Hello list, especially Sydneysiders,
A friend of mine, Donna Benjamin, is organising an event in Sydney in
October called "Open-Edge" (as in education I think).
http://open-edge.info/ They have relatively short speaking slots
(15-30 minutes) and I think it would be great if there was a
Wikimedian presentation there.
Does anyone feel up for it? She is looking to finalise the line-up
relatively soon.
If you have never presented before, those of us who have can give you
some tips for what to cover, common questions etc. There are also
quite a few existing slide sets etc you can draw on. It's quite a
short time so you don't need to present the comprehensive thing ever,
and the audience should be quite friendly.
Anyone keen?
thanks,
Brianna
G'day all,
The AGM came and went yesterday in pretty much record time! I must thank
Liam for opening up his place for a very-mini-Sydney meetup, and it was, as
ever, great to hear all the voices from around the country on the conference
call - personally I find that bit quite inspiring, so it's always a bit of a
shame that the actual nuts and bolts business of the AGM is relatively
straightforward - I think we managed to complete business in about quarter
of an hour this year!
Congrat.s are also due to all elected folk (details at
http://wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Committee ) - and following the business end of
the meeting, in Sydney we discussed things like getting organised for a
'Wikipedia Day' in January (it's the site's 9th birthday you know - heading
rapidly for double figures!), as well as trying to expand membership, and
have regular (monthly?) events / meetups to try and keep membership engaged,
informed, and excited!
I believe the committee are getting organised to meet in person in the new
year, and no doubt we'll hear more good stuff anon... but for now, just a
sincere 'well done' to the folk involved in organising the AGM, and a note
that here in Sydney, we're shooting for one more mini-meetup before
christmas, it would be great to get as many folk along as possible, and on a
related note, I've just created http://wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Meetups to see
if a centralised meetup area on the 'official' wiki might help - please do
add info. from other states as appropriate :-)
cheers,
Peter,
PM.
Hello,
post AGM I (and others) have inspired a flurry of activity on the the
official wiki, and I was just trying again to hop into the 'history' section
of a page, which I know most are aware is broken at the moment.
I think this was mentioned yesterday in passing, but I'm afraid I missed it,
so could we get an eta on fixing up the wiki so it works proper :-) (doesn't
matter to me how long it takes, but not knowing is annoying!)
cheers,
Peter,
PM.
As with the folks in Sydney, in Brisbane we talked a bit after the AGM
as well, particularly about membership. I was wondering if we could
perhaps do some brainstorming for ways to improve our membership.
Keeping everyone engaged would help make the registration fee feel
worth it.
Aside from holding more meetups, one of the ideas we threw around was
having some sort of photo scavenger hunt, similar to what Wikimedia
New York has done. We also wondered about the reasons why people would
leave, as well, so creating an exit survey of sorts could be a good
idea. Regular surveys, in general, would help, as well.
Does anyone else have any ideas on types of events, and such? If not,
even just organising a meetup for your local area/state/whatever would
be great.
2009/11/30 private musings <thepmaccount(a)gmail.com>:
> G'day all,
>
> Congrat.s are also due to all elected folk (details at
> http://wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Committee ) - and following the business end of
> the meeting, in Sydney we discussed things like getting organised for a
> 'Wikipedia Day' in January (it's the site's 9th birthday you know - heading
> rapidly for double figures!), as well as trying to expand membership, and
> have regular (monthly?) events / meetups to try and keep membership engaged,
> informed, and excited!
>
> I believe the committee are getting organised to meet in person in the new
> year, and no doubt we'll hear more good stuff anon... but for now, just a
> sincere 'well done' to the folk involved in organising the AGM, and a note
> that here in Sydney, we're shooting for one more mini-meetup before
> christmas, it would be great to get as many folk along as possible, and on a
> related note, I've just created http://wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Meetups to see
> if a centralised meetup area on the 'official' wiki might help - please do
> add info. from other states as appropriate :-)
>
> cheers,
>
> Peter,
> PM.
>
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Lloyd Nguyen
lloyd.nguyen(a)uqconnect.edu.au
Hi,
Is there anyone who is planning to attend LCA in January that would be
interested to help me staff a table for Open Day?
http://www.lca2010.org.nz/programme/open_day
thanks
Brianna
--
They've just been waiting in a mountain for the right moment:
http://modernthings.org/
We've featured wiki source for getting on for 6 months now, so I think it's
probably time to change the front page of official wiki - what do people
think about demonstrating the 'book' feature of english wikipedia for a
while?
I'm thinking of a 'Prime Ministers of Australia' book specifically, because
I see both Mark Hurd and I have previously created one (great minds, and all
that!) - it would be great for the 'featured content' to change roughly
monthly, so if there's no objection, I'll just go ahead later in the week,
and get something up :-)
cheers,
Peter,
PM.
Liam in response to your message below,
I find myself firmly in agreement with Andrew's caution as to what is said that the
Chapter supported, particularly given that a new board is
about to be elected. I am also concerned by the timing of the release
of this information so close to that election as it tends to leave an
inaccurate impression on the new board as to what are its earliest points
of agenda.
