Dear all,
You may already be aware of today's Wikipedia meetup at Bangalore from the
posts on this list.
It is has been our ongoing endeavor to use the meetups to connect and share
experiences of wikipedians. In one of our earlier meetups we had tamil
wikipedians presenting at our meetup remotely. That attempt worked out
pretty well and it threw open newer ideas.
Today we will be taking that even further. We are going to be having Liam
Wyatt (Witty Lama for many) - active wikipedian from Sydney present at our
meetup. This talk has also been listed at the meetup page.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Bangalore/Bangalore12
For a list of our previous meeups, please see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Bangalore
Liam will be speaking on the topic - GLAM WIKI event and Wikipedia Australia
chapter activities.
*A brief introduction of Liam:*
Liam is a Sydney free-culture
advocate<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Culture_movement>
, blogger <http://www.wittylama.com/blog/> and leader in the Wikimedia
community for greater sustainable collaboration with the cultural and
education sectors both within Australia and globally. When not volunteering
for the Wikimedia movement he works atAustLII <http://www.austlii.edu.au/> and
formerly at the Dictionary of
Sydney<http://www.dictionaryofsydney.org/www/html/7-home-page.asp>
managing
copyright.
Liam is the Vice President of Wikimedia
Australia<http://wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Wikimedia_Australia> and
co-host of the WikipediaWeekly podcast. He is the current UNSW university
medallist in History for his thesis "The Academic Lineage of Wikipedia ".
Recently he convened the world's first conference for the cultural sector
(Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums) to discuss ways of sustainably
collaborating with Wikipedia - "GLAM-WIKI <http://glam.wikimedia.org.au/>:
Finding the common ground".
See you all at the meetup. You can join the meetup remotely too. Please the
meetup page for instructions.
regards
Arun
www.twitter.com/arunram