[Wikimediaau-l] Wikimedia in the Classroom (Queensland project)

2010-05-10 Thread Craig Franklin
Okay, it looks like the the Wiki has been fixed, so here goes:

Over the past few months, a few of us up here in Brisbane have been
developing a programme and materials to do presentations to teachers and
schools.  It's been our observation that while many teachers have negative
views about Wikipedia, these can be fairly easily dispelled by standing in
front of them and talking about who we are, what we do, and putting some
misconceptions right.  It's also a good way to showcase our lesser-known
projects; while most know Wikipedia, they don't know about Wiktionary and
Wikisource, even though those can be valuable resources as well.

I've placed a PDF of the most recent presentation we did up on the chapter
site.  The thumbnails don't appear to work, but if you click on the filename
you can download a complete PDF of my Powerpoint:

http://www.wikimedia.org.au/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Overview_Presentation_For_Sc
hools.pdf

Our first presentation was in early April at Redcliffe State High School.
Feedback was very positive and once we sat down and talked Wiki for an hour,
the teachers wanted to get involved with either using our content, or doing
projects which would involve working collaboratively with us.  I'll sum up
the exact feedback in a future mail, but when they thought about it they
also had a lot of ideas that I think are quite exciting and I'd be
interested in going further with.

The challenges I can see in the future is finding more places to do the
presentation (we are lucky to have a member of the chapter who is a teacher
at said school), and following up effectively and quickly on teacher ideas.
The other issue I suppose I have is that I'm only one man, I have a fulltime
job, and generally speaking pupil-free days are the only time when we can do
these, which limits us to a handful of events a year.  This can be dealt
with by either convincing teachers and educators to come to night classes,
or training up other people who can take time off work or whatever to go and
do the presentation.

Anyway, feel free to have a look at the presentation slides and I'll be
happy to answer any questions you have at this stage.

Cheers,
Craig



-Original Message-
From: wikimediaau-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org
[mailto:wikimediaau-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Sarah Ewart
Sent: Wednesday, 5 May 2010 8:50 PM
To: Wikimedia-au
Subject: Re: [Wikimediaau-l] grants application this year?

Craig, please, please, please do write up on the wiki what you've been
doing. I think it's very important for the chapter's health to see
what members are achieving in their local communities.

On 5/5/10, Craig Franklin cr...@halo-17.net wrote:
 Well, there's stuff going on.  My little Wikipedia in the Classroom
 project has been boiling away pretty nicely (I really ought to update the
 page on the chapter site about that.), but it's mainly foundation-building
 stuff that'll let us pull of bigger things in the future.



 And as for grants, again, the outlay for my project has been about $20 so
 far, which included my petrol to drive to the venues and to purchase some
 mints to hand out.  You don't need a big fat grant to pull off something
 worthwhile.



 Cheers,

 Craig



 From: wikimediaau-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org
 [mailto:wikimediaau-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of private
 musings
 Sent: Wednesday, 5 May 2010 7:30 PM
 To: Wikimedia-au
 Subject: Re: [Wikimediaau-l] grants application this year?



 'Grant applications are serious, not something that you submit just to
 engage with a process and there needs to be a properly thought through
 application with an idea of who, what, when, where and how the
 proposed project will be run'

 - totally agree with this- and agree that it's a large stretch to try and
 get anything completed before the deadline - whether or not it's worth
 trying is a different question, I guess :-)

 'I'd rather see us take the time to discuss possible ideas properly and
 get the details of any proposed projects members want to run nutted
 out as carefully as possible before submitting applications'

 - totally agree with this too - again, it does seem unlikely to be able to
 get this all done ahead of the deadline - I guess I wish discussions and
 activity had kicked off earlier - though that's largely down to us as a
 membership - hopefully we can get the ball rolling anyways ahead of future
 grant applications etc.


 'Jimmy recently describing PM as a troll and calling for
 him to be globally banned'

 - this is not accurate - Jimbo never called me a troll, nor did he call
for
 me to be globally banned - please take greater care in raising comments
 about me personally as oppose to my posts however;

 'PM is really not an appropriate person to lead the chapter in requests to
 the WMF for not-insignificant amounts of money'

 - sure ;-) - as I mentioned I'd rather just try and help / chivvy /
expedite
 existing efforts - my concern is to make sure that 

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Wikimedia in the Classroom (Queensland project)

2010-05-10 Thread Bryce Roney
That seems to be a very solid presentation, most of my teachers I have seem
to be
reasonably adept at being able to use Wikipedia and understand how to make
sure
an article is accurate and the usefulness of it as a spring board to other
references.

