On 8/7/07, Brianna Laugher brianna.laugher@gmail.com wrote:
Hi folks,
Hi,
I gave a 'Commons HOWTO tutorial' which started with about a dozen people attending and by the end there was another dozen or two. I talked briefly about how Commons works, deriv works, licenses, categories, CommonSense tool, Mayflower, Extra-tabs.js (although I didn't call it that, and one person commented that they had never seen them before - we DO have them installed for EVERYONE, right??). We did a transfer of an image from en.wp to Commons. We got some tough questions like 'I'm uploading these for my wife - what should I do vis-a-vis permission?' (I said ask her to send you a confirmation email. This case of genuine verbal permission is tricky to handle.) It was fun.
[offtopic] I am going to do a lightning talk about Commons on Wikimedia Conference Netherlands in October. I will have a quick talk about most of the things pfctdayelise mentioned, but I wonder if you folks have some ideas about some specific things I should mention? (We do have a bad reputation at the Dutch wikis, you know...)
==POTY07== I will post separately about this. But I think we should start getting into gear or at least thinking about things. I think we should close submissions by the end of Nov, hold two weeks of voting, and use the results to make calendar/s. I also think we should have 12-15 different categories of voting and more or less use those as the calendar pictures.
Absolutely. We should start with the preparations somewhere around October. Last year's edition was a great succes, but it also was a great mess. I hope we can make this year's better :)
I now think that instead of asking/wishing for the board to promote us, we need to force them to have to talk about us by creating the interest ourselves. I really think this project could create some serious interest. And maybe if enough proceeds go to the WMF, then we can demand with a little more conviction that they should be earmarked for Commons-specific development. :)
Hmm. Do we have a Commons tshirt? I want one.
Cheers, Bryan