Dear Tim (Berners-Lee),

 

I’m writing to you on behalf of the organising committee for Wikimania. This is the annual conference for the Wikimedia Foundation. Don’t think I need to tell yo what they do.No.8 on Alexa’s top 500.

 

Yes, please; a talk. Just half an hour at most. We’d (all right, I) would really like some insight into what you where thinking when you did the first prop to CERN’s management about your “Information Management” idea in . And what prop you would offer them today.

 

The audience is WMF’s universe, which is just starting to grow now as their Head Office have, literally, just moved to San Fran and employed a whole bunch of new recruits. So they are really looking for some ideas about what should be their next steps.

 

Alexandria’s a long way, but please don’t let that stop you. I’m sure we could organise a link between your present (Uni) home and Egypt’s new National Library’s auditorium.  In fact I’d like to encourage it as it might help to get the information centric to reconsider their communication’s networking. I’m trying to see of we could strap together a mini-megaconference.  http://digitalunion.osu.edu/megaconference/

And to be quite blunt, we need a headline act. (no guitar required)

 

If you are interested, these are some other ideas floating around the WMF traps. http://wikimania2008.wikimedia.org/wiki/Program_ideas

We could see about a global workshop if you wanted to suggest something interesting.

 

Appreciate your interest, and your time. If you’d like to say yea or nay, just a reply on this list would encourage people who don’t believe God’s talk.

 

Obsequiously yours,

Simon Fenton- Jones