That said, I know there are teachers out there who are incredibly
anti-Wikipedia and
a presentation like this could go a long way into being able to get teachers
to understand
what Wikipedia is and isn't.

Best of luck with your project.

On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 5:35 PM, Craig Franklin cr...@halo-17.net wrote:

 Okay, it looks like the the Wiki has been fixed, so here goes:

 Over the past few months, a few of us up here in Brisbane have been
 developing a programme and materials to do presentations to teachers and
 schools.  It's been our observation that while many teachers have negative
 views about Wikipedia, these can be fairly easily dispelled by standing in
 front of them and talking about who we are, what we do, and putting some
 misconceptions right.  It's also a good way to showcase our lesser-known
 projects; while most know Wikipedia, they don't know about Wiktionary and
 Wikisource, even though those can be valuable resources as well.

 I've placed a PDF of the most recent presentation we did up on the chapter
 site.  The thumbnails don't appear to work, but if you click on the
 filename
 you can download a complete PDF of my Powerpoint:


 http://www.wikimedia.org.au/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Overview_Presentation_For_Sc
 hools.pdf

 Our first presentation was in early April at Redcliffe State High School.
 Feedback was very positive and once we sat down and talked Wiki for an
 hour,
 the teachers wanted to get involved with either using our content, or doing
 projects which would involve working collaboratively with us.  I'll sum up
 the exact feedback in a future mail, but when they thought about it they
 also had a lot of ideas that I think are quite exciting and I'd be
 interested in going further with.

 The challenges I can see in the future is finding more places to do the
 presentation (we are lucky to have a member of the chapter who is a teacher
 at said school), and following up effectively and quickly on teacher ideas.
 The other issue I suppose I have is that I'm only one man, I have a
 fulltime
 job, and generally speaking pupil-free days are the only time when we can
 do
 these, which limits us to a handful of events a year.  This can be dealt
 with by either convincing teachers and educators to come to night classes,
 or training up other people who can take time off work or whatever to go
 and
 do the presentation.

 Anyway, feel free to have a look at the presentation slides and I'll be
 happy to answer any questions you have at this stage.

 Cheers,
 Craig



 -Original Message-
 From: wikimediaau-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org
 [mailto:wikimediaau-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Sarah
 Ewart
 Sent: Wednesday, 5 May 2010 8:50 PM
 To: Wikimedia-au
 Subject: Re: [Wikimediaau-l] grants application this year?

 Craig, please, please, please do write up on the wiki what you've been
 doing. I think it's very important for the chapter's health to see
 what members are achieving in their local communities.

 On 5/5/10, Craig Franklin cr...@halo-17.net wrote:
  Well, there's stuff going on.  My little Wikipedia in the Classroom
  project has been boiling away pretty nicely (I really ought to update the
  page on the chapter site about that.), but it's mainly
 foundation-building
  stuff that'll let us pull of bigger things in the future.
 
 
 
  And as for grants, again, the outlay for my project has been about $20 so
  far, which included my petrol to drive to the venues and to purchase some
  mints to hand out.  You don't need a big fat grant to pull off something
  worthwhile.
 
 
 
  Cheers,
 
  Craig
 
 
 
  From: wikimediaau-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org
  [mailto:wikimediaau-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of private
  musings
  Sent: Wednesday, 5 May 2010 7:30 PM
  To: Wikimedia-au
  Subject: Re: [Wikimediaau-l] grants application this year?
 
