Guys,
OK, now an outsider had had his knuckles wrapped & knows a little of what’s
going on, and that there is a programme committee elist buzzing furiously,
can I just suggest a few things, in attempts ot include a few other
foreigners.
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. HYPERLINK
"http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikimania/"http://www.gossamer-t
hreads.com/lists/wiki/wikimania/
Cary would you like to put this link on the HYPERLINK
"https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l"https://lists.wiki
media.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l page, perhaps next to the archive
link. At least a foreigner can easily see that apart from announcements, and
my indiscretion, Dec 23 is the only conversation. They’ll never know
anything about the programmes committee’s list, but that’s up to them if
they wanted to offer their (locked) archives for perusal. You could do the
same for other the other 5 WMF lists as well if you wanted.
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)
HYPERLINK
"http://www.wikback.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=2353&gonew
=1#UNREAD"http://www.wikback.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=2
353&gonew=1#UNREAD
Just a note about the technical track. You may be across this remote group.
HYPERLINK
"http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator/browse_thread/thread/15678d03be
a6ba00"http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator/browse_thread/threa…
8d03bea6ba00
Might not even be talking WMF but that’s the way communications seems to
happen in remote WMF related communities.
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) regards, simonfj
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