So far this list is just about the nexus of activity re Wikimedia in the UK. Much better than nothing. Gets us (that's an inclusive "us") out of a rut. May I also remind you there's monthly meetups now in London, second Sunday of every month at the back of the Penderel's Oak (kids welcome). Cheers to Gordon Joly for organising and persisting with this. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/London London is not the entire UK, but I don't know of regular ones elsewhere. There should be some. Anyone? - d. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediauk-l(a)wikimedia.org http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_UK http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l

all interested The northern ones generally involve people travelling significant distances, which makes regular ones less likely. I would be interested in more on occasion, though. I'm away from the north for the summer, but I might try and organise one for October. I may attend one of the London ones before then if I can. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediauk-l(a)wikimedia.org http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_UK http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l

2008/7/21 Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com>om>: all interested Discovering that the Penderel's Oak is child-friendly was very nice (and the 11am start meant we could have the All-Day Breakfast, which is only available until noon. Yeah. And beer. Beer for breakfast is the secret of Britain's historical greatness, you know) and made it much more likely that Arkady and I will go to the effort of lugging ourselves and small child there of a Sunday (which is actually quite a bit of effort), assuming the Victoria Line's not down for maintenance on the given weekend. - d. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediauk-l(a)wikimedia.org http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_UK http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l

I would go to the trouble of organising a Manchester meetup if I felt it would be helpful. however, all the executive appear to be located in London, so any northern meetup is probably just going to be a pub social, which doesn't really move matters along.

From September iwould be happy to set up a Cardiff meet up, but whether that would be any success

Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 23:16:05 +0100> From: thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com&gt; To: wikimediauk-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org&gt; Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Welcome to the nexus of activity> > 2008/7/21 Sarah McCulloch <sarahmcculloch@gmail.com>:> > I would go to the trouble of organising a Manchester meetup if I felt it> > would be helpful. however, all the executive appear to be located in London,> > so any northern meetup is probably just going to be a pub social, which> > doesn't really move matters along.> > Meetups don't have to be with the intention of achieving anything.> They work best as just a way for us to meet eachother in real life and> get to know eachother better in an enjoyable environment (that sells> beer!).> > _______________________________________________> Wikimedia UK mailing list> wikimediauk-l(a)wikimedia.org&gt; http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_UK> http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l

2008/7/21 Sarah McCulloch &lt;sarahmcculloch(a)gmail.com&gt;om>: London, Oh, that's not the case at all. Meeting other editors is good in itself. You can quietly bitch about project issues with people you know understand, and when that tires after five minutes you can go off on wild flights of encyclopedic fancy. You don't need a magic blessing to feel energised by a meetup. (I'm slightly boggling at the perceived scarcity economy of intangible pixie dust.) - d. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediauk-l(a)wikimedia.org http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_UK http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l

From September iwould be happy to set up a Cardiff meet up, but whether that would be any success I do not know. There isnt a big number from wales as far as i know, our broadband sheep don't seem to head the way of the wiki.

So far this list is just about the nexus of activity re Wikimedia in the UK. Much better than nothing. Gets us (that's an inclusive "us") out of a rut. May I also remind you there's monthly meetups now in London, second Sunday of every month at the back of the Penderel's Oak (kids welcome). Cheers to Gordon Joly for organising and persisting with this. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/London London is not the entire UK, but I don't know of regular ones elsewhere. There should be some. Anyone? - d.