 
 
  'Grant applications are serious, not something that you submit just to
  engage with a process and there needs to be a properly thought through
  application with an idea of who, what, when, where and how the
  proposed project will be run'
 
  - totally agree with this- and agree that it's a large stretch to try and
  get anything completed before the deadline - whether or not it's worth
  trying is a different question, I guess :-)
 
  'I'd rather see us take the time to discuss possible ideas properly and
  get the details of any proposed projects members want to run nutted
  out as carefully as possible before submitting applications'
 
  - totally agree with this too - again, it does seem unlikely to be able
 to
  get this all done ahead of the deadline - I guess I wish discussions and
  activity had kicked off earlier - though that's largely down to us as 

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Wikimedia in the Classroom (Queensland project)

2010-05-10 Thread Andrew
Excellent job Craig - it's a great model for member-driven outreach projects
and I wish you the best of luck. The issue with being able to present stuff
to people who work (or are available) 9-5 in work time is always a challenge
- it's one we hit with unrelated projects in Perth.

(replying to Craig and Bryce) People fear what they don't understand - and
we're competing for air with a media that (with some notable exceptions)
loves to predict our demise and overstate internal dramas on the project.
Also as Craig says many teachers don't even know the other projects exist,
and those may be of direct use to them in other ways.

kindest regards
Andrew


On 10 May 2010 17:15, Bryce Roney br...@bryceroney.com wrote:

 That seems to be a very solid presentation, most of my teachers I have seem
 to be
 reasonably adept at being able to use Wikipedia and understand how to make
 sure
 an article is accurate and the usefulness of it as a spring board to other
 references.

 That said, I know there are teachers out there who are incredibly
 anti-Wikipedia and
 a presentation like this could go a long way into being able to get
 teachers to understand
 what Wikipedia is and isn't.

 Best of luck with your project.

 On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 5:35 PM, Craig Franklin cr...@halo-17.net wrote:

 Okay, it looks like the the Wiki has been fixed, so here goes:

 Over the past few months, a few of us up here in Brisbane have been
 developing a programme and materials to do presentations to teachers and
 schools.  It's been our observation that while many teachers have negative
 views about Wikipedia, these can be fairly easily dispelled by standing in
 front of them and talking about who we are, what we do, and putting some
 misconceptions right.  It's also a good way to showcase our lesser-known
 projects; while most know Wikipedia, they don't know about Wiktionary and
 Wikisource, even though those can be valuable resources as well.

 I've placed a PDF of the most recent presentation we did up on the chapter
 site.  The thumbnails don't appear to work, but if you click on the
 filename
 you can download a complete PDF of my Powerpoint:


 http://www.wikimedia.org.au/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Overview_Presentation_For_Sc
 hools.pdfhttp://www.wikimedia.org.au/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Overview_Presentation_For_Schools.pdf

 Our first presentation was in early April at Redcliffe State High School.
 Feedback was very positive and once we sat down and talked Wiki for an
 hour,
 the teachers wanted to get involved with either using our content, or
 doing
 projects which would involve working collaboratively with us.  I'll sum up
 the exact feedback in a future mail, but when they thought about it they
 also had a lot of ideas that I think are quite exciting and I'd be
 interested in going further with.

 The challenges I can see in the future is finding more places to do the
 presentation (we are lucky to have a member of the chapter who is a
 teacher
 at said school), and following up effectively and quickly on teacher
 ideas.
 The other issue I suppose I have is that I'm only one man, I have a
 fulltime
 job, and generally speaking pupil-free days are the only time when we can
 do
 these, which limits us to a handful of events a year.  This can be dealt
 with by either convincing teachers and educators to come to night classes,
 or training up other people who can take time off work or whatever to go
 and
 do the presentation.

 Anyway, feel free to have a look at the presentation slides and I'll be
 happy to answer any questions you have at this stage.

 Cheers,
 Craig



 -Original Message-
 From: wikimediaau-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org
 [mailto:wikimediaau-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Sarah
 Ewart
 Sent: Wednesday, 5 May 2010 8:50 PM
 To: Wikimedia-au
 Subject: Re: [Wikimediaau-l] grants application this year?

 Craig, please, please, please do write up on the wiki what you've been
 doing. I think it's very important for the chapter's health to see
 what members are achieving in their local communities.

 On 5/5/10, Craig Franklin cr...@halo-17.net wrote:
  Well, there's stuff going on.  My little Wikipedia in the Classroom
  project has been boiling away pretty nicely (I really ought to update
 the
  page on the chapter site about that.), but it's mainly
 foundation-building
  stuff that'll let us pull of bigger things in the future.
 
