[Wikimediaau-l] Fwd: [Wikimania-l] Wikimania 2011 registration and scholarship application to begin on January 1st!
Hi all,
Although it's already almost late for me to be wishing you a happy new
year ;-), I do so with the best possible wishes.
Forwarding the fact that Wikimania has already opened registration and
scholarships applications. Hope to meet as many of you as possible in
Haifa this year.
Best,
Delphine
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From: Harel Cain
Date: Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 8:01 AM
Subject: [Wikimania-l] Wikimania 2011 registration and scholarship
application to begin on January 1st!
To: "Wikimania general list (open subscription)"
Dear Wikimaniacs,
We are pleased to announce the opening, on January 1st 0:00 UTC, of
the registration period and the scholarship application period for
Wikimania 2011, which will be held in Haifa, Israel, on August 4th to
7th, 2011.
== Registration ==
Those who register early will enjoy considerable discounts in both
registration and accommodation fees, so be sure to register as early
as possible.
* Full information about registration, including fees and registration
periods: http://wikimania2011.wikimedia.org/wiki/Registration
* Our registration website: http://wmreg.wikimedia.org.il/
== Scholarship application ==
If you require a scholarship to attend Wikimania 2011, you can apply
for one until the end of January 2011. This year, there will be
partial scholarships to cover travel costs up to USD 300, in addition
to full scholarships.
* Full information about scholarships:
http://wikimania2011.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scholarships
* Our scholarship application website: http://wmschols.wikimedia.org.il/
== Call for Papers ==
The Call for Papers for the conference has been available for a while
now. You are welcome to submit workshop, seminar, tutorial, panel, and
presentation proposals.
* The Call for Papers: http://wikimania2011.wikimedia.org/wiki/Call_for_Papers
== Translators required ==
You are welcome to help translate as much of our conference wiki into
as many languages as possible, using the regular {{Other languages}}
and {{Translation}} templates.
If you are interested in translating the registration website into
additional languages, please contact us at
wikimania-registrat...@wikimedia.org.
== Got any questions? ==
You can contact us in any of the ways listed on
http://wikimania2011.wikimedia.org/wiki/Contact.
If you have questions that might interest others, please post them on
http://wikimania2011.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania:Information_Desk.
Please excuse us if the registration or scholarship application
websites are temporarily unavailable due to maintenance.
Wishing you all a happy 2011 and looking forward to hosting you in Haifa,
Harel Cain
on behalf of the entire Wikimania 2011 local team
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Re: [Wikimediaau-l] open wiki editing for WMAU?
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 11:43 AM, John Vandenberg wrote: > The committee has talked a lot about allowing non-members to edit the > wiki, and I would love a good proposal, but the one that > privatemusings put up was an empty proposal. > > Non members can explain here why they want to be able to edit our > wiki; we are listening. I haven't read the whole thread so please excuse me if some of my findings are redundant with things discussed here or in the past. I want to share two experiences from other chapters. (and this is also a tl;dr kind of email, sorry ;)) 1) Wikimedia France. Wikimedia France has a member-only wiki, which since its opening a year and a half or so back, has seen increasing activity from the members to promote free knowledge and of course the association. This wiki is associated to a member-only mailing list, which serves as a relay for those people who are not so much into wiki editing (yes, there are lost of those). The question of opening the wiki and list to outside perusal and participation has been asked many times. Most interestingly, the people that were rather against are people who are not the most active on the Wikimedia Projects but have proved invaluable to the association. They mentionned the fact that being in a private sphere has actually allowed them to "speak up", which they would not have done on a public mailing list (due to their outside-wikimedia status or whatever. Information and call for particpations are relayed on a public wikimedia-fr list, which is open to subscription from anyone. 2) Wikimedia Deutschland Wikimedia Deutschland has opened very recently a "forum" wiki for anyone who wishes. A members-only section has also been created, which is as of now still a rather empty shell, we wanted to see if the need would arise for Member-only communication and exchanges. It's a bit early to say so, but that section had been called for by members. I just took a quick look at the list of registered users, 90% are members, 5% are people who are related in some way or other to Wikimedia Deutschland (the wiki serves also as a coordinating platform for a Project "Wikipedia in Schools") and 5% are people who are not members. The most active participants are members. Of course, those are far away examples, I don't know how Australians tick ;) So the questions I would ask is: - what prevents anyone interested in participating in Wikimedia Australia's activities to actually become a member