On Dec 9, 2007 7:34 PM, Gordon Joly <gordon.joly(a)pobox.com> wrote:
> At 09:39 +0000 9/12/07, David Gerard wrote:
> >
> >(Magnus Manske came down from Cambridge and I found out why
> >MediaWiki's written in PHP. See, Nupedia was written in PHP, Magnus
> >learnt PHP to patch the code, UseMod was getting limiting so Magnus
> >wrote a new wiki script to learn PHP in ... *shudder* Like building a
> >skyscraper from Lego and gaffer tape. And now we live in it.)
Aahhhh... good ol' times...
> And then somebody said - we can use this for Wikimedia Commons!
Well, now you're just pulling my leg.
Oh wait...
Magnus
This morning I spoke to people in Jim Knight, Schools Minister's office
about our bid and after a bit of explanation and so on was asked to email
them.
I would suggest some people take a look at www.governmentfunding.org.uk [1],
please post if you are. There may be something we can use there.
Cheers,
--
Gary Kirk
[1] This means I am not doing it and it will not get done unless someone
else does it. Kthxbye :)
Ahem :)
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Date: 10 Dec 2007 18:46
Subject: [Foundation-l] Wikimania 2009 bidding dates
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Hello all.
We have finally formalized the dates for bidding for Wikimania 2009.
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Sue's in town next week. Wednesday 5th, anyone? What was the pub we
went to (near Holborn I think) that didn't suck? (After going to the
one that did suck.)
Wed 5th afternoon is my works' Christmas party, so expect me to be
mostly trashed and sipping Coke and Red Bull.
- d.
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From: Sue Gardner <sgardner(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: 29 Nov 2007 00:22
Subject: Re: I'm coming to London :-)
To: David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com>
Cc: James Forrester <jdforrester(a)gmail.com>, Alison Wheeler
<wikimedia(a)alisonwheeler.com>, Arkady Rose <arkady.rose(a)gmail.com>
David Gerard wrote:
>
>
> I think a London wikimeet would be quite feasible! Shall I suggest it
> to wikimediauk-l? Do we know any pubs that definitely don't suck and
> will be open Wednesday evening? We've had a bad record at picking
> these so far ...
>
> (I have my works Christmas party that afternoon. I expect to be half
> trashed and sipping Coke.)
>
>
> - d.
>
Lovely - fun! I am in, just tell me where to be & when :-)
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From: Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock(a)okfn.org>
Date: 7 Dec 2007 23:08
Subject: [Icommons] Open Knowledge (OKCon) 2008: LSE, London, 15th March 2008
To: "icommons(a)lists.ibiblio.org" <icommons(a)lists.ibiblio.org>
* OKCon 2008 - 'Open Knowledge: Applications, Tools and Services'
* where: London School of Economics, London, UK
* when: 15th March 2008 (1030-1830)
* www: <http://www.okfn.org/okcon/>
* register: <http://www.okfn.org/okcon/register/>
* last year: <http://www.okfn.org/okcon/2007/>
* wiki: <http://www.okfn.org/wiki/okcon2008/>
Following on from the success of our inaugural conference last year,
we're pleased to announce that the second Open Knowledge conference
(OKCon) will take place on Saturday 15th March 2008.
The event will bring together individuals and groups from across the
open knowledge spectrum for a day of seminars and workshops around the
theme of 'Applications, Tools and Services'. Three main sessions will
focus on 'Transport and Environment', 'Visualization and Analysis' and
'Education and Academia'. In addition there will be an 'Open Space'
suitable for presentations and demos of general open knowledge related
work.
The event is open to all but we encourage you to register because space
is limited. A small entrance fee is planned to help pay for costs but
concessions are available.
### More Information ###
'Open Knowledge' is material that others are free to access, reuse or
re-distribute and may be anything from sonnets to statistics, genes to
geodata. In recent years we've seen the growth of successful open
knowledge projects - from peer reviewed journals to community edited
encyclopaedias - but what impact can open licensing have in education,
research and commerce? Is sharing the key to scaling? What kinds of
business models are available to open knowledge distributors and how is
open knowledge applied in different institutional and professional
contexts?
There now exists a vast amount of open content and data but what kinds
of tools are available to analyse and represent this wealth of material?
How can we sort, search, store it to maximise its visibility and
reusability?
We've also witnessed the rise of web-based services -- from social
networking sites to online spreadsheet packages. While we have
definitions for open software and open knowledge, what is an open
service and what kinds of new services can be built using open
knowledge?
### Want to give a presentation or demo? Want to help out? ###
If you have a presentation, demo or workshop you'd like to give, or
would like to help out with OKCon 2008 please either post on the wiki
(link above) or let us know by email on info [at] okfn [dot] org.
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On 03/12/2007, Gordon Joly <gordon.joly(a)pobox.com> wrote:
> >OK. Shall we can the Shakespeare's Head and just go for this?
> >
> >(Don't forget prebooking!)
>
>
> The Globe is very close, so I guess if you miss the LWW event, you
> can coagulate in the pub anyway?
Coagulate... what a good pubbish word!
> Pre-booking just means adding you name to the list of names at the
> bottom of this page:
>
> http://tinyurl.com/34kpdk
>
> http://www.eu.socialtext.net/wikiwed/index.cgi?london_wikiwed_5_december_20…
>
> Sue Gardner is already on the list.
I can safely say that trying to log in to edit that was a fight and a
half! still, on the list now...
(I recognise quite a sprinking of names there. I wonder if we'll end
up outweighing the regulars)
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On 02/12/2007, Gordon Joly <gordon.joly(a)pobox.com> wrote:
> At 10:46 +0000 2/12/07, Gordon Joly wrote:
> >Jimmy Wales has been invited to speak at this month's event.
> >http://www.eu.socialtext.net/wikiwed/index.cgi?london_wikiwed_5_december_20…
> >http://www.eu.socialtext.net/wikiwed/index.cgi?london
> >The event will be hosted by NYK Shipping (thanks to Alek Lotoczko)
> >and SocialText will be footing the bill for - pizzas, beer and wine
> >(thanks to Ross Mayfield and Ross Hargreaves). The address is NYK
> >Line, 17th Floor, CityPoint, 1 Ropemaker Street, London EC2Y 9NY.
> >Nearest Tube is Moorgate.
> >We aim for people to arrive around 18:15 for a 19:00 formal start.
> >Please make sure you book your name below so a name badge can be
> >prepared, and if you have any difficulties on the night you can call
> >David Terrar on 07715 159423.
> And I am suggesting the same pub afterwards as last time we met at NYK Line:
> The Globe, 83 Moorgate, London, EC2M 6SA
> http://www.beerintheevening.com/pubs/s/59/594/Globe/Moorgate
OK. Shall we can the Shakespeare's Head and just go for this?
(Don't forget prebooking!)
- d.
Jimmy Wales has been invited to speak at this month's event.
http://www.eu.socialtext.net/wikiwed/index.cgi?london_wikiwed_5_december_20…http://www.eu.socialtext.net/wikiwed/index.cgi?london
The event will be hosted by NYK Shipping (thanks to Alek Lotoczko)
and SocialText will be footing the bill for - pizzas, beer and wine
(thanks to Ross Mayfield and Ross Hargreaves). The address is NYK
Line, 17th Floor, CityPoint, 1 Ropemaker Street, London EC2Y 9NY.
Nearest Tube is Moorgate.
We aim for people to arrive around 18:15 for a 19:00 formal start.
Please make sure you book your name below so a name badge can be
prepared, and if you have any difficulties on the night you can call
David Terrar on 07715 159423.