-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Cormac Lawler wrote: > > > I've been discussing with a few people (not on this list) about > forming a group of people in and around Manchester who are > interested in free culture - for seminars, workshops, and other > related activities. There have been a few very small and informal > meetings so far - but we're planning to involve a diverse range of > people and groups, and organise a first 'proper' meeting in > February. > > So, this mail is for two things. Firstly, if anyone on this list is > interested in such a group, you can contact me offlist for now - > as we don't yet have a website or mailing list. Which brings me to > the second point - which is to ask whether Wikimedia UK could > support such locally-based activities by, for example, hosting a > mailing list, wiki, and/or other webspace? It seems to me to be > well within WMUK's remit - but I'd like to hear what other people > on this list think. I also don't see any problem with the WMF hosting a mailing list--we have a number of locally user-based email lists for entities which have no interest in forming a chapter (Wikimedia-sf to name one) and I see no problem with the creation of a Wikimedia-man-uk (or something like that).
Cary -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFJb38uyQg4JSymDYkRAiifAJ4vUaT1xqOpQ4UXacghPtb5NDy39gCcC6h9 fFoKumDKJAL3XnCnTUm4ze0= =ymNK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_UK http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l
