Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Fwd: [Talk-GB] Aerial Photographs

[geni]

On 5 April 2013 16:37, Andrew Gray  wrote:

> Spotted this. The rights issues around the material would no doubt be
> interesting, but this might be something where we could offer some
> funding to offset the costs of digitisation/storage, and look to get a
> tranche of the material onto Commons.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Andrew.
>
>
Most of it probably overlaps with the late 1940s photo survey that is
available through the national archives if you are prepared to digitalise
it.

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Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Anyone interested in Lua and PIzza one day?

[Andrew Gray]

On 5 April 2013 15:19, Katie Chan  wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> This has been arranged for Sunday 19 May. For those interested, please sign
> up on !

Hurrah! Looking forward to it.

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[Wikimediauk-l] Fwd: [Talk-GB] Aerial Photographs

[Andrew Gray]

Spotted this. The rights issues around the material would no doubt be
interesting, but this might be something where we could offer some
funding to offset the costs of digitisation/storage, and look to get a
tranche of the material onto Commons.

Thoughts?

Andrew.


-- Forwarded message --
From: Andy Robinson 
Date: 5 April 2013 10:54
Subject: [Talk-GB] Aerial Photographs
To: talk...@openstreetmap.org


Folks,

Sheffield University has some surplus aerial imagery that could be available
to us if we wish to have it. Its described as a considerable collection
(amounting to around 6 filling
cabinets) of UK (mostly England, and mainly northern England) black & white
9" x 9" photographic prints, dating from around WWII to the early 1980s.
There are a few index sheets, many of the boxed sets are labelled.

I've asked for some more details so that we might consider storage
requirements (They are currently temporarily stored in a garage but need to
be in a dry low humidity room really) and should get some photos of what it
all looks like in the next few days.

In the meantime two questions for UK OSMers:

1. Do you think this is a resource that we should go for and build upon as a
sub-project within OSM?
2. How should we best deal with physical storage until such time as items
can be digitised. The question about what to do with documents (same applies
to all the map sheets I have) after digitising can be left till a later
date.

I'm less worried about scanning and managing the files now as I have
sufficient scanning equipment to cover most bases and disk space attached to
an OSM sever doesn't appear to be an issue. We would need to come up with
tools and methods of turning them into a seamless mosaic but I'm sure given
the task there's a workable solution for that too.

All thoughts, suggestions and offers welcome.

Cheers
Andy


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Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Introducing Wikimedia UK's new GLAM organiser

[Charles Matthews]

On 5 April 2013 15:14, Jonathan Cardy  wrote:
> Dear Wikimedia UK,
>
> This week I have started work as your GLAM organiser, and for those of you
> who haven't followed our WMUK blog
> http://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2013/03/jonathan-cardy-joins-wikimedia-uk-as-glam-organiser/
> I would like to take this opportunity to introduce myself.

Congratulations on the appointment. It doesn't seem so long since GLAM
took off at the BM, and yet the GLAMscape has changed a fair bit.

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Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Anyone interested in Lua and PIzza one day?

[Katie Chan]

Hi all,

This has been arranged for Sunday 19 May. For those interested, please sign
up on !

Katie


On 16 March 2013 10:18, Katie Chan  wrote:

> Well Rexx have already expressed an interest, and I'm hoping other board
> members may be interested as well, so I'm not sure about the 11 May.
>
>
> On 16 March 2013 09:56, WereSpielChequers wrote:
>
>> If no-one wants to attend both events, and the building has rooms to
>> cope, then holding both this and the board meeting on the 11th May would be
>> a great opportunity for synergy. Who knows, the following year you might
>> get someone from the Lua event standing to be a trustee, or a trustee
>> standing down to spend more time coding in Lua.
>>
>> Jonathan
>>
>>
>> On 16 March 2013 09:31,  wrote:
>>
>>> But building open and we could share lunch.
>>> Sent using BlackBerry® from Orange
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>>> -Original Message-
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>>> Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2013 16:24:23
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>>> May 11th is a board meeting, so the basement might be crowded!
>>>
>>> Andrew.
>>>
>>> On 15 March 2013 15:13, WereSpielChequers 
>>> wrote:
>>> > May 11th would be the day before the May London meetup, that might be
>>> > convenient for some people.
>>> >
>>> > WSC
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > On 15 March 2013 12:42, Jon Davies 
>>> wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> Hey why not?
>>> >>
>>> >> I think there is interest in this so we should think how and where we
>>> >> should advertise it. Obviously on the UK Wiki.
>>> >>
>>> >> Not a huge fuss to do - someone to open the office on a Saturday?
>>> >>
>>> >> Skype or whatever and lots of pizza.
>>> >>
>>> >> Tom's offer is kind. Can you suggest a date?
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> On 15 March 2013 12:18, Gordon Joly  wrote:
>>> >>>
>>> >>>
>>> >>>
>>> >>> I thought you said "luau and pizza"...
>>> >>>
>>> >>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luau
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[Wikimediauk-l] Introducing Wikimedia UK's new GLAM organiser

[Jonathan Cardy]

Dear Wikimedia UK,

This week I have started work as your GLAM organiser, and for those of you
who haven't followed our WMUK blog
http://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2013/03/jonathan-cardy-joins-wikimedia-uk-as-glam-organiser/I
would like to take this opportunity to introduce myself.

Hopefully I will get the opportunity to talk to a lot of you in a week's
time at the GLAM Wiki event. But if you aren't coming to that and you want
to know more about our outreach work involving Galleries, Libraries,
Archives and Museums then please get in touch.


Jonathan Cardy
GLAM Organiser
Wikimedia UK
0207 065 0990

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[Wikimediauk-l] Boosting the GGIC

[Charles Matthews]

Please find time over the weekend to find "reasons to be cheerful"
(see Ian Dury) about the Google Global Impact Challenge and the
opportunity it presents. Two candidates are up at
http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Google_Global_Impact_Challenge .

For example, either project there would bring WMUK into serious
software development, and so the charity would move to having a
project manager whose expertise would be useful also on other fronts.

One more of my own: the discussion on this list and last year of
online education and WMUK showed that the community found the subject
engaging and fruitful. We are now implementing a VLE, which is a
nitty-gritty business but one that moves WMUK up the learning curve on
all the points raised before. Entering the Challenge in this area
would contribute to that process.

Being shortlisted (10 projects) is perfectly reasonable as an
ambition, and would be excellent publicity for the chapter.

There isn't a box on the entry form at
https://services.google.com/fb/forms/impactchallenge/  saying exactly
"tell us about yourself". It is more like an interview that starts
with easy questions, and moves gradually to the tricky stuff. There is
a box  "why is your organisation poised for success?"  We shouldn';t
be shy. "We wrote the world's largest reference work on a shoestring,
ignoring naysaying and preconceptions, and all we really needed was
good word-of-mouth. Just try and stop us."

Please support vocally the idea that the form should be filled in, on
your behalf.

Charles

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