User:Peter Ellis/sandbox

Yes, someone did remove this SandBox, previously.

I want to have a record of a transaction on WikiMedia..... hence:

DRAFT ARTICLE: International Project Management Association

The International Project Management Association is the international advocacy group for project management, with over 60 national members from across the world. Its original members were the first INTERNET.

History

In 1964, Pierre Koch of France, invited Dick Vullinghs from The Netherlands and Roland Gutsch from Germany to discuss the benefits of the Critical Path Method (CPM) as a management approach. The group was joined and chaired by Yves Eugene of Association Française d´Informatique et de Recherche Opérationnelle (AFIRO), and others. Arnold Kaufmann, professor of Applied Mechanics and Operations Research at the Mines ParisTech in Paris, suggested a name for the group: INTERnational NETwork or INTERNET.

In 1965, the group formed the International Management Systems Association (ASMA) based in Switzerland.

In 1967, the group held its first International World Congress in Vienna.

In 1996, at the 13th World Congress in Paris, the advent of the internet telecommunications system led to the organisation renaming itself to “International Project Management Association”.

In 2002, the IPMA International Project Excellence Award was instigated.

Management

IPMA is governed under the law of Switzerland.

IPMA is governed through a Council of Delegates, an Executive Board, several Management Boards, working and project groups and a Secretariat. It is volunteer-staffed apart from contracted members of the Secretariat including a professional manager. The governing philosophy is to achieve consensus, rather than using a strict voting procedure, and using modern methods of international communication wherever possible rather than face-to-face meetings.

The Council of Delegates meets every September and March, hosted by member associations.

The executive Board is headed by the President, currently Reinhard Wagner (Germany).

Certification

IPMA has a system of certification that can be used or aligned to by member organisations. Individuals can thus be assessed against an internationally recognised system using local qualifications. At the end of 2015, there were around 250,000 certified individuals worldwide, plus consultancies and organisations.

External links

• IPMA website
  • Member Associations – 60+ by world region

File:Sir_Richard_Williams_portrait.JPG

Jim, please explain how the deletion of the image I posted of the painting by Vernon Jones can be of assistance to the Wiki-commons/Wikipedia world. I note that User:Tryphon said that link lists the image; it does not, so far as I see. I know that someone trimmed the image that I originally posted; that was silly, frankly, as it removed the context that I had left for all to see. The painting hangs in the Officer's Mess at RAAF Laverton. How many Wikipedians/Wiki-commons people have access there, as I did (and may again, but who knows when...) So, the image was lost to the Wiki world, and did not make it on the page for Williams as it appeared as the featured page on Wikipedia. I absolutely DID NOT know that was a possibility when I posted the image, but I 'fought' the deletion of the image because I knew that it was probably unique; who else can or WILL get a photo of it? Please reply, understanding that I am on a 'flaky' connection and may not reply for some days. (It is why I have not 'fought' further the removal of the image, from now months ago... my computer has been giving me grief.) Peter Ellis (talk) 14:34, 12 April 2011 (UTC)

Peter, the correct link would have been Commons:Deletion_requests/File:Sir_Richard_Williams_portrait.JPG. --Túrelio (talk) 14:40, 12 April 2011 (UTC)

Peter -- I'll work with you -- and I'm sure my colleague Túrelio will also, as best we can within the rules. None of us like deleting images, but to keep Commons "a database of 9,979,929 freely usable media files to which anyone can contribute", we must pay attention to copyright where it is called for.

I assume you understand and don't dispute the fact that the painting has a copyright which belongs to the artist and his heirs until 70 years after his death. Ownership of the copyright is completely independent of ownership of the physical painting. Since there is a copyright, the painting is a derivative work. Although there are exceptions to the copyright rules for certain kinds of works permanently hung in public places, which we call Freedom of Panorama, those exceptions cannot apply here both because the Australian rule does not include paintings and because I don't think that an Officer's Mess is "open to the public" within the meaning of the applicable law.

That leaves us with two possibilities. The first is for you to get permission from the artist or his heirs, following the procedure at Commons:OTRS. That may or may not be possible. The other is for you to construct a ... ask me on my talk page, .... already has a portrait of him.

If you chose to construct a fair use argument, you can then upload the file to WP:EN without Commons worrying about it. If you no longer have access to the file, I can temporarily undelete it here for you.

If you have further questions, feel free to ask -- as I said at the top, we're here to help.      Jim . . . . Jameslwoodward (talk to me) 15:06, 12 April 2011 (UTC)

Thanks, Jim. I thought that I had made it completely clear on the picture's description page and the deletion page that I thought that the removal of the context (frame) of the image by... well, I can't find out, now, can I... was wrong. I had quite obviously left the context -- the frame and surround. Chronologically, though, when someone asked about the author, I went out of my way on a subsequent visit to RAAF Laverton to visit the image, determine the author, and add the detail to the image's description page. I think that it was later that someone trimmed the image of its context.

