Hi all,
The next board meeting is this evening; Tuesday 26 May 2009, 8.30-10.30pm BST, in the #wikimedia-uk-board channel on irc.freenode.net, with discussion in #wikimedia-uk. Everyone is more than welcome to attend.
The draft agenda is at: http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetings/2009-05-26/Agenda Board members: please confirm whether you'll be present or not on the agenda page.
Thanks, Mike Peel
Hi all,
The next board meeting is this evening; Tuesday 2 June 2009, 8.30-10.30pm BST, in the #wikimedia-uk-board channel on irc.freenode.net, with discussion in #wikimedia-uk. Everyone is more than welcome to attend.
The draft agenda is at: http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetings/2009-06-02/Agenda Board members: please confirm whether you'll be present or not on the agenda page.
Thanks, Mike Peel
Hi all,
The next board meeting is this evening; Tuesday 9 June 2009, 8.30-10.30pm BST, in the #wikimedia-uk-board channel on irc.freenode.net, with discussion in #wikimedia-uk. Everyone is more than welcome to attend.
The draft agenda is at: http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetings/2009-06-09/Agenda Board members: please confirm whether you'll be present or not on the agenda page.
Thanks, Mike Peel
Hi all,
The next board meeting is this evening; Tuesday 23 June 2009, 8.30-10.30pm BST, in the #wikimedia-uk-board channel on irc.freenode.net, with discussion in #wikimedia-uk. Everyone is more than welcome to attend.
The draft agenda is at: http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetings/2009-06-23/Agenda
I would encourage everyone to come along, as this evening we'll be discussing how to go about increasing our membership, how to start getting some initiatives going and how we should be approaching fundraising. There should be something of interest for all, and we'd love to get your views on these topics.
Thanks, Mike Peel
Hi all,
The next board meeting is this evening; Tuesday 7 July 2009, 8.30-10.30pm BST, in the #wikimedia-uk-board channel on irc.freenode.net, with discussion in #wikimedia-uk. Everyone is more than welcome to attend.
The draft agenda is at: http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetings/2009-07-07/Agenda Board members: please confirm whether you'll be present or not on the agenda page, and please post your reports onto the wiki.
Thanks, Mike Peel
Hi all,
The next board meeting is this evening; Tuesday 21 July 2009, 8.30-10.30pm BST, in the #wikimedia-uk-board channel on irc.freenode.net, with discussion in #wikimedia-uk. Everyone is more than welcome to attend. The agenda is at: http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetings/2009-07-21/Agenda
Thanks, Mike Peel
Hi all,
The next board meeting is this evening; Wednesday 5 August 2009, 8.30-10.30pm BST, in the #wikimedia-uk-board channel on irc.freenode.net, with discussion in #wikimedia-uk. Everyone is more than welcome to attend. If you don't have an IRC client, then you can connect using http://webchat.freenode.net/ .
The agenda is at http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetings/2009-08-05/Agenda
Board members: please confirm whether you'll be present or not on the agenda page, and please post your reports onto the wiki (links are on the agenda). It's especially important for you to post a report beforehand if you won't be present at the meeting...
Thanks, Mike Peel
Hi all,
The next board meeting is this evening; Wednesday 18 August 2009, 8.30-10.30pm BST, in the #wikimedia-uk-board channel on irc.freenode.net, with discussion in #wikimedia-uk. Everyone is more than welcome to attend. If you don't have an IRC client, then you can connect using http://webchat.freenode.net/ .
The agenda is at http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetings/2009-08-18/Agenda
Board members: please confirm whether you'll be present or not on the agenda page, and please post your reports onto the wiki (links are on the agenda). It's especially important for you to post a report beforehand if you won't be present at the meeting...
Thanks, Mike Peel
... of course, I meant _Tuesday_, not Wednesday.
Mike
On 18 Aug 2009, at 13:47, Michael Peel wrote:
Hi all,
The next board meeting is this evening; Wednesday 18 August 2009, 8.30-10.30pm BST, in the #wikimedia-uk-board channel on irc.freenode.net, with discussion in #wikimedia-uk. Everyone is more than welcome to attend. If you don't have an IRC client, then you can connect using http://webchat.freenode.net/ .
The agenda is at http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetings/2009-08-18/ Agenda
Board members: please confirm whether you'll be present or not on the agenda page, and please post your reports onto the wiki (links are on the agenda). It's especially important for you to post a report beforehand if you won't be present at the meeting...
Thanks, Mike Peel
Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediauk-l@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
The next board meeting is this evening; Wednesday 18 August 2009, 8.30-10.30pm BST, in the #wikimedia-uk-board channel on irc.freenode.net, with discussion in #wikimedia-uk. Everyone is more than welcome to attend. If you don't have an IRC client, then you can connect using http://webchat.freenode.net/ .
The agenda is at http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetings/2009-08-18/ Agenda
Hello,
Is it OK if someone posts the log (ie, all the IRC dialogue) from the meeting or is that not advised? I'm new here so I don't know how things work.
