Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Editing sessions in the new year

2011-12-13 Thread Gordon Joly
On 12/12/2011 22:44, Chris Keating wrote: I was talking to Gordon Joly and Philafrenzy about this at the Wikimeet and I think the collective feeling was that contact before and after an editing session is important as well as the event itself. I can certainly think of events where lots of

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Editing sessions in the new year

2011-12-10 Thread WereSpielChequers
I'm in, but please not a basement. I have mobile broadband and if I remember to bring it the WiFi will work and it won't be needed. But mobile broadband abhors basements. WSC On 9 December 2011 22:28, Charles Matthews charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.comwrote: On 9 December 2011 22:14, HJ

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Editing sessions in the new year

2011-12-10 Thread Stephen Gardner
[mailto:wikimediauk-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Richard Symonds Sent: 09 December 2011 19:27 To: wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Wikimediauk-l] Editing sessions in the new year All, There's been an awful lot of fundraiser emails coming in from donors who are asking about how

[Wikimediauk-l] Editing sessions in the new year

2011-12-09 Thread Richard Symonds
All, There's been an awful lot of fundraiser emails coming in from donors who are asking about how to edit. The following statements aren't direct quotes - I've reworded them for privacy's sake, but they're 'based on a true story' and indicative of the sort of emails we're getting: Some of

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Editing sessions in the new year

2011-12-09 Thread HJ Mitchell
  From: Richard Symonds richard.symo...@wikimedia.org.uk To: wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Friday, 9 December 2011, 19:27 Subject: [Wikimediauk-l] Editing sessions in the new year All,   There’s been an awful lot of fundraiser emails coming in from

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Editing sessions in the new year

2011-12-09 Thread James Forrester
On 9 December 2011 19:36, HJ Mitchell hjmitch...@ymail.com wrote: This is basically what we've been doing with the Girl Geeks. I'd be more than happy to help out. If possible, it would be good to put it in a location that's easiest to get to for most of the 'customers'. Or perhaps holding

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Editing sessions in the new year

2011-12-09 Thread Charles Matthews
On 9 December 2011 20:08, James Forrester ja...@jdforrester.org wrote: This sounds like a great idea. I'd love to help out running a few of these in the South-East/London; might be sensible to get a rough feel of distribution to work out how many (and how widespread) we'd want them to be...

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Editing sessions in the new year

2011-12-09 Thread HJ Mitchell
@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Friday, 9 December 2011, 22:10 Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Editing sessions in the new year On 9 December 2011 20:08, James Forrester ja...@jdforrester.org wrote: This sounds like a great idea. I'd love to help out running a few of these in the South-East/London; might be sensible