Talk:Macrogrants/Wiki-Themed Symposium

Discussion

Thank you Greg for your application. I have let the Grants Committee know and they will offer any comments they may have soon. Regards -- Katie Chan (WMUK) (talk) 14:18, 28 November 2013 (UTC)

Sounds ok. That's some expensive biscuits though - could Daria comment on that? Do we have any sort of draft programme? Johnbod (talk) 04:05, 29 November 2013 (UTC)

If it includes lunch, then that's reasonable - you can see their external catering prices here (I'd hope this event would get a discount though). Worth noting the venue cost seems to be waived, which is good news.

What I'd be a little more concerned about is the benefit for open knowledge movement and Wikimedia UK - the first two points of the outcomes focus much more on solely promoting University's initiatives ("Fulfil the CMC remit as a notable event in the academic calendar; Fulfil goal of contributing to launch of Digital Humanities research initiative in SAH as a means to forming a research network in Digital Humanities across Scoottish universities"). Daria Cybulska (WMUK) (talk) 12:49, 29 November 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for the initial feedback everyone. I can make a draft programme available if requested. The reason that I haven't made it available even in draft form yet is that I am hoping to secure an additional speaker from Open Scotland. Hopefully, re: Daria's well-considered concern about the benefit for the open knowledge movement will be addressed by this directly. I am hoping to be able to include delegates from several stakeholder groups who are either directly connected to WMUK or to an open knowledge organisation (or both), as well as those from more traditional academic backgrounds. The emphasis here is on collaboration - and as an important sideline, I really want to get my fellow academics to think in a more open way about how we generate impact, and how that can foster collaborative online work.

Re: lunch - yes this would include lunch. The venue costs have been awarded at SAH level, which is a relief. Unfortunately, I have to go with the in-house catering service, which offers a uniform price whoever is using them. But their service is rather good, particularly for an in-house firm, and the quality is the best I've seen from university catering services, considering the reasonable price.

GregXenon01 (talk) 17:28, 2 December 2013 (UTC)

Sounds like it should be an interesting event without positive outcomes for us. Having said that, I'd echo Daria's concern re: specific WMUK outcomes, to which I would add that it'd be great to know what sort of outputs the event might produce - will there be a website, livecast, twitter archive, workshop proceedings, etc.? Will there be concrete plans drawn up for future development and work (ideally including Wikimedia projects)? For our purposes it might also be useful to know who is/isn't aware of wmuk/wikimedia generally from the group, and perhaps how we might ensure they're exposed through this event, perhaps Katie/Daria/someone might add on how we've dealt with that at other events. Perhaps a useful aside, in terms of generating impact that is of course something we're interested in too, so any ongoing discussions there are something we'd be interested in (and in fact might contribute to our impact). Cheers Sjgknight (talk) 18:06, 14 December 2013 (UTC)