Yes, I met him. Did not have much time to chat though. He is an extremely kind person.
Ant simonpedia wrote: > *Muhammad Alsebaey* shipmaster at gmail.com > <mailto:wikimania-l%40lists.wikimedia.org?Subject=%5BWikimania-l%5D%20http%3A//wikimania2008.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page&In-Reply-To=35be2a710802052015q77b6991h352c40f424c7c351%40mail.gmail.com> > > on /Wed Feb 6 04:35:01 UTC 2008/ > > /Said,/ > > > > However I think you feel we have no progress on this front so I will fill > > you (and everyone) in: > > > > > > Thanks Muhammad, > > > > That’s all I ask for. Someone has to be the shipmaster and I’m too old > to be subtle about finding them. You’re aware that Florence went to > Davos, and hopefully met the Library’s director. As far as my Dec. > suggestion about asking (someone like) him, and Jimmy, to do a > comparison between the oldest (continuous) western library and the > newest, it might get a few creative juices flowing (and hopefully) > attract a few other national librarians. You might even lead the > librarians by showing them this UN sponsored project.. > http://www.worlddigitallibrary.org/project/english/video.html > > > > You already have one fixed session with Sue announcing that someone from > this team would be talking about the wikisurvey. > http://ccg.merit.unu.edu/ (NB the link off to the left). There’s a > thread here between the two, though to the UN. > > > > As another idea in trying to introduce Wikimedia’s global communities to > some semi-related others, if you click on the link down the bottom left > on a the ccg’s page, through to unu-merit, you’ll see they’re announcing > that they’ve just launched an OpencourseWare portal. I’m not sure if > this is in anyway useful – the commonality with wikmedia is that OCWC is > about free content. I just didn’t notice Egypt on their consortia’s > page. > > http://www.ocwconsortium.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=15&Itemid=29 > > <http://www.ocwconsortium.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=15&Itemid=29> > > > > It’s a bit late in the day now to attract most of the people I was > hoping for. They set their conference agenda’s late in one year for the > next. So would you mind considering the idea of linking up between a few > places in different parts of the world and Alexandria. I’ve flagged this > tool, but the bibliotech’s guys will have their own preference. > http://www.accessgrid.org/home The technical stuff is pretty straight > forward, but as you can imagine, it might be a bit too much of a > surprise for WMF’s communities this year. All the best. > > > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.19.21/1263 - Release Date: > 6/02/2008 8:14 PM > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimania-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l _______________________________________________ Wikimania-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l
