Wikimedia-Cascadia August 2016

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CORRECTION FOR WIKICON NA START DATE: Doodle poll for Cascadia Wikimedians meetup in Seattle for September 2016
by Raymond Leonard 08 Sep '16

08 Sep '16

Please participate here: http://doodle.com/poll/n7ntmhx2bb6zwzz8 This meeting will discuss what is going on in Cascadia Wikimedia. In particular WikiConference North America in San Diego, CA, which starts Friday, 10/7. Additional topics for this meeting will likely include continuation of discussion about our aspirations for the rest of 2016 as well as upcoming plans for 2017. As usual, we welcome general updates and discussion about you personal Wikimedia initiatives. Thanks! Yours, Peaceray _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-Cascadia mailing list Wikimedia-Cascadia(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-cascadia

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Doodle poll for Cascadia Wikimedians meetup in Seattle for September 2016
by Raymond Leonard 29 Aug '16

29 Aug '16

Please participate here: http://doodle.com/poll/n7ntmhx2bb6zwzz8 This meeting will discuss what is going on in Cascadia Wikimedia. In particular WikiConference North America in San Diego, CA, which will start the last day of September. Additional topics for this meeting will likely include continuation of discussion about our aspirations for the rest of 2016 as well as upcoming plans for 2017. As usual, we welcome general updates and discussion about you personal Wikimedia initiatives. Thanks! Yours, Peaceray _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-Cascadia mailing list Wikimedia-Cascadia(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-cascadia

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Cascadia Wikimedians activities for the remainder of 2016
by Pine W 19 Aug '16

19 Aug '16

Hi Cascadians, At the meetup this past Wednesday, there was interest in pursuing three activities for the remainder of this year: 1. A WikiExpedition, similar to our expedition to Evans Creek Preserve <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evans_Creek_Preserve>. The destination may be rural or urban, and is yet to be determined. 2. GLAM+STEM outreach, including to outreach to historical societies. Personally I am especially interested in the Tulalip Tribes' Hibulb Cultural Center and Natural History Preserve. This fits with our longstanding interest in Native American languages and cultures. Today I left a voicemail for the Center. 3. Cameras for Commons Photographers <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Cameras_for_Commons_photogra…>. We are receiving a donation of a Canon wide-angle camera lens from Frank Schulenburg. If we can arrange for funding of this project by re-appropriating some funds from other budgets or by requesting a "project grant" from WMF, then we would purchase a camera body and/or camera kit with a standard lens that would accompany this wide-angle lens. The kit would then be given or loaned to a member of the Commons community whose photography would greatly improve with this equipment (in other words, the person currently using a lower-quality camera and/or phone camera), whose photographs are valuable and distinctive for Commons (in other words, not photos of subjects that are already well-photographed, but instead photos of subjects for which Commons has little coverage or only low-quality coverage), and whose record of contributions suggests that the person is likely to use the equipment for its intended purpose. I hope to hear back from the Hibulb Cultural Center in the next week or two. After our 501(c)(3) is finalized, we might re-appropriate any savings from the budgets related to the 501(c)(3) toward the Cameras for Commons Photographers project. This will require approval from our Board and from WMF. Depending on the amount of money available, we may request supplemental funding from a WMF project grant. The WikiExpedition will be organized at a date to be determined. Please respond with any questions or comments. Have a nice weekend, Pine

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WikiConference North America
by Sydney Poore 17 Aug '16

17 Aug '16

WikiConference North America 2016 7-10 October 2016, San Diego, CA, USA WikiConference North America (formerly WikiConference USA) is the third annual conference on the North American continent devoted to Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects. The weekend will feature both academic and casual presentations on Wikimedia-related outreach activities, workshops to improve the skills of grassroots organizers, and discussions on the past, present, and future of the Wikimedia projects. The conference features offerings about community outreach, online activity, partnerships with institutions of knowledge, and technology. Keynote speakers are scheduled to include Katherine Maher, Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation, and Merrilee Proffitt, Senior Program Officer of OCLC Research. The last day of the conference will feature programming coinciding with Indigenous Peoples' Day. Registration for the conference is now open. You can register at https://wikiconference.org. Scholarships partially covering costs of travel and attendance are available for active contributors to Wikimedia projects. Apply by August 23rd for scholarships at https://wikiconference.org/wiki/2016/Scholarships. This is a volunteer run conference and volunteers are needed for any number of tasks. If you are attending, please consider volunteering for at https://wikiconference.org/wiki/Volunteers. We seek presentations addressing topics related to Wikipedia or open access and culture. Presentations may be from any discipline regarding any relevant topic. Please submit a description of your proposed presentation using our online submission process at https://wikiconference.org/ wiki/Submissions. If you are interested in participating in the peer-reviewed academic track, see our call for academic submissions at https://wikiconference.org/wiki/Call_for_Academic_Presentations. - Sydney Poore (User:FloNight) and Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight (User:Rosiestep), conference organizers

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Reminder: Cascadia Wikimedians meeting in Seattle on Wednesday
by Pine W 17 Aug '16

17 Aug '16

Hi Cascadians, We'll meet on August 17th (Wednesday), at 6:30 PM, at Cafe Allegro. Likely agenda items are: 1. reports of our individual activities in the recent past and near future, 2. our collective goals for the rest of this year, and 3. preliminary discussion of goals for 2017. See you there, Pine

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Doodle poll for Cascadia Wikimedians meetup in Seattle for August
by Pine W 05 Aug '16

05 Aug '16

Please participate here: http://doodle.com/poll/54snsm6xungcbf8y Business for this meeting will likely include discussion of our aspirations for the rest of 2016 as well as informal discussions about plans for 2017. As usual, general updates and discussion about personal Wikimedia initiatives are welcome. Thanks! Pine

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Fwd: Conference submissions now open for WikiConference North America
by Pine W 01 Aug '16

01 Aug '16

WikiConference North America will take place October 7 through 10 in San Diego. The session tracks are: 1. Community 2. Advocacy & Outreach 3. Technology & Infrastructure 4. Health care and science 5. GLAM 6. Education and Academic Engagement Please submit proposals here: https://wikiconference.org/wiki/Submissions The submission deadline is August 31st. Pine

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