Hi,
This item from the experimenta mailing list may be of interest to WAers.
I could imagine that we could partner with a more arts-oriented group
that could create some interesting possibilities.
cheers
Brianna
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Date: 2008/11/14
2008/11/14 Zero [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 9:39 AM, Brianna Laugher
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
To become a member please go to
http://membership.wikimedia.org.au/memberdb/index.php?page=signup
and fill out the form there. The rest of the process is via email.
I was just about
Hi,
I mentioned this briefly in last week's minutes, but this week we
finalised it all, so I will talk about it in a bit more detail. I am
happy to say that we are going to work on a joint publication with
Creative Commons Australia (CCau), to be launched at the Free as in
Freedom miniconf I am
2008/11/19 Stephen Bain [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 12:10 AM, Brianna Laugher
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Of course it will be under a free
license, probably CC-BY-SA.
Dual CC-BY-SA / GFDL would be nice, that would make it compatible with
the Wikimedia projects (and our own
Hm, I found out about this rather late... The deadline is in five
days. :) If there are some creative film-types out there they might be
interested in at least thinking about this for next year, if not
submitting this time.
cheers
Brianna
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From: Gavin
Hey all,
I thought I would let you know something cool. We have just received
our first donation! :)
I received a couple of emails to our contact address about how to
donate or if donations to us were tax deductible. (For the record they
are NOT.) I think it is people coming via the WMF
Hi all,
We probably won't be having a ctte meeting this weekend, but how about a
general meeting?
3pm, Sunday, #wikimedia-au ?
cheers
Brianna
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Available on meta at
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chapters/Reports/Wikimedia_Australia/2008-11
Wikimedia Australia chapter report
Edition 2, November 2008
By Brianna Laugher, interim Secretary (blaugher at wikimedia dot org dot au)
* 1 Introduction
* 2 News in brief
* 3
Attendance: Brianna, Sarah, John, Charles
11pm
Agenda:
* 1 Confirm previous minutes
* 2 AGM date
* 3 AGM agenda
* 4 Authorisation for Backstage Pass events
* 5 AOB
==Confirm previous minutes==
'''Resolution:''' that we accept the minutes of the [[Meeting
2008/12/20 Gnangarra gnanga...@gmail.com:
Thats is interesting,
My issue is that the donation goes to a chapter rather than the Foundation,
so is there potential for us as a chapter to do this on en?
The printer chooses to make a donation to a chapter.
There is no contract between the printer
Hi,
As I hope everyone is now aware, our AGM is slated for Sunday 11th January.
http://wikimedia.org.au/wiki/2008-2009_AGM
An important component of the AGM is electing a new committee. There
are six positions:
* President
* Vice President
* Treasurer
* Secretary
* 2x Ordinary Members.
I will
Hi,
Nominations closed yesterday and these are the received nominations:
President Brianna Laugher
Vice President Liam Wyatt
Vice President Gideon Digby
Treasurer Brian Salter-Duke
Secretary Sarah Ewart
Ordinary Member John Vandenberg
2009/1/5 Craig Franklin cr...@halo-17.net:
Should the VP candidates be included in the Ordinary Member election
too (if they want to) so the failing VP candidate may still be a
committee member if they get enough votes to be an Ordinary Member?
(Probably not for this election.)
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2009/1/5 Mark Hurd markeh...@gmail.com:
On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 2:11 PM, Brianna Laugher
brianna.laug...@gmail.com wrote:
2009/1/5 Craig Franklin cr...@halo-17.net:
Should the VP candidates be included in the Ordinary Member election
too (if they want to) so the failing VP candidate may still
Hey folks, what about if we starts a 'events/planning' mailing list
and move discussion there? I think there will be a lot of detail to be
worked out and if we move to another list, we won't overwhelm this
one, or bore people who aren't interested.
cheers
Brianna
2009/1/12 hui...@gmail.com:
I
Hi all,
There's a nice piece by Max Barry (author of Jennifer Government) in
the Age, as well as on his blog, about how production companies using
copy protection is breaking their own DVDs and converting paying
customers into pirates.
Hi, I was happily surprised to spot this article in the Age's Green
Guide yesterday.
http://www.theage.com.au/news/entertainment/tv--radio/many-minds-make-wiki-work/2009/01/14/1231608762605.html
cheers
Brianna
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Hi,
I just did a bit of an interview with Rachael Brown for the ABC radio show 'PM'.
