Next board meeting: This evening

Hi all,

The next board meeting will be this evening (Tuesday 1 December 2009)  
at 8.30-10.30pm BST. The first hour will be by Skype, the second hour
will be held on IRC in the #wikimedia-uk-board channel on  
irc.freenode.net, with discussion in #wikimedia-uk. Everyone is more  
than welcome to attend the IRC session. If you don't have an IRC  
client, then you can connect using http://webchat.freenode.net/ .

The agenda is at http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetings/2009-12-01/Agenda

Board members + Tango: please post whether you can attend, and your  
reports, to the agenda page. My thanks to those that have already  
given their attendance and started their reports.

Thanks,
Mike Peel

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Re: [WMUK Board] Next board meeting: This evening

... of course, I meant 8.30-10.30pm _GMT_ not _BST_...

Mike

On 1 Dec 2009, at 11:56, Michael Peel wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> The next board meeting will be this evening (Tuesday 1 December  
> 2009) at 8.30-10.30pm BST. The first hour will be by Skype, the  
> second hour
> will be held on IRC in the #wikimedia-uk-board channel on  
> irc.freenode.net, with discussion in #wikimedia-uk. Everyone is  
> more than welcome to attend the IRC session. If you don't have an  
> IRC client, then you can connect using http://webchat.freenode.net/ .
>
> The agenda is at http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetings/2009-12-01/ 
> Agenda
>
> Board members + Tango: please post whether you can attend, and your  
> reports, to the agenda page. My thanks to those that have already  
> given their attendance and started their reports.
>
> Thanks,
> Mike Peel
>
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Re: Size & Colour of I<3WP logos

From a personal point of view, having a really whacky colour would be nice
-- like a vibrant pink logo, á la Amnesty International's colour schemes
(but WMUK :)).  However, I doubt that the Wikimedia Identity Guidelines
would let us.

Perhaps a logo such as [love needed], although that's more of an inside
joke? There's some alternative fundraising banners floating around at Meta
that we could adapt if we wanted slogans. A WMUK logo with a monospace "<3",
as we're internet based, washed out in the background?

http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Wikimedia_visual_identity_guidelines

Douglas Gardner

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2009/11/30 zeyi <zeyi.he <at> googlemail.com>:
> I assume we need the small, middle and large sizes to fit different
> volunteers. and for color, I would like to know what do members think
> about?
>
> Zeyi
>

I was talking about image size and colour. What requirements does the

Re: Size & Colour of I<3WP logos

2009/12/1 Douglas Gardner <microchip08 <at> btinternet.com>:

> From a personal point of view, having a really whacky colour would be nice
> -- like a vibrant pink logo, á la Amnesty International's colour schemes
> (but WMUK :)).  However, I doubt that the Wikimedia Identity Guidelines
> would let us.
> Perhaps a logo such as [love needed], although that's more of an inside
> joke? There's some alternative fundraising banners floating around at Meta
> that we could adapt if we wanted slogans. A WMUK logo with a monospace "<3",
> as we're internet based, washed out in the background?
> http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Wikimedia_visual_identity_guidelines

If we come up with rough consensus on something plausible, it wouldn't
hurt to at least ask WMF about a logo variant.

- d.

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Re: Size & Colour of I<3WP logos

On Tue, 2009-12-01 at 20:03 +0000, David Gerard wrote:
> 2009/12/1 Douglas Gardner <microchip08 <at> btinternet.com>:
> 
> > From a personal point of view, having a really whacky colour would be nice
> > -- like a vibrant pink logo, á la Amnesty International's colour schemes
> > (but WMUK :)).  However, I doubt that the Wikimedia Identity Guidelines
> > would let us.
> > Perhaps a logo such as [love needed], although that's more of an inside
> > joke? There's some alternative fundraising banners floating around at Meta
> > that we could adapt if we wanted slogans. A WMUK logo with a monospace "<3",
> > as we're internet based, washed out in the background?
> > http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Wikimedia_visual_identity_guidelines
> 
> 
> If we come up with rough consensus on something plausible, it wouldn't
> hurt to at least ask WMF about a logo variant.

Sometimes it is easier to ask forgiveness than permission. 

