Hey all.
On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 1:44 PM, Alex Stinson <stinsoad(a)dukes.jmu.edu>wrote;wrote:
Well, one way to spend money in order to directly support the UK
community's goals would be, once you have a chapter manager, to hire an
agency or contractor to run an awareness campaign (Posters at public
transportation outlets, radio and telivision ads, etc.) to get other people
to contribute in Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects and get the face of the
community out there, like Wikimedia Deutschland did.
I think, to my mind, the issue is cost effectiveness. Do we really need more
British Wikipedia editors/Wikimedians? How many people are there in the UK
who would contribute, but don't know of the possibilities? These are tough
questions.
Since this thread includes some of the activity formerly known as
"brainstorming", can I suggest simple technological projects as providing a
good cost-return ratio? I can't be the only student with programming
knowledge, and we come cheap by comparison to an advertising campaign. Even
bigger projects where proper professional help was required still look
positively inexpensive to me. Of course the problem with this rests in being
able to think of good ideas for "apps" -- whether little things that help
people contribute, bigger projects and/or show-pieces that highlight what
we've already got -- but it's a starting point. I can't be the first to
suggest this, so if someone could point me in the direction of a suitable
wiki page / mailing list post that would be good too :)
Of course I would like to see hackday too, but since I'm in no position to
organise it I can't really criticise.
Just my thoughts - feel free to ignore!
Harry (User:Jarry1250)