GLAMUK minutes 2012-10-17
Notes of the GLAM committee meeting 17 October 2012
- In attendance
Andrew Gray, John Byrne, Jon Davies, Daria Cybulska, Fae, KTC, Rock drum, Leutha, WSC
- Museums Galleries Scotland follow up
- John has followed up, MOU ready but needs to be reviewed.
- MOU at https://docs.google.com/document/d/14TLyxaTVWkaaDcjIZ-uNqJBboV7lsU0gBHzSbNUNib4/edit
Andrew Gray in Edinburgh around 6 November 2012, he can meet MGS, with Daria.
ACTION: on JB to track down a current name in MGS to be a practical person to work with. AG is likely to be future Point of Contact.
- New WIR projects
- 15k in the budget [and must be spent!], need to find options
- ACTION: WSC: put a note on the mailing lists for suggestions
- Fae suggested: put up an ideas page on wiki
- Proposals from institutions might be public but responses from individuals might be problematic.
- Openness might be an issue.
- There is some background on GLAMwiki relating to this. See also http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/GLAMcampAmsterdamSun-DocumentationResidence
- Unlikely to spend much this FY, but can get money committed.
ACTION: on Daria to create a page at 2012-13 Wikipedians in Residence' with a couple of paragraphss about our plans to use the budget and invitations for organisations to submit bids via a simple application from that would ask for contact details, timescale, any matched funding and details of what the WIR would do and achieve.
Group to critique this ASAP so that it can be distributed to Community and via "Culture 24".
- Black history month
- Equiano centre at UCL - 26 October (same time as a Royal Society event at the BL)
- training, edit-a-thon
- Leutha will pull on his network to encourage more attendees
- Leutha looking for a microgrant for South London small events with local groups
ACTION: Daria to let the participants know about the WIR programme and bids ACTION: Leutha to let his contacts know about our event
- BL Mughal exhibition
- Book event late January. Arrange participation from sub-continent online.
- Wikimania
- WSC shared his idea of sharing books as part of the event.
18 October
The WIR page has been created - thankyou Daria. Jon Davies (WMUK) (talk) 17:04, 23 October 2012 (UTC)