Please link me to the Wikipedia page for the event so that I can participate remotely. I am 2 for 2 on producing GA class articles from Ada Lovelace Day editathons, and do not intend on letting a little thing like the full length of the eastern seaboard break my streak. -Sven On Oct 10, 2013 10:28 PM, "Maia Weinstock" &lt;maiapw(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: > Hey everyone, > > Great to see those of you at the New England Wikimedians meeting on > Saturday; I plan on following up soon with some of the ideas we tossed > around. > > In the meantime, the Ada Lovelace Day edit-a-thon that I've been > organizing with my friend, biology professor Anne Fausto-Sterling, is set > to take place on the Brown University campus in Providence, RI this > Tuesday, Oct 15, from 3-8:30pm: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Ada_Lovelace_Edit-a-thon_201… > > In case you missed some of the press we've drummed up, check it out! > > From Brown <https://news.brown.edu/pressreleases/2013/10/lovelace>; from The > Chronicle of Higher Ed<http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/wiki-edit-a-thon-at-brown-u-wi…35>; > from The Atlantic<http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/10/to-fix-wi…0/>; > from The Mary Sue <http://www.themarysue.com/ada-lovelace-wikipedia/> > > I'm very pleased to have connected this week with Wikimedian Michael > Umbricht, who is the curator at Brown's historic Ladd Observatory. Mike > will be speaking at the edit-a-thon about the Ladd's recent GLAM project, > plus some women-in-astronomy trivia. Later in the evening, Anne will > discuss the continuing gender imbalance in the STEM fields as well as her > take on "storming" Wikipedia as a way to improve representation of women in > the annals of science history. > > I know it's a bit of a trek for those in the Boston area, but if any of > you are interested, we'd love to have you join us, even for a short while. > Of course, remote contributions are also very much welcome if you can't > make it to Providence on Tuesday. For anyone I don't see in person, I hope > to catch up with you at the Mass. History Wiki edit-a-thon at the > Schlesinger Library at Radcliffe on the 23rd! > > best, > maia > > > maiaw.com | 917-553-6158 | @20tauri | user:Girona7 > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-boston mailing list > Wikimedia-boston(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-boston > >