HI Liam Congratulations
Cheers Gideon On 6 February 2012 13:19, Liam Wyatt <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > crossposting to the Australia lists & cultural partners list, > > I'd just like to send a quick message to you all to tell you what I'm up > to, now that my "GLAM Fellowship" with the WMF is over. I would not > normally feel the need to interrupt everyone by detailing what my > employment is, but it is quite relevant to Wikimedia & GLAM so I think I > should explain briefly. I apologise in advance for the self-focused post! > If you're interested in more details, or can help by giving me > tips/contacts, please reply offlist. > > From last week, I have taken a part time role with the Australian Research > Council funded "Centre for Creative Industries and Innovation" > http://cci.edu.au/ which is also the office of Creative Commons Australia > (and sponsored the first ever GLAM-WIKI conference in 2009). My role will > be to assist Australian cultural organisations to get more of their > archives online using Creative Commons (especially under cc-0 and cc-by). > [By definition I will therefore NOT be focusing on getting access to > already Public Domain content, but this might happen as a flow-on effect in > some cases]. This is not an "advocacy" role but a practical "hand holding" > role. Not all of this work will be relevant to Wikimedia projects, but > hopefully I'll be able to report frequently in "This Month in GLAM" on new > content available for Wikimedians to use. I have several leads and contacts > already, but if you know any Australian cultural organisations that are > interested in using CC, please consider passing their details to me offlist > so I can help facilitate. > > Relatedly, also last week, I have accepted the six-month role of "2012 > Directors Fellowship" at the National Museum of Australia. They have asked > me to develop a comprehensive "Wikimedia strategy" for the organisation > which includes staff training, executive briefing, situation report (e.g. > what other museums are doing, and how their content is already being used) > and a three year plan. Once this project is finished and the situation > report & plan is formally accepted I will also put it on Commons in case > others find it useful. Unsurprisingly, I will probably be recommending they > run "backstage pass tours" and "editathon" events - so look out for that > too :-) > > Sincerely, > -Liam / wittylama > p.s. I'm also doing a Masters in IP law this year - because the world > needs more Copyright lawyers! :-P > > Peace, love & metadata > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaau-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l > > -- GN. Photo Gallery: http://gnangarra.redbubble.com Gn. Blogg: http://gnangarra.wordpress.com
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