Hi all, we are going to be running a panel discussion at Byline Festival http://www.bylinefestival.com/, a celebration of free expression and new media to combat fake news and alternative facts. The festival is held at Pippingford Park in Sussex http://www.bylinefestival.com/directions, 1 hour from central London by train.
Our 'Ask Wikipedia http://www.bylinefestival.com/data-dome-1/2017/6/2/control-alt-delete' event will be at 4pm on Friday 2nd June, and the organisers have given us free complimentary tickets for our community members to join us. So if you would like us to sign you up for a free ticket, please reply to this message and tell us your name or email me on john.lubbock@wikimedia.org.uk. All the best,
John Lubbock Communications Coordinator Wikimedia UK
On 24/05/17 14:52, John Lubbock wrote:
The festival is held at Pippingford Park in Sussex http://www.bylinefestival.com/directions, 1 hour from central London by train.
Plus a taxi ride!
Please sign me up.
Gordo
Sure thing Gordo. Any other takers?
On 25 May 2017 at 11:25, Gordon Joly gordon.joly@pobox.com wrote:
On 24/05/17 14:52, John Lubbock wrote:
The festival is held at Pippingford Park in Sussex http://www.bylinefestival.com/directions, 1 hour from central London by train.
Plus a taxi ride!
Please sign me up.
Gordo
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On 25 May 2017 at 11:27, John Lubbock john.lubbock@wikimedia.org.uk wrote:
Sure thing Gordo. Any other takers?
Need a couple of days to decide if "Woodstock for the Facebook Generation" is something I want to attend sober. If I do I will be able to provide lifts from anywhere between Southampton and one of the emptier bits of East Sussex.
On 26/05/17 01:03, geni wrote:
Need a couple of days to decide if "Woodstock for the Facebook Generation" is something I want to attend sober. If I do I will be able to provide lifts from anywhere between Southampton and one of the emptier bits of East Sussex.
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"Turn on, tune in, drop out"?
Gordo
Well, I'm sure you don't have to be 100% sober. :) Do you want me to put you down for a ticket Geni?
On 26 May 2017 at 01:03, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
On 25 May 2017 at 11:27, John Lubbock john.lubbock@wikimedia.org.uk wrote:
Sure thing Gordo. Any other takers?
Need a couple of days to decide if "Woodstock for the Facebook Generation" is something I want to attend sober. If I do I will be able to provide lifts from anywhere between Southampton and one of the emptier bits of East Sussex.
-- geni
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On 26 May 2017 at 10:10, John Lubbock john.lubbock@wikimedia.org.uk wrote:
Well, I'm sure you don't have to be 100% sober. :) Do you want me to put you down for a ticket Geni?
Yes please. There appear to be people there we need better photos of.
On 26 May 2017 at 19:45, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
Yes please. There appear to be people there we need better photos of.
-- geni
Quick thoughts on the festival (well the Friday anyway). Apologies since I'm tired and still feeling somewhat ill from too much festival coffee.
Ended up hastily googleing before I went to check it wasn't fyre festival MkII
Free festival tickets aren't enough to get wikipedians to turn up. In fairness it was rather remote by south east England standards (I'd hate to see the thing's carbon footprint).
Wikipedia is less sexy that hacking. In fairness the hour long delay did mean you ended up competing against Julie Bindel which may not have done wonders for your audience.
We need a sexy 15-20 minute talk that can be thrown at pretty much any audience.
A depressing number of people want to know how to get articles on themselves and aren't prepared to become pro-wrestlers.
Micro four thirds would be a much more convient camera size for this kind of thing
They festival wasn't enforcing its terms and conditions on telephoto lenses
There were quite a few people appearing there that we didn't have photos of
Department S were less popular than expected.
The Members won the difficult to photograph due to lighting effects award (also I'm pretty sure the photo on their article is a copyvio).
Thanks for the feedback. I think I will definitely try to do a presentation which can be used as a generic talk about our work. I guess it's the first time we've done that and it was the festival's first year so my expectations were suitably low. I'll see if we can get food/drink in the budget for next week's election editathon to tempt people.
John
On Sat, 3 Jun 2017 at 02:00, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
On 26 May 2017 at 19:45, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
Yes please. There appear to be people there we need better photos of.
-- geni
Quick thoughts on the festival (well the Friday anyway). Apologies since I'm tired and still feeling somewhat ill from too much festival coffee.
Ended up hastily googleing before I went to check it wasn't fyre festival MkII
Free festival tickets aren't enough to get wikipedians to turn up. In fairness it was rather remote by south east England standards (I'd hate to see the thing's carbon footprint).
Wikipedia is less sexy that hacking. In fairness the hour long delay did mean you ended up competing against Julie Bindel which may not have done wonders for your audience.
We need a sexy 15-20 minute talk that can be thrown at pretty much any audience.
A depressing number of people want to know how to get articles on themselves and aren't prepared to become pro-wrestlers.
Micro four thirds would be a much more convient camera size for this kind of thing
They festival wasn't enforcing its terms and conditions on telephoto lenses
There were quite a few people appearing there that we didn't have photos of
Department S were less popular than expected.
The Members won the difficult to photograph due to lighting effects award (also I'm pretty sure the photo on their article is a copyvio).
-- geni
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On 3 June 2017 at 11:26, John Lubbock john.lubbock@wikimedia.org.uk wrote:
Thanks for the feedback. I think I will definitely try to do a presentation which can be used as a generic talk about our work. I guess it's the first time we've done that and it was the festival's first year so my expectations were suitably low.
Pics have been uploaded (mostly photos of people we needed images of):
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Byline_Festival_(2017)
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