Greetings!
In my day job, I teach at the University of Washington. This quarter, I'm teaching a class about online communities. The syllabus is here:
http://mako.cc/teaching/2014/interpersonal_media/
As part of the class, I'm trying to get everybody in the class to learn about Wikipedia and it's, norms, policies, and rules and then demonstrate this learning by "joining" our community and making a series of valuable contributions. We're using a lot of the material that the education program has developed although my goal is a little more "meta" than usual (i.e., I'm interested in teaching about Wikipedia as an example of an online community more than I am concerned about who folks are writing about).
Although I've been around our community long enough that I can play a pretty convincing Wikipedian, I would love to invite others from Wikimedia Cascadia in or around Seattle to come visit on either of these two dates:
1. Monday October 6rd (~5:30-7pm)
We'll be talking quite a bit about their Wikipedia assignments on 10/6 and it might be nice to have another Wikimedian around to help give some perspective and/or advice. Since we'll be talking about motivation and incentives, anyone who wants to come along would be welcome to talk about this as well.
2. November 3rd (430-7pm)
We'll be having a "debrief" about our whole Wikipedia contribution assignment on this day. I'd love to have as many local Wikipedians as possible join us!
Send me an email offlist (makohill@uw.edu) if you're interested. In return, I can offer you dinner and the decreasingly dubiously valuable gifts of my gratitude and company.
Regards, Mako