Pinging Ellie Young (WMF conference coordinator) so that she's aware that
we're discussing having WikiConference USA in Seattle in 2016, possibly in
conjunction with OpenStreetMaps' "State of the Map USA" and/or the SeaGL
(Seattle GNU/Linux) conference.
Pine
Pine
On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 4:20 AM, Lane Rasberry <lane(a)bluerasberry.com>
wrote:
Pine,
I think that 1500 people is a reasonable estimate for an upper limit.
Considering the population and accessibility of New York City versus
Seattle, then unless the outreach strategy is changed to increase
attendance, I would expect fewer attendees in Seattle than in New York. As
a lower limit, I expect that an attendance of 1000 is reasonable.
Probably the conference would be Friday - Sunday. On Friday especially
local paid people would come during work hours. Saturday would be the big
community day, and Sunday would be another community day. Because the total
number of attendees will be much greater than the attendees on any given
day, having access to a lecture hall capacity of 6-800 might be reasonable
for a conference with 1500 attendees.
I would welcome the GNU/Linux side along with other like-minded groups in
the open knowledge and free culture space joining.
yours,
On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 1:04 AM, Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Great, thanks Lane.
Peaceray has been in talks with the OSM people in Seattle.
Mako was asking about estimated attendance in case we decide to ask UW to
host a conference in 2016. The information in the Google doc about
estimated attendance (850 OSM plus at least 350 for WCONUSA) is helpful
to
get a sense of scale. It sounds like we should
estimate combined
attendance
at about 1500, assuming some year-over-year
attendance growth. Does that
sound right?
I've also asked Peaceray to consider reaching out to the SeaGL (Seattle
GNU/Linux Conference) people because they might also be interested in the
concept of a joint conference in Seattle. I'm not sure how active their
organizers are, but if we have a conference at UW then I think they might
be interested in joining up with us.
Pine
Pine
On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 5:12 AM, Lane Rasberry <lane(a)bluerasberry.com>
wrote:
Hello,
I attended the United States National Open Street Map conference, State
of
> the Map, in New York last weekend. There were about 8 OSMers from
Seattle
there,
and I met with them.
They had proposed hosting their conference in Seattle next year, and I
thought also that the Wikipedia community might like a conference in
Seattle next year, and I was wondering if Open Street Map and Wikipedia
might co-host a conference next year.
I started collecting some ideas in a Google Doc.
<
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sQxhBIX7mB5TsSZRnqyW9k4wv60fmBAkyKV37aV…
Thoughts?
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