Greetings!
I hope you're well and enjoying your summer.
It's been a month since we started our new multimedia program at the Wikimedia Foundation, and we'd like to give you a quick update about our work, as well as invite you to join some of our upcoming discussions.
Here's our monthly report on July's activities and upcoming projects: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia#Status
If you are going to Wikimania in Hong Kong this year, consider joining our roundtable discussion this Thursday, August 8th, at 10:00am local time: http://wikimania2013.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Multimedia_Roundtable
We will also host another public discussion on IRC later this month, on Thursday, August 22nd, at 19:00 UTC: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours#Upcoming_office_hours
These discussions will bring together community members and developers to discuss how to create a better multimedia experience on Wikipedia and Commons. With your help, we plan to create new ways to view, contribute, curate, discover and use or share media files -- and grow our audio-visual knowledge base in the process.
We hope you can join one of these discussions, which we also plan to host on-wiki. Through these conversations, we aim to review current multimedia workflows on Commons and Wikipedia, and identify together some key issues and features that can help us grow our media ecosystem in coming years.
Thanks again for your interest in this project. We look forward to talking with you soon!
All the best,
Fabrice and the Multimedia Team
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Fabrice Florin Product Manager, Multimedia Wikimedia Foundation fflorin@wikimedia.org
multimedia@lists.wikimedia.org