Hi folks,
Friendly reminder about events on Monday, which is Memorial Day.
* There will be a Wikimedians hike at Evans Creek Preserve http://www.wta.org/go-hiking/hikes/evans-creek-preserve. We meet at the *old* trailhead at 12 PM. Please bring cameras and/or tools suitable for taking notes (smartphone, tablet, or pencil and paper notepad). The reports are that there is plenty of wildlife. (You might want to bring bear spray just in case we encounter a bear.) The current weather forecast is for partial sun in the afternoon. If you want to carpool from Seattle, please contact Joe (see below.)
* There will likely be a break between the hike and the evening meeting.
* At 6 PM, we will have our monthly meetup. We'll meet this time at the Redmond Town Center Starbucks. We can choose a place to eat after we all find each other. Agenda items include documenting the hike, upcoming GLAM and diversity conferences, WikiConference USA in San Diego, Wiknic planning, and a brief update about our 501(c)(3) and plans for the rest of 2016. There *may* be an announcement with news from WMF (I'm waiting to hear back follow up from an initial email.) There will likely be time for additional agenda items and open discussion.
Hope to see you on Monday!
Pine
On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 12:14 PM, Joe Mabel jmabel@speakeasy.net wrote:
That's my understanding. Only space for 10 cars, though, and it will be a holiday. I, for one, have to do this by car because even then I'm likely going to be running late for my friend's birthday dinner. If there are others who want to carpool out from Seattle, let's be in touch about it. My girlfriend is probably coming, but we should have room for two or (in a pinch) three others.
JM
On 5/4/2016 11:21 AM, Pine W wrote:
The old one sounds good to me. Is that the one on 224th?
Pine
On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 4:05 PM, Joe Mabel jmabel@speakeasy.net wrote:
Will we be meeting at the new trailhead or the old one? There is something
to be said for the old one (end with a descent instead of an ascent).
JM
On 4/15/2016 10:19 AM, Pine W wrote:
Follow up: a total of 4 people have expressed interest. Let's plan on
hiking the Evans Creek Preserve trail ( http://www.wta.org/go-hiking/hikes/evans-creek-preserve) on Monday, May 30th. Plan to meet at the trailhead at 12 PM. **We might change the date to Saturday or Sunday depending on the weather forecast for Monday**.
There's a video overview of the park from the City of Sammamish: http://media.sammamish.us/EvansCreekPreserve.mp4
I'm guessing that the hike will take 3-4 hours including time spent stopped on the trail as we take notes and photos. (Please bring cameras, notepads, pencils, etc!)
We'll probably have our regular monthly meetup later in the evening at 6PM. We can set aside an hour of that meeting for editing Commons, Wikipedia, Wikidata, etc. regarding the preserve.
Cheers,
Pine