You say "we all have a meeting planned for Allegro the day afterward," but isn't that supposed to be tonight (the day *before*)? If I am wrong about that, could someone let me know ASAP? As far as I know, we have *always* held those meetings on Tuesdays, and I have another commitment on Thursday.

I plan to be at tonight's meeting, and I think that it is useful that if people want a chance to talk to me about the strategy planning, we get that chance. I cannot make an event Wednesday evening on this short notice. If I'd known even 24 hours ago I could have arranged it, but at this point I have a different commitment, meeting someone downtown around that time. If people want to cancel tonight's meeting and meet tomorrow instead, feel free, but please let me know (by email, before 4PM) not to come tonight and do not expect me to be there tomorrow.

JM

On 2/18/2020 12:21 AM, Benj. Mako Hill wrote:

Greetings!

I sent this email a week ago but it appears to have not gone through? I think I may have emailed from the wrong address.

In any case, I know the notice is very short but I wonder if anybody be able to make it to my class on Wednesday?

Details are below.

Regards, Mako

<quote who="Benj. Mako Hill" date="Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 11:00:30AM -0800"> > Greetings! > > I mentioned this at the annual meeting but here is the official > request/invitation: > > I am putting together a panel of Wikipedian for my class on online > communities and I would love for any/all of you to join! The class > meets next next Wednesday and I was planning for the panel from > 5:30-6:20pm in Mary Gates Hall (MGH) 389 at UW. > > Please (a) let me know if you can make it and (b) try to arrive at > or before 5:25 we can get going *at* 5:30! > > There's nothing to prepare but I'll probably ask you to briefly talk > about your experience in Wikipedia and the students will have > questions. > > The class is a big one (90 students) and by Wednesday all the students > will have all finished attempts to make significant improvements to > stub class articles and written short essays in the User page > namespace reflecting on their experience in Wikipedia over the last 6+ > weeks. > > We'll be spending the first half of the class talking through their > experience with the WikiEd curriculum and comparing it to the approach > used by the Wikipedia Adventure and the Teahouse. > > I'm happy to take folks out for coffee or a drink afterward. Since we > all have a meeting planned for Allegro the day afterward, maybe this > can substitute for that meeting? > > Regards, > Mako > https://mako.cc/ > > Creativity can be a social contribution, but only in so far > as society is free to use the results. --GNU Manifesto