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Bahudhara has met with a number of organisations, including Port of Adelaide Branch of the National Trust (PoANT), Port Adelaide Historical Society, Woodville Historical Society, Port Adelaide Residents Environment Protection Group, which have shown varying levels of interest. He also met last month with the president of the Gawler Local History Group, which operates the Gawler Now and Then wiki.
Other PoANT members have raised the project with the Port Adelaide University of the Third Age, where there is some interest.
The meetup date was changed from Wednesday 22 October to the following evening, to enable SA Maritime Museum director Kevin Jones to attend. The date change was canvassed with AWUG members via email, with no response. Kevin said that the SAMM's efforts are currently being directed towards Adelaidea and the SA History Hub, which have been set up by History SA. (These aren't wikis as such, instead being themed collections of short essays written by experts, with attached blogs for public comment; there is no map interface, such as the Now and Then wikis have.)
At last week's meeting of the PoANT committee, a letter to the CEO of the National Trust of SA was tabled and approved, requesting that he negotiate with Darren Peacock over an appropriate licence for the Port Adelaide Now and Then wiki. Darren has indicated that a cloned empty shell of the wiki could subsequently be hosted and ready by as early as mid-November.
The tentative launch date for the wiki (providing sufficient content has been generated by then) is late January, at the Port Adelaide Library.
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Bahudhara, Sharon Holmes and Mike Weir (PoANT), Kevin Jones (Director, SA Maritime Museum)
Tullyis, Meredith Blundell (Port Adelaide Library)
Bahudhara spoke about progress to date on the proposed Port Adelaide Now and Then wiki, followed by a general discussion on how to proceed further.
Kevin Jones mentioned resources already available on the Museum's website, which could provide lists of topics suitable for further elaboration on the wiki.
Sharon Holmes is to follow up with her contacts at the University of the third Age and the Vitalstatistix theatre company regarding possible involvement by their members.
Bahudhara is to write up an overview of the project for WP; to email links to the WP meetup and resource pages to the participants; and to liaise with Darren Peacock over the actual cloning and setting up of the wiki shell.