Hello Wikimedia-Cascadians,
I just joined the group and want to introduce myself.
I am a native Seattleite (Garfield High School, 1984) but majored in German and have lived/worked 12 years of my adult life in Europe (Germany, France, UK, Czech Republic, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Slovakia).
Professionally I am an international product manager specialized in localization. I recently left my last position and am looking for a new job based in Seattle with international travel or be based abroad.
There are two reasons I joined the Wikimedia-Cascadia group:
1/ Wikimedia is for me the ultimate internet organization: my internet career is a extension of my interest in languages and inspiration of the internet as a communications medium to make information available across languages regardless of time + geography -- exactly what Wikimedia does! I want to be involved with Wikimedia.
2/ I have a social-entrepreneurial idea around digitizing old print periodicals for which I would like to use some of Wikimedia's open-source tools or potentially even partner with Wikimedia itself. I have talked to Jonathan Morgan about it and he suggested I join this group and see if there are some people who would be interested in working on the idea with me.
So if anyone in this group (or has friends outside this group) has a passion for digitizing print materials from the past (ex. DIY music/culture magazines, neighborhood newsletters, school newsletters), send me an email.
In any case, I hope to meet you in person at an upcoming Wikimedia-Cascadia gathering.
Kind regards,
Steve Zitkovich
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Hi Steve,
Welcome to the group. Seattle is a good place for people with multilingual abilities and international project manager localization experience. I think that some of our local employers would be interested in talking with you. You might also want to keep an eye on Wikimedia Foundation and public sector job postings.
We have an editathon planned for tomorrow at UW. After that our next meetings will be in May. I need to coordinate with Peaceray about scheduling, and one of us will post a note to the list when a decision is reached. We sometimes meet socially on a Tuesday evening when we are not having editathons and other events.
I look forward to meeting you!
Pine On Apr 24, 2015 3:43 PM, "Steve Zitkovich" mailinglists@zitkovich.com wrote:
Hello Wikimedia-Cascadians,
I just joined the group and want to introduce myself.
I am a native Seattleite (Garfield High School, 1984) but majored in German and have lived/worked 12 years of my adult life in Europe (Germany, France, UK, Czech Republic, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Slovakia).
Professionally I am an international product manager specialized in localization. I recently left my last position and am looking for a new job based in Seattle with international travel or be based abroad.
There are two reasons I joined the Wikimedia-Cascadia group:
1/ Wikimedia is for me the ultimate internet organization: my internet career is a extension of my interest in languages and inspiration of the internet as a communications medium to make information available across languages regardless of time + geography -- exactly what Wikimedia does! I want to be involved with Wikimedia.
2/ I have a social-entrepreneurial idea around digitizing old print periodicals for which I would like to use some of Wikimedia's open-source tools or potentially even partner with Wikimedia itself. I have talked to Jonathan Morgan about it and he suggested I join this group and see if there are some people who would be interested in working on the idea with me.
So if anyone in this group (or has friends outside this group) has a passion for digitizing print materials from the past (ex. DIY music/culture magazines, neighborhood newsletters, school newsletters), send me an email.
In any case, I hope to meet you in person at an upcoming Wikimedia-Cascadia gathering.
Kind regards,
Steve Zitkovich
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Welcome, Steve. I am down in Portland, but I hope you find others to assist you with these sorts of projects. Glad to hear of your interest in Wikimedia Cascadia. Jason
On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 5:01 PM, Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Steve,
Welcome to the group. Seattle is a good place for people with multilingual abilities and international project manager localization experience. I think that some of our local employers would be interested in talking with you. You might also want to keep an eye on Wikimedia Foundation and public sector job postings.
We have an editathon planned for tomorrow at UW. After that our next meetings will be in May. I need to coordinate with Peaceray about scheduling, and one of us will post a note to the list when a decision is reached. We sometimes meet socially on a Tuesday evening when we are not having editathons and other events.
I look forward to meeting you!
Pine On Apr 24, 2015 3:43 PM, "Steve Zitkovich" mailinglists@zitkovich.com wrote:
Hello Wikimedia-Cascadians,
I just joined the group and want to introduce myself.
I am a native Seattleite (Garfield High School, 1984) but majored in
German
and have lived/worked 12 years of my adult life in Europe (Germany,
France,
UK, Czech Republic, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Slovakia).
Professionally I am an international product manager specialized in localization. I recently left my last position and am looking for a new
job
based in Seattle with international travel or be based abroad.
There are two reasons I joined the Wikimedia-Cascadia group:
1/ Wikimedia is for me the ultimate internet organization: my internet career is a extension of my interest in languages and inspiration of the internet as a communications medium to make information available across languages regardless of time + geography -- exactly what Wikimedia does!
