Yes, I met him. Did not have much time to chat though. He is an
extremely kind person.
Ant
simonpedia wrote:
*Muhammad Alsebaey* shipmaster at
gmail.com
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on /Wed Feb 6 04:35:01 UTC 2008/
/Said,/
However I think you feel we have no progress on this front so I will fill
you (and everyone) in:
Thanks Muhammad,
That’s all I ask for. Someone has to be the shipmaster and I’m too old
to be subtle about finding them. You’re aware that Florence went to
Davos, and hopefully met the Library’s director. As far as my Dec.
suggestion about asking (someone like) him, and Jimmy, to do a
comparison between the oldest (continuous) western library and the
newest, it might get a few creative juices flowing (and hopefully)
attract a few other national librarians. You might even lead the
librarians by showing them this UN sponsored project..
http://www.worlddigitallibrary.org/project/english/video.html
You already have one fixed session with Sue announcing that someone from
this team would be talking about the wikisurvey.
http://ccg.merit.unu.edu/ (NB the link off to the left). There’s a
thread here between the two, though to the UN.
As another idea in trying to introduce Wikimedia’s global communities to
some semi-related others, if you click on the link down the bottom left
on a the ccg’s page, through to unu-merit, you’ll see they’re announcing
that they’ve just launched an OpencourseWare portal. I’m not sure if
this is in anyway useful – the commonality with wikmedia is that OCWC is
about free content. I just didn’t notice Egypt on their consortia’s
page.
http://www.ocwconsortium.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&…
<http://www.ocwconsortium.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=15&Itemid=29>
It’s a bit late in the day now to attract most of the people I was
hoping for. They set their conference agenda’s late in one year for the
next. So would you mind considering the idea of linking up between a few
places in different parts of the world and Alexandria. I’ve flagged this
tool, but the bibliotech’s guys will have their own preference.
http://www.accessgrid.org/home The technical stuff is pretty straight
forward, but as you can imagine, it might be a bit too much of a
surprise for WMF’s communities this year. All the best.
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