<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Liam Wyatt</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:liamwyatt@gmail.com">liamwyatt@gmail.com</a>></span><br>Date: Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 12:07 AM<br>
Subject: [Foundation-l] GLAM-WIKI needs you!<br>To: Wikimedia-au <<a href="mailto:wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org">wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org</a>>, <a href="mailto:chapters-cultural-partners@wikimedia.ch">chapters-cultural-partners@wikimedia.ch</a>, Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <<a href="mailto:foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org">foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org</a>><br>
<br><br>Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls, (wikimedia-au,<br>
chapters-cultural-partnerships, foundation-l)<br>
<br>
The event that you have (hopefully) heard about, "Galleries, Libraries,<br>
Archives, Museums and Wikimedia: finding the common ground" is coming along<br>
apace!<br>
<br>
This is a Wikimedia Australia event, a world first for the Wikimedia<br>
movement, to bring together the cultural sector with the Wikimedia community<br>
to work out ways we can better collaborate I hope that it will form the<br>
basis for a long and productive global conversation over the years. It is to<br>
be held in Canberra at the Australian National War Memorial on the first<br>
Thursday and Friday of August. Did I mention it's free?<br>
<br>
See all the details here: <a href="http://glam.wikimedia.org.au" target="_blank">glam.wikimedia.org.au</a><br>
(a tentative schedule will be published soon)<br>
<br>
Simply put - interest from the GLAM sector has been fantastic. In the one<br>
week since the registrations opened we have now allocated 25% of the seats<br>
(since about 10 minutes ago). This includes several federal government<br>
politicians/their advisers, directors of major institutions, representatives<br>
of national peak bodies and people from at least 4 countries. Seriously -<br>
I'm actually getting registration emails every few minutes at the moment,<br>
from some BIG names...<br>
<br>
But! The number of Wikimedians for those people to discuss the finer points<br>
with are still quite small. I really hope we can put on a good showing and<br>
demonstrate the diversity of skills and level of engagement in our<br>
community. Just as much as I hope the GLAM sector will learn from us, I hope<br>
that we can learn from them - and this required 2-way participation.<br>
<br>
So - if you have an interest in the cultural sector, and can make it to<br>
Canberra, Australia you would be most welcome to attend. If you can't,<br>
perhaps you'd like to follow along at the "Museums & Wikimedia" Museum3.0<br>
Ning <<a href="http://museum30.ning.com/group/museumswikimedia" target="_blank">http://museum30.ning.com/group/museumswikimedia</a>> page. If on twitter<br>
please use the phrase "GLAM-WIKI <<a href="http://twitter.com/#search?q=GLAM-WIKI" target="_blank">http://twitter.com/#search?q=GLAM-WIKI</a>>"<br>
(with the hyphen).<br>
<br>
Sincerely,<br>
(a very excited, and a little bit scared) Liam [[witty lama]]<br>
VP Wikimedia Australia<br>
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Peace, love & metadata<br>
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