Cascadia Wikimedians,
FYI
Peaceray
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From: *Clifford Snow* <clifford(a)snowandsnow.us>
Date: Tuesday, March 1, 2016
Subject: [opensource-107] Seattle to host the 2016 OpenStreetMap State of
the Map US Conference
To: opensource-107-announce(a)meetup.com
I am excited to announce that Seattle was chosen to host the OpenStreetMap
2016 State of the Map US Conference. The conference will take place July
23-25 on SeattleU's campus. We chose SeattleU for their low cost, proximity
to Seattle and access to public transit. The food trucks near by didn't
hurt either.
We are looking for help! Let us know if you want to help. Request for
presentation proposals should be coming fairly soon. Start thinking about
what you want to present or teach.
The formal announcement can be found at:
https://openstreetmap.us/2016/02/sotmus-2016/
Clifford
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For Wikimedia folks who are interested in possible collaborations with OSM,
now seems like a good time to start thinking about possible presentations.
Staff from the Wikimedia Foundation, and/or Wikimedia volunteers from
around the US outside of the Seattle area, may want to start thinking about
travel plans.
For Wikimedia volunteers outside of Cascadia Wikimedians territory, you
might consider applying for WMF Travel and Participation Support grants [1].
If you're inside of Cascadia Wikimedians territory and would like to attend
the conference, we may have funds in our budget that can support your
attendance. Contact me off-list for details.
Regards,
Pine
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:TPS
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From: Clifford Snow <clifford(a)snowandsnow.us>
Date: Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 5:18 PM
Subject: [opensource-107] Seattle to host the 2016 OpenStreetMap State of
the Map US Conference
To: opensource-107-announce(a)meetup.com
I am excited to announce that Seattle was chosen to host the OpenStreetMap
2016 State of the Map US Conference. The conference will take place July
23-25 on SeattleU's campus. We chose SeattleU for their low cost, proximity
to Seattle and access to public transit. The food trucks near by didn't
hurt either.
We are looking for help! Let us know if you want to help. Request for
presentation proposals should be coming fairly soon. Start thinking about
what you want to present or teach.
The formal announcement can be found at:
https://openstreetmap.us/2016/02/sotmus-2016/
Clifford
Hi All,
Today I had a blast photographing the Babbage Difference Engine
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Difference_engine> at Intellectual Ventures
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_Ventures> in Bellevue today.
I'll have the photos uploaded to Commons shortly.
I spoke with Paul C. Cabellon, who does public relations at Intellectual
Ventures about updating articles related to their research, and
contributing content, with consideration for COI issues. Paul wants to add
updated photos about the Mosquito laser
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosquito_laser> to Commons, and have others
like me visit to photograph that project, and others. The company is
working to be as open as possible with their lab research and would like to
work with the Cascadia editors to improve coverage on these topics. There's
a rocket engine there next to the Difference Engine, and they have an
enormous Tesla coil set up. Lowell Wood
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lowell_Wood> was wandering around while I
was there.
I suggested that Mako might want to involve some of his students in trips
to the lab to gather information about these projects like the mosquito
laser and others (vaccine storage, nuclear power etc).
So the issue is working out how to take advantage of this opportunity to
photograph the equipment and exhibits there, and update the related
articles with more recent published information, without promoting
Intellectual Ventures or creating other neutrality problems. I suggested
that Paul Cabellon join Wikimedia Cascadia and subscribe to this list to
discuss further with us both sending editors there, and attending editor
recruiting and training events.
Dennis Bratland
Hi Mark!
Good to meet you at our grantwriting class. As discussed, I am CC'ing
the Wikimedia Cascadia email list presuming someone there has some time
to to assist you with your current and maybe future projects. I think
it's very important that organizations like yours is able to learn how
to use Wikipedia for public, long-term benefit.
Wikimedia Cascadia homepage: http://cascadia.wiki/
I see that the group does not formally include Alaska, but I'm sure
there are individuals excited to help.
