On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 4:41 PM, Oliver Moran <wiki_ra(a)yahoo.ie> wrote:
The ideas that I have been playing with related to how
to get people in
Ireland interested in OSS development and evangelism, Creative Commons,
wiki-ery, hacker culture, etc. to get in contact with each other. In
particular, I have been thinking about how to create a shared/collaborative
space with the eventual idea of enabling folk in Ireland to find and
collaborate on projects, to co-ordinate efforts, share ideas and to
establish a "community" out of individuals. And also to promote these kinds
of ideas/philosophies (both in community and in business).
Sounds great!
Oliver, do you know about the hackspaces in Dublin and Galway?
http://www.tog.ie/
http://091labs.com/
Jodi, I get the impression from references you've
made into these topics
too?
Yup. :)
Like I said, I think this kind of thing is outside of the remit of
Wikimedia. If you are interested in developing a network such as this in
Ireland, get in touch with me. I've a spare server with a suitable (I think)
domain name left over from a idea I didn't follow through with. I'd be happy
to give the three of you (Conor, James and Jodi) FTP and DB access; and to
set-up a mailing list, if you think there are more that would be interested
in communicating over these kinds of broad "hacker", OSS, CC culture,
collaboration, evangelism and development etc. in Ireland.
For me, 091labs is the vehicle. Maybe you want to start a hackspace in your
town? (Where is that, btw?)
-Jodi
Regards,
Oliver
2010/9/4 Conor Wao <conorwao(a)gmail.com>
Hi all,
sorry I won't be able to make it due to prior commitments but I am
still very keen on being part of the project. Since I won't be at the
meeting, I would like to mention a few things in the hope of starting
some discussions.
My main interests are to encourage more educators to use Wikimedia
tools and to help people to release more music/media into the commons.
I would like to achieve this by getting funding to put on
demonstrations which would include information on how to find, use and
remix CC licensed music and showcasing the open-source software one
could use to do this. I have many years' experience with the Fedora
operating system coupled with Planet CCRMA's multimedia software
patch.
I am interested in using Wikimedia to help introduce open, shared
resources to educators. I would also like funding to do demonstrations
for, and have meetings with, teachers. I am interested in raising
awareness of evolution by natural selection in Irish classrooms and
would also like to encourage content generation in relation to this.
Irish language projects would be important for an Irish Wikimedia so
that should be discussed.
A good publicity tool would be a competition involving music,
photography and/or art. All entries could be released under CC license
and the winners promoted on the Irish Wikimedia website. Wikimedia
doesn't seem to have much in the way of music storage - discuss?
I hope this can help start some discussions and begin to focus on
finding some goals that this project will have.
Looking forward to hearing from you,
Conor.
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