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 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 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

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 Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 4:03 PM, Michael Peel<email(a)mikepeel.net> wrote: 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.

On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 6:39 PM, Thomas Dalton<thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com> wrote: 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.

On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 11:48 PM, Thomas Dalton<thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com> wrote: 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.

On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 12:03 AM, Thomas Dalton<thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com> wrote: Well, for me, a once yearly transcription service sounds perfectly reasonable, so consider it done. Andrew Turvey: 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. 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(a)gmail.com>om>: Isn't it? Should be. - d.

2009/8/21 Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com> It certainly was, I did it meeself! ~ Paul

At 12:39 +0100 21/8/09, Thomas Dalton wrote: Aha. The evil of the BCC! Gordo -- "Think Feynman"///////// http://pobox.com/~gordo/ gordon.joly(a)pobox.com///