope that you
will take the opportunity to contact me and discuss how I could help! For
example, adding Europeana as a partner for the event that you are
organizing is likely to open new doors and attract more institutions and I
am the one to contact about that, I could also help out with man-hours,
perhaps supply you with information, contacts and digitized media that
Europeana already has (which could be hard and time consuming to collect)
or suggest and contact international guests that could participate in your
event.
The organization of Wiki Loves Public Art will mainly take place later
this year. But even though this event is far in the future I hope that you
write me an email if you think that this sounds interesting and would like
to get involved in this work. I am well aware that this will take a lot of
time and effort to organize so we might as well start with some initial
planning as soon as possible!
I am super excited about working with this full time and I really look
forward meeting and talking with all of you!
Sincerely,
*John Andersson*
Wikimedia Sweden
Event manager, Europeana Awareness
User names: User:John Andersson (WMSE) (work) and User:Jopparn (private)
Email: JohnAndersson86(a)hotmail.com
Skype: johnandersson86
[1] See
http://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Projekt:Europeana_Awareness for
more information. Currently only available in Swedish.
[2] See
http://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Projekt:Europeana_Awareness/Europeana_meets_Wo…
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