Hi all, The JISC Digital Infrastructure team have called me in to give them a day of training on the above date, and I am seeking one or two people to assist. JISC are an extremely important organisation to collaborate with, and this team in particular is concerned with librarianship, scholarship and education, and how these things are or can be transformed by the new environment of open content and open practice. They are very keen to learn from Wikipedia's way of working, so we will be having extended discussion on a set of topics they choose, and going through Basic Wikipedia training, as it is defined on the WMUK wiki.

This would suit someone who is experienced with Wikipedia and possibly other wiki projects, who has helped people with Wikipedia one to one, but hasn't seen Wikipedia training taking place before. You have to be approachable and helpful, and proactively make sure that people don't get left behind. It is also an opportunity to give short informal presentations about aspects of Wikipedia or Wikimedia that the audience are interested in., but if one to one is more your style, that's still great. We'll also be welcoming the new users on-wiki, and documenting the event as we do it. We are training as volunteers, so you get travel expenses to central London, lunch, and a day of people hanging on your words because you have expertise that they want to learn from. You also advance our goals by helping enthusiastic and influential people understand and improve Wikipedia.

If you're interested, sign up online at http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/JISC_DI_team_training_workshop or contact me on my other email address, m.l.poulter@bris.ac.uk . Thanks,