Hi all,
I think I would have agreed with Fae, were it not for the fact that there
is no charge to attend this event. In fact I have contacted Stevie as
regards attending on behalf of WMUK (even though I doubt I have the sort
of charisma that Ed has suggested would be useful). As I now have an over
60s free travel card, there are no implications as regards travel costs.
So bearing in mind the zero impact on the Charities finances, I hope no
one regards my attendance as problematic?
all the best
Fabian
User:Leutha
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Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 12:05:34 +0000
From: Fæ <faewik(a)gmail.com>
To: UK Wikimedia mailing list <wikimediauk-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Fwd: Invite - Recognising Value and the
Sharing Economy
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On 18/03/2014, Stevie Benton <stevie.benton(a)wikimedia.org.uk> wrote:
Hello folks.
If anyone is interested in the sharing economy, and would like to attend
this event, please let me know. We can try and arrange something.
Thank you,
Stevie
I am unsure as to why Wikimedia UK would want to promote a
collaborative commerce conversation (as the LLDC and Echo describe the
event), rather than ensuring our members and volunteers take part in
open knowledge conferences and events. This appears to be a
business/charity networking social of the 'big society' format. Lots
of people are interested in the issues of the sharing economy (I am an
active support of freecycling); but this seems a long way from
Wikimedia projects, if the intention was to pay expenses for someone
to attend and write a blog post about it.
If anyone has spare time we have a lot of past GLAM (and University)
contacts from editathons that could do with practical follow up, or
support finishing creating articles and making use of media uploads.
The issue for the backlog of properly completing past projects is
attracting active and productive volunteers (globally), which seems a
pressing issue compared to the benefits to the charity of creating a
bigger list of potential commercial, political and NFP partner
organizations.
Fae
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