Hi all There will be a a live Twitter stream available on the #GLAM-WIKI hashtag.
Just go to - http://twitter.com/#search?q=%23GLAM-WIKI - which will automatically refresh each time someone Tweets with this hashtag. (You don't need a Twitter account to at least view this). Cheers, Sam 2009/8/5 Brianna Laugher <[email protected]> > 2009/8/5 private musings <[email protected]>: > > G'day all, > > > > I thought I'd write a brief note about last night's Sydney meetup :-) > > > > It was great to welcome Mathias and Jennifer (from the german chapter, > and > > the wikimedia foundation respectively) to Sydney - and we had a really > good > > turnout (even though some of the better looking wiki types chose to make > a > > late entrance ;-) - The Belgian Beer cafe lived up to its name, and > lively > > conversation, as well as the eponymous drinks flowed swimmingly. There > were > > a fair few folk attending their first meetup, and hopefully not their > last - > > we covered a wide range of topics, from the upcoming GLAM festival, > through > > to how we, as a chapter, can better communicate our social / informal > events > > such as last night - apparently many wiki types in Sydney were entirely > > unaware of both meetups and the chapter! > > I will be glad to hear about any practical conclusions on this front, > short of monopolising the English Wikipedia geonotice. :) > > > All seemed to me to anticipate an extremely interesting, and rewarding > > 'GLAM' conference on Thurs / Fri - and of course it's particularly timely > > given the recent legal issues between the National Portrait Gallery, and > a > > wiki contributor - perhaps Australia can lead the way in actually > building > > relationships, and supporting dialog :-) I'm one of the folk who would > like > > to attend, but just can't get away - something I intended to raise last > > night, but forgot, was to ask about the possibilities of participating > > remotely - I wonder if there's any infrastructure for webcasting any of > the > > event - or participating via IRC, or Skype, or something? I may not be > the > > only person interested.... > > Recordings will be made, but there is no provision for streaming them > live. AFAIK it is expensive and difficult. If we do have any > associates who are happy to volunteer their time and skills to make > such a thing happen at some future event, I hope they will step > forward. > > There will be wi-fi but with over 170 attendees the bandwidth may well > be questionable. There is no planned real time online interactive > activity. (...Won't people be at work, anyway?) > > cheers > Brianna > > -- > They've just been waiting in a mountain for the right moment: > http://modernthings.org/ > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaau-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l > -- sam granleese +61407003377 http://twitter.com/granleese
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