Wikimediauk-l April 2008

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Museums that allow photography, e.g. V&A
by David Gerard 11 Apr '08

11 Apr '08

I went to the V&A last week and took photos of everything I could, which I really should upload some time sooner rather than later. In fact, I want a better camera for low light just to do the V&A. Their photo policy is "feel free", just don't use a flash and don't be a nuisance. There are a limited number of exhibitions they ask for no photography in (there's the Design in China one at the moment, for example), but mostly you can take pics of anything. So - apart from those of you with cameras that are good in low light photographing every damn thing to be found in the entire V&A ... 1. Do we have a list of photographer-friendly museums? 2. (the biggie) How do we thank V&A for their openness? And how do we do it in such a way as to encourage *other* museums to open their collections up to free content photography? I'm thinking talking to them and working out a joint press release. Has anyone here gone hogwild with a camera in UK museums? Do please tell! - d.

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Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Proposal for future goal of the chapter
by Thomas Dalton 09 Apr '08

09 Apr '08

On 09/04/2008, Tom Holden <thomas.holden(a)gmail.com> wrote: > I have a friend who's qualified as a barrister who may be interested in > helping out, but he wants to know in more detail what kind of problems you > envisage wanting his help with. (I'm sorry if this was obvious from the > foundation-l discussion, I unsubscribed in despair at the volume of nonsense > that list generates these days.) Everything and anything, really - that's one of the reasons paying someone would be better than a volunteer (once we have the funds to do that). Mainly I expect it would be how UK copyright and libel laws affect Wikimedia projects. The current discussion on foundation-l is about the fact that Wikipedia is licensed under GFDL version 1.2 *or later* and there are suggestions that such "or later" clauses aren't valid in some jurisdictions. It would be useful to have someone able to advise the foundation/community on whether they're valid in the UK.

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Proposal for future goal of the chapter
by Thomas Dalton 09 Apr '08

09 Apr '08

Inspired by the recent legal discussions on foundation-l, I've had an idea for something the chapter could usefully do. It's not something we'll be able to do any time soon (it would certainly require a bank account! [any progress on that recently?]), but I'll probably forget it, so I'll suggest it now. We should hire a lawyer. In addition to handling legal stuff for the chapter they would be able to advise the foundation and appropriate communities (where practical) on issues of UK law. Currently the foundation's only legal expert, Mike, is purely a US lawyer and, AFAIK, has no experience with other jurisdictions. That's not a great situation for a foundation involved in activities all over world. Obviously, the WMF cannot hire a lawyer from every country in the world, but individual chapters can hire lawyers for their country and offer their services to the foundation. I think doing so would be an excellent use of chapter funds (once we have some, that is).

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Looking for UK speakers
by Jay Walsh 03 Apr '08

03 Apr '08

Hi all, I've received the following invitation for a speaker in the UK, and I thought it most efficient to share this with the UK list to gauge interest. I'm also in the process of developing a volunteer speaking list for each of the major territories, so I can send requests to people directly. If you're interested in being added to that list (or if there already is one you might know of...) feel free to send me your contact information directly. Please also provide some information about areas of interest, your background on WP or the other WM projects, and what experience you have when it comes to speaking or lecturing. Thanks in advance, -- Jay Walsh Head of Communications WikimediaFoundation.org +1 (415) 839 6885 x 609 -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: Talk Invitation: Sheffield UK Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 09:33:52 +0000 From: Susheel Varma <susheel.varma(a)sheffield.ac.uk> Reply-To: susheel.varma(a)sheffield.ac.uk To: jwalsh(a)wikimedia.org CC: Wales PA <wikispeaker(a)gmail.com> References: <7488e7730803181442t798c409fm304bad207de05f5c(a)mail.gmail.com> <282a01800803191053i5bbc3a58i63a8851979905329(a)mail.gmail.com> Dear Jay Walsh, The Kroto Research Podium Seminars is a long running seminar series organised weekly by The Kroto Research Institute(KRI) at Sheffield, UK. The series is mainly aimed at young researchers and participants to gain access to and interact with distinguished speakers on a wide range of research topics. The seminars are usually held every Friday between 10am-12pm and is designed to be informal and free and open to all members of the University across disciplines. We have heard that you are a wonderful speaker and deeply passionate about the work that you do at Wikimedia.org We are particularly interested in the work your organisation does in the field of Openness and IP, and we imagine there to be a wide range collaborative interests between us. We would additionally like to extend the invitation to any other suitable spokesperson from your organisation to Sheffield. We would be deeply indebted to you if you could spare some of your time to give us a talk at the North Campus Conference Centre here in Sheffield about your thoughts, opinions and comments on Open Research. We would be able to cover all reasonable travels expenses within the UK and lunch afterwards. We have listed a number of possible dates/time for your visit to Sheffield below: 20th June 2008 (11am-12pm) 11th,18th July 2008 (11am-12pm) 8th August 2008 (11am-12pm) Our research websites (http://www.shef.ac.uk/dcs/research/ and http://www.shef.ac.uk/northcampus/) will provide an overview of some the work carried out by our research staff, and may hint at some of the collaborative ideas that may be possible. Should you have any questions or need additional information regarding our request, please feel free to reply to any of my contact addresses below. Thank you for your time and consideration. I look forward to your reply to our request. Sincerely, Susheel -- Susheel Varma Computational Systems Biology | Tel : +44 (0) 114 22 25931 Department of Computer Science | Fax : +44 (0) 114 22 21810 The Kroto Research Institute | Web : www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~susheel University of Sheffield | Email: susheel.varma(a)sheffield.ac.uk Broad Lane, Sheffield, S3 7HQ, UK | Email: susheel(a)dcs.shef.ac.uk

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