From 20 - 22 July 2012 we are looking forward to hosting the first
Edinburgh Photography Workshop. The intent is to improve photography skills amongst attendees, share the tricks of the trade and show how to make the most of your photographs throughout Wikimedia's projects, focusing on Wikimedia Commons and Wikipedia.
Several currently non-Wikimedians from Edinburgh have already shown their interest in the workshop and are keen on learning more about photography and Wikimedia's projects.
If interested, the project page for the workshop is here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Scotland/Edinburgh_Photo...
We're now up to a dozen signed-up attendees, although there's some concern Peter may not be able to get over from Hamburg due to WM-DE possibly not resolving funding issues.
Once the workshop is over, I'll provide a brief report on how it's gone so anyone interested in running a similar event can do so.
Brian.
On 10 July 2012 11:24, Brian McNeil brian.mcneil@wikinewsie.org wrote:
From 20 - 22 July 2012 we are looking forward to hosting the first Edinburgh Photography Workshop. The intent is to improve photography skills amongst attendees, share the tricks of the trade and show how to make the most of your photographs throughout Wikimedia's projects, focusing on Wikimedia Commons and Wikipedia.
Several currently non-Wikimedians from Edinburgh have already shown their interest in the workshop and are keen on learning more about photography and Wikimedia's projects.
If interested, the project page for the workshop is here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Scotland/Edinburgh_Photo...
We're now up to a dozen signed-up attendees, although there's some concern Peter may not be able to get over from Hamburg due to WM-DE possibly not resolving funding issues.
Once the workshop is over, I'll provide a brief report on how it's gone so anyone interested in running a similar event can do so.
Brian.
Whats the justification for using google documents?
It's easy, simple, has multi-platform support and keeps private data about volunteers on WMUK-controlled servers, rather than us having to rely on the WMF, which complicates data protection a fair bit!
Richard Symonds, Wikimedia UK On Jul 11, 2012 9:58 AM, "geni" geniice@gmail.com wrote:
On 10 July 2012 11:24, Brian McNeil brian.mcneil@wikinewsie.org wrote:
From 20 - 22 July 2012 we are looking forward to hosting the first Edinburgh Photography Workshop. The intent is to improve photography skills amongst attendees, share the tricks of the trade and show how to make the most of your photographs throughout Wikimedia's projects, focusing on Wikimedia Commons and Wikipedia.
Several currently non-Wikimedians from Edinburgh have already shown their interest in the workshop and are keen on learning more about photography and Wikimedia's projects.
If interested, the project page for the workshop is here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Scotland/Edinburgh_Photo...
We're now up to a dozen signed-up attendees, although there's some
concern
Peter may not be able to get over from Hamburg due to WM-DE possibly not resolving funding issues.
Once the workshop is over, I'll provide a brief report on how it's gone
so
anyone interested in running a similar event can do so.
Brian.
Whats the justification for using google documents?
-- geni
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On 11 July 2012 15:04, Richard Symonds richard.symonds@wikimedia.org.uk wrote:
It's easy, simple, has multi-platform support and keeps private data about volunteers on WMUK-controlled servers, rather than us having to rely on the WMF, which complicates data protection a fair bit!
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dFpWVGkxU2xGdDlEYmdrdlZ... is on a WMUK-controlled server?
it's on a system which we have full control over, although the servers are run by Google, obviously! The difference is that we have some control over it. What other system would you suggest? happy to hear suggestions!
Richard Symonds, Wikimedia UK On Jul 11, 2012 10:07 AM, "geni" geniice@gmail.com wrote:
On 11 July 2012 15:04, Richard Symonds richard.symonds@wikimedia.org.uk wrote:
It's easy, simple, has multi-platform support and keeps private data
about
volunteers on WMUK-controlled servers, rather than us having to rely on
the
WMF, which complicates data protection a fair bit!
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dFpWVGkxU2xGdDlEYmdrdlZ... is on a WMUK-controlled server? -- geni
Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediauk-l@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
We have CiviCRM, which includes CiviEvents, set up and running on the WMUK server...
Mike
On 11 Jul 2012, at 10:14, Richard Symonds wrote:
it's on a system which we have full control over, although the servers are run by Google, obviously! The difference is that we have some control over it. What other system would you suggest? happy to hear suggestions!
Richard Symonds, Wikimedia UK
On Jul 11, 2012 10:07 AM, "geni" geniice@gmail.com wrote: On 11 July 2012 15:04, Richard Symonds richard.symonds@wikimedia.org.uk wrote:
It's easy, simple, has multi-platform support and keeps private data about volunteers on WMUK-controlled servers, rather than us having to rely on the WMF, which complicates data protection a fair bit!
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dFpWVGkxU2xGdDlEYmdrdlZ... is on a WMUK-controlled server? -- geni
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Which does not work well as soon as you want to modify the booking form - which is crucial in cases like this one where we want lots of additional information from the attendees unfortunately. Hopefully if we get the upgrade this will be resolved, and I will be more than happy to use CiviEvents then.
Daria
On 11 July 2012 15:17, Michael Peel michael.peel@wikimedia.org.uk wrote:
We have CiviCRM, which includes CiviEvents, set up and running on the WMUK server...
Mike
On 11 Jul 2012, at 10:14, Richard Symonds wrote:
it's on a system which we have full control over, although the servers are run by Google, obviously! The difference is that we have some control over it. What other system would you suggest? happy to hear suggestions!
