The basic concept for this, which we discussed during the working group in Berlin, is that Jan 15, 2011 will be Wikipedia's 10th anniversary, and that a good way to mark this might be to hold events around the world tied together by a special anniversary simulcast, possibly with Jimmy Wales.
This type of thing would be particularly advantageous as an "easy in" for people with limited resources organizing events for that day.
This aspect could be closely modeled on the recent Lawrence Lessig "Wireside Chat", which was simulcast in about 40 live venues, and was even done in OGG format:
http://openvideoalliance.org/event/lessig/
I have talked to Ben Moskowitz of the Open Video Alliance and George Chriss of OpenMeetings.org (cc'ed here), who organized the Lessig "Wireside Chat", and they are both enthusiastic about doing something similar for Wikipedia Day 2011.
http://openvideoalliance.org/ http://openmeetings.org/
Thanks, Richard (User:Pharos)
Sounds good to me. Presumably it would also be recorded so that it can go up on Wikimedia Commons?
IMO, it would be better if it wasn't just with one person, but with a variety of people, preferably from different locations across the world (if that's possible?) or at least hosted by a group of people at a wikimeet (at the WMF's offices perhaps?)
Is there anything that people/chapters can do to help?
Mike
On 8 May 2010, at 04:39, Pharos wrote:
The basic concept for this, which we discussed during the working group in Berlin, is that Jan 15, 2011 will be Wikipedia's 10th anniversary, and that a good way to mark this might be to hold events around the world tied together by a special anniversary simulcast, possibly with Jimmy Wales.
This type of thing would be particularly advantageous as an "easy in" for people with limited resources organizing events for that day.
This aspect could be closely modeled on the recent Lawrence Lessig "Wireside Chat", which was simulcast in about 40 live venues, and was even done in OGG format:
http://openvideoalliance.org/event/lessig/
I have talked to Ben Moskowitz of the Open Video Alliance and George Chriss of OpenMeetings.org (cc'ed here), who organized the Lessig "Wireside Chat", and they are both enthusiastic about doing something similar for Wikipedia Day 2011.
http://openvideoalliance.org/ http://openmeetings.org/
Thanks, Richard (User:Pharos)
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Hi Mike,
Definitely we would have recordings on Wikimedia Commons.
Of course it would be good to have a variety of people talking, at maybe a few different "hub" events.
We'll probably have something going again in NYC, and there is also the West Coast WikiConference planned for that time in San Francisco:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Wikipedia_Day_2010 http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/West_Coast_WikiConference
Thanks, Richard (User:Pharos)
On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 1:49 PM, Michael Peel email@mikepeel.net wrote:
Sounds good to me. Presumably it would also be recorded so that it can go up on Wikimedia Commons?
IMO, it would be better if it wasn't just with one person, but with a variety of people, preferably from different locations across the world (if that's possible?) or at least hosted by a group of people at a wikimeet (at the WMF's offices perhaps?)
Is there anything that people/chapters can do to help?
Mike
On 8 May 2010, at 04:39, Pharos wrote:
The basic concept for this, which we discussed during the working group in Berlin, is that Jan 15, 2011 will be Wikipedia's 10th anniversary, and that a good way to mark this might be to hold events around the world tied together by a special anniversary simulcast, possibly with Jimmy Wales.
This type of thing would be particularly advantageous as an "easy in" for people with limited resources organizing events for that day.
This aspect could be closely modeled on the recent Lawrence Lessig "Wireside Chat", which was simulcast in about 40 live venues, and was even done in OGG format:
http://openvideoalliance.org/event/lessig/
I have talked to Ben Moskowitz of the Open Video Alliance and George Chriss of OpenMeetings.org (cc'ed here), who organized the Lessig "Wireside Chat", and they are both enthusiastic about doing something similar for Wikipedia Day 2011.
http://openvideoalliance.org/ http://openmeetings.org/
Thanks, Richard (User:Pharos)
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