GLAM - Wiki - Canberra: wikimedia.org.au/wiki/GLAM

This week in Canberra, in what is believed to be a world-first conference, the Wikimedia Australasia community meet with more than 170 managers - strategists and foot soldiers from some of Australasia's largest cultural institutions – from the Australian National Gallery, to the National Libraries of New Zealand and Australia.  Also from New Zealand will be people from Museums Aotearoa and Digital New Zealand.

There will also be a very large contingent from the Gallery and Museum sector, including the organisers of the global museum social network site, Museum 3.0, Lynda Kelly and Angelina Russo.
http://museum30.ning.com/

Seb Chan from the Powerhouse Museum will also be in attendance, as will Senator Kate Lundy of the ACT, whose recent conversion to the potential of open data networks has electrified the arena of open access to government data in Australia.

‘GLAM-WIKI: Finding Common Ground’

The event at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra on August 6-7 brings together Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums (GLAM) with Wikimedia Australia, the all-volunteer force that brings Australian content to the Wikipedia site.

The conference will be the communities largest conference anywhere in the world outside of its annual ‘Wikimania’ event - and will be a topic for discussion at the upcoming Wikimania session in Buenos Aires.

Paul Reynolds from McGovern Online is one of the panelists on the session, "Policy and Politics Q&A Panel", whose objective is to "Identify the policy issues that affect the GLAM sector and the free culture movement and where government can be involved"

Full details of the programme is available here:
http://wikimedia.org.au/wiki/GLAM