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
<https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Village>. 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
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GLAMwiki_Toolset_Flyer_-_front_side.pdf>
image, back side
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GLAMwiki_Toolset_Flyer_-_back_side.pdf>
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
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/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 programme*
-
https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Programme
*GWToolset Hackathon Sprint*
- this is for programmers -- *idea is to involve any programmers that
are interested in programming for the tool attend in order to learn how to
program for the
tool:
https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hackathon#GWToolset
<https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hackathon#GWToolset>*
- there is no fixed schedule -- just *an open hacking sprint during
the day: **wednesday aug 6 and **thursday august 7*
*Structured Data*
- thursday, august 7
- 10:00 - 11:30
-
https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Programme#Thursday.2C_August_7
- this is probably a good discussion to attend
*Europeana Task Force*
- thursday, august 7
- 16:00 - 17:00
-
https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Programme#Thursday.2C_August_7
*GWToolset - What is It*
- sunday, august 10
- 12:00 - 12:30
-
https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Programme#Sunday.2C_August_10
- this is joris' talk about the toolset
*GWToolset - Training Session*
- sunday, august 10
- 12:30 - 13:00
-
https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Programme#Sunday.2C_August_10
- 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
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RgDUkMZX00I_IfdZgnwcYVNb4skHv1da3DsJmMDfAp8/edit#heading=h.ll7fga1esrdy>.
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 <http://pro.europeana.eu/network/task-forces/overview>
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 <https://twitter.com/Wittylama>).
And with that - I look forward to seeing many of you at Wikimania!
Your humble Europeana GLAM-Wiki coordinator,
- Liam
wittylama.com
Peace, love & metadata