Hello and welcome to our team Liam,
from all what I hear and read about you, I'm convinced that you are a great asset for our project! I'm rather new to the Wikipedia community but maybe this look from the outside is my biggest advantage! I'm thrilled to work with you on this project and I'll hope you discover a few more beautiful things...
Kathrin
2009/8/10 Liam Wyatt liamwyatt@gmail.com
G'day everyone, I saw this new mailing list and thought to myself - "you know what, I would like to subscribe to a new mailing list today - this looks like a good one!" And so I did, and here I am. What an amazing journey it has been... you wouldn't imagine beautiful things I have seen in the brief period between discovering the mailing list, subscribing, and writing this letter. But I must say that the highlight was the automated email telling me what my password was and how to unsubscribe if I wanted to. I think I will cherish that email forever :-)
But on to the boring stuff...
I'm guessing that if you're already on this mailing list then you probably already know me. I'm Liam, the Vice President of Wikimedia Australia, podcaster on Wikipedia[not very]Weekly, I wrote my thesis about how Wikipedia and Academia need to learn from each other and I have recently run the GLAM-WIKI conference in Canberra. Yes, I'm sorry, it was because of that that we now all have to try to live with the word "glam" being used as a noun.
My particular "thing" is liaising with the cultural sector (that is - galleries, libraries, archives and museums) about how we can work together to build sustainable relationships. That was the essence of the GLAM-WIKI conference. But, I also do presentations to english teachers, to historians, to copyright lawyers, etc. You can see some of my outreach-y stuff on my blog: wittylama.com/blog
So.... hello! -Liam
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