*'I Love To You': Critical Wikipedia Edit-a-thon *
Valentine's Day, Saturday, Feb. 14, 9:30am - 1:30pm
UW Research Commons <http://commons.lib.washington.edu/>
'I Love To You' will bring dialogues in feminist theory to a hands-on
editing workshop to build community and critically engage with Wikipedia.
Cost: Free! Anyone who wishes to attend this event is welcome. Bring your
own laptops & power cords. (Guest access to UW WiFi will be available.)
Bring your own coffee mugs and water bottles to enjoy delicious
refreshments sustainably.
'I Love To You' would like offer free childcare to participants who RSVP
and indicate their childcare needs by 5pm on Friday, January 23, 2015.
RSVP here
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1GAwZP22RTC0MDMgLtgzcuYeO6QO_t4yQvvcny7wc_0…>
!
https://ilovetoyouedit.wordpress.com/
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/386485468200575
Twitter: #ilovetoyouedit
Affiliated Sponsors: UW Department of Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies;
UW Research Commons; UW Simpson Center for Humanities; Wikimedia Washington
DC; UW iSchool; UW Human Centered Design and Engineering; UW Comparative
History of Ideas; UW Department of Communication; UW Pipeline Project;
Cascadia Wikimedia User Group
Hosted by Monika Sengul-Jones <http://monikasengul.com/> and Amanda Menking
<http://www.amandamenking.com/>.
~~~~~
“I love to you means I maintain a relation of indirection to you. I do not
subjugate you or consume you. I respect you (as irreducible). I hail you:
in you I hail. I praise you: in you I praise. I give you thanks: to you I
give thanks for … I bless you.
[…]
"The 'to' is the guarantor of indirection. The "to" prevents the relation
of transitivity, bereft of the other's irreducibility and potential
reciprocity. The "to" maintains intransitivity between persons, between the
interpersonal question, speech or gift: I speak to you, I ask of you, I
give to you (and not: I give you to another).
The "to" is the sign of non-immediacy, of mediation between us.”
~ Luce Irigaray. *I Love To You: Sketch of a Possible Felicity in History*.
Translated by Alison Martin. Routledge: New York, NY. 1996. pp. 109-110
*Wikipedia Facilitator Training Workshop*
Friday, Feb. 13, 6-8pm
Mary Gates Hall <http://www.css.washington.edu/MGH_Directions>430
Led by James Hare, from Wikimedia DC, this workshop covers best practices
on teaching new Wikipedia editors. In his words: "Knowing these best
practices allows you to translate your expertise in Wikipedia into
something an audience with a modest amount of technical literacy can
understand." This workshop is open to anyone interested in learning how to
host an edit-a-thons or other Wikipedia editing event or activity for
newcomers.
Bring your own laptops & power cords. (Guest access to UW WiFi will be
available.)
Please circulate!
Hi all,
Thanks to everyone who attended Tuesday's meeting, including participants
who were teleconferencing from New York, Portland, and San Francisco. We
had an excellent meeting that moves Cascadia forward, with many people
contributing thoughtful suggestions.
We will need to get to the remaining business from Tuesday's meeting,
including wrapping up the budget, then moving to bylaws, our website, and
the trademark agreement.
I have requested meeting space at the Mercer Island Library on Tuesday,
January 27 from 6pm to 9pm. I tried the Kirkland, Bellevue and Redmond
libraries but they were already booked on that day. I am awaiting
confirmation of our reservation.
Please do read the relevant documents ahead of our meeting so that the
discussion can proceed efficiently.
Thanks! I will follow up when I have confirmation of the reservation.
Pine
Hi,
I heard from someone at TA3M that they would like to have a report of our
December 15 event for inclusion in TA3M's records. I'm including Cascadia,
SURF, and the Wikimedia Foundation on the to and/or bcc lines of this email
as well.
* The signup spreadsheet had 30 unique registrations after removing one
person who backed out and two duplicate entries, and I counted about 30
people present at the event.
