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Women's History Edit-a-thon @ Harvard, March 29th!
by Maia Weinstock 19 Mar '13

19 Mar '13

Hey everyone, Just announcing another Boston-area edit-a-thon that will be taking place on Friday, March 29th at Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet and Society... As it is Women's History Month, we will be focusing our efforts on editing and adding to articles on notable women. The event is one of a bunch being held around the world in conjunction with WikiWomen's History Month<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiWomen%27s_History_Month>, a project to increase female participation and representation on Wikipedia. As such, we strongly encourage female editors to attend! All experience levels welcome. Full details, including RSVP information, can be found on our event page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Womens_History_Edit-a-thon_-_… cheers, maia weinstock maiaw.com | user:girona7 | @20tauri

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Hackathon/Editathon on April 6th in Boston
by Adam Hyland 19 Mar '13

19 Mar '13

Details here: http://www.meetup.com/wikipedia-5/events/109596252/ Bocoup is hosting a Wikipedia editathon/hackathon from 10AM to 5PM on the 6th of April. On the edit side of things we'd love to focus on improving wikipedia's coverage of open web technologies (notable libraries, languages, design patterns, etc.) but we're happy to have anyone come and contribute on an article they're interested in improving. The hackathon side is completely open. We people to get excited about contributing to Wikimedia projects technically but we're also looking forward to see cool things get done to user scripts/styles, the API and data derived from Wikipedia. I'm going to add a page on Wikipedia proper soon enough. The details there should basically mirror those on Meetup.com. Please email me (or leave a note on my talk page) with any questions. Thanks, -Adam -- Adam Hyland Web: http://shiftcommandawesome.com

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meet in Boston next month?
by Gabriel Fishman 14 Mar '13

14 Mar '13

Hi wikimedians, We've had good turnout at the last few monthly meetups, but we've been missing some of the folks who live on the Boston side of the Charles. We've talked periodically about alternating between Boston and Cambridge. I'd like to propose that we meet in Boston next month. Please chime in and let us know if this would make you more or less likely to come. One possibility is encuentro5, which is right near Park Street Station/Downtown Crossing. However, please let us know if you have an alternative idea. Perhaps someplace close to Northeastern? Best, Gabe

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Boston City Archives
by Participation Support 11 Mar '13

11 Mar '13

Hello, Wikimedians in Boston! This Participation Support request from a User who works with the Boston City Archives is to attend the upcoming Open GLAM Launch in Berkeley: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Participation:BostonCityArchives/US_OpenGLAM… . Before making a decision about whether or not to fund the request, we wanted to gauge the interest of some local Wikimedians in working with the Boston City Archives. Does anyone have experience working with the archives, or is anyone interested in getting involved with their work releasing their digitized images on commons, or does anyone have other information that might be useful to us as we're considering the request? By the way, for those of you who may not have heard much about the Participation Support Program, it is a reimbursement program that funds the travel costs of contributors who are participating in events such as meetings and conferences. It doesn't fund participation in Wikimedia-movement-organized events such as Wikimania or events organized by local chapters - requests for scholarships to attend those events should still go through the event organizers (who are welcome to apply for a grant through the WMF Grants Program: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Index). To learn more about the program and see some examples of successful requests, please visit http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Participation:Supportor write to us at participation(a)wikimedia.org at any time. Thank you, and best regards! Winifred -- Winifred Olliff Grants Administrator Wikimedia Foundation

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Wikipedia intro/edit-a-thon/meetup at HubSpot on March 9
by Pete Forsyth 23 Feb '13

23 Feb '13

Hello Boston folk! HubSpot, a Cambridge based software company, will host a Wikipedia event on Saturday March 9, from 10am-3pm. Including: * Intro session (that's me :) * lunch * open edit-a-thon * meetup Sign up on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Boston/HubSpot Or on meetup.com: http://www.meetup.com/wikipedia-5/events/105910342/ I hope to see you guys there! I emailed about this last month, and hoped to do an "everybody wins" combination event with the monthly meetup. However I see that a few people have signed up for that one on Meetup.com, on Monday, March 11. Hopefully it's not too late to combine forces? Let me know if there's anything I can do to help! -Pete [[User:Peteforsyth]]

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Help guide the license regime for edX
by Samuel Klein 15 Feb '13

15 Feb '13

Dear friends, edX has not yet settled on a licensing standard. Harvard is developing its licensing policy this spring, and looking for community input. They are supporting a weekend-long legal hacking challenge, for creators, educators, developers and lawyers to work through the legal/policy/social challenges implied by such regimes. I highly recommend coming to this challenge; with a suitably free licensing framework, edX could do much more than "provide a new source of massive online courses" and truly revolutionize the sorts of learning materials available to everyone. The cost of participation is $30 (roughly the cost of the meals provided), but fee waivers can be arranged on request. The announcement/invite sent out to legal groups follows. SJ ==== The 2013 Hack IP Challenge will bring together students from across the Boston Area to work on a tough legal/policy challenge over the course of a weekend (February 22-24). The topic: the intellectual property policy for HarvardX, the Harvard division of edX, the online education platform. While HarvardX has already begun offering courses, fundamental policies around what types of intellectual property can be used and assigned, and how third parties can use HarvardX materials remain unanswered. These policies are being developed currently, and the decisions that Harvard makes will impact the future of online education and the entire higher education landscape. Students join teams to produce model policies. They will hear from Professor Larry Lessig on Friday night, work with coaches from around the Boston area and hear from an expert panel on Saturday, and present their results to a panel including Professor Zittrain and Jonathan Hulbert (of the Harvard University Office of General Counsel) on Sunday afternoon. You can learn more and sign up here: http://hackip2013.eventbrite.com. Students can use discount code "ILABHacksIP" (no quotes) for a discount on the weekend (Friday night to Sunday afternoon. All meals are covered in the cost). If cost is an issue, scholarship can be arranged on request.

