Cross-posting.
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From: Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com>
Date: Sat, Apr 16, 2016 at 4:45 PM
Subject: Wikimedia US public calendar
To: "Wikimedians Active in Local Regions of the United States (WALRUS)" <
wikimediaus-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Cc: Kacie Harold <kharold(a)wikimedia.org>, Winifred Olliff <
wolliff(a)wikimedia.org>
Hi folks,
In an effort to make scheduling easier for everyone, I set up an unofficial
public calendar for US Wikimedia events:
http://localendar.com/public/Wikimedia_US
Nice features:
* You can add events as you wish, which will appear on the public calendar
once an admin approves the posts. Feel free to add events from local
affiliates. Please note the location of each event *in the name of the
event*. If an event is online/virtual, you can say "online".
* You can click on an event, which will create a popup that will let you
export the event to your choice of calendar formats.
There's no obligation to post events here, but I hope that this tool will
be convenient for everyone. This is an experiment and comments are welcome.
Pine
Hi US Wikimedians,
If you're interested in joining the April 2016 meeting of the US Wikimedia
Consortium, please go here to indicate your scheduling availability:
http://doodle.com/poll/eawc29nn2cfy6age
The meeting will likely be between 30 and 60 minutes long.
We meet via Google Hangouts video. Please note that Google will
automatically limit attendance to the first 10 people to join the meeting.
If this becomes a problem then we can talk with WMF about alternate
solutions for video meetings.
Notes from the meeting will be published for everyone to view afterwards.
Notes from our previous meeting are at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WALRUS/March_2016 and
https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/walrus
Feel free to forward this email to anyone who might want to attend!
Pine
FYI.
JM
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Greetings!
User:Jtmorgan and I are organizing another set of data science
workshops. As in previous years, we'll be using the Wikipedia API as
one of our main examples. If you've been interested in learning
programming and the Wikipedia API, this might be a great opportunity!
If you register, mention that you're a Wikipedian and on the list and
we'll try to make space for you.
Details are below.
Regards,
Mako
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Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2016 20:05:33 -0700
From: "Benj. Mako Hill" <makohill(a)uw.edu>
To: cdsw-announce(a)uw.edu
Subject: [cdsw-announce] Community Data Science Workshops
Message-ID: <20160326030533.GT8536(a)yukidoke.org>
Greetings!
[ Please feel free to forward this on to any other people or lists you
think might be interested! ]
By popular demand, I am helping organize another round of the
Community Data Science Workshops. The workshop series consists of one
Friday evening and three Saturday sessions in April and May. These
workshops are for anyone interested in learning how to use programming
and data science tools to ask and answer questions about online
communities like Wikipedia, free and open source software, Twitter,
civic media, etc. The Spring 2016 series will be an updated version of
workshops we ran four times in 2014 and 2015.
The workshops are for people with no previous programming experience
and, thanks to sponsorship from eScience and the Department of
Communication, are free of charge and open to anyone.
Our goal is that, after the three workshops, participants will be able
to use data to produce numbers, hypothesis tests, tables, and
graphical visualizations to answer questions like:
- Are new contributors to an article in Wikipedia sticking around
longer or contributing more than people who joined last year?
- Who are the most active or influential users of a particular Twitter
hashtag?
- Are people who participated in a Wikipedia outreach event staying
involved? How do they compare to people that joined the project
outside of the event?
Details and dates are online here:
http://wiki.communitydata.cc/CDSW_Spring_2016
If you are interested in participating, please fill out our
registration at the link above before Saturday April 2. Register soon
because we tend to be oversubscribed.
If you already know how to program in Python, it would be really
awesome if you would volunteer as a mentor! Being a mentor
involves working with participants and talking them through the
challenges they encounter in programming. No special preparation is
required. If you’re interested, there’s a link on the page above, or
you can send me an email. If you mentored before, it’s still easier if
you fill our form again. Thanks!
Regards,
Mako (On behalf of Jonathan, Tommy, Dharma, Ben, Mika, and all the CDSW
mentors.)
--
Benjamin Mako Hill
http://mako.cc/academic/
Creativity can be a social contribution, but only in so far
as society is free to use the results. --GNU Manifesto
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TA3M is tonight!
Pine
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From: "Ann Summy" <ann.summy(a)gmail.com>
Date: Mar 21, 2016 10:30
Subject: [Ta3m-Seattle] TA3M March meeting tonight
To: <ta3m-seattle(a)ta3m.org>
Cc:
Greetings! A friendly reminder that the TA3M Seattle March meeting is
tonight.
When: March 21, 2016, 6:30-9:00pm
Where: Seattle University School of Law
Sullivan Hall Room 309
Sullivan Hall is located at the intersection of 12th Ave and E Columbia St
and is the main law school building.
<http://www.law.seattleu.edu/about-us/directions>
Presentations:
1. “Cyber Citizenship Through the Lenses of Access to Justice & the ADA”
by Brian Rowe
Abstract:
The line between human and machine is becoming more blurred each day.