 
 
  And as for grants, again, the outlay for my project has been about $20
 so
  far, which included my petrol to drive to the venues and to purchase
 some
  mints to hand out.  You don't need a big fat grant to pull off something
  worthwhile.
 
 
 
  Cheers,
 
  Craig
 
 
 
  From: wikimediaau-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org
  [mailto:wikimediaau-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of private
  musings
  Sent: Wednesday, 5 May 2010 7:30 PM
  To: Wikimedia-au
  Subject: Re: [Wikimediaau-l] grants application this year?
 
 
 
  'Grant applications are serious, not something 

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Wikimedia in the Classroom (Queensland project)

2010-05-10 Thread Craig Franklin
Hi Bryce,

 

Thanks for your feedback.  I must say that that hasn't particularly been my
experience with teachers, the usual response is along the lines of Oh,
Wikipedia, isn't that the site where anyone can write anything?  Nobody in
the group I presented to was overtly anti-Wikipedia (or if they were, they
kept it to themselves), but they did have what we would consider to be
fairly basic questions about how we deal with vandalism, how reliable we
are, etc etc.  Obviously it would be good if we can calm some of the
irrational fears of the anti-Wikipedia people and bring them around to our
side, which is a definite goal for me of the whole project.  Another point
that they were generally speaking unaware of was the open licensing nature
of everything we do, there was a few quiet 'Wow!'s in the room when I
mentioned that.  We even had one guy who knew quite a bit about the concepts
of open source software who wasn't aware that Wikipedia was under CC-BY-SA.
And of course, they didn't know about any of our projects except Wikipedia
(although someone thought that WikiAnswers was one of ours).

 

With that said, they did seem fairly uninterested in the bit about featured
content and audited content and whatnot, while it's a good barometer of how
far along the project is progressing, they didn't seem to see how that was
relevant to what they did as educators.  On the other hand, they did like me
going over categories and the other technical doodads (it's not in the
presentation, but we dropped out at that point for a bit and I started
navigating around the site itself) - even if they were somewhat aware of
these features I think they liked having someone who was in the know explain
how it all worked.  The next presentation I do will probably take that into
account and I'll probably replace slides 24 through 26 with a simpler
explanation of the article grading scale (ie: FA, GA, B, C, Start, Stub),
and spend more time talking about possible ways they can actually work with
us; because that seemed to be something they were VERY interested in.

 

In short though, I think being able to stand in front of them in a classroom
and talk Wiki for an hour showed that we're not just a two bit website
staffed by antisocial nerds, and made us look a bit more solid and
trustworthy.  Being out there and doing these presentations might yet turn
out to be more important than the actual content of the presentations.

 

Cheers,

Craig F.

 

PS: I'm CCing this to the members list, simply because I know there are some
people who are on one mailing list but not the other.  Feel free both to
jump in and discuss!

 

 

From: wikimediaau-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org
[mailto:wikimediaau-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Bryce Roney
Sent: Monday, 10 May 2010 7:16 PM
To: Wikimedia-au
Subject: Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Wikimedia in the Classroom (Queensland project)

 

That seems to be a very solid presentation, most of my teachers I have seem
to be

reasonably adept at being able to use Wikipedia and understand how to make
sure

an article is accurate and the usefulness of it as a spring board to other
references.

 

That said, I know there are teachers out there who are incredibly
anti-Wikipedia and

a presentation like this could go a long way into being able to get teachers
to understand

what Wikipedia is and isn't.

 

Best of luck with your project.

 

On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 5:35 PM, Craig Franklin cr...@halo-17.net wrote:

Okay, it looks like the the Wiki has been fixed, so here goes:

Over the past few months, a few of us up here in Brisbane have been
developing a programme and materials to do presentations to teachers and
schools.  It's been our observation that while many teachers have negative
views about Wikipedia, these can be fairly easily dispelled by standing in
front of them and talking about who we are, what we do, and putting some
misconceptions right.  It's also a good way to showcase our lesser-known
projects; while most know Wikipedia, they don't know about Wiktionary and
Wikisource, even though those can be valuable resources as well.

