Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Public meeting today 4PM AEDST (in one hour)

2014-03-02 Thread Andrew Owens
Agreed - any of the public meetings I've attended have been a waste of time. The few I've attended have had to be kept going on life support, and very few lay members turn up to them. It's not in my view working as a form of engagement, and I don't think when they were instituted it would have been

[Wikimediaau-l] Update on UQ sports history linkage grant project

2014-03-02 Thread Steven Zhang
Hi all, As members will be aware, in 2012, Wikimedia Australia committed to a project with the University of Queensland (UQ) and Australian Paralympic Committee (APC). In February 2013, the three entities applied for an Australian Research Council linkage grant, which was successful. The condition

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Update on UQ sports history linkage grant project

2014-03-02 Thread Russavia
It would have been much better if this was made known to those who aren't in the inner WMAU committee circle before the public IRC meeting, and have that meeting better advertised, because I am sure there are going to be plenty of people who see major issues that the committee may not have seen. In