Hi Kevin,
On Sat, 6 Apr 2013 20:38:54 -0700 Kevin Gorman kgorman@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all -
Today I helped run an editathon at an all-women's cooperative in Berkeley. We attracted maybe fifteen or twenty people over the course of the day, and focused most of our editing on prominent historical women active in the cooperative movement. I think we created a number of neat articles, although they all have a lot of room for improvement (which hopefully will be coming in part from our new editors - engagement was much higher than I am used to for an event like this!) We also improved a number of existing articles.
sounds good. Keep up the good work.
I should note that I successfully used Wikipedia as an analogy for open source collaboration and the fact that "in open source/open content/etc., everyone contributes a brick and in exchange everyone gets their own house" at the booth of the Israeli open source community over at the Olamot Science Fiction/Fantasy conference in Tel Aviv, which seemed like a huge success. Here is my report on the event and some photos I took:
* http://hamakor.org.il/pipermail/discussions/2013-March/004518.html
* http://www.flickr.com/photos/shlomif/sets/72157633111982891/
Regards,
Shlomi Fish