Wikimedia-Cascadia February 2015

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Link to Kendra Hanna's Daily W article about “I Love to You” edit-a-thon
by Raymond Leonard 18 Feb '15

18 Feb '15

Here's the link to Kendra Hanna's The Daily W article about Saturday's “I Love to You” Wikipedia edit-a-thon. Feminists aim to fix the Wikipedia gender gap http://dailyuw.com/archive/2015/02/16/news/feminists-aim-fix-wikipedia-gend… Yours, Peaceray

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Re: [Wikimedia Cascadia] What to do with WMDC grant budget savings
by Brian Henry 16 Feb '15

16 Feb '15

Sounds reasonable to me, too. Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2015 20:24:21 -0800 > From: Jason Moore <anotherbelieverwp(a)gmail.com> > To: Wikimedia Cascadia group mailing list > <wikimedia-cascadia(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Cascadia] What to do with WMDC grant budget > savings > Message-ID: > <CACd+sdjiSut-taGM2CCv1GJYOG= > K2GqcQ4GxUyH9VWgbxwnbZw(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Sounds fine. > Jason > > On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 8:42 PM, Raymond Leonard < > raymond.f.leonard.jr(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > That was an individual yes! > > > > On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 8:41 PM, Raymond Leonard < > > raymond.f.leonard.jr(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> Yes. > >> > >> Yours, > >> Peaceray > >> > >> On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 8:17 PM, Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >>> Thanks to the 40 percent temporary discount that we are receiving from > >>> Impact HUB due to their renovation work, we are on track to have about > $48 > >>> in savings from our originally projected WMDC grant plan. Would the > Board > >>> be ok with me asking WMDC to authorize redirecting the savings to the > >>> production and shipping of CWUG business cards that we can distribute > to > >>> potential members, volunteers and institutional partners? > >>> > >>> Pine > >>> >

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What to do with WMDC grant budget savings
by Pine W 15 Feb '15

15 Feb '15

Thanks to the 40 percent temporary discount that we are receiving from Impact HUB due to their renovation work, we are on track to have about $48 in savings from our originally projected WMDC grant plan. Would the Board be ok with me asking WMDC to authorize redirecting the savings to the production and shipping of CWUG business cards that we can distribute to potential members, volunteers and institutional partners? Pine

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2015 midpoint review for CWUG
by Pine W 14 Feb '15

14 Feb '15

Hi all, It sounds like there is agreement among a few people that it would be good to have a holistic midpoint review of how 2015 is going for CWUG, so if there are no objections I will add this to our calendar for July or August. Thanks! Pine

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Logo for Cascadia Wikimedians User Group
by Pine W 13 Feb '15

13 Feb '15

Hi all, Cascadia Wikimedians User Group now has a logo! We've had intensive discussions about this logo over the past few days. Included in the discussions have been our board members, members of other US thematic organizations, a volunteer designer, and WMF Legal. Please check out the new logo if you're interested (: http://cascadia.wiki/File:Cascadiawikimedians_transparent.png 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*

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Meeting with Alex Wang
by Pine W 12 Feb '15

12 Feb '15

FYI, I'm meeting with Alex on Thursday regarding our annual plan proposal. Pine

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TODAY: Logo final voting for Cascadia Wikimedians User Group
by Pine W 12 Feb '15

12 Feb '15

Hi Cascadians, I need to have the logo decision be final sometime today so that I can print business cards. Please vote among the final three options at the bottom of http://cascadia.wiki/Logo. Based on my reading of the discussion above, I think at least one of those three is likely to get a consensus of support. Thanks very much to our designer for their work, especially the new tree (: We can change the logo in the future if we want to do so. 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*

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professor in Spokane seeking support for Latin class...
by Lane Rasberry 11 Feb '15

11 Feb '15

Hello, I watch the education noticeboard and am a fan of school outreach. I am going to share a contact seeking support through the education program and will try to keep doing this when I see professors in the region. I am not expecting anyone to respond to this but wanted to share that the demand exists. I know that this Cascadia community hardly has capacity now to manage an odd flow of incoming projects, but I wanted to express that odd projects continually come in through various channels. One of those channels is the education board. See here for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Education_noticeboard&… A professor teaching advanced Latin has a class of 5 students and they plan to edit Wikipedia, both in English and in Latin. The professor knows little about Wikipedia and the students probably also have not edited. They are requesting some support. Obviously they will have a hard time and limited response on Latin Wikipedia and probably so in editing Latin articles here. There is an organization called the Wikipedia Education Foundation which will provide some support to this professor, including directions to online training and 1-2 phone calls. This is definitely better than nothing, and in my opinion is enough to allow the class to at least give minimally useful contributions, but there is little chance of engagement after the class using this process. In my opinion, the next step in engagement is having some Wikipedian try to work with the professor to encourage them to come back next year with more students. Recruiting students to stay is very difficult. Still, this opportunity exists, it is easier to recruit people who come to us than to go out in the world and pitch people cold, and professors and classes really do mean well and will contribute a lot of time and good information. I think that if Cascadia is funded, then having one of the paid positions on point to greet and be a point of contact for professors should be an outreach strategy which is considered. yours, -- Lane Rasberry user:bluerasberry on Wikipedia 206.801.0814 lane(a)bluerasberry.com

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Re: [Wikimedia Cascadia] Draft logos for Cascadia Wikimedians User Group
by Brian Henry 11 Feb '15

11 Feb '15

I've started a page on our wiki to try out logos and discuss: http://cascadia.wiki/User:Brianhe/graphics Jason has already posted a suggested changed version of the logo. Everybody should have a look.

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Re: [Wikimedia Cascadia] Draft logos for Cascadia Wikimedians User Group
by Brian Henry 11 Feb '15

11 Feb '15

I also like the logo in the upper right. The designer should refine this and tell us if it will work to try to refine the tree shape. We need to be OK with a blocky logo design if it is to be used at many different scales.

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