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Planning for event in March -- question
by Pete Forsyth 17 Jan '13

17 Jan '13

Hi Boston folk, I have a contact in Cambridge that's interested in hosting a meetup in March. I would probably be in town for it (for those that don't know me, I live in SF, but family is in Boston, so I always love an excuse to visit :) This would be similar to the event we did a couple weeks ago at EchoDitto: first an introduction to Wikipedia for newbies, followed by a less formal edit-a-thon, time for meeting/chatting, etc. I see that you have a regular meetup scheduled Monday March 11 at 7pm. Would it make sense to combine these events -- for instance, have the Intro session at 6pm, and then have your regular session start after? Or do you already have a location you want to stick with? I'm happy to steer them either toward having a separate event, or toward hosting you guys, depending what makes sense. One advantage to combining forces: free food :) Feel free to contact me off list about this; it would be nice to get some feedback in the next 24 hours or so. Pete Forsyth [[User:Peteforsyth]]

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Fwd: Re: [FC-discuss] Very Sad News
by Samuel Klein 16 Jan '13

16 Jan '13

As many of you know, Aaron Swartz, a longtime member of our wikipedia group and dear friend, took his life on Friday. Here is a fantastic editorial written by Adi for Yale Daily News and a call for what students can do at their university campuses to honor Aaron's memory. http://yaledailynews.com/blog/2013/01/15/kamdar-acting-for-aaron-and-open-a… > On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 2:49 PM, Boris Mindzak <Boris.Mindzak(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I know these things are pretty useless/pointless but it can't hurt to sign: >> >> https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/remove-united-states-district-att… >> >> R.I.P. Aaron >> >> >> >> On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 4:31 PM, Samuel Klein <meta.sj(a)gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> For now, please use >>> http://rememberaaronsw.tumblr.com/ >>> >>> >>> On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 11:56 AM, Patrick Gibbs <patrick0(a)riseup.net> wrote: >>>> >>>> I wonder if someone / some group could setup an online place to remember >>>> Aaron out loud, as RAN did a few weeks ago when Becky Tarbotton died: >>>> http://ran.org/becky >>>> >>>> On 01/12/2013 02:05 AM, Alex Leavitt wrote: >>>> > http://tech.mit.edu/V132/N61/swartz.html >>>> > >>>> > Sent from phone. - Alex Leavitt >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > _______________________________________________ >>>> > Discuss mailing list >>>> > Discuss(a)freeculture.org >>>> > http://lists.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss >>>> > FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss >>>> > >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Discuss mailing list >>>> Discuss(a)freeculture.org >>>> http://lists.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss >>>> FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Samuel Klein @metasj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266 >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Discuss mailing list >>> Discuss(a)freeculture.org >>> http://lists.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss >>> FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Discuss mailing list >> Discuss(a)freeculture.org >> http://lists.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss >> FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss >> > > > > -- > Jennifer J. Baek > J.D. Candidate 2013, New York Law School > Executive Online Editor, New York Law School Law Review > jennifer.baek(a)law.nyls.edu > (646)756-9783 > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss(a)freeculture.org > http://lists.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss >

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Aaron Swartz Memorial Ice Cream Social Hour - 1/18 (Friday!)
by Molly de Blanc 15 Jan '13

15 Jan '13

Friday, January 18, the Atrium at the MIT Media Lab, 5:30-7. Aaron Swartz was a friend, a Bostonian, and a Mystery Hunter. Codex would like to invite members of the community and participants in the Mystery Hunt (that's you!) to remember our friend, collaborator, and teammate with stories, jokes, discussions, and pictures. He touched many who did not know him personally, and we hope you join us to celebrate his life and mourn his death. Ice cream generously provided with the help of the Free Software Foundation. I know some of you know him from Wikipedia events. I hope to see you! Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/395859300507323/ (This takes place at the same time as the MIT Mystery Hunt. Though it is unaffiliated, it is hosted by Aaron's Mystery Hunt team.) Faithfully yours, Molly

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Wikipedia Day @ NYU Feb 23
by Pharos 09 Jan '13

09 Jan '13

Hi Wiki-Pilgrims, The Wikipedia Day 12th Birthday Bash is a celebration and mini-conference to be held on Saturday February 23, 2013, hosted at ITP at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, and also supported by Wikimedia New York City, Free Culture @ NYU and other Free Culture Alliance NYC partners. The NYC celebration is one of a number of Wikipedia Day being held in the United States and worldwide. You can register for the Wiki-Conference here: http://bit.ly/wikidaynyu See full event details and schedule (and add your own lightning talk!) at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Wikipedia_Day Thanks, Richard (User:Pharos) Wikimedia NYC

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