I am not as knowledgeable as those in the group. You had
questions/concerns about file format, copyright, and
archiving/accessibility use cases. Could you describe your project? Or
point us to a web page with project details? We could offer specific
suggestions on what you can do.
Cheers!
@yawnbox, yawnbox.com
Mark Calvert:
> Dear Christopher,
>
> Thank you for offering to help make a connection and share ideas about how we can partner with Wiki to make Alaska Native Elder stories available in open source.
>
> I really appreciate any information you can share or people to contact.
>
> Thank you,
> Mark
>
> Mark Calvert, Community Engagement Educator
> Association of Alaska School Boards / Alaska ICE (Initiative for Community Engagement)
> 1111 West 9th Street
> Juneau, Alaska 99801
> Tel: 907-463-1660
> www.aasb.org <http://www.aasb.org/>
>
>
>
>
>
>
My DYK hook for the old Federal Reserve Bank Building
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Reserve_Bank_Building_(Seattle)> got
approved and is live on the main page, featuring a picture taken by Joe.
I'm slowly going to make my way through the endangered NRHP-listed
buildings in the area and give them the coverage they deserve. Next up is
the More Hall Annex <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:More_Hall_Annex>
(UW's decommissioned nuclear reactor).
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*SounderBruce*
sounderbruce(a)gmail.com
Hi Cascadians,
Our next regularly scheduled meetup will be on Tuesday, February 9 at 6 PM.
We'll meet at Cafe Allegro. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caf%C3%A9_Allegro
)
Likely agenda items:
* Possible activities with local museums, particularly Wing Luke, MOHAI,
and/or the Burke
* WikiConference USA 2016 at the University of Washington
* WikiProject Seattle and related content
See you there,
Pine
Forwarding because some Cascadians are also interested in OSM and
Wikivoyage.
Pine
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From: Laurentius <laurentius.wiki(a)gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 2:36 PM
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Italia recognized as OpenStreetMap chapter
To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Dear all,
after a long process, today Wikimedia Italia has been officially
recognized as the Italian OpenStreetMap chapter!
OpenStreetMap is a collaborative project that shares the same value as
the Wikimedia movement. It's not based on a wiki software and it's not
in the Wikimedia family, but from many points of views, it's the project
that is more similar to the Wikimedia ones; indeed, many wikipedians are
mappers also, and viceversa.
Similarly to Wikimedia, there is an OpenStreetMap Foundation (based in
the UK) and there are national OpenStreetMap chapters. In Italy, the
OpenStreetMap community has been talking for years about the creation of
a chapter. Most people felt that it was important, but also that
founding yet another association was pointless. Associations are not
built only on projects, but also, and mainly, on common values and on a
common vision: Wikimedia and OpenStreetMap share both, and it's just
natural to work together.
Wikimedia Italy officially started the process of becoming an
OpenStreetMap chapter in 2013 [1]. The association has supported
OpenStreetMap even before that (e.g., supporting the Italian
OpenStreetMap conference), and in the last two years, thanks also to the
work of many OpenStreetMap users that became members (and among them,
Simone Cortesi, OpenStreetMap volunteer since the beginning and WMI's
vicepresident), we have increased our efforts (as described also in
WMI's annual plan [2]). The recognition process has been quite long, but
today we've signed the chapters agreement, and now Italy is the second
country (after Iceland) to have an official OpenStreetMap chapter! (but
there are actually other unofficial chapters besides these two)
Lorenzo
[1]https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2013-July/127304.html
[2]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/2014-2015_round2/Wikim…
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From: "Andy Mabbett" <andy(a)pigsonthewing.org.uk>
Date: Jan 25, 2016 10:02 AM
Subject: [GLAM] Wikivoyage & GLAMs
To: "Wikimedia & GLAM collaboration [Public]" <glam(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Cc:
I've created a new page on Wikivoyage:
https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Wikivoyage:GLAM
about how GLAM collaboration might benefit that project.
Please help to develop it!
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