* Affiliations noted on the signup spreadsheet include TA3M Seattle,
Cascadia Wikimedians User Group, the University of Washington, Seattle
Privacy Coalition, and SURF Incubator.
* We had six speakers. The presentations were about the following subjects:
1. Overview of Surf Incubator
2. Firmware manifesto to OEMs
3. Privacy and Wikipedia Zero
4. Ricochet instant messaging software
5. Lightning photography with free software
6. Overview of the Seattle Privacy Coalition
* We had a roundtable discussion about editing Wikipedia through Tor and
open proxies.
* We had more pizza than we needed (:
* Anecdotal reports are that the venue was good, the food was good, the
presentations were good, and the networking was good.
* The suggestion has been made that we hold a similar event in December of
next year.
Cheers,
Pine
*This is an Encyclopedia* <https://www.wikipedia.org/>
*One gateway to the wide garden of knowledge, where lies The deep rock of
our past, in which we must delve The well of our future,The clear water we
must leave untainted for those who come after us,The fertile earth, in
which truth may grow in bright places, tended by many hands,And the broad
fall of sunshine, warming our first steps toward knowing how much we do not
know.*
*—Catherine Munro*
Jason,
Does Top Level Design include Google Apps integration with the website
hosting for cascadia.wiki? The host for SeaFOSS does include Google Apps
integration, although this requires paying the separate Google Apps fee.
It would be very convenient to be able to use the Google Apps suite for
CWUG. We could conceivably purchase subscriptions for our users until we
get our 501(c)(3) at which time we would be eligible for Google for
Nonprofits and get the apps for free.
Pine
*This is an Encyclopedia* <https://www.wikipedia.org/>
*One gateway to the wide garden of knowledge, where lies The deep rock of
our past, in which we must delve The well of our future,The clear water we
must leave untainted for those who come after us,The fertile earth, in
which truth may grow in bright places, tended by many hands,And the broad
fall of sunshine, warming our first steps toward knowing how much we do not
know.*
*—Catherine Munro*
Announcing AfroCROWD Intro to Wikimedia and How to Edit Wikipedia
workshops at New York's Brooklyn Public Library. Please
also excuse cross-posting to various lists as we try to network across
the United States.
WHEN:
Saturday, February 7th 12:30 -3PM
Sunday February 8th 1-3:30PM
EVENTBRITE (better reading format):
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/afrocrowd-intro-to-wikimedia-how-to-edit-wikip…
If you plan to view via Livestream from a different city, please let
me know of your interest at alice.backer(a)gmail.com.
BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY ANNOUNCEMENT:
http://bklynlib.org/15tFUphhttp://bklynlib.org/15tGPGd
PROPOSAL:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/AFROcroWd_and_Interglider.ORG/Ou…)
BACKGROUND:
Against the backdrop of Black History Month, the workshops seek to
further the International Decade for People of African Descent’s
development and education goals and Wikimedia’s goal of increasing its
reach. Technology companies Facebook, LinkedIn, Yahoo and Twitter have
recently reported that their workforce is 2% Black, a figure
non-proportionate to the 13% of Blacks living in the United States.
The Black Twitter phenomenon shows that Afrodescendants have
successfully taken to social media as an organizing tool. Exposing
more Afrodescendants to Wikimedia has the potential to take this foray
a step further and transfer skills that might deepen Afrodescendant
exploration of online technology. But beyond it all, editing Wikipedia
alone or as a group is a constructive and rewarding way to spend time
online.
The workshops will be the first in a series of activities by Afro Free
Culture Crowdsourcing Wikimedia (AfroCROWD), a new initiative which
seeks to increase the number of people of African Descent who actively
partake in the Wikimedia and free knowledge, culture and software
movements. The workshops are open to all Afrodescendants including but
not limited to individuals who self-identify as African,
African-American, Afro-Latino, Biracial, Black, Black-American,
Caribbean, Garifuna, Haitian or West Indian.
