[Wikimediauk-l] Wikimedia UK training for the charities in our office - 27/09/12 - we need more trainers
Dear All, Wikimedia UK is located in a building that we are sharing with ca. 20 other charities. In May we delivered a short presentation to them talking about Wikimedia UK and Wikipedia, and there was a lot of interest in learning to edit. This would be particularly interesting as the charities in the building all tackle very different issues, so their interests will be quite varied. I am setting up a drop-in style editing event in our office on Thursday 27 September, 11am - 4pm, and it would be great if you could attend to give 1-1 introduction sessions to anyone that will be interested in learning. For more information and to sign up please visit * http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ethical_Properties_Wikipedia_Workshop/September_event * We have promoted the event on the building's mailing list and a couple of charities have signed up already, so it would be great to have one or two more trainers signed up. We would be able to reimburse reasonable travel and lunch costs. Best wishes, Daria -- Daria Cybulska - Events Organiser, Wikimedia UK +44 (0) 207 065 0994 +44 7803 505 170 -- Wikimedia UK is an independent non-profit charity with no legal control over Wikipedia nor responsibility for its contents. Wikimedia UK is the operating name of Wiki UK Limited, a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Registered Office 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT. United Kingdom. Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of a global Wikimedia movement. The Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects). ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimedia UK will have interns over the next three months
Thanks for the comments and useful notes about the internship. I can assure you that we all share coffee making duties in the office, and hopefully have created an encouraging atmosphere where Isabelle can get involved in new and exciting projects. She has also attended the London Wikimeet to get to know some of our volunteers. We will be doing end of the Internship feedback session, together with a blog post so you can all find out how the internship went. We are also having another intern starting on 10 September which we are all looking forward to. Regards, Daria On 24 August 2012 19:50, Bod Notbod bodnot...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 11:55 AM, Daria Cybulska daria.cybul...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote: Dear All, Wikimedia UK will have an intern in the office working with us for 6 weeks over the Summer (as per http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Summer_intern) I'm pleased to see a list of tasks at the link. I've not been an intern but I did two bouts of work experience at school age and my times at both were appallingly rotten experiences. So please try to avoid: 1. Giving them too many trips to the coffee making facilities (making refreshments is an OK thing to get an intern to do, but please make them one every now and again and please don't make them feel that refreshments is their key role). 2. Please find interesting things for them to do. If the office is busy there may be a temptation to think well, in the time it takes me to train the intern to do this, I could have done it myself. But the intern is there to develop skills. So please teach them some cool stuff, It would also be great if people would make an effort to drop by the office and chat to the intern on a friendly basis. Is there a plan for the intern to fill in feedback about her time there? It would be good for WMUK to know what she thinks and to feed that back for when the next intern is present. Don't know whether Isabelle is going to see this (is she on the mailing list now?) but if so: hello! I hope you have a fulfilling time. Bod Notbod ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org -- Daria Cybulska - Events Organiser, Wikimedia UK +44 (0) 207 065 0994 +44 7803 505 170 -- Wikimedia UK is an independent non-profit charity with no legal control over Wikipedia nor responsibility for its contents. Wikimedia UK is the operating name of Wiki UK Limited, a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Registered Office 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT. United Kingdom. Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of a global Wikimedia movement. The Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects). ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
[Wikimediauk-l] Fwd: [Talk-GB] State of the map Scotland - Speakers and Sponsors
FYI: -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk -- Forwarded message -- From: Bob Kerr openstreetmapcraigmil...@yahoo.co.uk Date: Aug 27, 2012 1:31 PM Subject: [Talk-GB] State of the map Scotland - Speakers and Sponsors To: talk...@openstreetmap.org talk...@openstreetmap.org Hi, This years State of the map Scotland is a slightly different affair than last years due to a larger venue. We are splitting both days into two, morning and afternoon. In the afternoon we are requesting speakers from other GIS or professional organisations to come in and speak about their work with maps. These talks do not have to be about Openstreetmap or free data but it would be good if there was some connection. This will allow us to use the conference as a meeting of minds between volunteer mappers and professional groups. We have 16 30 minute slots available in the two days and two conference rooms. This will be the formal side of the conference, The mornings will be reserved for Openstreetmappers in the non conference format. Details of the Conference here http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/State_Of_The_Map_Scotland_2012 If anyone knows of any groups that would like to speak please let me know. We are also looking for some small sponsorship to pay for Edinburgh University Staff who are needed to let us in. Cheers Bob Kerr ___ Talk-GB mailing list talk...@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Fwd: [Talk-GB] State of the map Scotland - Speakers and Sponsors
If you write to i...@wikimedia.org.uk then they should be able to make small sums of money available to openstreetmap Roger On 29 August 2012 17:03, Andy Mabbett pigsotw...@gmail.com wrote: FYI: -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk -- Forwarded message -- From: Bob Kerr openstreetmapcraigmil...@yahoo.co.uk Date: Aug 27, 2012 1:31 PM Subject: [Talk-GB] State of the map Scotland - Speakers and Sponsors To: talk...@openstreetmap.org talk...@openstreetmap.org Hi, This years State of the map Scotland is a slightly different affair than last years due to a larger venue. We are splitting both days into two, morning and afternoon. In the afternoon we are requesting speakers from other GIS or professional organisations to come in and speak about their work with maps. These talks do not have to be about Openstreetmap or free data but it would be good if there was some connection. This will allow us to use the conference as a meeting of minds between volunteer mappers and professional groups. We have 16 30 minute slots available in the two days and two conference rooms. This will be the formal side of the conference, The mornings will be reserved for Openstreetmappers in the non conference format. Details of the Conference here http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/State_Of_The_Map_Scotland_2012 If anyone knows of any groups that would like to speak please let me know. We are also looking for some small sponsorship to pay for Edinburgh University Staff who are needed to let us in. Cheers Bob Kerr ___ Talk-GB mailing list talk...@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org -- *Roger Bamkin* Gibraltarpedia.org +44 (0) 1332 702993 +44 (0) 758 2020815 Google+:Victuallers Skype:Victuallers1 ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
