[[Presentations]]: Are there any modern lists of speakers about the projects simiar to http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Presentations/speakers ? I bet that as a group we could get speaker or panel invitations to a number of digital library, elearning, linguistics, &c conferences for people who were really up on the latest efforts to improve each of the projects -- once we knew there were speakers to fill the bill.
Is there someplace other than [[Presentations]] and [[Posters]] where people are expected to share new media? I see a different set on slideshare.
[[Marketing]] : Arne and elian and guillom, call your office :) this page has helpful links, even if they are out of date. WMDOC for instance... I liked this idea a lot, though it takes a lot of effort for the first edition. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDOC/matrix
Do we have a modern press kit? I was looking for one the other day... Elian's is still up on meta, but not updated. That page should be tagged with a link to the current equivalent, or at least marked historical. Has anyone been working on this sort of effort more recently?
Sj, Looking over not-quite-historical pages,
On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 11:54 PM, Samuel Kleinmeta.sj@gmail.com wrote:
Do we have a modern press kit? I was looking for one the other day... Elian's is still up on meta, but not updated. That page should be tagged with a link to the current equivalent, or at least marked historical. Has anyone been working on this sort of effort more recently?
I went looking for this, not long ago, and was surprised to find that the most recent general-purpose press kit was the one we made up for WM05. I have to say that I felt kind of silly handing out the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. annual report at Maker Faire.
Austin
The annual report is pretty shiny. Did people like it? Who did that layout and design? The 'news' parts of the annual would make for a good one-pager in a modern kit. And a monthly summary of Signpost, Kurier, and equivalent zines with a handful of photos might make another one...
S.
On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 1:35 AM, Austin Hairadhair@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 11:54 PM, Samuel Kleinmeta.sj@gmail.com wrote:
Do we have a modern press kit? I was looking for one the other day... Elian's is still up on meta, but not updated. That page should be tagged with a link to the current equivalent, or at least marked historical. Has anyone been working on this sort of effort more recently?
I went looking for this, not long ago, and was surprised to find that the most recent general-purpose press kit was the one we made up for WM05. I have to say that I felt kind of silly handing out the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. annual report at Maker Faire.
Austin
On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 12:47 AM, Samuel Kleinmeta.sj@gmail.com wrote:
The annual report is pretty shiny. Did people like it? Who did that layout and design? The 'news' parts of the annual would make for a good one-pager in a modern kit. And a monthly summary of Signpost, Kurier, and equivalent zines with a handful of photos might make another one...
It's shiny, for sure, but the average spectator didn't care. The most effective handouts, actually, were the B&W xeroxed flash cards highlighting projects people hadn't heard of. ("I use Wikipedia all the time, but I had no idea there was a Wiktionary!") The zines would have actually been great, if we had only thought of it.
I think everyone will agree that we need to come up with a better event kit, and at least two of the current proposals on the strategy wiki refer to that. I don't think we need to wait for any kind of formal process to get started on it, though.
Austin
On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 11:14 PM, Austin Hairadhair@gmail.com wrote:
I think everyone will agree that we need to come up with a better event kit, and at least two of the current proposals on the strategy wiki refer to that. I don't think we need to wait for any kind of formal process to get started on it, though.
Austin
Funny you should mention this :) I recently started http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Events_kit based on a very similar conversation. Just a stub now -- please add to it.
Hopefully the bookshelf project will come up with some shiny fliers etc. that can be used for events, but in the meantime we *really* need a nice-looking one page overview about the projects to hand out -- any graphic designers up for this? And of course a new press kit too (there must be one -- is it just not on meta? Anyone?)
-- phoebe
Hopefully the bookshelf project will come up with some shiny fliers etc. that can be used for events, but in the meantime we *really* need a nice-looking one page overview about the projects to hand out -- any graphic designers up for this? And of course a new press kit too (there must be one -- is it just not on meta? Anyone?)
-- phoebe
Not exactly a graphics designer but i'm pretty handy with InDesign so there is the content somewhere I can try to make something from it.
- Peachey
phoebe ayers, 02/08/2009 08:50:
in the meantime we *really* need a nice-looking one page overview about the projects to hand out -- any graphic designers up for this? And of course a new press kit too
I suppose local chapters have many... See Wikimedia Italia last one: http://www.wikimedia.it/images/Guida_Wiki2009_folder_8facce.pdf (text refined by WM-IT members in years of experience, graphics donated by Diskos, a graphics school, for the Digital freedoms festival: http://www.libertadigitali.org/).
Nemo
Hello,
On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 6:54 AM, Samuel Kleinmeta.sj@gmail.com wrote:
[[Presentations]]: Are there any modern lists of speakers about the projects simiar to http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Presentations/speakers ?
Not to my knowledge.
Is there someplace other than [[Presentations]] and [[Posters]] where people are expected to share new media?
No. But these pages are not publicised a lot.
[[Marketing]] : Arne and elian and guillom, call your office :) this page has helpful links, even if they are out of date. WMDOC for instance... I liked this idea a lot, though it takes a lot of effort for the first edition. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDOC/matrix
WMDOC is not "out-of-date"; I started it a few weeks ago, but since I'm the only person working on these documents, it takes a lot of time.
Do we have a modern press kit? I was looking for one the other day... Elian's is still up on meta, but not updated. That page should be tagged with a link to the current equivalent, or at least marked historical. Has anyone been working on this sort of effort more recently?
I worked with Sandra Ordonez (the foundation's previous Communications Manager) on a new one. When Sandra was replaced by Jay, Jay told me a new press kit wasn't his priority. As a consequence, I am working on it alone (as part of WMDOC), as a volunteer, and it takes a lot of time.
On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 3:06 AM, Guillaume Paumierguillom.pom@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks, Guillom.
Is there someplace other than [[Presentations]] and [[Posters]] where people are expected to share new media?
No. But these pages are not publicised a lot.
True. They need a set of navigation links, for one.
[[Marketing]] : Arne and elian and guillom, call your office :) this page has helpful links, even if they are out of date. WMDOC for instance... I liked this idea a lot, though it takes a lot of effort for the first edition. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDOC/matrix
WMDOC is not "out-of-date"; I started it a few weeks ago, but since I'm the only person working on these documents, it takes a lot of time.
Yes, that's why linked to it. I mean that some of the links there may be old, but they are all helpful.
Do we have a modern press kit? I was looking for one the other day... Elian's is still up on meta, but not updated. That page should be tagged with a link to the current equivalent, or at least marked historical. Has anyone been working on this sort of effort more recently?
I worked with Sandra Ordonez (the foundation's previous Communications Manager) on a new one. When Sandra was replaced by Jay, Jay told me a new press kit wasn't his priority. As a consequence, I am working on it alone (as part of WMDOC), as a volunteer, and it takes a lot of time.
Ah, that rings a bell. I tied these two subjects together because every time someone attends an event at a booth or as a speaker, they have a need for one of those docs, and often work on one (in private). If we get more organized about helping people go present, it will lead to a better WMDOC library.
It's worth pinging the people who have submitted presentations so far. I added a few navigation guides to help improve traffic to those parts of Meta.
Sj
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