Apparently it is on twice an evening: Radio National 5.10pm, and ABC
local (774 in Melbourne) at 6.10pm.
Here's hoping it sounds OK, if someone could make a digital recording
somehow that would be ace :)
2009/1/27 Gnangarra gnanga...@gmail.com:
So what is WM-au position on flagged revisions?
There is no WMAU position on flagged revisions (FR). Did you notice
one? I don't think anybody too much cares about WMAU's position on
anything just yet. :) It was more a here is a local expert angle
(and
-- Forwarded message --
From: Amal Hanna amal.ha...@unisa.edu.au
Date: 2009/2/18
Subject: [Textbook-l] Australian Wikibookian?
To: textboo...@lists.wikimedia.org textboo...@lists.wikimedia.org
Are you Australian and is your native language English?
Dear Wikibooks.org
/2/25 Brianna Laugher brianna.laug...@gmail.com:
Hi all,
The committee is having a bit of strategic planning 'retreat' meeting
this weekend.[1] Liam is joining Sarah, Brian and I in Melbourne.
John, Nathan, Gideon and Andrew[2] are unable to attend but we will
take note of their input
2009/3/11 Nick Jenkins nic...@gmail.com:
Personal comment would it be worth trying to combine some of these:
E.g. a if there was a conf in Canberra, could it potentially be combined
with an academy + talks for educators + meetup + press release about the
event with various
2009/3/11 Confusing Manifestation confusingmanifestat...@gmail.com:
What size is one of the many questions we hope to answer with this
get-together. I have my own ideas, Brianna and Liam have theirs
(probably much more grounded in reality). In terms of scope I'm
thinking Wiki community +
2009/5/24 private musings thepmacco...@gmail.com:
see
http://www.smh.com.au/news/home/technology/parents-warned-of-wikiporn-risk/2009/05/23/1242498976065.html
Unfortunately it's not a good news one, dealing with 'Wikiporn risk' - but I
think a 'well done' to brianna for sounding wise and
Hi,
Having open editing for the website is indeed not a technical problem
as Liam mentioned.
The thing that I am concerned about, in wanting to clearly delineate
'member' and 'open' spaces, is the situation where non-members have
undue influence or expression and it is not possible to simply and
Hi,
Just letting everyone know that we are aware wikimedia.org.au is a tad
broken at the moment. I think it suffered a bit of a code upgrade
fail. Hopefully it will be resolved this evening.
Brianna
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All better now, carry on as per usual programming...
Brianna
2009/6/16 Brianna Laugher brianna.laug...@gmail.com:
Hi,
Just letting everyone know that we are aware wikimedia.org.au is a tad
broken at the moment. I think it suffered a bit of a code upgrade
fail. Hopefully it will be resolved
2009/6/16 YellowMonkey blnguyen2...@gmail.com:
Isn't that a tad short? Nobody, eg, writes a FA that quickly (generally
speaking)
Well, the intention is not to do the edits and get it through FA
approval in a week. As an entry to this challenge you'd generally just
be submitting your edits. My
Also, I thought any longer than a week and you might have trouble
holding people's attention to the task. I was originally thinking to
just make it a weekend!
Brianna
2009/6/16 Brianna Laugher brianna.laug...@gmail.com:
2009/6/16 YellowMonkey blnguyen2...@gmail.com:
Isn't that a tad short
Hi,
I think there is a lot of scope for work we can do with the education
sector. There is also some funding coming up/available that I would
like to see us apply for.
One immediate problem I see is the lack of a concrete partner. Are we
talking about hosting an open kind of event like
Hi all,
I meant to forward this a while ago, but the LCA 2010 CFP closes this
Friday. LCA is a free software technical conference, but one of the
topics they are targeting this year is Free Software and Free Culture
topics, including licencing and Free and Open approaches outside
software. Also,
am a little bit worried that Melbourne is getting
cut off by football! Maybe I will have to listen online.
http://www.abc.net.au/sydney/radio/schedule.htm?section=online
cheers
Brianna
2009/7/22 Brianna Laugher brianna.laug...@gmail.com:
Hi,
I've received a request for a Wikipedia editor
2009/8/5 private musings thepmacco...@gmail.com:
G'day all,
I thought I'd write a brief note about last night's Sydney meetup :-)
It was great to welcome Mathias and Jennifer (from the german chapter, and
the wikimedia foundation respectively) to Sydney - and we had a really good
turnout
Hi all,
Something we may want to consider being involved in (although probably
not for a while... since this is very early stages).
