Hi Aris,

welcome to you too!   

Thanks for the comments on my CV... love to see your site when you have a URL for it.

All the best,

Cheers,
Dan

hello Aris:
its Amira i hope you come to visit Egypt and do agreet job here in my lovely country i love your work very much
you seems to be aprofessional restorator
i hope you if you dont mind to help me with you knowledge because iam afresh graduator from consevation department in cairo uni
thanks indeed
m3a el salama

woooooooow you speak arabic 
iam very very vvvvvvvv happy
i hope to be friends 
thanks
slam 3alykom

That's nice, come back with the url when you are done!

la2 ana sa'agib leek

Ahlan ya Amira.

Welcome Daniel,

Indeed reading your CV was interesting, and actualy motivated me as well to make one online.

Aristotelis

For the website....you might like to copy this list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservation_Associations_and_Professional_Organizations

And if you have time add any additional ones to the wikipedia page...

You are right, it is a huge task, it's also a never ending task!!!   

I would hope to see the site develop in such a way that as conservation changes over time the site would also change to reflect that. We have noticed that sites we start have been edited by other people updating them, not just conservators, so its great to see the "public" (for want of a better word) get involved.

By the way, thanks for checking out the pages...

My advice for getting started would be to start an account on wikipedia... and write your profile. And then discuss things on the talk pages, it's actually pretty easy to do some basic editing, I would recommend doing that to get started... get the feel of things, and then start making more major changes.

Also... Use sandbox on wikipedia to practice... its a useful tool, that I wish I had used before I started... But most importantly, if you're at all interested, and have the time, get stuck in and ask for help as you go. Really the only sure fire way of learning is to do it, make mistakes and learn from them.

Our hope is that many hands make light work, and also that with many voices the vision of conservation expressed can be more accurate and representative.

The photo's issue related to the fact that photo's, similar to e-conservation magazine, need to be released under some version of creative commons. Ideally we are looking for images of conservators "doing conservation".... conserving objects, painting, etc, in labs, or buildings, sculptures, etc, outside.

It'd be great if anyone has images on Flikr that they have assigned as free to use.

We actually came up with several solutions, but, many of us have been too busy to think about the photo's issue for the last few months, I am getting back into it at the moment, and I think that'll be my next issue...

But, if you do have any feel free to email them to me, with their information. check my profile for my email.

This seems a huge task and what you did until now is already a very good starting. 
I certainly agree wikipedia project needs contribution from more people. Personally, I would like to help but I am not yet familiar with working on wiki pages… I hope to find the time to learn how to do it in a close future. Also, there seem to be some issues under discussion about the overall organisation of the page(s) and sections, so at this point I think someone new editing directly on the page would make things more complicated. As you suggested, I think best would be people to give their suggestions on the talk pages…
I have seen you need more photos, what exactly do you need? I could provide some from our on-site projects for mural painting conservation, so in case you lack photos on this topic please let me know.

I've never heard of this, but it sounds interesting.

Something of related interest would probably be the UK's Portable Antiquities Scheme:

From their website:

"The Portable Antiquities Scheme is a voluntary scheme to record archaeological objects found by members of the public in England and Wales. Every year many thousands of objects are discovered, many of these by metal-detector users, but also by people whilst out walking, gardening or going about their daily work. Such discoveries offer an important source for understanding our past."

http://www.finds.org.uk/