If you're prepared to quickly take down anything deemed too horrific you
should not have any issue experimenting with logo design variants. Based
on the current fundraiser, I think the volunteers can do better than
most pro advertising agencies. It's in the metrics the ad agencies are
really good for.

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Re: Paying for news

On 30 Nov 2009, at 18:17, Thomas Dalton wrote:

> 2009/11/30 Michael Peel <email <at> mikepeel.net>:
>> Does someone want to start drafting a press release that can be sent
>> out, then?
>
> Ok, here's a first draft:
>
> http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Press_releases/Free_online_news

Steve Virgin's just rewritten this - any comments on the latest  
version? The current plan is to send it out tomorrow morning.

Thanks,
Mike

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Re: Paying for news

On Wed, 2009-12-02 at 00:12 +0000, Michael Peel wrote:
> On 30 Nov 2009, at 18:17, Thomas Dalton wrote:
> 
> > 2009/11/30 Michael Peel <email <at> mikepeel.net>:
> >> Does someone want to start drafting a press release that can be sent
> >> out, then?
> >
> > Ok, here's a first draft:
> >
> > http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Press_releases/Free_online_news
> 
> Steve Virgin's just rewritten this - any comments on the latest  
> version? The current plan is to send it out tomorrow morning.

I like this new version. Needs a few more eyeballs over it to check for
grammar and so.

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Re: Paying for news

2009/12/2 Michael Peel <email <at> mikepeel.net>:
>
> On 30 Nov 2009, at 18:17, Thomas Dalton wrote:
>
>> 2009/11/30 Michael Peel <email <at> mikepeel.net>:
>>> Does someone want to start drafting a press release that can be sent
>>> out, then?
>>
>> Ok, here's a first draft:
>>
>> http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Press_releases/Free_online_news
>
> Steve Virgin's just rewritten this - any comments on the latest
> version? The current plan is to send it out tomorrow morning.

I like most of that rewrite - talking about how social media is
already playing a big role in telling the news is a really good idea.
I've made a few changes, though: I've changed it back to being a
statement (rather than a kind of op-ed) since that how I've seen other
organisations do these kind of press releases. I've been told that
press releases should be ready to just be put straight into a
newspaper (although that isn't likely to happen with this one - it
will get incorporated into a larger story, but the style should be the
same) and no-one would publish an article about what we think, they
would publish one about us saying what we think. I've also rearranged
the first paragraph so it isn't such a run-on sentence (I've been
trying to cut back on my use of commas!). Steve, what do you think? I
have essentially no experience of writing press releases, so I may
have it all wrong!

Re: Paying for news

On Wed, 2009-12-02 at 01:31 +0000, Thomas Dalton wrote:
> 2009/12/2 Michael Peel <email <at> mikepeel.net>:
> >
> > On 30 Nov 2009, at 18:17, Thomas Dalton wrote:
> >
> >> 2009/11/30 Michael Peel <email <at> mikepeel.net>:
> >>> Does someone want to start drafting a press release that can be sent
> >>> out, then?
> >>
> >> Ok, here's a first draft:
> >>
> >> http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Press_releases/Free_online_news
> >
> > Steve Virgin's just rewritten this - any comments on the latest
> > version? The current plan is to send it out tomorrow morning.
> 
> I like most of that rewrite - talking about how social media is
> already playing a big role in telling the news is a really good idea.
> I've made a few changes, though: I've changed it back to being a
> statement (rather than a kind of op-ed) since that how I've seen other
> organisations do these kind of press releases. I've been told that
> press releases should be ready to just be put straight into a
> newspaper (although that isn't likely to happen with this one - it
> will get incorporated into a larger story, but the style should be the
> same) and no-one would publish an article about what we think, they
> would publish one about us saying what we think. I've also rearranged
> the first paragraph so it isn't such a run-on sentence (I've been
> trying to cut back on my use of commas!). Steve, what do you think? I
> have essentially no experience of writing press releases, so I may
> have it all wrong!

Re: Paying for news

Brian McNeil wrote:
> Mike, I edited one of the quotes; it should, under no circumstances, go
> out until you okay that.
>   
I have slain some verbiage and re-ordered. You can always revert me.

Charles

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