Press releases/Fundraising summit

DRAFT PRESS RELEASE (WORK IN PROGRESS)

Wikimedia UK host the global Wikimedia Fundraising Summit in Bristol May 14-16 - HP & The Watershed offer generous support

Bristol - From Friday 14th to Sunday 16th May, Wikimedia UK plays host to Wikimedia delegates from across the world as they meet in Bristol.

This meeting is a three-day summit to discuss technical and strategic issues that cover the work the global Wikimedia Foundation and its national chapters do in relation to the worldwide fundraising effort for the Wikimedia Foundation's projects, including the online encyclopaedia, Wikipedia. The summit will be attended by delegates from the Wikimedia Foundation's office in San Francisco and various chapters from around the world, including Germany, France, Russia and Australia.

It is the first time that Wikimedia UK, the Chapter responsible for supporting the work and goals of the Wikimedia projects in the UK, has hosted a hosted an event of this importance to the global movement and it recognises the growing importance of this growing Chapter, now entering its second full year since its foundation.

Wikimedia UK would like to recognise that the event has been made possible by the generosity of both HP and The Watershed - which are generously donating the costs of room hire, lunches and the time of their staff to making this event a success.

Although delegates are here mainly on business, there will be an opportunity on both Friday and Saturday evenings for Wikimedia delegates to mix with and learn more about Bristol and its plans to build on its growing reputation as a thriving regional hub for media and digital expertise.

This bit below to figure in the Note to Editor's Section...

Put the usual Wikimedia is description here.... [I think the list of Wikimedia projects should go here, rather than in the body of the release to keep the release on-point. --Tango 14:11, 25 April 2010 (UTC)]

Perhaps a contact person (me? for this one - or it could be Tom is he prefers?) [Are the press likely to have more questions on the business side of the event or the Bristol connections? If the former, we should put me as contact and I'll refer questions about Bristol to you, if the latter we should do it the other way around. Or we could put Mike as contact as he's the general press contact and then he can refer things to whichever of us is best suited and answer any basic questions about Wikimedia himself. --Tango 14:11, 25 April 2010 (UTC)]

Contact should probably be Mike for everything and with anything bristol or conference specific passed on if needed.Seddon 14:59, 25 April 2010 (UTC)

We also need to run this past HP, Council and Watershed before issuing... [We should probably run it by the WMF too. --Tango 14:11, 25 April 2010 (UTC)]