Your gratitude is not decreasingly dubious, good sir. (: I propose that we simply make the November meetup be at Mako's November 3 session. I anticipate that most of us are available no earlier than about 6, so we could have a panel discussion from 6 to 7ish. We can take up Mako on his dinner offer after class. Pine On Sep 23, 2014 8:07 PM, "Benj. Mako Hill" <mako(a)atdot.cc> wrote: > 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(a)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 > > > -- > Benjamin Mako Hill > http://mako.cc/academic/ > > Creativity can be a social contribution, but only in so far > as society is free to use the results. --GNU Manifesto > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-Cascadia mailing list > Wikimedia-Cascadia(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-cascadia > >

<quote who="Pine W" date="Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 11:34:16AM -0700"> OK I like the plan but I would prefer to move the start time to 5:30. The class ends at 6:50pm and we need to be done by then because there's another class in the room that starts at 7pm. Starting at 5:30 is better because even if we start a little late, we can have an hour to talk. Regards, Mako -- Benjamin Mako Hill http://mako.cc/ Creativity can be a social contribution, but only in so far as society is free to use the results. --GNU Manifesto