Some of the photos from the last weekends’ (geeks) meeting of Serbian Wikipeadians and guests from Wikimedia Foundation. Other files will be uploaded on YouTube soon.

Just came after very interesting wikipedians/international wikimedia meeting , here in Belgrade. As the fog outside fell over the city, instead of snow, I jumped into my neighbourhood culture center and missed first speech of great Mr. Oscar Van Dillen, president of Wikimedia Nederland, a self-dependent organization that shares the goals of the Wikimedia Foundation and supports it within the Netherlands. We introduced each other and talked on Wikimedia project as other wikipedians – serbian were debating on some of the issues on wikipedia in Serbian. The issue was that the fog is over Belgrade whole day, and the situation at the airport Nikola Tesla, with delays and not functioning, made some of the guests not to come. Belgrade fog, beside wiki projects, was the most talked subject, as well as, some of the plans within Wikimedia Foundation. Imagine geeks gathering and a gal with a camera (I need new and better camera and space on Flickr!!!) . After local speech, Mr. Van Dillen and I came to the idea that he may hold his speech again ( the one I missed: sorry, but curiousity didn’t kill the cat, and Mr.Van Dillen is very nice man: ), for those who will maybe appear later, due to rearragment of organization and the fog. So, Oscar, gave nice introductory speech and talked on Wikimedia projects, and many other issues that are concerned with vandalism, copyleft, copyright, wiki books, introducing wikimedia projects into schools, universities, after which German colleague put some useful notes. At the end, Ms. Danica Radovanovic gave public conclusion and opinion on subject of speech, as information management professional and researcher in the area of electronic publishing, which closed the meeting for tonight. Expect later, I will upload the videos of Mr.Van Dillens’ speech and some of the photos. Tomorrow I’m off (:

For those who are not familiar with some of the Serbian history of literature and manuscripts, here is a chance to learn about Miroslavljevo Jevanđelje /Мирослављево Јевађеље/ (80′s of 12.century). It is the oldest and the most valued serbian cyrilic manuscript – liturgic book with very rich ornamentation, ordered by serbian knez Miroslav. Jevandjelje can be seen in special room/chamber in National Museum of Belgrade: from 16-25.December 2006.  More on Miroslavljevo jevandjelje…

I cannot resist to this one , the guy is genius and funny.

Randall Munroe created xkcd, one of my (many of) favourites (:

And talking about wikipedians’ meetings : )

Wikimedia Serbia has announced that this weekend, 16. and 17. December, regional meeting of Wikimedia (first one of this kind in the world), will be held in Dom Omladine, Belgrade. On this meeting, interesting guests from Germany (Nina Gerlach) , Nederlands (Oscar Van Dillen - Dutch Wikimedia), France, Slovenia (Roman Maurer), Croatia (Darko Cokor), Macedonia as well as Florence Nibart-Devouard, Chair of the Wikimedia Foundation. More about the programe you can read here.

A medical student at UMass. developed a quick online way to screen for the tonedeafness. In this research ‘we were looking for neuro-anatomical correlates of tonedeafness (called “congenital amusia”) in the scientific literature’. Give it a try and later also you can measure your pitch perception abilities in three minutes, developed by the author who worked as researcher at the Music and Neuroimaging laboratory at Beth Israel/Harvard Medical School. “This is the first time this test has ever been made available online”.