Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Manchester Free Culture Group

2009-01-17 Thread Gordon Joly
At 20:52 + 17/1/09, Cormac Lawler wrote: On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 6:25 PM, Michael Peel mailto:em...@mikepeel.netem...@mikepeel.net wrote: Which brings me to the second point - which is to ask whether Wikimedia UK could support such locally-based activities by, for example, hosting a

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Manchester Free Culture Group

2009-01-15 Thread Thomas Dalton
Which brings me to the second point - which is to ask whether Wikimedia UK could support such locally-based activities by, for example, hosting a mailing list, wiki, and/or other webspace? It seems to me to be well within WMUK's remit - but I'd like to hear what other people on this list

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Manchester Free Culture Group

2009-01-15 Thread Mark (Markie)
i for one have spare hosting, so im sure dependant on the needs hosting wouldn't be a problem. just got to ask round. if you want to email your needs offlist ill see what i can do, if you want regards mark On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 5:22 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.comwrote:

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Manchester Free Culture Group

2009-01-15 Thread Cary Bass
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Cormac Lawler wrote: I've been discussing with a few people (not on this list) about forming a group of people in and around Manchester who are interested in free culture - for seminars, workshops, and other related activities. There have been a

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Manchester Free Culture Group

2009-01-15 Thread Thomas Dalton
I also don't see any problem with the WMF hosting a mailing list--we have a number of locally user-based email lists for entities which have no interest in forming a chapter (Wikimedia-sf to name one) and I see no problem with the creation of a Wikimedia-man-uk (or something like that). It