I'll be at "State of the Map US", an OpenStreetMap event:
http://stateofthemap.us/
in New York city on 6/7 June, arriving on the afternoon of the 5th and
leaving late afternoon on the 8th.
Are any of you going; or likely to be around for a coffee in my free time?
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Date: Sat, May 2, 2015 at 6:48 AM
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Andy's article on the Tree of 40 Fruits is exceptionally interesting.
I'll especially commend him on his beautiful use of the external video
template.
The request for photos of one of the 16 trees has a couple of
difficulties though. 1st we've only got about a month to get the photo
while the trees are in bloom. Also the map provided by van Aker is
very vague. I'd guess one tree is somewhere north of Philadelphia,
but I'd certainly need a better map to find it. One tree I could
track down is on the Syracuse University campus quad, which is briefly
visible in the CBS video at
http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2014/08/trees_40_fruits_sam_van_aken…
There's others "in Santa Fe, New Mexico; Short Hills, New Jersey;
Louisville, Kentucky; Pound Ridge, New York" but we'd need to know
where exactly.
Is anybody close to the Syracuse campus?
Smallbones
> Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2015 18:25:13 +0100
> From: Andy Mabbett <andy(a)pigsonthewing.org.uk>
> To: North American Cultural Partnerships <glam-us(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
> Subject: [GLAM-US] Tree of 40 Fruit
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> Wikipedia needs an open licensed picture of one of the "Trees of 40 Fruit":
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_of_40_Fruit
>
> in blossom.
>
> Most are in the United States. There's a map of their locations at:
>
> http://www.treeof40fruit.com/works/map/
>
> Can anyone oblige, please?
>
> --
> Andy Mabbett
> @pigsonthewing
> http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
>
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Good afternoon,
Criss Library at the University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO) is organizing an edit-a-thon on March 31, 2015. To coincide with Women's History Month our theme is women's history at UNO, which we may broadly define to include Omaha.
We are hoping to find someone who can help out now (online) answering questions and sharing experience that could be useful to our planning. It would naturally please us to have experienced Wikipedians able to help out onsite on the 31st as well.
Best,
Amy Schindler
Amy C. Schindler
Director, Archives & Special Collections<http://libguides.unomaha.edu/ArchivesSpecialCollections>
Dr. C.C. and Mabel L. Criss Library<http://library.unomaha.edu/>
University of Nebraska at Omaha
402-554-6046
acschindler(a)unomaha.edu<mailto:acschindler@unomaha.edu>
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Hi all,
I'm working with a librarian (cc'd) at Virginia Commonwealth
University, which is in Richmond, on an editathon that is planned for
March 24, 2015; they are looking for Wikipedians who can help out
online or in-person.
The theme is going to be focused on Virginia history and VCU special
collections, e.g. Richmond, VA history, VCU history, the integration
of public schools, and women's suffrage in Virginia. They're
recruiting new editors, and would like to add links and info, and
hopefully upload photos to commons too.
Someone who is willing to help answering questions now and share some
of our editathon ideas/best practices and can be online during the
event would be ideal. I can probably do it, but may have a conflict,
so would like to recruit additional folks to help out.
Thanks!
Phoebe
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