Dear (is it Sandy or Simon?), thanks for your mail (it was sent to the
mailing list). I know how mailing lists can get overpowering, but
that's what we use (as well as wikis of course!). Some email clients
make it easier to keep track of mailing list threads - I find Gmail
works for me.
The Open University is a great idea for Wikimania sponsorship - and
they would be one of the first I would approach. (I'm speaking at
their OpenLearn 2007 conference in just over a week's time.)
Tim Berners-Lee - we've asked him before but he was already booked up
for that time period. Hopefully, now that Wikimania planning is
already underway for summer 2009, it will be easier to secure speakers
that we want in time. I've added a section, with your idea at
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania (Meta, along with mailing
lists and IRC, is where we do our meta-community organising).
Please feel free to suggest anything else here, or on Meta.
Cheers,
Cormac
On 10/17/07, Sandy Dorotheo <sandyd(a)cols.com.au> wrote:
Dear Gary,
Forgive me for using this email account. I made one entry on your list and
was overwhelmed by the separate messages (as os usual with elists). I can
only ask that you might have some influence in turning this
http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo
Into something more like this.
http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/ I am trying so hard to
stay across conversations on different threads, and the discussion about
homosexual rights and a dangerous Alexandria is so distracting.
I was reading this > Because, unless they've changed since a couple of
years' ago, the Open
University hold their London region summer
schools there and have the
place booked out ...
And was wondering why you wouldn't have considered OU as a natural sponsor.
Particularly as their Openlearn
http://www.open.ac.uk/openlearn/home.php initiative is so
closely aligned with the aims of the wikimedia foundation. Ultimately the
location for Wikimania is of little concern to the majority of Wikipedially
minded learners. The important thing is how a quiet activist might be made
to feel apart of the wiki story and discover their place in the communities
of global groups from which it's .org is composed.
Is there anywhere where the Wishlists might be compiled. I mean of speakers
and the things Wikimedians might want them to say? Gary, I think I was
reading one of yours for Tim Berners Lee; second the motion. It would be a
nice into to set a global stage. And somewhere between this old fashioned
thread and this
http://digitalunion.osu.edu/megaconference/
we have the tools to share a conference, or 20. OU would be strategic here
as their old relationships with the BBC will naturally question why an
interesting Wikimania wouldn't be broadcast. Or at least narrowcast. Better
still, Multicast.
I'll leave it with you. But just gotta say. You and Mido, working together
with other peers who didn't get the first guernsey this year, would have to
get such a charge. I'm jealous.
Regards,
simonfj
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