On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 1:09 PM, Stephen Bain stephen.b...@gmail.com wrote:
But who is out there, and what sort of successes would they like to
own? And what methods would be better than meetups for establishing a
core of regular participants?
While meetups do fall under our Statement of
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 11:05 PM, Craig Franklin cr...@halo-17.net wrote:
having GLAM-WIKI in Canberra rather than in Sydney or Melbourne was a good
move and defused
any possible Sydney/Melbourne/Regional rivalry; it seems that we all see
Canberra as “neutral ground” in that respect!
The
On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 00:16:10 +1100
Sarah Ewart sarahew...@gmail.com wrote:
Fellow members and supporters,
A key priority for 2009-10 has to be building the chapter and
make it successful.
Using the figures from the secretary's report at the AGM, in
regional terms our numbers
Just to say that I also agree with membership concerns and it's something
that's worried me for a long time, just from being aware of the membership
from membership records and it's something that's going to need to be
addressed for the viability of the chapter in the medium-long term. I don't
In fact, I don't even think that Sydney should be lumped in with Sydney when
talking about chapter activity in the last year :-) IIRC the only official
Chaper events that happened in real life last year were GLAM-WIKI
(Canberra), a Backstage Pass (Sydney), Linux-Australia conference booth
Would this be a good way to empower more local activities around the
country?
What if there was a national meetup day for Australia, when we got a
banner displayed on the Wikimedia sites for any Australian IP addresses,
that told people about their nearest meetup? And then we'd have a meetup
on
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 2:45 AM, Andrew orderinchao...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
Before I reply, I'll note that I actually agree with Sarah here re
Melbourne - it's also evidenced by Victoria's membership following the
national trend rather than NSW/ACT's.
In fact, melbourne's situation may
2009/12/14 Stephen Bain stephen.b...@gmail.com
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 2:45 AM, Andrew orderinchao...@gmail.com wrote:
This assumes that meetups will fix the perception problem. I don't think
it
will - they're good for social purposes but not much else.
...
I work in education and I
