Hi all, I think I would have agreed with Fae, were it not for the fact that there is no charge to attend this event. In fact I have contacted Stevie as regards attending on behalf of WMUK (even though I doubt I have the sort of charisma that Ed has suggested would be useful). As I now have an over 60s free travel card, there are no implications as regards travel costs.
So bearing in mind the zero impact on the Charities finances, I hope no one regards my attendance as problematic? all the best Fabian User:Leutha > Message: 1 > Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 12:05:34 +0000 > From: Fæ <fae...@gmail.com> > To: UK Wikimedia mailing list <wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org> > Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Fwd: Invite - Recognising Value and the > Sharing Economy > Message-ID: > <CAH7nnD13p5wP5Yds_ioQXgjMKfi-gPHz82DCAN2_44g9=rh...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > On 18/03/2014, Stevie Benton <stevie.ben...@wikimedia.org.uk> wrote: >> Hello folks. >> >> If anyone is interested in the sharing economy, and would like to attend >> this event, please let me know. We can try and arrange something. >> >> Thank you, >> >> Stevie > > I am unsure as to why Wikimedia UK would want to promote a > collaborative commerce conversation (as the LLDC and Echo describe the > event), rather than ensuring our members and volunteers take part in > open knowledge conferences and events. This appears to be a > business/charity networking social of the 'big society' format. Lots > of people are interested in the issues of the sharing economy (I am an > active support of freecycling); but this seems a long way from > Wikimedia projects, if the intention was to pay expenses for someone > to attend and write a blog post about it. > > If anyone has spare time we have a lot of past GLAM (and University) > contacts from editathons that could do with practical follow up, or > support finishing creating articles and making use of media uploads. > The issue for the backlog of properly completing past projects is > attracting active and productive volunteers (globally), which seems a > pressing issue compared to the benefits to the charity of creating a > bigger list of potential commercial, political and NFP partner > organizations. > > Fae > -- > fae...@gmail.com https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk
