[Wikimediaau-l] Wikimania 2010 bid idea: joint-bid with iSummit?

[Peter Ansell]

That would work IMO. Free culture is a compatible idea with the free knowledge that wikipedia focuses on mostly, albeit with the occasional license dispute between the two projects. Have the CC-BY-SA license and GFDL been made compatible? If so it would be a perfect opportunity to highlight the range of possible options for collaboration, and otherwise it would still be useful for other focuses.

On the CCau situation, I am a student at QUT and I am pretty sure I am in the same building as the CC guys so I could act as a liaison of sorts if necessary. The (failed) bid for hosting wikimania in Brisbane attracted some attention in my faculty, but I didn't think of chatting to the CC people a few floors above me about it. There is still likely to be support for holding a joint conference in Brisbane still I think if the group decides to go that way, especially as UQ were also interested in pitching in.

Cheers,

Peter

----- "Brianna Laugher" <brianna.laugher at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: "Brianna Laugher" <brianna.laugher at gmail.com>
> To: "Wikimedia-au" <wikimediaau-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, 19 August, 2008 6:10:26 PM GMT +10:00 Brisbane
> Subject: [Wikimediaau-l] Wikimania 2010 bid idea: joint-bid with iSummit?
>
> Hi all,
> 
> So a couple of weeks ago I had a cool idea...what if we made our
> Wikimania10 bid a joint-bid for both Wikimania and iSummit?
> <http://icommonssummit.org/> (iSummit crowd is kind of creative
> commonsy, arty, education-y)
> 
> There is a decent amount of overlap of interests, although not
> content, between Wikimania and iSummit. iSummit also has about 500
> attendees. By co-hosting both, it could be enough to convince the
> northern hemispherans that it is worth travelling so far to attend. I
> reckon maybe up to 150 or so attendees would be interested in
> attending both. It would also probably give us good advantages in
> seeking sponsorship and some extra leverage with the venue,
> hopefully.
> 
> I floated the idea with Jessica Coates, who works for Creative
> Commons
> Australia (based in Brisbane), and she said they like the idea. CCau
> is attached to QUT, so they have a little bit of nice institutional
> support that we don't have...
> 
> My thinking is they would be one after the other, with a day or two
> break (weekend) in between. I would also like to see Wikimania have a
> couple of extra free/closetofree days - one being a kind of "Open
> Day/Wikipedia Academy", open to the public with lots of "How to edit
> Wikipedia" style tutorials/workshops - that would be good and easy to
> share with iCommons - and another being an unconference/discussion
> day. That could also be shared with iSummit.
> 
> I think if we did this the potential host cities that would make the
> most sense would be Melbourne or Brisbane. There are advantages and
> disadvantages to both.
> 
> Naturally there would be lots of details to be worked out, but what
> does everyone think about the general idea of working up a joint bid
> proposal with Creative Commons Australia?
> 
> cheers
> Brianna
> 
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