Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Editing sessions in the new year

2011-12-13 Thread Gordon Joly
On 12/12/2011 22:44, Chris Keating wrote: > I was talking to Gordon Joly and Philafrenzy about this at the > Wikimeet and I think the collective feeling was that contact before > and after an editing session is important as well as the event itself. > > I can certainly think of events where lots

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Editing sessions in the new year

2011-12-12 Thread Roger Bamkin
Suggest the first session might fulfil three needs 1. Get some people trained (ie see above) as a trial to see what skills they need. 2. Get these people started and get them some buddies. The U.S. Campus ambassadors have a virtual help room where people can ask for help 3. Work out how this expan

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Editing sessions in the new year

2011-12-12 Thread Chris Keating
I was talking to Gordon Joly and Philafrenzy about this at the Wikimeet and I think the collective feeling was that contact before and after an editing session is important as well as the event itself. I can certainly think of events where lots of people have turned up, but none of the new wannabe

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Editing sessions in the new year

2011-12-10 Thread Fae
On 10 December 2011 11:18, WereSpielChequers wrote: > I'm in, but please not a basement. I have mobile broadband and if I remember > to bring it the WiFi will work and it won't be needed. > > But mobile broadband abhors basements. > > WSC To clarify the "basement" at the Old Street offices is a v

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Editing sessions in the new year

2011-12-10 Thread Stephen Gardner
Richard, I am doing a part time course at the University of Reading, maybe we could run a course on the campus? Plenty of interested parties at the University and in the town I would think. Stephen Gardner (Philafrenzy) From: wikimediauk-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikime

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Editing sessions in the new year

2011-12-10 Thread WereSpielChequers
I'm in, but please not a basement. I have mobile broadband and if I remember to bring it the WiFi will work and it won't be needed. But mobile broadband abhors basements. WSC On 9 December 2011 22:28, Charles Matthews wrote: > > > On 9 December 2011 22:14, HJ Mitchell wrote: > >> My experience

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Editing sessions in the new year

2011-12-09 Thread Charles Matthews
On 9 December 2011 22:14, HJ Mitchell wrote: > My experience of running similar events for WMUK is that if it has WiFi > and chairs, we can make it work. A basement could work well if it meets > those two criteria. > > > I've seen the chairs; wifi is hearsay. Charles

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Editing sessions in the new year

2011-12-09 Thread Thomas Morton
-- *From:* Charles Matthews *To:* wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org *Sent:* Friday, 9 December 2011, 22:10 *Subject:* Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Editing sessions in the new year On 9 December 2011 20:08, James Forrester wrote: This sounds like a great idea. I'd love to help out running a few of these i

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Editing sessions in the new year

2011-12-09 Thread HJ Mitchell
2011, 22:10 Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Editing sessions in the new year On 9 December 2011 20:08, James Forrester wrote: >This sounds like a great idea. I'd love to help out running a few of >these in the South-East/London; might be sensible to get a rough feel >of distributi

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Editing sessions in the new year

2011-12-09 Thread Charles Matthews
On 9 December 2011 20:08, James Forrester wrote: > > This sounds like a great idea. I'd love to help out running a few of > these in the South-East/London; might be sensible to get a rough feel > of distribution to work out how many (and how widespread) we'd want > them to be... > > Central Londo

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Editing sessions in the new year

2011-12-09 Thread James Forrester
On 9 December 2011 19:36, HJ Mitchell wrote: > This is basically what we've been doing with the Girl Geeks. I'd be more > than happy to help out. If possible, it would be good to put it in a > location that's easiest to get to for most of the 'customers'. Or perhaps > holding several and making su

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Editing sessions in the new year

2011-12-09 Thread HJ Mitchell
This is basically what we've been doing with the Girl Geeks. I'd be more than happy to help out. If possible, it would be good to put it in a location that's easiest to get to for most of the 'customers'. Or perhaps holding several and making sure we're nice and geographically diverse. Harry