Wikimedia France and Wikimedia Foundation are organizing a multimedia-focused workshop to take place on November 6-8 2009 in Paris, France. Rather than an open community conference like Wikimania, this will be a workshop targeting skilled practitioners who want to help transform our approach to rich media throughout the Wikimedia universe.

One of the key objective of this meeting would be to help inform the recently funded Multimedia Usability Project to improve the usability of Wikimedia Commons. This meeting should help to immerse the project team in the complex world of multimedia in Wikimedia projects today. It should also help to start building a core group of volunteers as well as chapter support for the project.

Beyond the Multimedia Usability Project, we're hoping that useful practical discussions will lead to outcomes positively driving approaches to sharing and collaborating multimedia in the Wikimedia universe forward.