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Requesting Invitations to Wikimedia@MW2010


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By David Bearman - Posted on 02 February 2010

Attendance at Wikimedia@MW2010 will be by invitation. The Wikimedia Foundation will invite members of its Board, staff, and senior Wikipedia editors to attend. Members of the museum community are invited to nominate themselves to attend, by e-mail to mw2010@archimuse.com. Self nominations (due by December 31, 2009) should state the reasons you feel you will be able to contribute to the workshop and how you have or hope to be able to use Wikimedia projects with your museum.  Nominators, including self-nominees, may also name up to three other members of the museum community who they think would be valuable to have in attendance (providing reasons for each). A Museum Community Organizing Committee for the workshop will review nominations (including self-nominations) and issue invitations in January 2010. Invited attendees will be asked to register for the workshop before the end of February.

David Bearman

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While we have limited space at the workshop in Denver, we'd like to be sure that our discussions represent as broad an experience as possible. That's why we're soliciting your input.

Please share your insights into how museums and the Wikimedia / Wikipedia communities could work more effectively together. If there are issues or problems that you've encountered in the past, please let us know. And do let us know about your successes as well!

Everyone is welcome to participate in the online discussions.

/jt

j. trant co-founder Museums and the Web | partner archives & museum informatics www.archimuse.com

dbear's picture

The organizing committee (David Bearman, Erik Moeller, Jennifer Trant and Liam Wyatt) – acting on recommendations from the community – have invited 40+ museum community representatives and 10 other Wikimedia participants to the workshop in Denver on April 13. To date, the following people have accepted our invitation. Others are welcome to propose themselves as participants, and/or to join the online discussions prior to the meeting. As of today, attendees will be:

From museums

  • Maxwell Anderson, Director, Indianapolis Museum of Art, USA
  • Francis Awinda, IT Director, AFRICOM, Kenya
  • Katherine Berger, Trustee, The Berger Collection, Denver Art Museum, USA
  • Jonathan Bowen, Emeritus Professor, London South Bank University, United Kingdom
  • Paula Bray, Manager Visual & Digitisation Services, Powerhouse Museum, Australia
  • Seb Chan, Head of Digital, Social & Emerging Technologies, Powerhouse Museum, Australia
  • Rich Cherry, Director, Balboa Park Online Collaborative, USA
  • Susan Chun, Consultant to museums, SusanChun.com, USA
  • Brian Dawson, Director, Informatics, Canada Science and Technology Museum, Canada
  • Erika Dicker, Curator, Powerhouse Museum, Australia
  • Gail Durbin, Head of Online Museum, Victoria & Albert Museum, United Kingdom
  • Jane Finnis, Director, Culture24, United Kingdom
  • Josh Greenberg, Director of Digital Strategy, New York Public Library, USA
  • Tim Hart, Director, Information Multimedia & Technology, Museum Victoria, Australia
  • David Kahn, Director, San Diego Historical Society, USA
  • Anra Kennedy, Head of Learning, Culture24, United Kingdom
  • Ilya Lee, Program Officer NDAP, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
  • John Marciari, Curator, San Diego Museum of Art, USA
  • Jenny Mikulay, Faculty, IUPUI, USA
  • Eric Miller, CEO, Zephira, USA
  • David Pantalony, Curator of Physical Sciences and Medicine, Canada Science and Technology Museum, Canada
  • Paolo Paolini, Professor, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
  • Victoria Portway, Chair, Web & New Media, National Air & Space Museum, USA
  • Nancy Proctor, Head of New Media Initiatives, Smithsonian American Art Museum, USA
  • Mia Ridge, Lead Web Developer, Science Museum, United Kingdom
  • Conxa Roda, Coordinacio de projects, Museu Picasso, Spain
  • Kirrily Robert, Community Director, Freebase.com, USA
  • Marsha Semmel, Museum Services Deputy Director, IMLS, USA
  • Rose Sherman, Director of Enterprise Technology, Minnesota Historical Society, USA
  • Koven Smith, Associate Manager of Interperative Technology, The Met, USA
  • Fiona Smith Hale, Director, Library & Information Services, Canada Science and Technology Museum, Canada
  • Michelle Springer, Project Manager, Digital Initiatives, Library of Congress, USA
  • Robert Stein, Chief Information Officer, Indianapolis Museum of Art, USA
  • Aaron Straup Cope, hackr, Stamen Design, USA
  • Thomas Tunsch, Curator, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Germany
  • Annelies van Nispen , Senior Officer Quality Assurance, DEN Foundation, The Netherlands
  • Michel Vulpe, CTO, i4i, Canada
  • Günter Waibel, Program Officer, OCLC Research, USA
  • Bill Weinstein, Director of Information Technology, Philadelphia Museum of Art, USA

From Wikimedia Foundation

Staff

  • Erik Möller (co-organizer)
  • Guillaume Paumier

Board

  • Samuel Klein
  • Kat Walsh

Wikimedians

  • Phoebe Ayers
  • Lise Broer
  • Maarten Dammers
  • Richard Knipel
  • Mark Pellegrini
  • Mathias Schindler
  • Adrianne Wadewitz
  • Liam Wyatt (co-organizer)

David Bearman