of the association? **if it's money, I'm pretty sure there is always the possibility of asking for a waiver for the membership fee to anyone who can't afford them, for example. If not, well, that might be an option to consider. - Who wants to participate that is not a member? My answer to that is: **trolls: ie. people who just are there to disrupt and question every single activity/action of the association without going through the trouble of supporting that same association by becoming members. (been there, seen that). **People who want to look at what happens before they actually become member. In which case this means that the relay to public platforms about the Association activities is not doing its job, and this is the point that should be addressed, regardless of whether the wiki is open or not (because people who really want to get involved will just do that, and those who hesitate are not the people whose opinion will be swayed by having access to a member wiki, which they probably won't visit anyway). Personally, I find the idea of a members-only wiki appealing and interesting, because my experience is that it allows for more openness in the way people work. This said, Wikimedia Deutschland's example shows that a wiki open to all is rather de facto a members-only wiki in the end, so an open to all wiki is not inherently a bad thing. Please take this as examples and sharing of experience. That's all it is. Cheers, Delphine -- @notafish NB. This gmail address is used for mailing lists. Personal emails will get lost. Intercultural musings: Ceci n'est pas une endive - http://blog.notanendive.org Photos with simple eyes: notaphoto - http://photo.notafish.org ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l
Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Bidding for Wikimania 2012
On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 22:42, Brian Salter-Duke wrote: > On the matter of chapter support, I have no doubt that the chapter will > support a bid at some point and I do not think we should go ahead unless > the chapter does support it. That however is for the future. I have some > sympathy for Steve's view that this, 2 days from the AGM, is not the time to > be discussing this. The new committee will have other things on its > plate when it takes over. And exactly for that reason, I would suggest that while the support of Wikimedia Australia should be sought as a "great thing to have", it should not in any way be the beginning and the end of an Australian bid. Don't kill the chapter over the bid, don't kill the bid over the chapter, would be my advice. Delphine -- ~notafish NB. This gmail address is used for mailing lists. Personal emails will get lost. Intercultural musings: Ceci n'est pas une endive - http://blog.notanendive.org ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l
Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Bidding for Wikimania 2012
On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 21:51, Virtual Steve wrote: > In relation to the bid itself, whilst I can understand action to get bids in > early, suggesting support (real or tacit) by the chapter for the current > early bid will make us look disjointed, if we as a chapter agree later to > support a bid in another part of the country. Indeed there are many reasons > why Sydney may not be the best suggested location of a chapter supported bid > and that point alone is worth discussion, by the community and the > committee. For what it's worth, and as a past organizer of Wikimania (both as a volunteer and as staff of the Wikimedia Foundation), as well as a member of the jury for the past 3 years, there is one thing that I am pretty sure of. That is that if Wikimania is going to happen in Australia, whoever is organizing it will have to make sure that it stays reachable for as many people as possible. This means the following: 1- that the airport that will be used as a landing point for Wikimania is an international airport and easily reachable from pretty much everywhere in the world (we've done one Wikimania 100 km away from the closest international airport, I don't think we should do that ever again). If transfers can be kept to one in the course of the travel, then it should be done. 2- that the international flights should yield the best possible price from pretty much everywhere on the world. 3- if we want to minimize the impact of 2-, then we need a heck of a lot of sponsors for travel. 1- stays true in all circumstances. A quick raw search on flight prices from Frankfurt, Germany, San Francisco, USA and even Taipei, Taiwan, seem to suggest that the two most plausible cities for an Australian bid would be Sydney and Melbourne (I also plugged in Canberra and Perth, for comparison's sake). Delphine Disclaimer: My sister lives in Melbourne, so I can't be accused of pushing Sydney ;-) -- ~notafish NB. This gmail address is used for mailing lists. Personal emails will get lost. Intercultural musings: Ceci n'est pas une endive - http://blog.notanendive.org ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l
Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Bidding for Wikimania 2012
