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Naming our group
by Pine W 22 Jul '14

22 Jul '14

Hi everyone, Please add your input to the discussion at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Cascadia_Wikimedians#User_group_name. I am hoping that selecting a name is our last hurdle before getting user group recognition. After that we will need to get our legal issues in order. I think there is agreement to incorporate in Washington State which is relatively easy, but after that we will need to select board members and officers and write some basic bylaws. AffCom may be able to assist us with this, and I am also hoping that we can borrow bylaws that have been developed by the New York and Washington DC chapters. But first, please help to select a name! Pine

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TA3M Seattle this Monday!
by Blibbet 18 Jul '14

18 Jul '14

This Monday's TA3M, based at UW, features 2 speakers, one of which is about Wikipedia! ----------Original Message---------- Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2014 18:51:56 -0700 From: Blibbet <blibbet(a)gmail.com> To: <ta3m-seattle(a)lists.openitp.org> Subject: [announce] July 21st: TA3M Seattle meeting What: July 2014's TA3M-Seattle meeting When: Monday, July 21st 2014, 7:00-9:00pm Where: University of Washington (main campus), Paul G. Allen Center For Computer Science & Engineering (CSE), Room CSE 403 <http://uw.edu/maps/?cse> <http://www.washington.edu/maps/> We're meeting at the UW campus, same location as last month: UW CSE 403, in the Paul Allen Center, 185th NE Stevens Way. The building has several entrances, the 'main' entrance is the one that gets marked on google when you search for "3785 Benton Ln, Seattle, WA 98105". If doors are locked after hours, we'll have someone at this main entrance to let people in. The elevators are on the left, once you exit the elevator on the fourth floor, 403 is on your left about 20 feet. This month we have Jonathan Morgan of Wikimedia Foundation giving an introduction to Wikipedia, an essential skill for modern citizens. We also have Professor Ryan Calo of the Tech Policy Lab, speaking on Privacy! Justin, one of the TA3M Seattle team, will be leading this month, his first time! ====== Schedule: 7:00-7:15, Justin: welcome 7:15-7-??, break? ?:??-?-??, Jonathan: Wikipedia ?:??-?-??, break ?:??-9:00, Ryan: Privacy ====== Presentation 1: Introduction to Wikipdia by Jonathan T Morgan Jonathan will be talking about the Community Data Science Workshops that he ran with Mako at UW in during April/May 2014, as well as a series of webinars he's currently running for the Wikimedia Foundation. Both activities are geared towards teaching people with no previous experience in programming or data science how to leverage open datasets and free web-based tools to ask and answer interesting questions. Jonathan is a Research Strategist in the Grantmaking Learning & Evaluation team at the Wikimedia Foundation, and has have worked for Wikimedia since 2011. In 2013, he earned his PhD in Human Centered Design & Engineering from UW, the dissertation was called "Coordinating the Commons: Diversity & Dynamics of Open Collaborations". ====== Presentation 2: Consumers and Privacy by Ryan Calo "Ryan Calo will talk about why companies do, but shouldn't, treat consumers like guinea pigs." <http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/08/what-does-it-really-m…> Professor Ryan Calo is Faculty Director of the Tech Policy Lab <http://techpolicylab.org/> University of Washington, amongst many other things. His full bio is at: <http://www.law.washington.edu/directory/Profile.aspx?ID=713&vw=bio> ====== About TA3M Seattle: TA3M-Seattle (Techno-Activism, 3rd Mondays) is a monthly event focusing on online surveillance and censorship, open access, and open technology. We focus on the open source tools that are used to combat it, and issues and initiatives associated with this area. We bring together software developers, activists, concerned citizens, and others, so we they can both educate each other, and share knowledge. There are TA3M groups in many cities worldwide; Seattle started in August 2013. For more details, please read the wiki and the announce list archives. <http://seattle.ta3m.net> <https://wiki.openitp.org/events:techno-activism_3rd_mondays:seattle> <https://lists.openitp.org/pipermail/ta3m-seattle/> ====== EOF

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Wiknic report
by Pine W 07 Jul '14

07 Jul '14

Photo: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Seattle_Wiknic_2014_minus_2_attende… I told Wikimedia-l in our report that "...the Seattle event... featured 13 people, a quadcopter, foods based on recipes from multiple continents, and a wide range of intelligent and enjoyable conversation." Thanks for coming, everyone, and I hope many of us will meet again at the August regular monthly meeting. Pine

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Re: [Wikimedia Cascadia] [Wikitech-l] Speak at SeaGL in Seattle in October?
by Pine W 04 Jul '14

