Jenny - you might want to join Wikimedia UK's mailing list - http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/WikimediaUK-l
On 30/08/2007, Sandy Ordonez sordonez@wikimedia.org wrote:
This whole letter was music to my ears, but yes I think the conference is a phenomenal idea...and if you want, I can def. get you in touch with a few people, and I think that you should reach out to UK wikimedia people to get their input as well, but I' am ALL FOR THIS.
And yes, I really need hlep with wikilove meme.....you guys need to start the momentum for others to follow :)
sandy
Jennifer Gristock wrote:
Hi Sean, Hi Sandy, Hi everyone,
Sorry to miss the meeting last night... I read the logs. Were you all happy with the background for the Yoruba press release I wrote? Should I paste the list of education journals that Sandy needed somewhere?
I've fallen behind a little bit because my Dad was rushed into hospital very suddenly and he had a very big operation and we learned that it is cancer. I rushed to Wales earlier this month, spent some time in the Intensive Care Unit with him and now, thank goodness, he is recovering well and he is out of hospital. I wasn't going to say anything about it, but then I read the logs of the meeting last night, and I realised I had been missed. Well folks, if I havent replied to an email, that's why. Sorry about that.
Now you all know that I am good at getting things done - the press release, the education journals - if there is another task I can help with, please just shout. I will get my thinking cap on [er.. British expression for I will think carefully] about the Wiki Love Meme.
I want to make things happen. Here's an idea: I would like to organise a 1-day conference in the UK on Wikis, Academia and Public engagement. It would be hosted in my department and we have lovely open spaces in our building.
I will be asking a contact at a research council to support it financially, but they usually only do it if it is co-funded and would be attended by some big names. What are the chances of that, do you think???
If Sandy thinks this is a good idea, I'd love to know who would like to come and we could brainstorm to shape the idea up a little.
Sorry to miss the meeting once again.
best wishes
Jen/Open Research
--On 29 August 2007 22:28 +0100 Sean Whitton sean@silentflame.com wrote:
Hello all,
Tonight we had a very successful IRC meeting in the ComProj IRC channel and I think that several decisions were reached that should help the future of the group. I will detail these below. Because not all members were present, please feel free to give your comments on the list here, and if you disagree with the conclusions we drew, please say so.
The first item was ComProj's current membership roster. I pointed out that the private spreadsheet containing the information provided when people join ComProj was a bit pointless as it remained private and so we agreed it should be put on meta. However, it does contain some confidential information, namely e-mail addresses, real names and some brief real life bios. Since we do not want to offend anyone, I intend to filter these out until I get confirmation from individuals that they are happy with their information being listed. I will keep you informed about how I get along with this.
The next item was ComProj's organisation. schiste suggested that we get people involved with the group as project managers and just that - people who may not really be appropriate for doing projects themselves. He said that lots of people who do communications work do not like project management, so this would allow them to just get on with their specialisation. schiste volunteered to try to find a pool of project leaders from across Wikimedia. Please let him know if you are interested.
We now hope to have projects being assigned leaders (the idea is that co-ordinators (me, Sandy, Cary) will do this) and then work can begin. I aim to do some restructuring of our pages on meta tomorrow so that this can be slotted in. Hopefully, this will mean that people will get chance to work at something they really want to do and projects can be completed in a more timely manner.
As chair I will still be trying to pull stuff together by arranging and organanising meetings and attempting to liaise between project leaders etc. which I think is working reasonably well. It should be made clear that even though we now have three layers of co-ordinators, project leaders and members, everyone within ComProj is most definately equal - it's just that we are doing different jobs. Managing a project, for example, is a skill in the same way graphics designing or writing is.
Again, please feel free to offer comments. I will be updating you as I work on our pages on meta, which I would hope we start to use more.
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