On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 11:57, Craig Franklin wrote: > Angela, > > Have you got any official support from the chapter for this bid? Having > been the bid leader for the last time an Australian city took a tilt at > this, I'd say that it's necessary to have committed support from the chapter > to have any hope at all of success. I see that supporting the bid is a part > of Liam's election platform, but I really think it's not appropriate to > count on the chapter's enthusiastic support for a Sydney '12 bid without > some sort of chapter-wide discussion on whether that's the best location and > the best time to bid. I'm not saying that the idea of bidding is without > merit, but I do think that this might not be the best time to proceed. In > fact, when the chapter membership was polled in March, there seemed to very > little to no support for bidding in 2011 > (http://www.wikimedia.org.au/wiki/2009_member_goals_survey), and I'm not > sure that opinions on the topic have changed wildly since then. For what it's worth, chapter support for other bids (Gdansk, for example), were not always acquired from the start. I do not see how putting up a bid is in any way presumptuous of having the national chapter's support, no more than I believe that chapter support is absolutely necessary to lead a bid to success. What makes the success of a bid is a dedicated organizing team, who can mobilize the right resources (and those might include mobilizing the chapter's resources) at the right time. Wikimedia Germany never really supported the Frankfurt Wikimania more than saying "ah cool", there was no chapter backing Wikimania in Cambridge, the chapter was created in Taiwan just for Wikimania and did not survive the event, Wikimania in Alexandria was backed up by no chapter. Only Wikimania in Buenos Aires and Wikimedia Argentina had really strong ties. Wikimedia Polska was one of many supporters of the Gdansk bid, but as far as I am aware, not the organisation "carrying" the bid to start with. Finally, if Wikimania is _ever_ going to get to Australia, I think that thinking about it 2 years in advance is the least that should be done. Cheers, Delphine (organizer of 3 Wikimanias out of 5). -- ~notafish NB. This gmail address is used for mailing lists. Personal emails will get lost. Intercultural musings: Ceci n'est pas une endive - http://blog.notanendive.org ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l
Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Overseas donation
If I may, I would advise caution. Brianna and I experienced the highest fees ever for overseas bank transfer to Australia. I would advise your friend, Peter, to check with their bank to see what the fees are for such a transfer, as the donation might well dissolve into bank fees. Otherwise I would advise a paypal transfer to an Australian friend, or something of the kind where fees are high, but maybe not so high. Cheers, Delphine 2009/2/6 Nicholas Perkins : > Generally, each bank around the world has a "SWIFT" code. The SWIFT code is > a unique identifier for each bank for international money transfers. For > example, the Commonwealth Bank is CTBAAU2S. > > > > Usually all that someone would need to provide to their bank to make an > international transfer is the SWIFT code, the BSB and the Account number for > an Australian bank. (Other countries use different variations on a BSB – for > example, the UK use a Sort Code, the US use an ABA number). > > > > On a side note, to send money to a bank in the EU a SWIFT code (known as a > BIC there) is not enough. You need to supply an IBAN number, which is a > combination of a Country Code, SWIFT/BIC, Sort Code (depending on country), > Account Number and a check digit. > > > > -- > > Nick Perkins > > superni...@gmail.com > > > > > > From: wikimediaau-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org > [mailto:wikimediaau-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Sarah Ewart > Sent: Friday, 6 February 2009 8:09 PM > To: Wikimedia-au > Subject: Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Overseas donation > > > > Yes, it is possible. We've had foreign payments into the WMA bank account > before using [[Swift]]. I've sent money to the US before - I just went into > my bank and told them I wanted to transfer money to an American bank account > and they organised it for me but that was a long time ago and I'm sure there > are easier ways to do it now. Brian or Angela probably know more about this > sort of thing. > > 2009/2/6 private musings > > g'day all, > > so I have this friend in the US who'd like to donate $20 to the AU > chapter is this possible? and if so, how? :-) > > cheers, > > Peter > PM > > ___ > Wikimediaau-l mailing list > Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l > > > > ___ > Wikimediaau-l mailing list > Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l > > -- ~notafish NB. This gmail address is used for mailing lists. Personal emails will get lost. Ceci n'est pas une endive - http://blog.notanendive.org ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l
Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Wikimedia Australia now open for membership
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 12:50, Liam Wyatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is great! I've signed up and am awaiting approval from the > secretary :-P > > Can I suggest that we put somewhere prominently the: > - Price(s) of membership I don't understand what a $20/year concession is? Could you clarify please? :) Delphine -- ~notafish NB. This gmail address is used for mailing lists. Personal emails will get lost. Ceci n'est pas une endive - http://blog.notanendive.org ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l