04 Jul '14

Thanks Sumana, I am forwarding this to the Cascadia email list. I for one might want to participate. Pine On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 1:17 PM, Sumana Harihareswara <sumanah(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: > SeaGL is a ~250-person open stuff conference in Seattle. They'd love talks > by Wikimedians about tech and culture topics -- security, community, > devops, getting-started, tales of woe, etc. Submit an idea by July 15th - > and Deb Nicholson (see fwd) is totally happy to bounce ideas around with > you and help you with your proposal. http://seagl.org/schedule/2013.html > has last year's schedule. > > Wikimedians are eligible to get travel/hotel subsidies to give talks at > SeaGL: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:TPS > > Sumana Harihareswara > Senior Technical Writer > Wikimedia Foundation > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Deb Nicholson <deb(a)eximiousproductions.com> > Date: Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 3:54 PM > Subject: Seattle event this fall, CFP open now > To: Sumana Harihareswara <sumanah(a)wikimedia.org> > > > Hi Sumana, > I'm helping to organize the Seattle GNU/Linux Conference this year. We are > particularly interested in having some fresh voices at SeaGL. I was > wondering if you would help me reach out to Wikipedians who might be > interested in speaking by forwarding the CFP info? > > When: October 24 & 25 > Who: The audience will be a mix of ~250 professionals, hobbyists and > students. > Where: The conference takes place in central Seattle -- a walkable > neighborhood with great food and coffee that is easy to get to on public > transportation. > Other cool news: Our keynote is Karen Sandler, a longtime free software > lawyer/activist/powerhouse. > > Call for Participation: http://seagl.org/news/2014/06/20/CFP-Open.html > > I'm happy to offer feedback on new-to-speaking people's proposals if that > helps them get over the hump. Thanks for your help! > Cheers, > Deb > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

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Wiknic reminder
by Pine W 29 Jun '14

29 Jun '14

The Seattle Wiknic is up to 4 probable and 2 possible attendees. Portland has 2 people expressing interest. Sign up! (: Pine

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Email from AffCom
by Pine W 16 Jun '14

16 Jun '14

I have received an email from Affcom. I'm waiting for their permission to post it to Meta for us to review and discuss as a group. As you might expect they have some questions for us but I feel good about the direction of the conversation. (: Pine

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Cascadia page on Meta, and organizing ourselves
by ENWP Pine 14 Jun '14

14 Jun '14

Hail Cascadians, You probably know about https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cascadia Our contact at TA3M Seattle is assembling a list of FOSS organizations in the Seattle area. If you know of FOSS, GLAM, or other organizations in our region which would have common interests with Wikimedia Cascadia, please add them to the Cascadia page on Meta. This will help us to think about where we can do outreach. One idea I am currently thinking seriously about is how to have a Wikimedian in Residence position made available at the Gates Foundation, if they are willing to host one. I think that will be easier to do once we are officially a user group or thematic organization. Does anyone have thoughts to share about us becoming a recognized user group or thematic organization? I think this would benefit us because we would be allowed to use the Wikimedia trademarks and would provide easier access to other organizations like the Gates Foundation, other FOSS organizations, events which are only for journalists, and other opportunities. I am *not* proposing that we become a chapter because we are too small at this time. That might come later. For now, I think being an officially recognized Wikimedia user group would serve our needs well. Pine

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Programs for Wikimedia Cascadia
by Pine W 11 Jun '14

11 Jun '14

Hi all, One thing I have been thinking about is if it would make sense to base a number of programs that we have in various stages of development in Wikimedia Cascadia instead of developing and running them as an individual. For example, personally I am involved with Cameras for Commons Photographers, which is currently in development as a grants program in IdeaLab. Someone needs someone to run it if WMF funds it. Other chapters apparently have similar programs. Would people be open to the idea of running this as a local, or global, program out of Wikimedia Cascadia? Another project that I have in mind is transforming the presentation that I have been drafting into a series of well-polished instructional videos about Wikipedia that could be posted on Commons for use by professors or researchers. I am currently thinking about requesting a WMF grant to make this happen, but I think it would be great to develop and run the program through Wikimedia Cascadia so there are more people involved. For example, I think it would be great to have a diversity of presenters for different modules, and we have some good diversity of highly skilled Wikimedians here in Cascadia who I hope would be interested in participating. Another Seattle Wikimedian, and I forget exactly who proposed this, suggested that we could use our Wikimedia affiliation to get a greater level of access to areas that are interesting to photograph for Commons, for example underground tours of Seattle where we might be able to get press-level access. Last but not least, I hear that we have some existing GLAM and cultural outreach projects in the Portland area, and I think it would be great to see if affiliating those projects more directly with Cascadia and the Wikimedia brand would be beneficial. For example, we might be able to get support for micro-grants for bus fares to enable more people to attend our events. Thoughts about programs? Obviously we are very early in our development as an organization but I would love to hear ideas for projects or feedback about the ones mentioned already. Thanks, Pine

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Portland visit
by Pine W 11 Jun '14

11 Jun '14

Hi Portland Wikimedians, As a part of the AffCom applications process and just so we can meet in person, I'd like to visit you. Wiki Loves Pride is on June 21st but I'm not sure I can go that weekend, and July 6 I'm planning to attend Wicnik in Seattle. After July 6, what would be a good day for a meet and greet? I'd especially like to participate in an edit-a-thon or outreach event so I can experience Portland's activities firsthand (: Thanks, Pine

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Check out the Meta-Wiki Cascadia talk page
by Blurpeace 03 Jun '14

03 Jun '14

Hey all, After some discussion at WikiConference USA, there was some movement among Wikimedians in the Pacific Northwest toward forming a formal user group affiliated with the WMF. The discussion is ongoing and taking place here: < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Cascadia_Wikimedians#Sign_on_to_be_a_F…>. We've also been discussing what precisely our name should be, going forward: <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Cascadia_Wikimedians#Our_name >. Check both out! And all the best for your guys' summers. Best, Roman

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