Dear Bostonians,
Would people be interested in hanging out on Sunday? Phoebe Ayers is
visiting town for a few days, and we're planning to have a small
meetup this Sunday at the Friendly Toast.[1] (btw - we talked about
meeting near BU next month - suggestions for a location are welcome!)
Cheers,
SJ
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Boston#Upcoming
Hi Boston-area Wikimedians!
Sorry for the short notice, but I will be visiting your fair city this long
weekend, and if anyone wanted to have an impromptu informal wiki meetup on
Sunday evening, I'd love to see you all. If there's interest, please suggest
good places to meet up.
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We will have a Boston contingent. It would be good lay plans and
coordinate travel and, if appropriate, posters.
There's talk of a Wiki Train -- reserving a whole Acela car for us and
the NYC contingent, which the Wikimania organizers would partly
subsidize.
So, roll call: are you planning on attending? Would you be interested
in taking the train?
(yes and YES!) -SJ.
[0] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2012/Bids/Washington,_D.C.
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Samuel Klein identi.ca:sj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266
The meetup.com page says May 9, but I think we'd settled on Sunday
rather than Monday. It's a bit late, but I have updated the page on-wiki
with May 8 instead. In the future I think it would be a good idea to try
to find somewhere closer to central Boston, but we're probably stuck
with the same venue for this upcoming meeting. This meetup would
probably be a good time to make plans for
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wiknic>, too.
Dominic
Hi all,
Current forecasts predict a 70-80% chance of rain on Sunday in Boston. If
the chance of rain is still above 50% as of Friday morning, let's move the
date of Wikipedia Takes Boston to next Saturday, 4/23. If folks could send
a quick note on their interest/available for next Saturday, that would be
great. Suggestions for other possible rain dates are welcome.
In other news, we're still looking for a venue for the uploading party.
Attempts to get space at MIT and BU haven't worked out thus far, and Boston
Public Library is closed on Sunday per holiday observance. Being able to
get space at a university seems a bit unlikely for this Sunday. But if
anyone has connections to local universities and would be willing to look
into reserving space for next Saturday, please let me know.
If we don't end up getting a meeting room somewhere, then maybe we can head
to a local restaurant that has free WiFi? Wikipedia Takes Over Boston WiFi
Hotspots?
I'm also going to look into reserving space at BPL for next Saturday. BPL
closes at 5:00 PM on Saturdays. So if we can space there and the rain date
kicks in, then we'll probably need to begin the uploading party at 4ish. In
this case we would probably shift the start time to 11:30 AM instead of
12:30 PM.
Best,
Eric
User:Emw
If you have some great images, vids, animations or sound files you've
been meaning to upload, do it in the next hour for a chance to be the
10 millionth file!
SJ
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Samuel Klein identi.ca:sj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266
Hi all,
A photo scavenger hunt in Boston, named *Wikipedia Takes Boston*, is in the
works. The event would entail taking pictures of sights in Boston, ideally
those for which photographs don't yet exist on Wikipedia or Wikimedia
Commons.
For those interested: what dates would work?
The April meetup sounds like it may be moved to Sunday, 4/10. That leaves
weekend days of 4/9, 4/16-17 and 4/23-24 available for April. Easter is
Sunday, 4/24. Given that, I'm inclined to go with Saturday 4/16 and leave
the option of Sunday open in case Saturday is rainy or especially overcast.
Best,
Eric
I volunteered at the Boston Book Festival last year -- it's a sweet event,
reminding me of literary festivals in Buenos Aires. If you haven't been
before, consider going - this year it will be on Saturday, Oct 15. Last
year we didn't plan any sort of Wikipedian gathering around the festival,
but it would have been a fine opportunity.
The crowd is an interesting mix of authors, publishers, and educators.
Groups like OLPC and 826 Valencia tend to get tents on the plaza for the
event, and many local authors are looking into new publishing models and
other ways to share stories and knowledge. As we get better at outreach,
this might be a good place to attract that crowd to work through & with
Wikipedia and sister projects.
The festival is supported and run by the local community -- they recruit
volunteers every summer, and this month the Media Lab is sponsoring a
fundraising dinner for them. Volunteering is a great way to meet the
presenters; and the dinner looks pricey but fabulous. Check it out if you
are interested:
http://www.bostonbookfest.org/get_involved/#volunteerhttp://www.bostonbookfest.org/bookfest/schedule_detail/schedule_science_non…
SJ