Although the February workshops will be held in English, they will
take into account that many Afrodescendant groups in the United States
might find that access to Wikipedia’s multilingual crowdsourcing
platform can help them transfer free knowledge to populations of
African descent outside of the United States that they are connected
to through origin or direct familial bonds. Multilingual
Afrodescendants may also want to use such platforms to develop and
maintain online bodies of relevant knowledge in native languages such
as Garifuna, Haitian Kreyòl, Igbo, Spanish, Twi or Yoruba, thereby
contributing to the survival of and increasing their proficiency in
those languages while also feeling more culturally grounded.
WHERE:
Brooklyn Public Library
Main Branch
10 Grand Army Plaza
Brooklyn. NY
http://www.bklynlibrary.org/
(Subway: 2,3, 4 to Grand Army Plaza)
FOUNDERS
AfroCROWD founders are Alice Backer, founder of www.kiskeacity.com,
www.haitianbloggers.com, and Global Voices Lingua, a Brooklyn-based
lawyer, blogger and free knowledge and culture enthusiast who has been
aggregating and disseminating Haitian online expression since 2005 and
has launched citizen media campaigns in Haiti, the Caribbean, Africa
and the United States and Milos Rancic, founder of Anarchopedia,
veteran Wikimedian with over 10 years in the movement, Wikimedia
Language Committee member and chair of Interglider.ORG. Milica
Gudovic, Interglider.ORG's CEO, participant to the process of
localization of Creative Commons Licenses for Serbia and experienced
feminist activist of 20 years, has lended considerable time and
expertise to our grant proposal and will help us with training in the
coming months.
STAY UPDATED VIA FACEBOOK:
https://www.facebook.com/afroCROWD
A L I C E B A C K E R
Haitian Blog Aggregator: http://haitianbloggers.com
LOF1804 Podcast: http://www.kiskeacity.com
Blog: http://www.kiskeacity.com
Twitter: http://twitter.com/kiskeacity
Newsletter: Kiskeácity Daily
skype: alicebacker
Hi all,
FYI, Alex told me that since we are planning activities that are time
sensitive on our calendar, GAC would still consider our request if it came
in February, although it would be ideal to have our request by the end of
January. Since we're already close to finishing out our budget, I'm hoping
that we can submit the grant request shortly after next week's board
meeting, and hopefully get the funding a few weeks after that.
Pine
*This is an Encyclopedia* <https://www.wikipedia.org/>
*One gateway to the wide garden of knowledge, where lies The deep rock of
our past, in which we must delve The well of our future,The clear water we
must leave untainted for those who come after us,The fertile earth, in
which truth may grow in bright places, tended by many hands,And the broad
fall of sunshine, warming our first steps toward knowing how much we do not
know.*
*—Catherine Munro*
I've had a couple of people mention GnuCash, so I'll document here a few
reasons that I don't recommend it for our group:
* It wasn't on any of the lists of "best accounting software" reviews that
I checked.
* It appears to lack online banking and payroll integration.
* It appears not to be designed with multi-user online access in mind.
GnuCash might be a suitable alternative in a single user environment, but
in our multi-user environment I think Xero is a better alternative.
Pine
*This is an Encyclopedia* <https://www.wikipedia.org/>
*One gateway to the wide garden of knowledge, where lies The deep rock of
our past, in which we must delve The well of our future,The clear water we
must leave untainted for those who come after us,The fertile earth, in
which truth may grow in bright places, tended by many hands,And the broad
fall of sunshine, warming our first steps toward knowing how much we do not
know.*
*—Catherine Munro*
On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 11:19 AM, Blibbet <blibbet(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Did you consider GNUcash?
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_accounting_software
>
> I'm not sure how you see a corp-controlled cloud-based product/service
> would be good for privacy.
>
> Use of commercial software seems rather out-of-place, but perhaps I just
> hang out more with open source people. It may be different with open
> data people, I guess.
