[Wikimediaau-l] Zootober

[private musings]

ps. is the small grants program still in effect? - mentioned in the
Secretary's report was 'The committee has extended the trial until the
allocated funds have been distributed,' - and there would seem to be a
further $300 available for 3 lucky applicants - when the new committee
have settled in, perhaps this could be re-advertised a little as a
priority, and I presume should the WIZOO idea progress at all, that it
might be sensible for me to apply for said monies.

cheers,

Peter,
PM.

On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 1:35 PM, private musings <thepmaccount at gmail.com> wrote:
> were I to contact a vague associate at Taronga and perhaps discuss the
> possibility of them hosting a wiki meetup and perhaps have a small
> 'get to know each other' type discussion / session a la GLAM - could I
> be so bold as to mention WMAU as part of the proposal? I'd like to say
> something like 'we from Wikimedia Australia would like to organise
> something like this' - I'm hoping that my role as simply a member
> sufficiently empowers me to take such initiatives?
>
> Roll over GLAM, WIZOO! here we come.....
>
>
> cheers,
>
> Peter,
> PM.
>
> On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 1:28 PM, John Vandenberg <jayvdb at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 9/20/10, Liam Wyatt <liamwyatt at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Nice one :-)
>>> Another possibility is asking a zoo to pick an animal or species that
>>> they're actively invlolved in conservation work with - to improve biological
>>> articles about thee endangered species (for which the zoo should have good
>>> references for).
>>
>> Endangered Australian species would be a great topic to work on.
>> Having a focal topic would mean we know which images are needed, and
>> which zoos to visit.
>>
>>> I know that Melbourne Zoo has a recently born elephant cub [or is 'calf' the
>>> correct term?] that might be a good  reason to focus on that species.
>>
>> http://www.zoo.org.au/Melbourne/News_Events/First-everMaleCalfBirth
>>
>> The article [[Asian Elephant]] only mentions Melbourne Zoo in the
>> photo description of the bull.  We would need to check the
>> conservation work worldwide before putting emphasis on the Melbourne
>> Zoo program.
>>
>> --
>> John Vandenberg
>>
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