[Commons-l] All about Wikimania, future projects, licenses, etc etc

[Bryan Tong Minh]

On 8/7/07, Brianna Laugher <brianna.laugher at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi folks,
Hi,

>
> I gave a 'Commons HOWTO tutorial' which started with about a dozen
> people attending and by the end there was another dozen or two. I
> talked briefly about how Commons works, deriv works, licenses,
> categories, CommonSense tool, Mayflower, Extra-tabs.js (although I
> didn't call it that, and one person commented that they had never seen
> them before - we DO have them installed for EVERYONE, right??). We did
> a transfer of an image from en.wp to Commons. We got some tough
> questions like 'I'm uploading these for my wife - what should I do
> vis-a-vis permission?' (I said ask her to send you a confirmation
> email. This case of genuine verbal permission is tricky to handle.) It
> was fun.
>
[offtopic] I am going to do a lightning talk about Commons on
Wikimedia Conference Netherlands in October. I will have a quick talk
about most of the things pfctdayelise mentioned, but I wonder if you
folks have some ideas about some specific things I should mention? (We
do have a bad reputation at the Dutch wikis, you know...)

> ==POTY07==
> I will post separately about this. But I think we should start getting
> into gear or at least thinking about things. I think we should close
> submissions by the end of Nov, hold two weeks of voting, and use the
> results to make calendar/s. I also think we should have 12-15
> different categories of voting and more or less use those as the
> calendar pictures.
>
Absolutely. We should start with the preparations somewhere around
October. Last year's edition was a great succes, but it also was a
great mess. I hope we can make this year's better :)


> I now think that instead of asking/wishing for the board to promote
> us, we need to force them to have to talk about us by creating the
> interest ourselves. I really think this project could create some
> serious interest. And maybe if enough proceeds go to the WMF, then we
> can demand with a little more conviction that they should be earmarked
> for Commons-specific development. :)
>
Hmm. Do we have a Commons tshirt? I want one.

Cheers,
Bryan