For those at WCNA currently, I suggest a lunchtime meeting today to apply
for a Wikipedia Day grant for January. This is a rather smaller thing than
hosting WCNA, but still substantial, and maybe a good intermediate step.
Technically, Nov 15 is the last day to apply, so I think it would be best
to just do it at the conference when people are together:
You can apply for $500-$2,000, possibly you would have a single grant to
cover two or three events in the Cascadia region.
Here are some examples from last year that you are free to borrow from and
remix:
I will be glad to set up a fundraising-style banner for both editors and
readers of Wikipedia and other projects, which should bring in a big enough
crowd to justify it, and worked well for the other localities last year.
The format is sort of a combined birthday party and one day
mini-conference, with maybe a panel or two and heavy use of lightning talks.
Thanks,
Richard
(User:Pharos)
On Sun, Nov 10, 2019 at 12:10 AM Su-Laine Brodsky <sulainey(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
I agree the main campuses of UBC and SFU are too far
away from downtown
and from accommodations.
UBC Robson Square might be big enough:
https://robsonsquare.ubc.ca/event-conference-planning/
Other downtown options could be SFU’s downtown buildings, or BCIT’s
downtown campus. See
http://www.sfu.ca/mecs/vancouver-main.html and
https://www.bcit.ca/rentals/downtown.shtml . SFU’s Morris J. Wosk Centre
for Dialog is an incredible space aesthetically - I’m not sure if has
enough of the right-sized rooms though.
Is there a list of the requirements, e.g. “at least one room that will fit
300 people and five other spaces that will hold 30 people each” kind of
thing?
Su-Laine
(currently at WikiConference NA - please find me and say hi if I haven’t
met you yet)
On Nov 9, 2019, at 9:46 PM, Joe Mabel
<jmabel(a)joemabel.com> wrote:
Do you know if UBC's facility at Robson Square in Vancouver might be in
the
running? Or is it too small and/or too busy?
JM
On 11/9/2019 5:26 PM, Bruce Englehardt wrote:
> An event in the Northwest would be best during September or early
October
> before the weather turns (but after peak
pricing and the wildfire
season).
>
> The major universities in Seattle (UW) and Portland (PSU) are close to
> downtown, but Vancouver's (UBC or SFU) are remote and require bus
transfers.
>
> Any of the three would be fine, but note that Portland has fewer plane
> connections. There are trains and Intercity coach buses that connect the
> three, taking about 3.5 to 4 hours for Portland-Seattle and
> Seattle-Vancouver (including border customs).
>
> I'd be happy to work on this if we can grab some local sponsors.
>
> On Sat, Nov 9, 2019, 14:09 Chan, Judy <judy.chan(a)ubc.ca> wrote:
>
>> Happy to help out, but not wanting to over commit myself yet :)
>>
>>
>> Judy
>>
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>> From: Wikimedia-Cascadia <
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>> on behalf of Luiza Wainer
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>> Sent: November 9, 2019 11:00 AM
>> To: Wikimedia Cascadia group mailing list
>> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Cascadia] Wikipedia Conference 2020
>>
>> I know someone in Toronto who was going to suggest their city. The
feeling
>> I got talking to some folks is that they
were trying to have it be more
>> accessible to others, having the event either away from the coasts of
the
>> USA (some one mentioned Detroit) or in
other North American countries
>> (Canada, Mexico). In this case I'd love to see it happen in Vancouver
>> instead of Seattle or Portland.
>>
>> On Sat, 9 Nov 2019 at 10:39, Joe Mabel <jmabel(a)joemabel.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I'd certainly be in, though this is not necessarily the time of year
>>> people would most want to be in Seattle.
>>>
>>> How many people "on the ground" do you think it requires? How big
is
>>> this year's conference?
>>>
>>> JM
>>>
>>> On 11/9/2019 9:52 AM, Raymond Leonard wrote:
>>>> People attending from the NW include SounderBruce, Another Believer,
>>>> RageSoss, & Peaceray, so I suggest taking with some of us. Let us
not
>>>> forget Vancouver, BC as well!
>>>>
>>>> On Sat, Nov 9, 2019 at 12:40 Dulaney <jdulaney(a)gnu.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Samh 09, 2019 aig 12:13:24f -0500, sgrìobh Liz 99:
>>>>>> I'm not sure who to direct this message to but I'm at
Wikipedia
>>>>> Conference
>>>>>> North America & I've had 6 different people suggest to me
that next
>>>>> year's
>>>>>> conference be in Seattle or Portland (and that is just on the
first
>>> day)
>>>>> Do
>>>>>> you think this would be of interest to this chapter? Are there
enough
>>>> members here to pull this off? Just
planting a seed.
>>>>
>>>> Liz
>>> FWIW, I'm interested in helping out.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Tapadh leabh,
>>> Mairi Dulaney.
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