On 3/27/06, Robin Schwab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear all > > > By the way: Prof. Bertrand Meyer is willing to come on Wikipedia Day. He > proposed a speech about *Wikis and Wikipedia as tools for the scientific > community? Rationale, Risks and Reactions* I told him this was good for > us. There might be a little risk that he cannot come but he estimated > this to be like a 10% chance. This is great news! I hope we can persuade Anthere to join us as well! Does anybody have any ideas whom to invite as well? (Academic or non-academic, from open-source "business" (doesn't fit together too well...) or something "knowledge-related" etc.) >
> Of course I'm willing to help here. I think this team should sit > together rather soon (next 14 days) Yes, at least in IRC, if we can't make something "real". >and collect more ideas about what > we're gonna show and how we advertize for it, calculate a budget so that > the partners team knows what to do. In addition this would support a > team building process. My place would be available for this meeting. > Okay, now we'd have to form the teams first :) > > ==PR and Media team== > > quite an important team: > > a) contact to Media, sending invitations to press etc., making press > > releases, etc. > > b) organising the advertising for the Wikipedia Day (in on-and offline > > agendas, newspapers, maybe create flyers and leaflets etc. > > These two points take most man-hours. We could need every hand to > distribute flyers in as many places (schools, universities, etc.) as > possible. > Right. Maybe also in book stores (Orell Füssli) and so on. > On the other hand it would be good to have articles in many (student) > newspapers. I will catch an eye on VSETH newspaper. > Right as well. > > c) looking for some kind of Internet site, if possible and time is > > there, either we start with www.wikimedia.ch already or we'd use > > www.wikipediaday.ch or whatever. > > I think this could be done by the technical team. > Yes, but somebody has to provide the content of the pages, and maybe there are people who are besser in texting and others that are better in designing internet sites. > > ==Location team== > >(...) > > chairs etc. are organised nicely and so on > > I will deal with ETH Hausdienst about the opening of the location. > Chairs and normal tables are around. We just have to put them where we > need them. Food would be a different topic. We could also use "Wikipedia > Bratwürste" as a marketing idea. (I did not check the legal aspects of > this proposal yet.) Hm, Wikipedia is registered trademark, we'd need to doublecheck with Soufron or Brad Patrick (Wikimedia btw as well, but I mean, they won't sue us anyway...) > > > ==Partners team== > > We have not really discussed this yet, but I think, we might still > > consider finding some sponsors (could be IT companies, but also, if > > you like better, governmental support or other > > foundations/associations/"Stiftungen" that would support us.) Because > > remember, if we want to have some nice flyers/leaflets and so on, and > > if we want catering, we might reach a point, where we'd quite like > > some money... BTW: I recently read at Chapters FAQ on Metawiki that > > Wikimedia Foundation on request also sometimes provides chapters with > > some "start-up budget", so they could also look at this with Delphine > > etc. > > It would be nice if our treasury man/woman would join this team. As we > are an organisation that among other things is supposed to raise money > for the foundation it could be a wrong sign to accept some start-up > budget. We should be able to collect the first 1000-2000 Francs by > ourselves and make a first symbolic donation to the foundation. Not vice > versa :-) What do you think? Hm, cf. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Chapter_co-ordinator#Procedure of delegation I think, we could accept some help :) (And we could pay it back by fundraising as much as we can) Regards Michael > > Best regards > > Robin > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediach-l mailing list > Wikimediach-l@Wikipedia.org > http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediach-l > -- Regards Michael Bimmler _______________________________________________ Wikimediach-l mailing list Wikimediach-l@Wikipedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediach-l