I suggested a name change (as there is already a crowd called
Australian Digital Alliance) but otherwise I think the formation of a
body to represent tech users is
Hi folks,
As you may or may not be aware, Wikimania is almost upon us!
http://wikimania2009.wikimedia.org/
Here is the Australian representation AFAIK:
* me - I'm running a panel on chapters, and trying to organise a
chapters meeting
* Liam - he's on two panels (one on free culture chapters,
Hello,
The fundraiser and our taking part in it, or not, has been the main
matter of discussion within the committee for the past few weeks. And
it is still under discussion... If we do take part, it is likely to be
with a late start (ie the fundraiser is due to start early November,
and run for
2009/11/10 private musings thepmacco...@gmail.com:
Hi all,
It's probably worth contacting both CPA and CA australia to see if they
could hook us up with a volunteer suitably skilled to do the job - I take it
we don't really have any idea how much money might come in from joining the
Hi,
Is there anyone who is planning to attend LCA in January that would be
interested to help me staff a table for Open Day?
http://www.lca2010.org.nz/programme/open_day
thanks
Brianna
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2009/11/30 Tim Starling tstarl...@wikimedia.org:
I'm sure he could fix it if he had the inclination. He, however, is not
the one who's offerring.
Apparently he developed the inclination. History tab is fixed.
Brianna
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2010/1/20 Michelle Gallaway mgalla...@gmail.com:
I don't want to shit on what is otherwise a great idea, but wasn't the AGM
in November? Does it really take two months to get to know one another?
What has (or has not) been going on in that time?
Hi Michelle,
I realise the committee has not
2010/1/21 Craig Franklin cr...@halo-17.net:
Getting back to the original topic of this post, is there an end-date for
the Ideascale thing? Don't want to blow my 50 gold stars on early ideas,
only for even better ideas to come up later.
Well we are meeting on the 30th, so this week rather than
Hi all,
It's great to see some uptake of IdeaScale for the brainstorming.
Here's what's up so far:
http://wmau.ideascale.com/
-Review reports from other chapters for ideas
-Create Wikimedia-based lesson plans for K-12 teachers to use
-Get a professional marketing plan to convince GLAMs about
Hello!
Since the chapter committee is all in town this weekend, Melburnites,
please join us Sunday afternoon for a late lunch/afternoon tea.
from 2.30 Sunday
Cheeky Monkey, 89 Swan St, Richmond.
Take #70 tram or it's a short walk up Swan St from Richmond train station.
and/or record your intend
Hi all,
Thanks to those who participated in the IdeaScale brainstorming by
voting. Thanks especially to Angela, ConMan, Adza, Craig, PM and
Andrew for writing up their ideas.
The final tallies are
110 - Create information kit to enable people to do outreach
Hi Bron! Long time no see!
On 2 February 2010 17:14, Bron (EuropracBHIT)
mywikiwikiw...@fastmail.fm wrote:
I looked at the page and someone said,
This is going to be super-popular.
How was it, regardless?
LOL :)
It was good actually! The peak of it was more or less this many people:
Hi Peter,
On 10 February 2010 07:47, private musings thepmacco...@gmail.com wrote:
G'day all,
I wonder if I could pester a committee member with a spare moment to fill in
the redlink here;
http://wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Meetings
about the Jan. meetup :-)
I was able to pester Liam briefly on
Hi,
I agree, it is becoming kinda urgent. I will have something up by the
end of the week, and we will also have had a committee meeting by
then, so expect to see some visible outputs by then.
sorry again for the slow pace.
Brianna
On 22 February 2010 14:08, private musings
and productive 2010.
Brianna Laugher
Wikimedia Australia president
2010-02-28
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Hi all,
A couple of interesting events this week in Sydney.
First is a public lecture tonight (!), 8-7.45pm at the University of
Technology Sydney.
http://datasearch.uts.edu.au/law/news-events/events-detail.cfm?ItemId=19462
It's called UTSpeaks: Copy Right or Wrong. The speaker is Professor
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
Wow, what a great partnership, congratulations! That's wonderful.
Good timing, too ;)
I look forward to hearing more about the collection.
Brianna
On 17 December 2010 15:18, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
I am pleased to announce that the State Library of Queensland has
Hi,
The group formerly known as AussieChix (Australian chapter of
LinuxChix) has renamed and rescoped itself and is launching as OWOOT.
If you are a geek girl or woman with an open tech bent, please feel
free to join, or pass the word on to other folks who might be
interested.
cheers
Brianna
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