Hello,
I have a couple of ideas to communicate to the WM 08 organisers, I hope some are on this list.
1) It would be cool if there was a sponsor interested in the Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year (POTY) competition. Either the finalists from 2007 could be printed up nice and big and displayed (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Picture_of_the_Year/2007/Finalists), or the 2006 & 2007 archives could be burnt onto DVDs, and put in the schwag bags (http://download.wikimedia.org/poty/).
2) Maybe this idea doesn't need any organisation from the organisers, but the attendees :) but I was thinking it would be cool if there was either a "schwag swap" or a "schwag auction". People could bring items they had made themselves (t-shirts, stickers and other items with funny Wikimedia-related slogans) and then either swap them with others, or donate them for an auction, for people to bid for. The money raised could go to a local educational charity, for example.
Thoughts?
cheers, Brianna
Both sounds nice. By the way what plan do we have now for Wikimania Award? Brianna, are you interested in join Award organizing, if happens?
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 1:51 PM, Brianna Laugher brianna.laugher@gmail.com wrote:
Hello,
I have a couple of ideas to communicate to the WM 08 organisers, I hope some are on this list.
- It would be cool if there was a sponsor interested in the Wikimedia
Commons Picture of the Year (POTY) competition. Either the finalists from 2007 could be printed up nice and big and displayed (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Picture_of_the_Year/2007/Finalists), or the 2006 & 2007 archives could be burnt onto DVDs, and put in the schwag bags (http://download.wikimedia.org/poty/).
- Maybe this idea doesn't need any organisation from the organisers,
but the attendees :) but I was thinking it would be cool if there was either a "schwag swap" or a "schwag auction". People could bring items they had made themselves (t-shirts, stickers and other items with funny Wikimedia-related slogans) and then either swap them with others, or donate them for an auction, for people to bid for. The money raised could go to a local educational charity, for example.
Thoughts?
cheers, Brianna
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On 12/03/2008, Aphaia aphaia@gmail.com wrote:
Both sounds nice. By the way what plan do we have now for Wikimania Award? Brianna, are you interested in join Award organizing, if happens?
Ummm, maybe. I observe that the last 2 Wikimania Awards were both pretty disorganised. They're not well publicised and it's not clear who can enter (non-Wikimania attendees?), what is the judging criteria, who are the judges and what is the point of the awards.
If there is a local organiser who wants some help I can probably help with that.
cheers Brianna
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