For many of us our technology defines who we are and how we interact with
the world, unplugging is no longer an option when our hearts and minds are
part of the technology that provides lifesaving functions, reasonable
accommodations, and access to justice. The synergy that comes from humans
and machines melding together gives us new opportunities for enabling
previously disenfranchised populations or creating new walled gardens.
Which future will we enable with our technology polices and best practices?
Bio:
Brian Rowe is a professor and techie working at Northwest Justice
Project, managing the National Technology Assistance Project and teaching
at the University of Washington and Seattle University. He is also a former
Chairman of the Board for Washington Lawyers for the Arts and the
Washington State Access to Justice Boards Technology Committee. Brian
teaches in the areas of Privacy law, Ethics, Copyright and Information
Policy.
Brian has worked for Creative Commons, Public Knowledge, the Washington
State Access to Justice Board, Microsoft, Wizards of the Coast, and
Disability Rights Washington. He is also a social media expert with a
modest YouTube following. Brian was the winner of the 2009 WSBA IP Section
Scholarship Award and a Google Public Policy Fellowship.
2. “An Introduction to the Distributed Web on IPFS” by Jeromy Johnson
Bio:
Jeromy is a distributed systems programmer working for Protocols Labs
working on the next iteration of internet technologies. He also happens to
like Go, coffee and rainy weather.
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Hi all,
Notes from our most recent meeting are below.
** WikiConference USA 2016 + WikiProject Medicine Conference 2016:*
Peaceray is our point person on this. He will be in contact with
Bluerasberry. Nothing notable to report yet.
** Museum collaborations with Wing Luke, Burke and/or MOHAI.*
We need an outreach coordinator because all of the Cascadia regulars are
too busy to volunteer for this role. There are lots of opportunities for
GLAM activities and increasing our number of participants in the Seattle.
In Portland, Art+Feminism events have been well attended but there is
little continuity in the participants from one event to the next. Again,
having an outreach coordinator would help.
We have made multiple requests for funding for a part-time outreach
coordinator that WMF has consistently denied. Peaceray will discuss this
issue at the Wikimedia Conference in Berlin.
Joe mentioned the upcoming Pop Conference at EMP which will happen April
14th-17th. See
http://www.empmuseum.org/programs-plus-education/programs/pop-conference.as…
** Alaska Native Elder stories and Wikisource (see email from Feb 17)*
Pending follow-up from our contact in Alaska. This would fit in with the
interests of Pine, Brian and others in outreach to Native American tribes,
and is aligned with outreach regarding language preservation via Wiktionary.
** Art+Feminism*
We had a contact in Tacoma that was interested but then stopped responding.
Art+Feminism is popular in Portland. Again, having an outreach coordinator
would help.
Joe suggested that we contact Kelly Lyles.
** Intellectual Ventures (see email from Feb 24)*
We hoped that someone from Intellectual Ventures would attend our meetup
but they didn't.
** Instructional video series*
Slow progress while Pine is busy with other activities. Plans for catch-up
in the next few weeks.
** OpenStreetMap 2016 State of the Map US Conference*
Peaceray will be in touch with Clifford.
** Scheduling our April meeting*
April meeting scheduled for the 4th Monday, April 25th.
** Other notes*
Peaceray will soon depart for the Wikimedia Conference in Berlin.
Bruce and Pine are interested in photographing the opening of the light
rail station at UW and the opening of the new Lake Washington floating
bridge. See http://www.ulink2016.org/launch-day and http://520golong.com/
Our grant midterm report is due soon. We are moving at a slower pace than
we would like because of our shortage of human resources capacity.
Financially we are ok.
Cheers,
Pine
Hi all,
Per discussion last month, for March we are meeting on the *third* Tuesday.
We will be at Cafe Allegro on March 15 at 6 PM.
Possible topics of interest:
* WikiConference USA 2016 + WikiProject Medicine Conference 2016
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/Cascadia_Wikimedians/WikiConfere…>
* Museum collaborations with Wing Luke, Burke and/or MOHAI
* Alaska Native Elder stories and Wikisource (see email from Feb 17)
* Art+Feminism
* Intellectual Ventures (see email from Feb 24)
* Instructional video series
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Motivational_and_educational_vid…>
Feel free to add items to the agenda.
Hope to see you there!
Pine
For the Cascadians who are interested in such things in the Pacific
Northwest:
"A new data center in South Hill is providing industrial-sized
communications between Asia and the Pacific Northwest.
"The partnership between Wave, a broadband services company, and Centeris,
an IT infrastructure provider, represents the first transpacific broadband
data and fiber hub in the U.S.
"The facility’s clients are being kept confidential but initial customers
include gaming, content, technology, logistics, e-commerce, and financial
service companies."
http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/business/article65382812.html
Pine