On 8/30/07, Sean Whitton <sean@silentflame.com> wrote:

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.
> >>
> >> [[m:User:Sean Whitton]]
> >> ComProj chair
> >>
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