Hi, Cheol.
I am happy to be able to confirm that the WMF will be happy to support your
Wikipedia Academy in October with _two_ WMF guests. Liam Wyatt (CCed), our
GLAM fellow, will be one of them. We're still determining who would be in
the best position to represent academic outreach, and I'll keep you posted.
I look forward to learning more about your plans for the event. Are any of
you making it to Wikimania this year?
Cheers,
Asaf
On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 2:06 AM, RYU Cheol <rcheol(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Dear Asaf, head of Global South Relationships of
Wikimedia Foundation
Now, we are in talk to hold a Wiki Academy in Seoul, Korea. It's not
finalized to set a date, but tentatively we are going to have the event late
October. Mr. Liam Wyatt is a speaker we need exactly. In addition to
GLAM-WIKI speaker, we also need to a speaker to talk on Wikipedia editing in
university or education sector.
Public data sharing and Creative Commons Movement are getting popular and
this year Korean government started its public data sharing program at
www.data.go.kr. I hope his coming and speaking could bring us some more
media attention to Wikipedia and Free Culture Movement and he could visit
some related institutions to give new perspectives.
Would you forward this mail to Mr. Wyatt. I think we don't need him just
for speaking but we need his expertise on content sharing and inter
institutional relationship to improve Wikipedia. I would like to know
his availability on late October. Our first candidate date is Oct. 22.
Best regards
Cheol
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Asaf Bartov
Wikimedia Foundation