With
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_UK/People_interested_in_supporting…,
we have a long list of... well, it's self-explanatory really. Three of those
signed are on the Wikimania jury or have conflicts of interest in supporting
an individual bid, one is a banned user and one is me. That leaves 74 people
who can help in this bid, if anyone is still interested?
I expect not all of them are subscribed to this list. Could people draft an
email we can send to them on a subpage of m:Wikimania 2009/UK ?
Cheers
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Gary Kirk
It’s Simon using Sandy’s account Cormac, keeping the spam generated from
Wiki****’s mailing lists on another machine. Just setting up another account
to use in future.
Saw your name and paper pop up.
The name here HYPERLINK
"http://www.open.ac.uk/openlearn/openlearn2007/programme.php"http://www.open
.ac.uk/openlearn/openlearn2007/programme.php
Your paper here. HYPERLINK
"http://kn.open.ac.uk/public/workspace.cfm?wpid=7984"http://kn.open.ac.uk/pu
blic/workspace.cfm?wpid=7984 Very good. OpenLearn has been one home (page)
to me for its one year. I’m jealous of your attendance, and a few others.
The problem for Openlearn’s, as it is for Wikipedia’s, many conferences is
that they forego any attempt to include the majority of openlearners and
wikimedians, which would be OK if useful tools = the (baby) Global IP
utilities = weren’t so bleedin’ obvious. Like forums or HYPERLINK
"http://www.vrvs.org/Documentation/faq.html"http://www.vrvs.org/Documentatio
n/faq.html
The openlearn sponsorship, you will find, has legs due to HP being its main
sponsor ($5M for three years I think). You would be aware HP has scattered
its pennies on these waters as well. HYPERLINK
"http://ocwconsortium.org/about/index.shtml"http://ocwconsortium.org/about/i
ndex.shtml I think they would be interested in sponsoring another global
foundation’s talkative communities; particularly if their members’ primary
aim was to link between global sites and, at “their” conferences, do
something like an academic Euro song contest.
It seems to be becoming more obvious to many virtual communities. Mail lists
generate spam. (No? Gary) Their “border conversations” (threads) are hard to
find, follow, and aggregate. They are invariably lost over time and through
‘reclassification’. In an online forum it’s the exact opposite. I point out
this one to the ComProj improvement committee HYPERLINK
"http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-threads.cfm?f=35"http://forums.whirlpo
ol.net.au/forum-threads.cfm?f=35 You can see its moderators moving (or
deleting) inquirers to the appropriate forum (virtual room).
If we could get the old email approach to personal communication above the
radar = onto a few more interactive screens, in a more understandable
format, in real time as well as asynchronous. This sponsorship thread runs
into a few quiet conversations with an (smaller, global) ISP at this end.
They partner with HP (and a few other big names) already. I’ll look forward
to your opinion of the OU pow wow. Regards.
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