Hi folks
I just got the large format prints we will show at Open Expo Zürich (Switzerland) on Wednesdy. I will there hold a lightning talk on the social event at 19:00 with the exclusive content Wikimedia Commons. You're invited to be there! http://www.openexpo.ch/openexpo-2007-zuerich/
See the pictures that got selected for printing: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Napa/Wikipediatag#Gew.C3.A4hlte_Bilde... Thanks Wladyslaw, Nando and Dani for their job.
Short question for preparing my speech: Have we done similar events before? Where?
There are also some lessons learned for me: -It's really a stupid thing to require super sharp downsampled pictures at 100% on screen if the original image was larger. We including myself tend to do this on QI and FP today. When it comes to printing posters you'll need to upsample them and some information got lost. -Sharpening looks really different when seen on a print than on screen. For very large (<5MP) images we shall request optimization for printing and not for screen.
Anyway. I'll really be glad to see some of you guys at Open Expo or on Wikipedia Day Berne Sept 29th where we'll show the prints again.
Regards
Robin Schwab Wikimedia CH - Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens Wikimedia CH - Association for the Advancement of Free Knowledge
Hi Robin,
Thanks for letting us know about this. I guess it is over (or almost over). Are there pictures of the event we can see??
On 18/09/2007, Robin Schwab contact@robinschwab.ch wrote:
Hi folks
I just got the large format prints we will show at Open Expo Zürich (Switzerland) on Wednesdy. I will there hold a lightning talk on the social event at 19:00 with the exclusive content Wikimedia Commons. You're invited to be there! http://www.openexpo.ch/openexpo-2007-zuerich/
See the pictures that got selected for printing: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Napa/Wikipediatag#Gew.C3.A4hlte_Bilde... Thanks Wladyslaw, Nando and Dani for their job.
Short question for preparing my speech: Have we done similar events before? Where?
I'm not sure exactly what type of event this is, but I'm pretty sure the answer is no anyway. :)
cheers, Brianna user:pfctdayelise
Brianna Laugher schrieb:
Hi Robin,
Thanks for letting us know about this. I guess it is over (or almost over). Are there pictures of the event we can see??
Hi Brianna
The Open Expo in Zürich was quite a sucess. Despite the exhibition area was much bigger than last time there were too many people there to listen all the talks. So people stood in front of the conference room watching the Wikimedia Commons gallery. Everyone entering the conference room walked across the Wikimedia commons gallery.
I held a short talk explaining the exhibition on the social event in the evening. I was surprised to see that Commons is recognized as a brand at least in the open source community. About 40 people listened my talk.
Because it was so well visited I let the picures there for another day. Next and last possibility to see the Wikimedia Commons gallery is Sept 29. in Berne. See http://www.wikipediatag.ch/
Regards
Robin
On 21/09/2007, Robin Schwab contact@robinschwab.ch wrote:
The Open Expo in Zürich was quite a sucess. Despite the exhibition area was much bigger than last time there were too many people there to listen all the talks. So people stood in front of the conference room watching the Wikimedia Commons gallery. Everyone entering the conference room walked across the Wikimedia commons gallery.
I held a short talk explaining the exhibition on the social event in the evening. I was surprised to see that Commons is recognized as a brand at least in the open source community. About 40 people listened my talk.
Because it was so well visited I let the picures there for another day. Next and last possibility to see the Wikimedia Commons gallery is Sept 29. in Berne. See http://www.wikipediatag.ch/
That sounds awesome, Robin.
I would really love to see some photos of the space, with people looking at the posters. :) Any chance of such pictures maybe next week?
cheers, Brianna
Brianna Laugher schrieb:
I would really love to see some photos of the space, with people looking at the posters. :) Any chance of such pictures maybe next week?
Sorry, I just forgot to post the link. We hat 1:45 am I was just too tired ...
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Open_Expo_Z%C3%BCrich_2007
Regards
Robin