Great news, both!
From: glam-us-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:glam-us-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On
Behalf Of Jason Moore
Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2014 7:49 AM
To: North American Cultural Partnerships
Subject: Re: [GLAM-US] Wikipedian-in-Residence at UC Berkeley
Great news. Congrats, Kevin!
Jason
On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 4:58 PM, Sarah Stierch
<sarah.stierch@gmail.com<mailto:sarah.stierch@gmail.com>> wrote:
Fabulous news Kevin!!
This is great timing, as I'll be serving as the Susan B. Miller Fellow at the UCB New
Media Center starting..tomorrow.
We have plans to partner together, and will be doing some great projects about free
culture and knowledge!
-Sarah
On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 4:57 PM, Kevin Gorman
<kgorman@gmail.com<mailto:kgorman@gmail.com>> wrote:
Hi all -
I have talked about this in bits and places elsewhere, but as I finally have a finalized
signed contract in hand, I figured I'd make an actual announcement about it.
Officially effective today, I am the Wikipedian-in-Residence for the American Culture
Program at the University of California, Berkeley. American Cultures at Berkeley is a
program centered on the study of race, ethnicity, and culture in the United States - a lot
of what I will be doing will be centered around very closely supervising USEP classes in
under-represented areas, but I'll also working on other related issues, such as trying
to arrange media donations, trying to document best practices, etc - as well as tackling
other projects that have yet to be thought of!
Wikipedians-in-Residence have previously focused almost entirely on GLAM institutions, and
as far as I know, I'm the first WiR at a University. I'm hoping that this will
end up being a productive collaboration that sets up the groundwork for future WiR
positions at other Universities. I know UCB will be trying to set up some press later in
the month, and I intend to meticulously document my residency, make my materials available
for reuse, etc.
Since my duties aren't set in stone yet, I'd also strongly welcome suggestions for
additional projects to take on - since I'm based out of the AC center, most work I do
should be focused on areas that are currently under-represented on Wikipedia, but that can
cover an awful lot of ground.
Best,
Kevin Gorman
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