[Wikimediaau-l] Sydney Met Up

[Scott Davis]

My thought was "try further west, after you've crossed the Blue Mountains".

Liam Wyatt wrote, on 22/10/2008 2:49 PM:
> Man - I missed the Desert too! It must have been whilst the others 
> were having dessert....
>
> Regarding the WikiWednesday - I would like to invite a few people in 
> Sydney that I've come across through my work at the Dictionary of 
> Sydney - e.g. archivists of museums and libraries. Could Angela or 
> someone provide the text of an invitation or something to that effect? 
> Or, should I just forward them the email from yesterday announcing the 
> event?
>
> -Liam
>
> On 10/22/08, *private musings* <thepmaccount at gmail.com 
> <mailto:thepmaccount at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     We did indeed :-)
>
>     Change of venue from the usual haunt at the Paragon, 7 intrepid
>     Wikimedians met at Philip's Foote in the Rocks. It was great to
>     read bits of Liam's thesis related to Wikipedia (he certainly
>     feels great that it's complete!) and generally chit chat away
>     about a range of topics.
>
>     Most present seemed to be up for coming along to the Sydney Wiki
>     Wednesday next month - suggestions for presentation topics were a
>     bit thin though, so if anyone has any ideas, do pipe up :-)
>
>     Inevitably, we talked about the Chapter a bit - I mentioned that
>     the concept of sub-national chapters is likely to come up in the
>     US, and the strong consensus was that Australia (or at least NSW)
>     is not really interested in the idea of sub-chapters at the mo -
>     the best way forward being under a unified Oz 'Wikimedia' Flag. We
>     also speculated a bit about when the AGM might happen, with
>     thoughts ranging from 'unlikely to happen this year' to 'that's
>     really not cool, it should happen sooner' (ok! the observant among
>     members of this list will likely spot me as the originator of that
>     one!). The feeling overall remains 'warm and fuzzy' about the
>     chapter, with a slight undercurrent of 'please try and keep us in
>     the loop'.
>
>     It was great to have a wide age range, and to have wiki types of
>     divergent interests and experience there, and just was generally a
>     good 'ol time.... pity I missed the desert....
>
>     cheers all,
>
>     Peter
>     PM.
>
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