Muhammad Alsebaey shipmaster at gmail.com 

on Wed Feb 6 04:35:01 UTC 2008

Said,

However I think you feel we have no progress on this front so I will fill

you (and everyone) in:

 

 

Thanks  Muhammad,

 

That’s all I ask for. Someone has to be the shipmaster and I’m too old to be subtle about finding them. You’re aware that Florence went to Davos, and hopefully met the Library’s director. As far as my Dec. suggestion about asking (someone like) him, and Jimmy, to do a comparison between the oldest (continuous) western library and the newest, it might get a few creative juices flowing (and hopefully) attract a few other national librarians. You might even lead the librarians by showing them this UN sponsored project..  http://www.worlddigitallibrary.org/project/english/video.html

 

You already have one fixed session with Sue announcing that someone from this team would be talking about the wikisurvey. http://ccg.merit.unu.edu/ (NB the link off to the left). There’s a thread here between the two, though to the UN.

 

As another idea in trying to introduce Wikimedia’s global communities to some semi-related others, if you click on the link down the bottom left on a the ccg’s page, through to unu-merit, you’ll see they’re announcing that they’ve just launched an OpencourseWare portal. I’m not sure if this is in anyway useful – the commonality with wikmedia is that OCWC is about free content. I just didn’t notice Egypt on their consortia’s page.  http://www.ocwconsortium.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=15&Itemid=29

 

It’s a bit late in the day now to attract most of the people I was hoping for. They set their conference agenda’s late in one year for the next. So would you mind considering the idea of linking up between a few places in different parts of the world and Alexandria. I’ve flagged this tool, but the bibliotech’s guys will have their own preference. http://www.accessgrid.org/home The technical stuff is pretty straight forward, but as you can imagine, it might be a bit too much of a surprise for WMF’s communities this year. All the best.