Hello everyone and welcome to our new list subscribers!
About two weeks ago I shared information on the GLAM-Wiki US Consortium,
which we officially launched at the GLAM Night Out event at the Newseum
during Wikimania. We were also lucky enough to have the launch reiterated
by the Archivist of the United States, David Ferriero, during the closing
plenary.
The defining goal of the Consortium is to bring GLAM professionals together
with Wikipedians to work and discuss more efficiently together - and we've
definitely started off on the right foot! Already we have many
organizations, cultural professionals, and Wikipedians who are interested
in being a part of the GLAM-US Consortium. So with this momentum, it's
truly time to come together and establish a useful structure for this
network.
I urge you to join the conversation and help to establish what the
Consortium will look like, both in the short-term and long-term.
Things you can do:
- *Read *through this one-page overview of the Consortium's broad goals: *
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/US/Consortium*<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/US/Consortium>
- *Sign up* as an affiliate organization, chapter, or individual if you are
interested in taking part.
- *Share* your thoughts on the Consortium on the* talk page*, if you're
comfortable doing so, or on this *email list*.
- You can specifically address the following questions:
- What platforms for discussion and information dispersal are most
immediately useful & relevant to you?
- What organizational structures should be aimed for in the future?
- What funding models could be pursued in the future?
I have cc'd the Libraries list and the global GLAM list on this email just
as an FYI. In the future, all discussion of the GLAM-US Consortium will be
centralized here on the GLAM-US list. If you are on these other lists and
are interested in taking part, please sign up here:
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/glam-us
With the abundance of talks, events, and praise for GLAM last week at
Wikimania, I've never been more proud to be a part of this incredible
global community. I'm really excited to see where the GLAM-US Consortium
might lead - in particular in bringing cultural professionals more
coherently into the conversation.
Thanks for your time and I look forward to hearing your thoughts!
Best,
Lori
--
Lori Phillips
Digital Marketing Content Coordinator
The Children's Museum of Indianapolis
US Cultural Partnerships Coordinator
Wikimedia Foundation
http://loribyrdphillips.com/
Please share this around, for those who might want to host a
'Wikipedia Loves Libraries' event in October/November:
http://bit.ly/wikiloveslib
Thanks,
Richard
(User:Pharos)
The Wikimania people were nice enough to prioritize the editing of David
Ferriero's closing plenary speech at Wikimania so that he could embed it in
his blog post which was published today. As a result, it's actually the
only official video from Wikimania available yet! See:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47pEcmXjt8E (blog
post<http://blogs.archives.gov/aotus/?p=4298>
)
I thought people on this list would be interested to view it, if you didn't
get a chance to see it in person, and also to share and quote from it even
if you did. It's all about putting our GLAM work in the context of ongoing
trends in the cultural sector, and it was well-received by the live
audience (though the cheering is a bit muted in the video). The full text
will go up at archives.gov soon
(here<http://www.archives.gov/about/speeches/ferriero/index.html>
).
Dominic
I've been having some luck with the Congressional Cemetery QR code
project. I posted 60 codes there just before July 1. 25 Wikipedians
had a group tour of the Cemetery during Wikimania.
Please see the news story on ABC ch 7 in Washington, July 17, 2012 at
http://wj.la/M7BOUf
Some folks will notice that Ch. 7 credited me as being the founder of
the Wikipedia QR Code project. My apologies to Roger Bamkin and
Terence Eden.
All the best,
Pete Ekman
User:Smallbones
Hello all,
Due to some server hiccups, we have moved the North American email list to
the WMF servers.
During this process, we changed the name of the list to GLAM-US. (This is
merely for succinctness and does not in any way alter the scope of hte list
- which is US, Canada, Mexico, or really anyone.)
The new email you should add to your contacts is: *
glam-us(a)lists.wikimedia.org*
For further information, or to change your settings, you can go here:
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/options/glam-us/
You are already subscribed to this new list, but in doing so your password
may have been changed to a new auto-generated one. You can update your
password at the above link.
I'm sorry if this causes any inconvenience. Please let me know if you have
any issues or questions!
Many thanks,
Lori
--
Lori Phillips
Digital Marketing Content Coordinator
The Children's Museum of Indianapolis
US Cultural Partnerships Coordinator
Wikimedia Foundation
703.489.6036 | http://loribyrdphillips.com/