[Wikimediaau-l] Australian Digital Futures Directions paper

2009-01-15 Thread Jessica Coates
Dear all Just in case people have missed it in the New Year rush - the Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy (DBCDE) have released an industry consultation draft, which will inform the development of the Digital Economy Future Directions paper: http://www.dbcde.gov.au

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Backstage Pass event in Sydney

2009-01-15 Thread Orderinchaos78
Indeed, they're totally voluntary to start with, and private messages or group notices from them are unobtrusive. 2009/1/15 Gnangarra > One does kinda expect to get spammed from facebook groups occassionally > > 2009/1/15 Orderinchaos78 > > Yeah I don't see any harm in using the Facebook group.

[Wikimediaau-l] News article - Many minds make Wiki work

2009-01-15 Thread Brianna Laugher
Hi, I was happily surprised to spot this article in the Age's Green Guide yesterday. cheers Brianna -- They've just been waiting in a mountain for the right moment: http://modernthing

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] News article - Many minds make Wiki work

2009-01-15 Thread Liam Wyatt
Nice article, hits all the right buttons. Perhaps we could contact mandy - the author - to meet up with Wm-Au? On 16/01/2009, at 10:20, "Brianna Laugher" wrote: > Hi, I was happily surprised to spot this article in the Age's Green > Guide yesterday. > >

[Wikimediaau-l] contacting external people

2009-01-15 Thread private musings
Hi all, I've created http://wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Contacting_external_folk as a place to centralise some information, and chat about good processes for how non-committee members (and indeed anyone really) may be able to make contact with external agencies for various reasons - take a look if you g

[Wikimediaau-l] A wiki bet + donation info

2009-01-15 Thread private musings
Hi all, one more quick one - I won a wiki bet recently, and now a fellow editor has to cough up 20 bucks to WMAU - I'm sure the committee has accepting web based donations as a priority, but I thought I'd flag that there's at least a $20 incentive to get that up and running as soon as poss :-) ch

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] contacting external people

2009-01-15 Thread Gnangarra
I'll throw it back here rather than add to the page, WM-au neds an ID system and if we want to be more serious some form of accreditation system for photographers to attend these kind of thing. The reason is that we are then establishing that the person is a member of the association and that asso