Guys,

 

OK, now an outsider had had his knuckles wrapped & knows a little of what’s going on, and that there is a programme committee elist buzzing furiously, can I just suggest a few things, in attempts ot include a few other foreigners.

 

I’ve asked the guys at gossamer threads to take a feed from this list and attempt to make it comprehensible. You’ll see what I mean if you look at this. http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikimania/

 

Cary would you like to put this link on the https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l page, perhaps next to the archive link. At least a foreigner can easily see that apart from announcements, and my indiscretion, Dec 23 is the only conversation. They’ll never know anything about the programmes committee’s list, but that’s up to them if they wanted to offer their (locked) archives for perusal. You could do the same for other the other 5 WMF lists as well if you wanted.

 

I wouldn’t preclude wikback from some WM conversations. I did set up a thread over there, if you wanted to be inclusive of the disaffected. If you look at the readership, it’s around 5 times this thread (and some good ideas as well)

 http://www.wikback.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=2353&gonew=1#UNREAD

 

Just a note about the technical track. You may be across this remote group. http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator/browse_thread/thread/15678d03bea6ba00

Might not even be talking WMF but that’s the way communications seems to happen in remote WMF related communities.  

 

RE IRC. It’s better than nothing. But would someone ask Jay, the new comms manager, if he couldn’t suggest a quick improvement. I have mentioned the idea of the accessgrid (as where IRC will end up if it overeats) a number of times and Markie will shoot me for doing it again. But if the guys in the bibliotech are interested in linking a few global spots, then we might help a few old national librarians to understand how a younger mind thinks about libraries these days (and vice versa) regards, simonfj