Perhaps part of the reason that we struggle to recruit is that we don't publicly take part in events in related topics. An event like this has a communications budget far in excess of our own, we might as well take advantage of it. We should have someone charismatic there to present on behalf of the community.
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On 18 March 2014 12:05, Fæ faewik@gmail.com wrote:
On 18/03/2014, Stevie Benton stevie.benton@wikimedia.org.uk wrote:
Hello folks.
If anyone is interested in the sharing economy, and would like to attend this event, please let me know. We can try and arrange something.
Thank you,
Stevie
I am unsure as to why Wikimedia UK would want to promote a collaborative commerce conversation (as the LLDC and Echo describe the event), rather than ensuring our members and volunteers take part in open knowledge conferences and events. This appears to be a business/charity networking social of the 'big society' format. Lots of people are interested in the issues of the sharing economy (I am an active support of freecycling); but this seems a long way from Wikimedia projects, if the intention was to pay expenses for someone to attend and write a blog post about it.
If anyone has spare time we have a lot of past GLAM (and University) contacts from editathons that could do with practical follow up, or support finishing creating articles and making use of media uploads. The issue for the backlog of properly completing past projects is attracting active and productive volunteers (globally), which seems a pressing issue compared to the benefits to the charity of creating a bigger list of potential commercial, political and NFP partner organizations.
Fae
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