Hi Simon,
I’ve asked the guys at gossamer threads to take a feed from this list and attempt to make it comprehensible. You’ll see what I mean if you look at this. http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikimania/
This may be of use to someone but there is already
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimania-l/
and the established service for further distribution of Wikimedia mailing list (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists) is GMANE, see
http://dir.gmane.org/search.php?match=wikimedia http://dir.gmane.org/search.php?match=wikipedia
I wouldn’t preclude wikback from some WM conversations. I did set up a thread over there, if you wanted to be inclusive of the disaffected. If you look at the readership, it’s around 5 times this thread (and some good ideas as well)
http://www.wikback.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=2353&am...
I don't see any relevant conversation. People are complaining, that's what people always do. Instead they could start and do something productive - complaining is always easier than finding out what's really neded and then work on it.
RE IRC. It’s better than nothing. But would someone ask Jay, the new comms manager, if he couldn’t suggest a quick improvement. I have mentioned the idea of the accessgrid (as where IRC will end up if it overeats) a number of times and Markie will shoot me for doing it again. But if the guys in the bibliotech are interested in linking a few global spots, then we might help a few old national librarians to understand how a younger mind thinks about libraries these days (and vice versa)
I would appreciate a session on (national) libraries very much either at Wikimania or in other context. You could distribute the call for participation in the library scence, collect information on the wikimania wiki etc.
About: IRC, Skype, Accessgrid etc. - I don't care which to use for communication, but only open standards with support of Open Source Software are acceptable choices - such as Email, IRC, Jabber ...
Greetings, Jakob