On 19 Aug 2009, at 15:38, Bod Notbod wrote:
The next board meeting is this evening; Wednesday 18 August 2009, 8.30-10.30pm BST, in the #wikimedia-uk-board channel on irc.freenode.net, with discussion in #wikimedia-uk. Everyone is more than welcome to attend. If you don't have an IRC client, then you can connect using http://webchat.freenode.net/ .
The agenda is at http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetings/2009-08-18/ Agenda
Hello,
Is it OK if someone posts the log (ie, all the IRC dialogue) from the meeting or is that not advised? I'm new here so I don't know how things work.
Hi Bod,
Most of it is already online: http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetings/2009-08-18/IRC See: http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetings for minutes/logs of previous meetings.
Does anyone have a log of the first half hour? My IRC client crashed, and seemingly didn't log that bit (until 20:55).
Thanks, Mike
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 4:03 PM, Michael Peelemail@mikepeel.net wrote:
Most of it is already online: http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetings/2009-08-18/IRC See: http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetings for minutes/logs of previous meetings.
Thank you!
Gave me a lot of insight into what's going on, interesting stuff. Good luck with it all. I'll try to keep abreast of UK Chapter work and hope, one day, I'll spot something I can help you all with. I tend to be extremely reclusive and unwell but something may crop up I can do for you folks from the confines of my room. I'll remain firmly as an interested spectator for now til I get more of an idea of what's afoot.
2009/8/19 Bod Notbod bodnotbod@gmail.com:
Gave me a lot of insight into what's going on, interesting stuff. Good luck with it all. I'll try to keep abreast of UK Chapter work and hope, one day, I'll spot something I can help you all with. I tend to be extremely reclusive and unwell but something may crop up I can do for you folks from the confines of my room. I'll remain firmly as an interested spectator for now til I get more of an idea of what's afoot.
You can certainly offer opinions on things, that is always useful.
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 6:39 PM, Thomas Daltonthomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
Gave me a lot of insight into what's going on, interesting stuff. Good luck with it all. I'll try to keep abreast of UK Chapter work and hope, one day, I'll spot something I can help you all with. I tend to be extremely reclusive and unwell but something may crop up I can do for you folks from the confines of my room. I'll remain firmly as an interested spectator for now til I get more of an idea of what's afoot.
You can certainly offer opinions on things, that is always useful.
OK, I shall try to do that... but only after a reasonable amount of reading and observing, just so that I don't fall flat on me bum with inane things or covering old ground.
One thing, of substance, that did occur to me... do you think you might ever be able to use someone to transcribe audio files? If you wanted to record an event or meeting, I could type up a transcription. That's the kind of thing I can do at home provided I have the audio file. This isn't an offer to start transcribing your every interaction. And I guess, unless there's a deaf UK chapter member, there may not be much use for it, since one could just upload the audio these days. But it gives you a flavour of the sort of thing I'm both willing *and* able to do.
If anyone has any other ideas of things that need help and can be accomplished from home, don't hesitate to ask, I can only say no.
It's just that I noticed from reading your recent IRC meeting that a lot of what you currently seem to be doing is outreach: to schools, to the BBC, to galleries and museums. I couldn't quite tell how much of that you've been accomplishing with direct contact with people (v. difficult and often impossible for me) or whether you get most of it done via email (which would be fine).
I sense that I may be coming across as someone with too much time on his hands. However, since I intend to read every single proposal at:
http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Call_for_proposals
and remain involved with the whole process as it evolves, that is very much not the case.
I'm waffling. Summary version: I'm a UK Wikipedian. Just found the chapter. Might be able to help.
2009/8/19 Bod Notbod bodnotbod@gmail.com:
One thing, of substance, that did occur to me... do you think you might ever be able to use someone to transcribe audio files? If you wanted to record an event or meeting, I could type up a transcription. That's the kind of thing I can do at home provided I have the audio file. This isn't an offer to start transcribing your every interaction. And I guess, unless there's a deaf UK chapter member, there may not be much use for it, since one could just upload the audio these days. But it gives you a flavour of the sort of thing I'm both willing *and* able to do.
Most meetings take place online as text to start with, so obviously there is no need for transcription there, but AGMs are done in real life. I wouldn't mind having a transcription of our AGMs (at least the important parts of them). The main advantages of transcriptions over raw audio files is that they can be skimmed and searched, audio files can't. I find that very useful.
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 11:48 PM, Thomas Daltonthomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
Most meetings take place online as text to start with, so obviously there is no need for transcription there, but AGMs are done in real life. I wouldn't mind having a transcription of our AGMs (at least the important parts of them). The main advantages of transcriptions over raw audio files is that they can be skimmed and searched, audio files can't. I find that very useful.
OK, well the offer is there. I suppose it might mean you'd have to choose your venue more carefully than perhaps you otherwise would. I don't know if you tend to hold them in a pub but I've tried to transcribe conversations recorded in a cafe setting before and the background noise makes things very difficult.
Just something to think about.
2009/8/19 Bod Notbod bodnotbod@gmail.com:
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 11:48 PM, Thomas Daltonthomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
Most meetings take place online as text to start with, so obviously there is no need for transcription there, but AGMs are done in real life. I wouldn't mind having a transcription of our AGMs (at least the important parts of them). The main advantages of transcriptions over raw audio files is that they can be skimmed and searched, audio files can't. I find that very useful.
