salve a tutti, scusate la replica di mail che alcuni avranno già visto

vi segnalo la richiesta di Shani Evenstein a proposito della sessione GLAM per la prossima Wikimania. Se avrete la pazienza di leggere tutto il messaggio sotto, vedrete che la struttura delle sessioni sarà un po' diversa dalle altre volte. Chiunque ha la possibilità di segnalare già da ora alcuni temi di dibattito da proporre per gli incontri "minori" (nel senso del tempo, non della qualità). Per le vere e proprie presentazioni più tradizionali (chiamate quest'anno Critical Issues), ci sarà una call più avanti.

invito tutti a farsi avanti. Quest'anno abbiamo la possibilità di essere presenti in molti e sarebbe bello cominciare a partecipare fin da adesso

ciao, v.

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Shani shani.even@gmail.com Date: 17 October 2015 at 20:35 Subject: [cultural-partners] Wikimania 2016 GLAM track: help us shape it! To: Cultural Partners - ML cultural-partners@wikimedia.ch Cc: ginevra.sanvitale@wikimedia.it

GLAMers around the world,

I'm writing you regarding Wikimania 2016, which will be held this coming year in Esino Lario, *Italy, between June 22-27. *This is actually sooner than it might seems, so preparations have already begun (see Iolanda & Ginevra's presentation for more info https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bc/1_year_to_get_your_things_done_and_present_them_at_Wikimania.pdf ).

The organizing team has selected me to be the *GLAM community liaison*, which means I'll help make sure our voice as a community is heard and the GLAM track lives up to be all that we want and need it to be (read more about the community liaison role below).

To do that, we'd like you to *take action now and help us determine* how our track should look like. Please take a few minutes to read the explanation below about the different types of sessions. Then, please *submit your preliminary suggestions http://goo.gl/forms/yGFQdWLZDO *in the google form* by* *November 21st*.

This will allow the organizing team to start work on all the sessions that are not "user digest" or "critical issues". As soon as we have an active link to "critical issues" submissions, I'll post it here.

I'm here if you have any further questions. :)

Cheers, Shani.

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*There are a few changes to the Wikimania format compared with previous years. I've tried highlighting the important parts for you - *

*Types of sessions in the GLAM track* The presentation I linked to above will give you a better sense of what the organizing team is aiming for, but all in all, these are the types of activities we will have -

*1 - User Digest: * *what:* provides an overview of many different topics *target*: beginners (no background knowledge required) *where*: largest meeting space (sport hall) *length*: 30 minutes *topics*: status of the organization, strategies related to territories, dynamics of the online community, research related to Wikipedia and the Wikimedia projects, software development, events, legislation *selection*: direct invitation (suggested by liaison )

I've asked *Liam Wyatt & Jane Darnell* (neither need presenting, I believe :)), to give the user digest session. Both have agreed to work on it with me and will be presenting it together at Wikimania. I am sure they'll do a fabulous job summarizing the state of GLAM. I'd like to take this opportunity to thank both of them on behalf of the community for agreeing to put their time and energy to do this important session.

*2 - Critical Issues (replaces the good old presentations): * *what*: presents a critical issue, problem, possible solution, critical analysis *target:* advanced (background knowledge required) *where*: medium spaces (theater of the Kindergarten, meeting) *length*: 30 minutes each session *topics:* topics meant to nourish discussions *selection:* call for proposals, will be decided by the content committee, as always, maybe with blind peer-review.

*A call for proposals for the "critical issues" presentations will be available around the end of November / beginning of December. *I'll let you all know when the link is available.

*3 - Discussions: * *what:* discussions with an objective *target:* advanced and beginners *where*: Primary School *objectives*: taking a decision, browsing possible solutions for a problem, making latent problems and issues emerging, considering a topic from different perspectives *selection*: community proposals (collected by liaison)

*4 - Training: * *What:* meant to enhance skills *Target*: advanced and beginners *Where*: Multimedia room of the new museum *Length:* 1.5 hours each *Topics:* focus on practice *selection*: community proposals (collected by liaison)

*There will not be many of these, so make sure you put in your proposals in the google doc asap! *

*5 - Posters: * *What:* provides an overview of what is going on in the movement in different countries and locations. *Target:* everyone. *Where*: Former Museum/collaborative space. Posters will be presented in the community village, with brochures & help desks and will be managed by WMDE since they are in charge of the community village.

*6 - Lightning talks: * TBD. Maybe in the evenings or in the community village.

*7 - Meetups:* *what:* small informal meetings on specific topics *target*: specific or general, small groups *where:* small spaces, bars, restaurants and the tensile structure; outdoor *when*: time for meetups included in the schedule (not simply planned after the working sessions or at lunch)

*8 - Anything we've missed?* please feel free to add ideas to the google form.

*Thematic Liaisons * This year the organizing team is working with community liaisons for various themes, like GLAM, Education etc,, to help build the program. I've been asked to be the GLAM community liaison and have agreed to do so in my capacity as a volunteer. This is how the program committee described the role -

*The Wikimania Esino Lario program benefits from the involvement of a team of community members invited to contribute to the program as liaisons. Their role is representing the interests of their group/community and more specifically: 1. Making sure the program includes presentations their community is interested in listening to. This means providing and collecting feedback on the program. 2. Making sure Wikimania offers discussions and training their community is asking for or needs. This means collecting proposals for discussions and requests of training. 3. Making sure members of their community attend discussions to guarantee the interests and the diversity of our community is represented. 4. Getting the best speaker to provide an overview of what is their group/community about and what is going on (the overview is a “user digest presentation”, video recorded and meant to be used online for further dissemination). 5. Suggesting “guest speakers” to invite to enrich discussions. 6. Collecting posters of the relevant projects happening in their group/community (posters are important to make sure the overview has some linked documentation and it provides a relevant international dimension). 7. Inviting their group/community to submit “critical issues presentations”.Liaisons have been arbitrarily selected. They do not curate all the content related to their group/community, but they have the role to make sure the program is relevant for their group/community. The focus of the liaisons is rather on what their group/community is interested in listening to, rather than what their members are interested in telling and teaching the rest of the movement. *

In short, I'm here to serve, to facilitate, to represent our interest as a group and to make sure we have the most awesome GLAM track. :)

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