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copy in case anyone has specific interest.  Martin Walker may be able to
suggest someone from the "Wikipedia 1.0" project for you as well (closer to
the slicing problems that Wikipedians in particular face).

Regards,
SJ

On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 4:30 PM, Laura Cowen <laura_cowen at uk.ibm.com> wrote:

>
> Hi SJ,
>
> I'm part of the wikislices team that Alyson is running, though I don't
> think I've ever been on a call at the same time as you. :-)
>
> Every Summer, at IBM Hursley (UK), we host a student programme, Extreme
> Blue, for which small teams of bright technical and business students are
> recruited for about 12 weeks to work on selected projects. I proposed that
> one of the teams of students work on the tool that we have been discussing
> in the wikislices conference calls and the idea was selected. I now have
> about three weeks to prepare for the students' arrival.
>
> One thing that I think is important to the success of this project would be
> for the students to have contact and interaction with people from the OLPC
> project and the Wikipedia project. Alyson suggested that I contact you. Do
> you know of someone from each project who might be interested and willing to
> help support the students from time to time throughout the Summer?
>
> I can provide more detail if you need it; feel free to ask any questions!
>
> Thanks,
>
> Laura
>
> Technical Author
> WebSphere Business Events
> User Technologies
> MP095 Hursley
> IBM United Kingdom Ltd.
> Tel. 44 (0) 1962 815622 (Int. 7-245622)
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Hello Laura,<br><br>It&#39;s great to hear that you will have an extreme blue team working on organizing data for wikislices.&nbsp; <br><br>From OLPC, Diane Serley might be a good point of contact -- she&#39;s interested in realizing a wikislice of her own and has been asking about tools for creating one from scratch (in contrast to the scripted WikiBrowse collections Chris Ball has been making, which are a large proportion of all articles in a large wiki).<br>
<br>From Wikipedia, many potential contacts are on our wikireader list, which I copy in case anyone has specific interest.&nbsp; Martin Walker may be able to suggest someone from the &quot;Wikipedia 1.0&quot; project for you as well (closer to the slicing problems that Wikipedians in particular face).<br>
<br>Regards,<br>SJ<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 4:30 PM, Laura Cowen &lt;<a href="mailto:laura_cowen at uk.ibm.com">laura_cowen at uk.ibm.com</a>&gt; wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">

Hi SJ,
 
 I&#39;m part of the wikislices team that
Alyson is running, though I don&#39;t think I&#39;ve ever been on a call at the
same time as you. :-)
 
 Every Summer, at IBM Hursley (UK), we
host a student programme, Extreme Blue, for which small teams of bright
technical and business students are recruited for about 12 weeks to work
on selected projects. I proposed that one of the teams of students work
on the tool that we have been discussing in the wikislices conference calls
and the idea was selected. I now have about three weeks to prepare for
the students&#39; arrival.
 
 One thing that I think is important
to the success of this project would be for the students to have contact
and interaction with people from the OLPC project and the Wikipedia project.
Alyson suggested that I contact you. Do you know of someone from each project
who might be interested and willing to help support the students from time
to time throughout the Summer?
 
 I can provide more detail if you need
it; feel free to ask any questions!
 
 Thanks,
 
Laura 
 
Technical Author 
WebSphere Business Events 
User Technologies 
MP095 Hursley 
IBM United Kingdom Ltd. 
Tel. 44 (0) 1962 815622 (Int. 7-245622) 
 
Blog: <a href="http://blogs.tap.ibm.com/weblogs/laura/" target="_blank">http://blogs.tap.ibm.com/weblogs/laura/</a> 
UT Blog: <a href="http://blogs.tap.ibm.com/weblogs/ut/" target="_blank">http://blogs.tap.ibm.com/weblogs/ut/</a> 

 

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