Hi all,
Having heard no more about this, whether on this list or on-wiki https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_15/Events/London , should we yet conclude that there will be no additional event aside from the London meetup event https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/London/101 , (Sunday, 10th January) the Aberystwyth event https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Expert_outreach/Wikipedian_in_Residence_at_the... (Friday 15th Jan) and the Oxford event https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_15/Events/Oxford,_United_Kingdom (Friday 15th Jan)?
It is good to see the Wikimedians in Residence taking a lead this year, and personally I plan to journey to Oxford itself to participate in the celebrations there.
However it would be particularly useful to know whether Wikimedia UK intends to support the London meet up Sunday event in anyway - for instance through supplying a suitably embellished cake!
Bearing in mind that there will be only a week from when the office re-opens it would be useful if this issue is addressed sooner rather than later.
I also feel that it would be useful to encourage those people attending the Project Management training session from outside London to stay on for the event, as I am sure everyone will agree that to network in the community is a key element of project management in commons-based peer production environment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commons-based_peer_production like Wikipedia/Wikimedia.
all the best
Fabian
aka Leutha
On 18 December 2015 at 13:11 Richard Symonds richard.symonds@wikimedia.org.uk wrote:
Myself and Stuart Prior are organising things, but at present nothing is confirmed. There should be an update before Christmas, we'll email this list to let people know what's happening!
On 18 Dec 2015 10:23, "Charles Matthews" <charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com mailto:charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com > wrote:
> > > On 16 December 2015 at 19:37 "leutha@fabiant.eu > > > mailto:leutha@fabiant.eu " <leutha@fabiant.eu > > > mailto:leutha@fabiant.eu > wrote:Hi all, I see that WMUK is also planning to organise an additional 15thBirthday celebration https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_15/Events/London in London, but it is not clear whether this will be on the Friday or the Saturday.
The 10th birthday saw a party thrown by Jimmy Wales; and I was involved in the invitation list for that. So I was wondering who might be invited. In 2011 Cherie Blair came, and Bamber Gascoigne was invited as a member; he said pleasant things about WP, which got onto Radio 4. John Julius Norwich, another historian has just defended WP in the letters to The Times. Tom Watson the politician is said to be sympathetic.
Thinking aloud here, obviously. Who might be in charge of the event?
Charles
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