Dear all on the Glamtools and Europeana Steering Committee mailinglists.
In preparation for Wikimania I thought I'd send out this summary of what's going on. Obviously not everyone can attend the conference, but for those that can, this will hopefully be of use to you. There is information here about the Stall, the Flyer, the GWT Wiki page the Schedule, and the Task Force launch.
Stall
We have been confirmed to have a stall for the duration of the conference in the main foyer.
Here is the map. We are kind-of in the corner so I'm hoping one of the other groups that applied for a stall doesn't show up, and we can 'borrow' their space... A banner and lots of Europeana Labs/Europeana API etc. brochures have arrived in London already. I will be trying to sit at this stall during most lunches/breaks - and I would very much appreciate if YOU could join me. If you see the desk unattended, and you want to sit and help, please do. If past Wikimanias are any guide, chairs during break-times will be a valuable commodity!
Flyer
Also we have a very pretty flyer to hand out at this stall and at every GWToolset related presentation/hacking. No one should be able to leave this conference without having heard about the GWT! Wikimedia-UK generously agreed to organise and pay for the printing of this flyer - so we have 1250 of them! They are A5 size. (
front side image,
back side image). Especial thanks go to Sebastiaan for his generous assistance taking my design and turning into this professional publication!
GLAMwiki Toolset Wiki page
As you can see, that flyer tells people to go to
bit.ly/GWtoolset (which directs to [[Commons:GLAMwiki Toolset]] ). So, I've been very bold in completely restructuring that page to make it more attractive to new visitors - adding some example uploads, live statistics of usage, links to the different sub-pages (documentation, project history etc.), and trying to give an accurate but easily digestible summary of how to use the tool. I'm applying
Cunningham's law by including the "instructions" section - please change it if it is incorrect. Also, anyone who is particularly good at making mediawiki pages look
pretty is very welcome to go in and help improve it.
Schedule
GLAMwikiToolset/Europeana related events at Wikimania.
For this I can't beat the summary that Dan Entous created earlier today which I've copied below. There are lots of relevant things of course but these are the directly related items. (I should also add to Dan's list a panel session about the Europeana Fashion events that is happening on Friday at 12.)
Wikimania - overall programmeGWToolset Hackathon Sprint
- there is no fixed schedule -- just an open hacking sprint during the day: wednesday aug 6 and thursday august 7
Structured Data
- this is probably a good discussion to attend
Europeana Task ForceGWToolset - What is It
- this is joris' talk about the toolset
GWToolset - Training Session
- this is fae's training session on how to use the tool
Task Force launch
As indicated in this list of Dan's, the
Task Force will be having its first meeting on Thursday afternoon.
This is the agenda. It will hopefully kick-off a very productive process to produce, in 6 months' time, a report for what the relationship between Europeana and Wikimedia should look like in accordance with their respective strategic plans. (The public documentation of this Task Force will be published
on the Europeana website very soon I am informed.)
[Relatedly, there will be lots of formal and informal side-meetings happening that are related to Europeana specifically or GLAM-Wiki more generally. let's share notes!]
Any questions, ideas or problems, please email (or tweet to me during the conference
@Wittylama).
And with that - I look forward to seeing many of you at Wikimania!
Your humble Europeana GLAM-Wiki coordinator,
- Liam