I would rather see accurate reference to the facts that occur/occurred
in committee meetings from the outset of correspondence - rather than
after concerns are raised, as this will remove the chance of
misunderstanding occurring. It is also important that a board remains
a committee of elected officers who in public work and speak cohesively
and accurately - with individuals only delivering the exact message
agreed to by the board. So, if as you say this was only a fact finding mission,
then the facts on your research only should have been presented to
the board and the community.
In relation to the bid itself, whilst I can understand action to get
bids in early, suggesting support (real or tacit) by the chapter for the current early
bid will make us look disjointed, if we as a chapter agree later
to support a bid in another part of the country. Indeed there are many
reasons why Sydney may not be the best suggested location of a chapter
supported bid and that point alone is worth discussion, by the
community and the committee.
Steve
>On Thu, 26 Nov 2009 14:12 PM, Liam <liamwyatt(a)gmail.com> wrote in response to Andrew:
>
> > Just a note re the above:
> >
> >
> > > The Chapter committee gave me permission/support to meet with and canvas
> > ideas with BES on an in-principle basis.
> >
> > > Subsequently to the first meeting, I sought committee approval to bring
> > Angela into the discussions too.
> >
> > > permission has been sought from the Chapter committee for this early
> > discussion.
> >
> > I don't mean to be annoying here, but I think we need to be very careful
> > about these kinds of statements.
> >
> > As an observer member of the committee, I can say with moderate certainty
> > that the committee never resolved nor approved anything. There are no
> > meeting minutes or resolutions covering it, and looking at the comm list
> > emails, I would say a more correct statement was that the committee were
> > notified of it, and that the committee did not oppose or object.
> >
> > regards
> > Andrew
> >
>
> I was not trying to imply that the WM-Au committee formally supports a bid,
> but that the committee was kept informed as to what I (and subsequently
> Angela and I) were up to and that I asked permission each time. "Notified"
> is indeed a good term for it. We never voted on it in meetings because there
> was nothing formal to vote on. Rather, it was raised on the mailing list to
> make sure that everyone on the committee was informed and to give a chance
> for people to raise any concerns or provide advice. Since no one raised any
> objections to this course of action you could call this tacit support. It
> has always been clear that the Australian Wikimedian community at large
> involved (and the committee would debate and vote) when we are at a stage of
> actually deciding on a course of action. Until then, it remains a
> fact-finding mission.
> Does this clarify things?
> -Liam
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Hi guys,
Just a reminder that today is the last day to get memberships paid in time
to be eligible to participate in the AGM and vote/nominate/co-nominate in
the elections for the new committee.(I really, really hate asking people for
money so apologies for the repeated emails about paying membership fees!)
Also, the deadline for nominating for a seat on the committee is Sunday 22
November. So if you're thinking about standing yourself or nominating
someone else, please make sure you get the nomination to me by Sunday at the
latest. If you would like to stand for a seat but don't know anyone to
nominate or co-nominate you, please let me know off-list. I will be happy to
nominate any member interested in standing and will also help you find a
co-nominator if necessary.
Cheers,
Sarah
Hi all,
This is a notice for financial Wikimedia Australia members.
I would like to officially announce the details of Wikimedia
Australia's AGM for 2009-2010.
http://wikimedia.org.au/wiki/2009-2010_AGM <- this will have all the
latest details, so please always check back here!
It will be at 2pm AEDST, hosted at Computerbank in Melbourne with
(hopefully phone) link-ups to other meeting places hopefully in a
number of capital cities. If you can make it to another capital city,
please consider helping out with organising a venue for this.
The agenda is as follows:
1. Apologies, attendance (connect with returning officers in each locale)
2. Thanks
3. To confirm the minutes of the previous annual general meeting
4. To receive the committee reports
1. Treasurer (in accordance with section 30(3) of the Act)
2. Secretary
3. President
5. To elect officers of the Association and the ordinary members of
the committee
1. President
2. Vice President
3. Treasurer
4. Secretary
5. Ordinary Members (2)
Regarding the election - only paid members can stand. A nomination
must have two member supporting it (as well as the candidate accepting
it) and must be received by the secretary before Sunday 22nd November.
(Email secretary(a)wikimedia.org.au with a subject "AGM - committee
nomination")
If there are more candidates than spots per office, an election will
be conducted via memberdb in the week before the AGM.
A couple of notes
1) If you are not financial (=acknowledgement of payment from a
committee member) by Friday 27th, you will not be able to take part in
the AGM.
2) We will endeavour to circulate the reports on
members(a)lists.wikimedia.org.au & the wiki ahead of the AGM, to let
people have a chance to read and comment on them (hopefully
alleviating the need for detailed discussion at the AGM itself -
holding a distributed formal meeting is extremely awkward so the aim
is to keep it brief)
3) I realise it's quite difficult at the moment to tell if you are a
financial member or not. Memberdb is very confusing in this regard. We
will endeavour to get this up to date and accurate ASAP.
I think that's mostly it. Thanks Peter and Sarah for doing some
announcing which I should have done earlier...
If you have any questions feel free to ask.
thanks,
Brianna