On 17/05/2011 09:40, Michael Peel wrote:
Just to note: WMUK doesn't own the geonotices; any admin can change them in the usual Wiki fashion. ;-)
Also: to be honest, it's a little difficult to see how WMUK can give much support to meetups. They're volunteer-led, advertised on-wiki, and don't really need anything to support them to make them successful as far as I can see. The London wikimeets have never asked for anything from WMUK (despite me prompting them to occasionally ;-) ). There are things WMUK could provide: for example, room hire (but most wikimeets are in a pub or cafe, without room hire costs), transportation costs for a speaker (but most wikimeets don't have speakers), internet access costs (but I know the London wikimeet pointedly avoids having internet access) or Wikipedia posters (not too useful in a pub, though?). I'd love to see us supporting the establishment of many more wikimeets, but we need some input in to how we could usefully do that.
Advance publicity and reporting are of course the basics. But if you look around the world, or listen to participants, there is the chance of tying meetups into other things (e.g. photography initiatives ...) to have some variety and purpose.
Charles