Arkady says Wikimedia Educational Resources' records will be updated soon (go,
Arkady!!). I've raised the finance/charity related things with the board, and by email
with Cary and WMF, so far so good. We're also all waiting for news if Alison's
bank idea shortcut works, but they probably won't have a reply this week.
Oxford sounds great. When will they be ready to come back to us?
Other stuff...
The student club idea's great, but will a
research/editing club really be appealing or what would attract people
and make them stick past college?
If we did seek startup donations of "a sum of your choice between £150 and £250"
contingent on charity
registration and say payable over 12-15 months to kickstart the charity, how many would
be
interested?
I've also done some work on a basic presentation for the banks before now that we
could adapt, if anyone wants to start a team to work on presenting and promoting, and
designing promotional material. I've got a lot of commercial experience in the
conference business that might help (mostly commercial conferences and 10 years ago but I
might have an odd contact from those days for organization, information and planning
ideas).
Re materials, if we're researching venues and accomodation, then promotional materials
helps everyone when we're pitching for support and facilities, we can put them online
to get early traction for the bid. Things like theme + banners, handouts, multimedia
presentations, mail-outs/leaflets can help a lot if we need to
pitch to anyone and we'd need them anyway. Anyone with flash, web, marketing and
promotion, or graphic design skills who wants to grab this and get the team going?
Paul Sinclair.
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