[Wikimedia-in-blr] Fwd: Re: Liam Wyatt's visit to India

[Arun Ramarathnam]

Dear all,

Forwarding Liam's email to the Bangalore list. FYI.

The message may not have reached you as he is not a member of the list.

regards
Arun



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From: Liam Wyatt <liamwyatt at gmail.com>
To: Arun Ramarathnam <arunram25 at gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 16:19:13 +1100
Subject: Re: Liam Wyatt's visit to India
Thank you for this introduction and for making the
<http://wikimedia.in/wiki/Projects:GLAM_2011>
http://wikimedia.in/wiki/Projects:GLAM_2011 coordination pages Arun. Also
thank you Bishakha for your earlier introduction.

As described, I have been invited to speak at a conference in Delhi and
thought it would be a good opportunity to visit also Mumbai and Bangalore
and see if there was anything I could do to help the local Wikimedia
communities in these cities to generate some prodictive relationships with
local cultural organisations.

For Mumbai and Bangalore I think it would be best to have (potentially) a
couple of meetings - one with just wikimedians (with dinner?) where we can
plan and talk about what you can/would like to achieve. And then a second
meeting which includes any GLAM representatives wo would like to meet us so
we can all talk together. If there is time/interest afterwards, it might
also be possible to visit some specific institutions directly.

For Delhi, I have a bit less time because I will be speaking at the ICLAM
conference on both the 15th and 16th. Therefore, possibly the best time to
do things in Delhi would be dinner on the 16th(?) and maybe a meeting on the
17th?

In any case, you do not need me to be present, of course, to start making
collaboration projects with local cultural organisations but I hope that I
can be a catalyst!

So, if you are interested in being involved in GLAM outreach and can come to
some event At any of these cities, please add your name at the relevant
place and help organise a meetup.

I look forward to meeting you all next month,
Sincerely,
-Liam

Wittylama.com/blog
Peace, love & metadata

On 26/01/2011, at 6:49, Arun Ramarathnam <arunram25 at gmail.com> wrote:

Dear Wikimedians,

It's a pleasure to inform you all that Liam
Wyatt<http://www.wittylama.com/>will be visiting India between 12th
and 19th Feb to focus on
GLAM <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GLAM_(industry_sector)>related
initiatives here.

Liam's visit to India is intended to support wikimedia communities to
explore the possibilities of collaborating with Galleries, Libraries,
Archives and Museums (GLAM) in strengthening articles on wikipedia of mutual
interest.

Liam recently became a Wikimedia Fellow -
<http://blog.wikimedia.org/blog/2011/01/19/announcing-our-glam-fellow-liam-wyatt/>
http://blog.wikimedia.org/blog/2011/01/19/announcing-our-glam-fellow-liam-wyatt/
  Liam was the wikipedian in
residence<http://blog.wikimedia.org/blog/2010/07/10/the-royal-cup-bridges-wikipedia-and-the-british-museum/>
at
the British Museum last year. Liam has been focussed on GLAM and was
the convener of the GLAM-WIKI
<http://www.wikimedia.org.au/wiki/GLAM-WIKI>event held in Australia in
August
2009.

It is great to have Liam visiting us. He will be visiting Delhi, Mumbai and
Bangalore. We hope to make the most of Liam's visit to create more awareness
for GLAM amongst wikipedians and connect with GLAM stakeholders wherever
possible.

Liam will also be speaking at the
ICLAM<http://www.nift.ac.in/ICLAM_2011/index.htm>conference on the
15th.

For coordinating events during his visit, I  have create a GLAM project page
on the India wiki, to help us all get started:
 <http://wikimedia.in/wiki/Projects:GLAM_2011>
http://wikimedia.in/wiki/Projects:GLAM_2011
There are city specific pages, each of which has a planning page.

We look forward to all your support and active participation to organize
events and meeting in various cities. Wikipedians are requested to join the
discussions in the  planning pages for each city.  .

regards
Arun

Bangalore, India
<http://www.twitter.com/arunram>www.twitter.com/arunram



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