OK, well the offer is there. I suppose it might mean you'd have to choose your venue more carefully than perhaps you otherwise would. I don't know if you tend to hold them in a pub but I've tried to transcribe conversations recorded in a cafe setting before and the background noise makes things very difficult.
The last one (which was our first) was held in the function room above a bar and could easily have been recorded had we thought of it. The next one will be held alongside a conference so will be in some kind of conference room or lecture theatre (I'm not sure of the details) so shouldn't be a problem. They are likely to just get bigger from there!
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 12:03 AM, Thomas Daltonthomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
The last one (which was our first) was held in the function room above a bar and could easily have been recorded had we thought of it. The next one will be held alongside a conference so will be in some kind of conference room or lecture theatre (I'm not sure of the details) so shouldn't be a problem. They are likely to just get bigger from there!
Well, for me, a once yearly transcription service sounds perfectly reasonable, so consider it done.
Andrew Turvey:
Please consider signing up as a member - the form is at http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Membership and subscription fees start from just 50p per month. We're keen to have the widest possible membership base so we can support our activities and get input from UK Wikimedians on our direction and focus.
OK, well, you won't get much more than 50p from me because, as you've already probably figured out, my circumstances are greatly impeding any likelihood of employment. But even I can manage 50p. Still, it cuts both ways: if I could hold down a job I probably wouldn't have found the Wikipedia UK Chapter nor put my name up for volunteering for anything.
Let me/us know if you want any help with anything.
Heh! Thank you, that's kind. But I'm obviously hoping to help YOU!
I shall sign up for a log-in, the newsletter and pledge 50p a month (it may go up, you never know).
Just out of interest: why don't you just post the newsletter to *this* list address? It could hardly be considered spam after all...
2009/8/20 Bod Notbod bodnotbod@gmail.com:
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 12:03 AM, Thomas Daltonthomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
The last one (which was our first) was held in the function room above a bar and could easily have been recorded had we thought of it. The next one will be held alongside a conference so will be in some kind of conference room or lecture theatre (I'm not sure of the details) so shouldn't be a problem. They are likely to just get bigger from there!
Well, for me, a once yearly transcription service sounds perfectly reasonable, so consider it done.
Excellent, thank you!
2009/8/20 Bod Notbod bodnotbod@gmail.com:
Just out of interest: why don't you just post the newsletter to *this* list address? It could hardly be considered spam after all...
Isn't it? Should be.
- d.
2009/8/21 David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com:
2009/8/20 Bod Notbod bodnotbod@gmail.com:
Just out of interest: why don't you just post the newsletter to *this* list address? It could hardly be considered spam after all...
Isn't it? Should be.
I don't think it was this time round, it might have been before. I agree it should be.
2009/8/21 Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com
2009/8/21 David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com:
2009/8/20 Bod Notbod bodnotbod@gmail.com:
Just out of interest: why don't you just post the newsletter to *this* list address? It could hardly be considered spam after all...
Isn't it? Should be.
I don't think it was this time round, it might have been before. I agree it should be.
It certainly was, I did it meeself!
~ Paul
2009/8/21 Paul Williams paul@skenmy.com:
2009/8/21 Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com
2009/8/21 David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com:
2009/8/20 Bod Notbod bodnotbod@gmail.com:
Just out of interest: why don't you just post the newsletter to *this* list address? It could hardly be considered spam after all...
Isn't it? Should be.
I don't think it was this time round, it might have been before. I agree it should be.
It certainly was, I did it meeself!
Ah, it was, but the subject line doesn't have the "[Wikimediauk-l]" tag in my client - was the same email BCCed to newsletter subscribers? That would explain it.
At 12:39 +0100 21/8/09, Thomas Dalton wrote:
2009/8/21 Paul Williams paul@skenmy.com:
2009/8/21 Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com
2009/8/21 David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com:
2009/8/20 Bod Notbod bodnotbod@gmail.com:
Just out of interest: why don't you just post the newsletter to *this* list address? It could hardly be considered spam after all...
Isn't it? Should be.
I don't think it was this time round, it might have been before. I agree it should be.
It certainly was, I did it meeself!
Ah, it was, but the subject line doesn't have the "[Wikimediauk-l]" tag in my client - was the same email BCCed to newsletter subscribers? That would explain it.
_
Aha. The evil of the BCC!
Gordo
Hi all,
The next board meeting is this evening; Tuesday 1 September 2009, 8.30-10.30pm BST, in the #wikimedia-uk-board channel on irc.freenode.net, with discussion in #wikimedia-uk. Everyone is more than welcome to attend. If you don't have an IRC client, then you can connect using http://webchat.freenode.net/ .
The agenda is at http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetings/2009-09-01/Agenda
Board members: please confirm whether you'll be present or not on the agenda page, and please post your reports onto the wiki (links are on the agenda). It's especially important for you to post a report beforehand if you won't be present at the meeting...
Thanks, Mike Peel
wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org