Bah, I live in Sheffield; shame I'm not really experienced enough.
S
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 8:59 PM, Jay Walsh jwalsh@wikimedia.org wrote:
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@sheffield.ac.uk Reply-To: susheel.varma@sheffield.ac.uk To: jwalsh@wikimedia.org CC: Wales PA wikispeaker@gmail.com References: 7488e7730803181442t798c409fm304bad207de05f5c@mail.gmail.com 282a01800803191053i5bbc3a58i63a8851979905329@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@sheffield.ac.uk Broad Lane, Sheffield, S3 7HQ, UK | Email: susheel@dcs.shef.ac.uk
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