I've placed a PDF of the most recent presentation we did up on the chapter
site.  The thumbnails don't appear to work, but if you click on the filename
you can download a complete PDF of my Powerpoint:

http://www.wikimedia.org.au/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Overview_Presentation_For_Sc
http://www.wikimedia.org.au/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Overview_Presentation_For_S
c%0d%0ahools.pdf 
hools.pdf

Our first presentation was in early April at Redcliffe State High School.
Feedback was very positive and once we sat down and talked Wiki for an hour,
the teachers wanted to get involved with either using our content, or doing
projects which would involve working collaboratively with us.  I'll sum up
the exact feedback in a future mail, but when they thought about it they
also had a lot of ideas that I think are quite exciting and I'd be
interested in going further with.

The challenges I can 

[Wikimediaau-l] Committee changes

2010-05-10 Thread Brianna Laugher
Hi all,

Some news: on Sunday I resigned as president of Wikimedia Australia.
The ctte accepted my resignation and as per our Rules, appointed one
of the committee members to the office, who will serve until the next
AGM.

I guess this news may come as a shock or it may not. It's something
I've been thinking about for quite a while and not something that I
decided lightly or in haste. If anything, I probably decided too
slowly.

There's no bad blood with any of the ctte members, and it's not about
anything that has happened in Wikimedia land. Rather, it's about what
goes on in Brianna land (aka personal reasons), and whether or not I
can do any useful work in the role. I don't feel able to any more, and
I think my standing aside will be a good catalyst for the chapter to
get visibly moving again.

I'm sorry to let you down by not fulfilling my term with full efforts.
Sometimes reality does not quite stretch far enough to meet the
dreams. And being on a committee like ours (distributed you might
say) requires a lot of stretching.
The committee members have been very supportive of me while I was in
the role, and in my decision now as well. It actually gives me great
peace of mind to know that I am leaving the chapter in such good
hands. They are all very capable and have great ideas, and want to
support members, and if members are able to support them back, I know
awesome things will happen.

I am not sure how involved in Wikimedia things I will be in the
future. Chapter business has been my main Wikimedia business for a
while now. I hope to take a bit of breathing space and then see how
things go. Having said that, I am booked up to go to Wikimania in
July. :)


Yours in boldness,

Brianna Laugher
no longer
WMAU President.

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Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Wikimediaau-l Digest, Vol 46, Issue 15

2010-05-10 Thread VirtualSteve
 in ensuring Wikimedia Australia was established and  
 recognised
 as an official chapter and legal entity by both the government of  
 Victoria
 and the Wikimedia Foundation. She is very highly regarded and  
 respected in
 the international community and I was staggered by the number of  
 people who
 approached me at the Wikimedia Foundation meeting in Germany last  
 month to
 ask after her. I hope that she will continue to be a significant  
 presence in
 the both the global and local Wikimedia and free culture  
 communities. We
 sincerely thank her for the tremendously valuable and important  
 contribution
 she has made over the last four years to the chapter, the committee  
 and to
 the free culture movement in Australia and we wish her all the best  
 for her
 future endeavours.

 During the committee's teleconference on Sunday night, nominations  
 for the
 seat of president were opened. Steve Peters, our sitting treasurer,  
 accepted
 a nomination from me for president. No further nominations were  
 received and
 Steve's nomination was unanimously endorsed and supported. Steve  
 will take
 the seat of president effective immediately and lead us into the  
 next Annual
 General Meeting. This, of course, means that we now have a vacant  
 seat on
 the committee. The Rules of the Association allows the committee to  
 appoint
 a financial chapter member from outside the committee to a vacant
 non-executive/ordinary member* *seat. Two committee members (Brian  
 and Liam)
 are currently in the UK attending the Wikimedia Foundation's  
 fundraising
 meeting, which has made it very difficult to organise a proper  
 meeting but
 we are continuing to discuss these issues internally and will decide  
 whether
 to leave the seat vacant until the AGM or seek to fill it under the
 Association Rules.The membership will be advised as soon as any  
 decisions
 are made in regard to these issues.

 I hope Wikimedia Australia's membership, friends and supporters will  
 join
 with the committee in thanking Brianna for her dedication and hard  
 work over
 the last four years and in wishing her all the best for the futuer.

