> From: strainu10@gmail.com
> Date: Wed, 23 May 2012 22:29:44 +0300
> To: wikilovesmonuments@lists.wikimedia.org
> CC: wikisv-l@lists.wikimedia.org; glam@lists.wikimedia.org
> Subject: Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] The Europeana Awareness project and Wikimedia Sweden
>
> 2012/5/23 John Andersson <johnandersson86@hotmail.com>:
> > Sorry for cross-posting.
> >
> >
> > Dear everybody,
> >
> >
> > My name is John Andersson and I have recently been hired by Wikimedia Sweden
> > (WMSE) as the Event manager for the project Europeana Awareness[1], a
> > project that amongst other things has the goal of creating a closer
> > cooperation between the Europeana Foundation (and its vast network of GLAM
> > institutions) and the Wikimedia community and by doing so increase awareness
> > of the work done by Europeana (hence the project name). The project leader
> > for WMSE's part of the Europeana Awareness is Lennart Guldbrandsson, a.k.a.
> > User:Hannibal, who many of you already know. I will however be responsible
> > for the day-to-day operations.
> >
> >
> > First of all I would like to give you a short presentation about myself so
> > that you know who I am (if this understandably bores you, you can skip the
> > following paragraph) and secondly I will present the projects that I will
> > work with during the coming 18 months.
> >
> >
> > I will start working full time on the 11th of June but until then I am
> > working merely 35 percent as I am currently at the very end of my university
> > studies at the Master programme in European Studies at Gothenburg
> > University, finishing up my Master's thesis that focuses on decision-making
> > in the Arctic Council's working groups. This time last year I worked as a
> > trainee at the European Parliament's Secretariat in Brussels for 5.5 months
> > and from before that I have a Bachelor of Science from Umeå University.
> > During my Bachelor I spent one semester in the U.S. as an exchange student.
> > I have been an administrator on the Swedish language version for 6 years now
> > and have contributed with hundreds of articles and photos. On a more
> > personal note I enjoy learning new things, experiencing new cultures,
> > traveling, meeting friends and reading a good book.
> >
> >
> > Two major tasks that I will work with are firstly the co-organization of a
> > number of GLAM conferences in some of the European countries that have
> > active Wikimedia Chapters that are working with GLAM issues, as well as to
> > organize a European wide competition called Wiki Loves Public Art (WLPA),
> > obviously inspired by the super successful Wiki Loves Monument competition.
> >
> >
> > I am hoping to help in organizing events in Sweden, Poland, UK, France,
> > Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium. Currently I am working on organizing
> > the first event, an Edit-a-thon in Leuven, Belgium.[2] If you are planning
> > to organize a GLAM event in any of these countries I hope that you will take
> > the opportunity to contact me and discuss how I could help! For example,
> > adding Europeana as a partner for the event that you are organizing is
> > likely to open new doors and attract more institutions and I am the one to
> > contact about that, I could also help out with man-hours, perhaps supply you
> > with information, contacts and digitized media that Europeana already has
> > (which could be hard and time consuming to collect) or suggest and contact
> > international guests that could participate in your event.
> >
> >
> > The organization of Wiki Loves Public Art will mainly take place later this
> > year. But even though this event is far in the future I hope that you write
> > me an email if you think that this sounds interesting and would like to get
> > involved in this work. I am well aware that this will take a lot of time and
> > effort to organize so we might as well start with some initial planning as
> > soon as possible!
> >
> >
> > I am super excited about working with this full time and I really look
> > forward meeting and talking with all of you!
> >
> >
> > Sincerely,
> >
> >
> > John Andersson
> >
> > Wikimedia Sweden
> >
> > Event manager, Europeana Awareness
> >
> >
> > User names: User:John Andersson (WMSE) (work) and User:Jopparn (private)
> >
> > Email: JohnAndersson86@hotmail.com
> >
> > Skype: johnandersson86
> >
> >
> > [1] See http://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Projekt:Europeana_Awareness for more
> > information. Currently only available in Swedish.
> > [2] See
> > http://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Projekt:Europeana_Awareness/Europeana_meets_World_War_I_Edit-a-thon
> >
>
> Hi John [and hello again to everybody from the WLM list],
>
> It is nice to hear about new initiatives born from WLM. What exactly
> do you understand by public art? Are we talking about art forms which
> sit in the public space, like statues in a square, or about something
> else?
>
> Is your job description limited to GLAM events and countries with
> chapters? We in Romania have neither, and the flow of information has
> so far been mostly reversed (e.g. the WLM photos from Romania are
> going to be uploaded to Europeana), but I would personally appreciate
> suggestions about how to use more effectively the material that
> Europeana already has (especially the meta-data, which IMO is a
> heavily underused CC-0 database).
>
> Thanks,
> Strainu
>
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