Every month the newsletter This Month in GLAM is published in what various chapters, volunteers, users and GLAMs write about stories and experiences in what galleries, libraries, archives, museums, and various other institutions and organisations work together with Wikipedia/Wikimedia or open up their collections or data and release them to the public domain or under a free license.

A lot of those stories and experiences are described in the newsletter, but those originate mostly from North America and Europe, while the newsletter is intended to give an overview of GLAM stories from all over the world, as all of them are worth telling and sharing. How can we reach out more to Africa, Asia and South America?

Therefore I am looking for volunteers who can help me/us with contacting chapters, GLAM organisers, Wikipedians in Residence, and others who are willing to share their stories and and experiences. Who wants to help reaching out?

How can you help?

• Inform chapters and volunteers about the existence of the monthly newsletter.
• Contact GLAM organisers and ask them to write a report about their activities.
• Search for releases as open data or releases of text or media under a free license and write about them.
  
• Write about your experiences in organising offline activities and collaborations with other organisations.
  
• Communicate about the newsletter, share it with your colleagues, with other volunteers and inform GLAMs about the existence of the newsletter where they can read about what other organisations do.
  

Who wants to help out?

If you want to help, you can start right away.

Since today we also have a section for Wikidata & GLAMs. The first edition of this report will published in the coming newsletter and you can add more information at https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/April_2015/Contents/Wikidata_report

I am also happy to say that the newsletter This Month in GLAM has been published 50 times!

Congratulations all!
Since December 2010 Rock drum published a monthly newsletter what I took over from him in November 2012. We have maintained the newsletter, but we couldn't do this without the Wikimedia community who has written the contents of the newsletter. So, thank you all for writing and I hope you will continue to share your experiences and stories with the next 50 editions!

As the newsletter is no fifty editions young, I think this is a good moment to start with a new logo. The new logo should look more like the general GLAM WIKI logo style: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GLAM-WIKI.png

I am looking for someone who can help me with making a new logo that has a similar style as GLAM-WIKI. Who can help me?

Thanks!

Romaine

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publisher of This Month in GLAM