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/1sQxhBIX7mB5TsSZRnqyW9k4wv60fmBAkyKV37aVr5Gg/edit?usp=sharing
Thoughts?
This looks beautiful to me. I wasn't able to attend the main conference last weekend, but I got to know some folks at side events, and they were very friendly and clearly shared the Wikimedian spirit.
One thing we'll have to brainstorm if this succeeds is finding a good title for a joint conference, which expresses both sides equally.
Thanks, Richard (User:Pharos)
On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 8:12 AM, Lane Rasberry lane@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/1sQxhBIX7mB5TsSZRnqyW9k4wv60fmBAkyKV37aVr...
Thoughts?
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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@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/1sQxhBIX7mB5TsSZRnqyW9k4wv60fmBAkyKV37aVr...
Thoughts?
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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@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@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/1sQxhBIX7mB5TsSZRnqyW9k4wv60fmBAkyKV37aVr...
Thoughts?
-- Lane Rasberry user:bluerasberry on Wikipedia 206.801.0814 lane@bluerasberry.com _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-Cascadia mailing list Wikimedia-Cascadia@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-cascadia
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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@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@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@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/1sQxhBIX7mB5TsSZRnqyW9k4wv60fmBAkyKV37aVr...
Thoughts?
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Thanks for keeping me in the loop!
On Jul 2, 2015, at 6:45 PM, Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:
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@bluerasberry.com mailto:lane@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@gmail.com mailto:wiki.pine@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@bluerasberry.com mailto:lane@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/1sQxhBIX7mB5TsSZRnqyW9k4wv60fmBAkyKV37aVr... https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sQxhBIX7mB5TsSZRnqyW9k4wv60fmBAkyKV37aVr5Gg/edit?usp=sharing
Thoughts?
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