G'day all,<br><br>I thought I'd write a brief note about last night's Sydney meetup :-)<br><br>It was great to welcome Mathias and Jennifer (from the german chapter, and the wikimedia foundation respectively) to Sydney - and we had a really good turnout (even though some of the better looking wiki types chose to make a late entrance ;-) - The Belgian Beer cafe lived up to its name, and lively conversation, as well as the eponymous drinks flowed swimmingly. There were a fair few folk attending their first meetup, and hopefully not their last - we covered a wide range of topics, from the upcoming GLAM festival, through to how we, as a chapter, can better communicate our social / informal events such as last night - apparently many wiki types in Sydney were entirely unaware of both meetups and the chapter!<br>
<br>All seemed to me to anticipate an extremely interesting, and rewarding 'GLAM' conference on Thurs / Fri - and of course it's particularly timely given the recent legal issues between the National Portrait Gallery, and a wiki contributor - perhaps Australia can lead the way in actually building relationships, and supporting dialog :-) I'm one of the folk who would like to attend, but just can't get away - something I intended to raise last night, but forgot, was to ask about the possibilities of participating remotely - I wonder if there's any infrastructure for webcasting any of the event - or participating via IRC, or Skype, or something? I may not be the only person interested....<br>
<br>All in all a great meet - although having arrived late, this Private muse was prepared to kick on beyond the 10pm most folk headed back to their beds... probably for the best :-)<br><br>cheers,<br><br>Peter,<br>PM.<br>