FYI, the new Inspire Campaign is focused on outside knowledge networks. Bring collaboration and partnership ideas.
Alex ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Chris "Jethro" Schilling" <[email protected]> Date: Jan 31, 2017 6:20 AM Subject: [Wmfall] Inspire Campaign on outside knowledge networks launches today! To: "Wikimedia Mailing List" <[email protected]>, "Staff All" <[email protected]>, <[email protected]> Cc: Hi everyone, > > I am pleased to announce the launch of the fourth Inspire Campaign for > IdeaLab, focused on outreach to outside knowledge networks: > > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Inspire> > > There is tremendous potential in cooperative work between Wikimedia > contributors and entities such as libraries (and other GLAM > institutions[1]), cultural centers, content experts, and other sources of > information. Such outreach can lead to rewarding collaborative efforts > that, among many benefits, helps us create and offer better quality content > to readers. > > All types of proposals are welcome - research projects, software > development, and naturally for this campaign, community organizing and > outreach. Wikimedia Foundation staff are also invited to advise on ideas > they can offer support and guidance on. Project Grants[2] and Rapid > Grants[3] are available for projects developed during this campaign that > need financial support. For ideas that do not require funding, I am > happy to provide general guidance on projects on how to bring your idea to > action. The campaign runs until 28 February. > > If you're interested in doing some outreach work to an institution, > organization, or group in your area, or want to help with an existing > outreach project, I encourage you to check out the submissions of this > campaign! > > With thanks, > > Jethro > > [1] <https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM> > [2] <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project> > [3] <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid> > > Chris "Jethro" Schilling > I JethroBT (WMF) <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:I_JethroBT_(WMF)> > Community Organizer, Wikimedia Foundation > <https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home> > > _______________________________________________ > Wmfall mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wmfall > >
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