Re: [Wikimediauk-l] 2010 WMUK AGM/CONFERENCE

2009-05-01 Thread Michael Peel
This shouldn't be restricted just to members ... :-) My suggestion would be either Oxford, based on the Wikimania bid, or London itself, perhaps at one of the universities/colleges. It would be nice if we could do something at the same time (or located at) with The British Library or similar

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] 2010 WMUK AGM/CONFERENCE

2009-05-01 Thread Thomas Dalton
2009/5/2 Andrew Turvey : > My suggestion from experience with organising the 2009 AGM - only do it > where we have members who can help organise it. Trying to do it remotely > because we think it's a nice idea to have it in a particular place just > doesn't work! That is a very good point. __

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] 2010 WMUK AGM/CONFERENCE

2009-05-01 Thread Andrew Turvey
My suggestion from experience with organising the 2009 AGM - only do it where we have members who can help organise it. Trying to do it remotely because we think it's a nice idea to have it in a particular place just doesn't work! - Original Message - From: "joseph seddon" To: "wikim

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] 2010 WMUK AGM/CONFERENCE

2009-05-01 Thread Thomas Dalton
2009/5/1 joseph seddon : > This isn’t an official bidding thing like wikimania, just > simply to get ideas on the table for me to put together for future > discussion. Let's have an official bidding process - we'll see if we can complete it and get a decision before the Wikimania jury makes theirs

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Advisory Board

2009-05-01 Thread Thomas Dalton
2009/5/1 joseph seddon : > Members, > > As many of you may remember, I made a suggestion at the AGM to bring into > existence an advisory board/commitee of experts to support Wikimedia UK in > its growth. I feel that this is apllicable even with the larger baord. > Although the necessity for such a

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] AGM pictures

2009-05-01 Thread andrewrturvey
Wrong license I think. On May 1, 10:18 pm, Al Tally wrote: > On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 10:17 PM, AndrewRT wrote: > > > Has anyone got any pictures of the AGM? If so, could you upload them > > to the wiki at uk.wikimedia.org. > > > It would be good to have some pics so we can start to illustrate the

[Wikimediauk-l] AGM pictures

2009-05-01 Thread AndrewRT
Has anyone got any pictures of the AGM? If so, could you upload them to the wiki at uk.wikimedia.org. It would be good to have some pics so we can start to illustrate the site. Cheers! Andrew ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org h

[Wikimediauk-l] 2010 WMUK AGM/CONFERENCE

2009-05-01 Thread joseph seddon
Wikimedia UK Members, As you all may be aware I have been tasked to over see Wikimedia UK’s operation of and participation in conferences in the UK’s large open knowledge and free software movement. The participation of the chapters members is instrumental in getting our name out there and to

[Wikimediauk-l] Advisory Board

2009-05-01 Thread joseph seddon
Members, As many of you may remember, I made a suggestion at the AGM to bring into existence an advisory board/commitee of experts to support Wikimedia UK in its growth. I feel that this is apllicable even with the larger baord. Although the necessity for such a thing may not be right now, it

[Wikimediauk-l] Chapter Agreement

2009-05-01 Thread AndrewRT
The Wikimedia Foundation has recently published its proposals for a new standard Chaptar Agreement. They are hoping for all chapters to replace their existing chapter agreements with this new one by the end of June. They have agreed that we are ok to publish the draft in a public forum so our memb

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] AGM pictures

2009-05-01 Thread Al Tally
On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 10:17 PM, AndrewRT wrote: > Has anyone got any pictures of the AGM? If so, could you upload them > to the wiki at uk.wikimedia.org. > > It would be good to have some pics so we can start to illustrate the > site. > > Cheers! > > Andrew > There were some up on flickr - they