Richard Symonds, Wikimedia UK On Jul 11, 2012 10:07 AM, "geni" geniice@gmail.com wrote:
On 11 July 2012 15:04, Richard Symonds richard.symonds@wikimedia.org.uk wrote:
It's easy, simple, has multi-platform support and keeps private data
about
volunteers on WMUK-controlled servers, rather than us having to rely on
the
WMF, which complicates data protection a fair bit!
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dFpWVGkxU2xGdDlEYmdrdlZ... is on a WMUK-controlled server? -- geni
Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediauk-l@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediauk-l@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediauk-l@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
We've yet to get civievents working as we need it, although we used it for the AGM. Once we get the civicrm developers in, they can tweak it so it works properly for us :-)
Richard Symonds, Wikimedia UK On Jul 11, 2012 10:17 AM, "Michael Peel" michael.peel@wikimedia.org.uk wrote:
We have CiviCRM, which includes CiviEvents, set up and running on the WMUK server...
Mike
On 11 Jul 2012, at 10:14, Richard Symonds wrote:
it's on a system which we have full control over, although the servers are run by Google, obviously! The difference is that we have some control over it. What other system would you suggest? happy to hear suggestions!
Richard Symonds, Wikimedia UK On Jul 11, 2012 10:07 AM, "geni" geniice@gmail.com wrote:
On 11 July 2012 15:04, Richard Symonds richard.symonds@wikimedia.org.uk wrote:
It's easy, simple, has multi-platform support and keeps private data
about
volunteers on WMUK-controlled servers, rather than us having to rely on
the
WMF, which complicates data protection a fair bit!
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dFpWVGkxU2xGdDlEYmdrdlZ... is on a WMUK-controlled server? -- geni
Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediauk-l@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediauk-l@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediauk-l@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
On 11 July 2012 15:14, Richard Symonds richard.symonds@wikimedia.org.uk wrote:
it's on a system which we have full control over, although the servers are run by Google, obviously! The difference is that we have some control over it. What other system would you suggest? happy to hear suggestions!
Well the publicly posted list appeared to be working fairly well and allows people to judge if this is an event they want to attend. The most effective way of dealing with privacy related information is not to collect it in the first place and since Mcdonald Road Library is hardly a controlled area there is no real reason to.
On Wed, July 11, 2012 3:37 pm, geni wrote:
On 11 July 2012 15:14, Richard Symonds richard.symonds@wikimedia.org.uk wrote:
it's on a system which we have full control over, although the servers are run by Google, obviously! The difference is that we have some control over it. What other system would you suggest? happy to hear suggestions!
Well the publicly posted list appeared to be working fairly well and allows people to judge if this is an event they want to attend. The most effective way of dealing with privacy related information is not to collect it in the first place and since Mcdonald Road Library is hardly a controlled area there is no real reason to.
The publicly posted list is not up-to-date. Sorry, *wasn't* - someone wisely deleted it.
Brian.
On the format, a wiki is practical for our users, but not for people new to the system - even if they are comfortable editing, using a complicated table is definitely a deterrent. We actively discourage posting contact details, for obvious reasons, which adds an extra hurdle to confirming - as we need names and contact details, we have to be able to follow up is they don't post them.
(unrelatedly, I did sign up, but no email - can someone check if I am in fact registered?)
- Andrew. On 11 Jul 2012 15:37, "geni" geniice@gmail.com wrote:
On 11 July 2012 15:14, Richard Symonds richard.symonds@wikimedia.org.uk wrote:
it's on a system which we have full control over, although the servers
are
run by Google, obviously! The difference is that we have some control
over
it. What other system would you suggest? happy to hear suggestions!
Well the publicly posted list appeared to be working fairly well and allows people to judge if this is an event they want to attend. The most effective way of dealing with privacy related information is not to collect it in the first place and since Mcdonald Road Library is hardly a controlled area there is no real reason to.
-- geni
Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediauk-l@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Yep, Andrew.
Unlucky for you - 13th in the auto-created spreadsheet. ;-)
On Wed, July 11, 2012 4:09 pm, Andrew Gray wrote:
On the format, a wiki is practical for our users, but not for people new to the system - even if they are comfortable editing, using a complicated table is definitely a deterrent. We actively discourage posting contact details, for obvious reasons, which adds an extra hurdle to confirming - as we need names and contact details, we have to be able to follow up is they don't post them.
(unrelatedly, I did sign up, but no email - can someone check if I am in fact registered?)
- Andrew.
On 11 Jul 2012 15:37, "geni" geniice@gmail.com wrote:
On 11 July 2012 15:14, Richard Symonds richard.symonds@wikimedia.org.uk wrote:
it's on a system which we have full control over, although the servers
are
run by Google, obviously! The difference is that we have some control
over
it. What other system would you suggest? happy to hear suggestions!
Well the publicly posted list appeared to be working fairly well and allows people to judge if this is an event they want to attend. The most effective way of dealing with privacy related information is not to collect it in the first place and since Mcdonald Road Library is hardly a controlled area there is no real reason to.
-- geni
Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediauk-l@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediauk-l@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
On Wed, July 11, 2012 2:58 pm, geni wrote:
If interested, the project page for the workshop is here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Scotland/Edinburgh_Photo...
Whats the justification for using google documents?
Not my choice to do so.
I believe Peter used this as a form which people who may have little-to-no experience editing a wiki will find the easiest to navigate.
Early next week I intend to put together a short welcome email with checklist, which will gently remind people if they don't have an account on a Wikimedia wiki to create one, and point them to basic editing help.
Brian.
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