WikiConference UK 2012

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The Science Museum, London

The Wikimedia UK Annual Conference 2012 will be held on May 12 in the Directors' Suite at the Science Museum in London. The conference will incorporate both presentations and talks about Wikipedia/Wikimedia, as well as Wikimedia UK's Annual General Meeting. It will be free to attend for members, and lots of fun.

It is one half of a London Wiki weekend, the second half being our 57th London meetup.

WikiConference UK 2012 - In a nutshell When: Saturday 12th May 2012, 09:30-17:30 Where: Science Museum, London, England. See the museum's "getting here" page. Cost: Free to attend. Register here! Keynote Speaker: TBA Other talks: See below or to submit a talk Hashtag: #wmuk Calendar: Download as an ics file to add to your calendar. Wikimedia Commons category: Category:WikiConference UK 2012

Agenda

Saturday 12th

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Time	Speaker	Event
9.30	Gathering for tea and biscuits
09.45	Fæ	Welcome
09.50	Jon Davies	5-year strategy development throughout the day
10.00	Talks about Wikimedia (Organiser & Chair: Mike Peel) Please Submit a talk abstract!
10.00	??	??
10.15	??	??
10.30	??	??
10.45	??	??
11.00	??	??
11.15	??	??
11:30	Short break
11:35	Fæ compere	"State of the GLAM" panel BL - TBA TNA - Leutha?, Jo Pugh? BM - Johnbod? DMAAG/Wright Challenge - Roger Bamkin? HAGAM - Rock drum, Harry Mitchell NMM - Chris Keating? MonmouthpediA - John Cummings? ARKive - Andy Mabbet?
12:15	Roger Bamkin	UK Wikimedian of the Year 2012
12.30	Lunch break - light lunch provided Tour of the Science Museum - please bring a camera
13.30	Wikimedia UK AGM
13.30		Resolutions
13.55	Tellers	Election Hustings and Voting
14.40		Approval of minutes 2011 AGM, 2011 EGM
14.45	Board	Board Report for 2011-2012
15.00	James Farrar	Discussion over the voting process
15.10	Tellers	Announcement of the election results
15.15	Short break
15.25	Talks about open content projects (Organiser & Chair: Roger Bamkin)
15.25	Anna Powell Smith	Domesday
15.40	TBA	Who's Lobbying Whom? (via Steve Virgin)
15.55	TBA	CIPR (via Steve Virgin)
16.10	David Haskiya	Europeana and GLAM
16.25	Joscelyn Upendran	Creative Commons
16.40	TBA	TBA
16.50	Fæ and Jon Davies	Wrap-up & outcome of planning
17.00	Close of meeting
17.15	First meeting of new board. Others retiring to a nearby pub in typical wikimeet style.

Wikimedia UK Annual Conference 2012 2012-05-12T09.30:00+01:00 2012-05-12T15:00:00+01:00 Directors' Suite, Science Museum, Exhibition Road, London SW7 2DD (51.4975,-0.174722) http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_UK_2012

Sunday 13th

• AM Possible early start to the London meetup, Or alternatively if there are people staying the weekend, we could do a Sunday morning museum trip or photo session.
• 13:00 Normal London Meetup at 1pm in the Penderel's Oak.

Accommodation / wi-fi nearby

The Science Museum Conference Centre recommends using this site for hotel bookings if you need to stay overnight.

There are a number of cafes with free wi-fi in the area, for example

Attendees

Are you interested in coming? Please register now.
It's important that we know how many to plan for, so that we can make sure there's enough seats to go around!

If you're likely to need assistance covering your travel costs to the conference, please mention that / let us know otherwise. It's unlikely that we'll have the funds to cover costs for everyone.

You can also (informally) indicate that you'll be attending below:

1. User:cja1999 12th May AGM plus another.
2. Seven board members

9. --Filceolaire 13:22, 29 January 2012 (UTC) Can cover my own costs to London. Can help with organising.
10. Jon Davies WMUK 14:33, 30 January 2012 (UTC)
11. Sam Downie Samdownie (talk) 14:25, 1 May 2012 (UTC) - Saturday only. Going to be working with the Comms doing Webcasts and audio recordings / archive of event sessions.
12. Count me in :) --ErrantX 12:24, 21 February 2012 (UTC)
13. Jukesie 12:41, 21 February 2012 (UTC)
14. WereSpielChequers 12:48, 21 February 2012 (UTC)
15. Miyagawa 12:51, 21 February 2012 (UTC)
16. Dougweller 14:22, 21 February 2012 (UTC)
17. Haidee Bell
18. Assistance with travel costs would be appreciated. Harry Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 14:55, 21 February 2012 (UTC)
19. Harry Wood 15:23, 21 February 2012 (UTC)
20. Anna Powell-Smith
21. David Haskiya
22. James Knight - No travel costs required
23. Richard Symonds 15:34, 21 February 2012 (UTC)
24. User:Senra Looking for lift from Cambridge to London or a contribution to travel costs --Senra 17:38, 21 February 2012 (UTC)
25. Steve Bowbrick
26. Michael Corbett - Saturday only.
27. LoopZilla
28. LondonStatto 00:38, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
29. Andy Mabbett - Saturday only. Happy to speak (on microformats as suggested above; or my GLAM activities, or... ), or help on the day.
30. Mrjohncummings (talk) 17:49, 27 February 2012 (UTC) happy to talk about Monmouthpedia if wanted, maybe just Saturday, not sure yet.
31. Likely. It happens to be the lovely weekend between my exams and summer term projects! Deryck Chan (talk) 21:09, 28 February 2012 (UTC)
32. RexxS (talk) 15:05, 1 March 2012 (UTC) - I'll investigate whether driving and parking is possible; if so I would be able to give lifts from the West Midlands. Happy to talk about accessibility issues.
33. Johnbod (talk) 13:57, 8 March 2012 (UTC)
34. Daria Cybulska (talk) 09:47, 12 March 2012 (UTC)
35. Leutha (talk) 11:32, 12 March 2012 (UTC) (I will be late however)
36. Dsvyas (talk) 00:59, 17 March 2012 (UTC) - Can do both days.
37. Mum's taxi (talk) 22:24, 18 March 2012 (UTC)
38. Yaris678 13:28, 19 March 2012 (UTC) - Think I should be able to do then.
39. Mr impossible (talk) 17:11, 22 March 2012 (UTC) - It's in the book
40. Atomland (talk) We'd like to help by covering the event as we did for the London Web Summit and the ORGcon recently - 14.15, 26 March 2012 (UTC)
41. Joscelyn Upendran
42. --Stevie Benton (talk) 15:55, 26 April 2012 (UTC)