The 2009 Annual Wikimedia Fundraiser is just round the corner and we need to crystallize the list of items that we will use our income for so that we can encourage people to donate.
I've done a first draft at http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/2009_Winter_Fundraiser#Use_of_funds - please could you take a look and edit away! What would inspire you to donate?
Andrew
2009/10/19 Andrew Turvey andrewrturvey@googlemail.com:
The 2009 Annual Wikimedia Fundraiser is just round the corner and we need to crystallize the list of items that we will use our income for so that we can encourage people to donate.
I've done a first draft at http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/2009_Winter_Fundraiser#Use_of_funds - please could you take a look and edit away! What would inspire you to donate?
Andrew
At the moment the biggest area we haven't managed to get into at all is crown copyright expired UK gov video. The postwar collection appears to be held by the national archives:
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/films/1945to1951/filmindex.htm
But I'm not sure who got the old Ministry of Information stuff. Have a bad feeling it might be the IWM.
The other thing we haven't really looked into is the various wrecks off the British coast. Things like HMS A1. A lot of this stuff is restricted under the Protection of Wrecks Act 1973 but there are groups who get permission to dive the things and it would be nice to make contact.
2009/10/21 geni geniice@gmail.com:
At the moment the biggest area we haven't managed to get into at all is crown copyright expired UK gov video. The postwar collection appears to be held by the national archives:
Excellent progress is being made in talks with the national archives. It has been suggested that we buy some digitisation hardware (high-end scanners, cameras, etc.) that we could use to digitise parts of their archives - I think that would be very useful.
2009/10/21 Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com:
2009/10/21 geni geniice@gmail.com:
At the moment the biggest area we haven't managed to get into at all is crown copyright expired UK gov video. The postwar collection appears to be held by the national archives:
Excellent progress is being made in talks with the national archives. It has been suggested that we buy some digitisation hardware (high-end scanners, cameras, etc.) that we could use to digitise parts of their archives - I think that would be very useful.
Does anyone know what kind of scanners you need to digitalise film?
2009/10/21 geni geniice@gmail.com:
Does anyone know what kind of scanners you need to digitalise film?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecine http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_picture_film_scanner
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