 Regards,
 Sarah Ewart
 Secretary
 Wikimedia Australia

 On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 10:31 PM, Brianna Laugher brianna.laug...@gmail.com
 wrote:

 Hi all,

 Some news: on Sunday I resigned as president of Wikimedia Australia.
 The ctte accepted my resignation and as per our Rules, appointed one
 of the committee members to the office, who will serve until the next
 AGM.

 I guess this news may come as a shock or it may not. It's something
 I've been thinking about for quite a while and not something that I
 decided lightly or in haste. If anything, I probably decided too
 slowly.

 There's no bad blood with any of the ctte members, and it's not about
 anything that has happened in Wikimedia land. Rather, it's about what
 goes on in Brianna land (aka personal reasons), and whether or  
 not I
 can do any useful work in the role. I don't feel able to any more,  
 and
 I think my standing aside will be a good catalyst for the chapter to
 get visibly moving again.

 I'm sorry to let you down by not fulfilling my term with full  
 efforts.
 Sometimes reality does not quite stretch far enough to meet the
 dreams. And being on a committee like ours (distributed you might
 say) requires a lot of stretching.
 The committee members have been very supportive of me while I was in
 the role, and in my decision now as well. It actually gives me great
 peace of mind to know that I am leaving the chapter in such good
 hands. They are all very capable and have great ideas, and want to
 support members, and if members are able to support them back, I know
 awesome things will happen.

 I am not sure how involved in Wikimedia things I will be in the
 future. Chapter business has been my main Wikimedia business for a
 while now. I hope to take a bit of breathing space and then see how
 things go. Having said that, I am booked up to go to Wikimania in
 July. :)


 Yours in boldness,

 Brianna Laugher
 no longer
 WMAU President.

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 Hi all,

 I wish to second Sarah's post above - what she has written  
 represents

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Wikimediaau-l Digest, Vol 46, Issue 15

2010-05-10 Thread Sarah Ewart
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 11:56 PM, bidgee-w...@virginbroadband.com.auwrote:

 Also congratulations to Steve! I'm sure he will serve the Wikimedia
 Australia community well and I'm sure his feet will fit in Brianna's pink
 fluffy slippers! ;)


I must say, I'd be fully prepared to pay money to see Steve prancing around
in pink fluffy girls slippers! :p
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Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Committee changes

2010-05-10 Thread Manuel Schneider
Dear Brianna,

on the one hand it is sad to hear that you resign, but on the other hand 
I am happy to meet you as every year again at Wikimania and I really 
wish you a good time and successful moving onwards in Brianna land.

You have done a great job founding WMAU, networking between the chapters 
and on Commons. I hope your future will be close to Wikimedia and the 
chapters, no matter what official role you choose to play.

Have good time, thanks, hugs and regards,


Manuel

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Manuel Schneider

Wikimedia CH - Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens
Wikimedia CH - Association for the advancement of free knowledge
www.wikimedia.ch

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Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Wikimediaau-l Digest, Vol 46, Issue 15

2010-05-10 Thread Manuel Schneider
Hi Steve,

I want to state all my support for you, your fellow committee members 
and WMAU and wish you a great time.
WMAU was always a chapter with interesting ideas and projects and I wish 
that the engagement to connect with other chapters and to-be-chapters 
will continue in future.

/Manuel

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Wikimedia CH - Association for the advancement of free knowledge
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Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Committee changes

2010-05-10 Thread private musings
Thanks heaps for all your hard work over the years, Brianna :-) - I get the
occassional glimpse of your influence all over the place, and I think it's
fair to say that you've worked incredibly hard both behind the scenes, and
as the founding president of WMAU - it's a great shame to lose you as pres.
but I hope you won't be a stranger? ;-)
There's a round or two for you in Sydney, I'm sure, when you next get the
chance to pop up, and are feeling a bit wiki...
cheers,
Peter,
PM.

On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 12:16 AM, Manuel Schneider 
manuel.schnei...@wikimedia.ch wrote:

 Dear Brianna,

 on the one hand it is sad to hear that you resign, but on the other hand
 I am happy to meet you as every year again at Wikimania and I really
 wish you a good time and successful moving onwards in Brianna land.

 You have done a great job founding WMAU, networking between the chapters
 and on Commons. I hope your future will be close to Wikimedia and the
 chapters, no matter what official role you choose to play.

 Have good time, thanks, hugs and regards,


 Manuel

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 Manuel Schneider

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