On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 4:41 PM, Oliver Moran wiki_ra@yahoo.ie wrote:
The ideas that I have been playing with related to how to get people in Ireland interested in OSS development and evangelism, Creative Commons, wiki-ery, hacker culture, etc. to get in contact with each other. In particular, I have been thinking about how to create a shared/collaborative space with the eventual idea of enabling folk in Ireland to find and collaborate on projects, to co-ordinate efforts, share ideas and to establish a "community" out of individuals. And also to promote these kinds of ideas/philosophies (both in community and in business).
Sounds great!
Oliver, do you know about the hackspaces in Dublin and Galway? http://www.tog.ie/ http://091labs.com/
Jodi, I get the impression from references you've made into these topics too?
Yup. :)
Like I said, I think this kind of thing is outside of the remit of Wikimedia. If you are interested in developing a network such as this in Ireland, get in touch with me. I've a spare server with a suitable (I think) domain name left over from a idea I didn't follow through with. I'd be happy to give the three of you (Conor, James and Jodi) FTP and DB access; and to set-up a mailing list, if you think there are more that would be interested in communicating over these kinds of broad "hacker", OSS, CC culture, collaboration, evangelism and development etc. in Ireland.
For me, 091labs is the vehicle. Maybe you want to start a hackspace in your town? (Where is that, btw?)
-Jodi
Regards, Oliver
2010/9/4 Conor Wao conorwao@gmail.com
Hi all,
sorry I won't be able to make it due to prior commitments but I am still very keen on being part of the project. Since I won't be at the meeting, I would like to mention a few things in the hope of starting some discussions.
My main interests are to encourage more educators to use Wikimedia tools and to help people to release more music/media into the commons. I would like to achieve this by getting funding to put on demonstrations which would include information on how to find, use and remix CC licensed music and showcasing the open-source software one could use to do this. I have many years' experience with the Fedora operating system coupled with Planet CCRMA's multimedia software patch.
I am interested in using Wikimedia to help introduce open, shared resources to educators. I would also like funding to do demonstrations for, and have meetings with, teachers. I am interested in raising awareness of evolution by natural selection in Irish classrooms and would also like to encourage content generation in relation to this.
Irish language projects would be important for an Irish Wikimedia so that should be discussed.
A good publicity tool would be a competition involving music, photography and/or art. All entries could be released under CC license and the winners promoted on the Irish Wikimedia website. Wikimedia doesn't seem to have much in the way of music storage - discuss?
I hope this can help start some discussions and begin to focus on finding some goals that this project will have.
Looking forward to hearing from you,
Conor.
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