>
> On 01/16/2015 10:10 AM, Ann Summy wrote:
> > Thanks Lane! --Ann
> >
> > On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 4:51 AM, Lane Rasberry <lane(a)bluerasberry.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Ann,
> >>
> >> The beginning of it was hearing repeatedly for years that practically
> >> every Wikimedia community group has trouble reporting their finances
> back
> >> to the Wikimedia Foundation, and that arguments over who is responsible
> for
> >> reporting finances do a lot to cause arguments in community groups which
> >> receive grants.
> >>
> >> After first evaluating the need to try something different to prevent
> >> problems in the future and deciding that paying for software was a good
> >> idea, Pine did research then presented it back to the rest of the group
> and
> >> we all discussed the options. That is not a full answer to your
> question,
> >> but in Wikimedia community groups, the bigger question often is "Why
> should
> >> anyone pay for any software?" and coming to terms with our own need was
> the
> >> bigger hurdle here.
> >>
> >> From the budget, Pine noted -
> >>
> >> --------------
> >> Note: I researched other options including Wave, Quickbooks Online
> >> Sage One, and Freshbooks. It appears to me that Xero is the best choice
> >> for us based on the following considerations: usability, privacy,
> >> multi-user capabilities and access controls, scalable payroll,
> >> 3rd-party tool availability, online banking integration, tax reporting,
> >> and cost
> >>
> >> --------------
> >>
> >> The other option considered was Google Spreadsheets, but plain
> >> spreadsheets have a history of being insufficient in other community
> groups.
> >>
> >> yours,
> >>
> >> On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 10:52 PM, Ann Summy <ann.summy(a)gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >>> How/why did you all decide on this accounting software? I have to
> start
> >>> looking into these as well.
> >>>
> >>> On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 1:32 PM, Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Alex and James,
> >>>>
> >>>> Xero, the accounting software that we plan to use, is running a sale
> of
> >>>> 50 percent off for 6 months if we subscribe by January 31. This would
> save
> >>>> about $90. But our PEG funding is most likely to come in February. Is
> there
> >>>> a way that we can *quickly* get funding early from WMF or WMDC for
> just the
> >>>> first month of service, which I believe will be $15 plus tax? I think
> this
> >>>> will be sufficient to lock in the discount for 6 months. I am trying
> to
> >>>> avoid loaning my personal funds to keep everything as clean as
> possible
> >>>> from accounting and legal standpoints.
> >>>>
> >>>> Thanks,
> >>>> Pine
> >>>>
> >>>> _______________________________________________
> >>>> Wikimedia-Cascadia mailing list
> >>>> Wikimedia-Cascadia(a)lists.wikimedia.org
> >>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-cascadia
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>> _______________________________________________
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> >>> Wikimedia-Cascadia(a)lists.wikimedia.org
> >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-cascadia
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Lane Rasberry
> >> user:bluerasberry on Wikipedia
> >> 206.801.0814
> >> lane(a)bluerasberry.com
> >>
> >> _______________________________________________
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> >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-cascadia
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
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>
>
Hi all,
I have been asked more than once for contact information in association
with our user group, so I have gone ahead with creating a Google Voice
account for us: (206) 659-7420. Please feel free to distribute the number
if someone asks for contact info for the user group. It currently goes to
voicemail. In the unlikely event that we get phone calls through this
number on a frequent basis, then we can explore getting a different phone
number or answering service to take these calls.
When we get around to assigning officer positions at our next board
meeting, I will be happy to distribute the PIN number for the voicemail to
our new board chair, president, secretary, and treasurer.
Stephen, please add this number to the contact info that WMF keeps on file
for us.
Thanks!
Pine
*This is an Encyclopedia* <https://www.wikipedia.org/>
*One gateway to the wide garden of knowledge, where lies The deep rock of
our past, in which we must delve The well of our future,The clear water we
must leave untainted for those who come after us,The fertile earth, in
which truth may grow in bright places, tended by many hands,And the broad
fall of sunshine, warming our first steps toward knowing how much we do not
know.*
*—Catherine Munro*