Dear Gary,
Forgive me for using this email account. I made one entry on your list and
was overwhelmed by the separate messages (as os usual with elists). I can
only ask that you might have some influence in turning this
http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo
Into something more like this.
http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/ I am trying
so hard to stay across conversations on different threads, and the
discussion about homosexual rights and a dangerous Alexandria is so
distracting.
I was reading this > Because, unless they've changed since a couple of
years' ago, the Open
University hold their London region summer schools
there and have the
place booked out ...
And was wondering why you wouldn't have considered OU as a natural sponsor.
Particularly as their Openlearn
http://www.open.ac.uk/openlearn/home.php
initiative is so closely aligned with the aims of the wikimedia foundation.
Ultimately the location for Wikimania is of little concern to the majority
of Wikipedially minded learners. The important thing is how a quiet activist
might be made to feel apart of the wiki story and discover their place in
the communities of global groups from which it's .org is composed.
Is there anywhere where the Wishlists might be compiled. I mean of speakers
and the things Wikimedians might want them to say? Gary, I think I was
reading one of yours for Tim Berners Lee; second the motion. It would be a
nice into to set a global stage. And somewhere between this old fashioned
thread and this
http://digitalunion.osu.edu/megaconference/ we have the
tools to share a conference, or 20. OU would be strategic here as their old
relationships with the BBC will naturally question why an interesting
Wikimania wouldn't be broadcast. Or at least narrowcast. Better still,
Multicast.
I'll leave it with you. But just gotta say. You and Mido, working together
with other peers who didn't get the first guernsey this year, would have to
get such a charge. I'm jealous.
Regards,
simonfj
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