You said, "Since there is a copyright, the painting is a derivative work." I assume that you mean that the picture of the painting is a derivative work. A hypothetical: Someone was taking a picture of en:Laurent Gbagbo as he is arrested, and Gbagbo happens to be holding a magazine up to his eyes -- it's obviously him, though. The owner of the magazine claims 70 years on the magazine, the owner of the image used on the front presumably has an issue, too; so, is the picture of Gbagbo rejected? What if he was wearing a suit by Zegna, the design of which is presumably covered by similar legislation? Zegna objects to the besmurching of its reputation by the showing of the image, and wants the image removed, too. Two or three grounds for removal; but, a public interest. This is murky, frankly. What if my friend had stood in front of the Williams image, and I had used the picture of her with her permission to show even more 'context'? Is there a 'reality' here that I am not understanding? Is Commons:OTRS being invoked (I've not heard of it before) because the image was cropped to lose the context?

I thought I was doing a good and right thing to put up the image, in context; and, despite what you have said, I just want to understand why my image was ditched. And, it would have made me happy, when Williams page was the featured page, to see my image there... even though I had no idea that it was a candidate. I guess the issue of the provenence of the image became the issue when someone determined that that was a possibility. Peter Ellis (talk) 12:20, 13 April 2011 (UTC)

You would probably be surprised how many people get into the Officer's Mess at RAAF Laverton, and elsewhere. Guests of the Mess officials? The Public Servants who are members of the mess? The casual visitors to the base, as I was? The civilian, contracted staff including guards? There are undoubtedly more.Peter Ellis (talk) 13:32, 13 April 2011 (UTC) And, these people were the folk I observed around the picture during the two visits sub-hour in question. Undoubtedly, there were others in the weeks/months/years when I was not present.- Peter Ellis - Talk 14:46, 13 April 2011 (UTC)

Arch McKirdy

• McKirdy
  • Lewis McKirdy - Australian radio announcer

External links

• Talking Jazz: Remembering Arch McKirdy, ABC Jazz, Relax With Me: Program #2403

first broadcast: November 30, 1972; rebroadcast 30/31 August 2013

• Broadcaster inspired generations of stars, Peter Martin and Peter Wall, Sydney Morning Herald, 21 September 2013
• Death of a broadcast legend, ABC Radio National Breakfast, 29 August 2013

Gordon Ramsay (Australian politician)

Gordon Ramsay MLA -elect
Member of the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly for Ginninderra
Incumbent
Assumed office 2016
Personal details
Born	Gordon Ramsay
Nationality	Australian
Political party	Australian Labor Party
Spouse	Lyndelle Ramsay
Occupation	Minister, Uniting Church in Australia

Gordon Ramsay (1964-) is a Member-elect of the Legislative Assembly of the Australian Capital Territory.

Ramsay has also been a Minister of the Uniting Church in Australia, and earlier a lawyer in New South Wales.

Early life

Ramsay was raised in the southern Sydney suburb of Banksia, and attended primary schools at Rockdale and Hurstville before Sydney Boys' High School. He studied law at the University of Sydney graduating with a degree of Bachelor of Arts LLB (Hons), and then was admitted as a solicitor.

Uniting Church

Ramsay felt called to Christian ministry, and undertook the selection processes of the Uniting Church before being accepted for training at the Uniting Church Centre for Ministry in Sydney. He first served at Kingsgrove/Bardwell Park UCA.

1997-2016

From 1997-2016, he was the Executive Minister at Kippax Uniting Church in the north-western suburbs of Canberra, Australian Capital Territory. This untypically long period of ministry in one church was characterised by his evolution as a spokesperson and organiser for social justice. The major speech at his end-of-ministry ceremony on 3 April 2016 was given by Lin Hatfield Dodds. He technically remains a Minister of the UCA, in a similar way that Hon. Brian Howe remained a UCA Minister while serving in the Parliament of Australia.

During this period, he worked in the ACT Anti Poverty Week, ACT Council of Social Services, and was a member of the ACT Community Inclusion Board and a Community Inclusion Advocate. He was a Community Champion for the 2020 Time To Talk movement, and a member of the ACT Better Services Taskforce. In 2012, Ramsay led the ACT Targeted Assistance Strategy.

He was recognised in 2014 as a finalist in the Act Local Hero category of the Australian of the Year awards.

He served on the Board of UnitingCare NSW-ACT (later "Uniting") from 2011, and chaired the Board from 2014-2016.

Politician

2016 election

Ramsay announced his candidacy for the Australian Labor Party in the Australian Capital Territory general election, 2016, for the Ginninderra electorate. His election material highlighted Our Gordon Ramsay and used visual metaphors from the other Gordon Ramsay, a chef.

He was initially indicated to be the third Labor candidate in the five member electorate.

External links

• Gordon Ramsay - ACT Labor website

Categories

Category:1964 births Category:Living people Category:Members of the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly Category:Australian Labor Party members of the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly Category:Uniting Church in Australia people