I
want to be involved with Wikimedia.
2/ I have a social-entrepreneurial idea around digitizing old print periodicals for which I would like to use some of Wikimedia's open-source tools or potentially even partner with Wikimedia itself. I have talked to Jonathan Morgan about it and he suggested I join this group and see if there are some people who would be interested in working on the idea with me.
So if anyone in this group (or has friends outside this group) has a passion for digitizing print materials from the past (ex. DIY music/culture magazines, neighborhood newsletters, school newsletters), send me an
email.
In any case, I hope to meet you in person at an upcoming
Wikimedia-Cascadia
gathering.
Kind regards,
Steve Zitkovich
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Hello Steve,
I am from Seattle but live in New York these days.
I think all of us in the Wikimedia community wish for a better process for digitizing paper media, storing it in Wikimedia projects, and categorizing it in a useful way. There have been efforts to do this but we lack standardization and some of the organizational infrastructure necessary.
There are places in Seattle which have scanners set up to do this and if those places are not sufficiently accessible, then it would be possible to get equipment and set up in a community makerspace. To start digitizing content though several pieces have to come together.
The usual outcome of digitization projects on Wikipedia is that a lot of media is uploaded then it is not sorted or used. To get the maximal value out of a project the digitization has to be paired with an immediate push to try to use the content, that why the project can be promoted and immediately measures can begin to note the impact.
If you want to talk about the landscape of wiki-archiving then write me to talk by voice or video sometime, or just go to local wiki-meetings and talk to others.
yours,
On Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at 12:23 AM, Jason Moore anotherbelieverwp@gmail.com wrote:
Welcome, Steve. I am down in Portland, but I hope you find others to assist you with these sorts of projects. Glad to hear of your interest in Wikimedia Cascadia. Jason
On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 5:01 PM, Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Steve,
Welcome to the group. Seattle is a good place for people with
multilingual
abilities and international project manager localization experience. I think that some of our local employers would be interested in talking
with
you. You might also want to keep an eye on Wikimedia Foundation and
public
sector job postings.
We have an editathon planned for tomorrow at UW. After that our next meetings will be in May. I need to coordinate with Peaceray about scheduling, and one of us will post a note to the list when a decision is reached. We sometimes meet socially on a Tuesday evening when we are not having editathons and other events.
I look forward to meeting you!
Pine On Apr 24, 2015 3:43 PM, "Steve Zitkovich" mailinglists@zitkovich.com wrote:
Hello Wikimedia-Cascadians,
I just joined the group and want to introduce myself.
I am a native Seattleite (Garfield High School, 1984) but majored in
German
and have lived/worked 12 years of my adult life in Europe (Germany,
France,
UK, Czech Republic, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Slovakia).
Professionally I am an international product manager specialized in localization. I recently left my last position and am looking for a new
job
based in Seattle with international travel or be based abroad.
There are two reasons I joined the Wikimedia-Cascadia group:
1/ Wikimedia is for me the ultimate internet organization: my internet career is a extension of my interest in languages and inspiration of
the
internet as a communications medium to make information available
across
languages regardless of time + geography -- exactly what Wikimedia
does!
I
want to be involved with Wikimedia.
2/ I have a social-entrepreneurial idea around digitizing old print periodicals for which I would like to use some of Wikimedia's
open-source
tools or potentially even partner with Wikimedia itself. I have talked
to
Jonathan Morgan about it and he suggested I join this group and see if there are some people who would be interested in working on the idea with me.
So if anyone in this group (or has friends outside this group) has a passion for digitizing print materials from the past (ex. DIY music/culture magazines, neighborhood newsletters, school newsletters), send me an
email.
In any case, I hope to meet you in person at an upcoming
Wikimedia-Cascadia
gathering.
Kind regards,
Steve Zitkovich
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Steve,
Hi! I have been meaning to respond to you, but have been swamped as of late.
First, a totally non-Wikimedia resource. If, as a international product manager, you are looking for a tech connection, I recommend http://www.meetup.com/Seattle-DevOps-Meetup-Group/ They are meeting tonight, Tuesday, at 6:30pm at the offices at Whitepages http://www.whitepages.com/, details in the link the meetup.com link.
During introductions, people get a chance to say whether they are looking to hire or looking for work. Usually there are folks from Microsoft & Amazon, sometimes Google, & a myriad of other organizations.
Second, I am glad to hear about your interests in digitization. At our recent WikiWork http://commons.lib.washington.edu/wikiwork! edit-a-thon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Seattle/UW_Library_Special_Collections_edit-a-thon_4-25-2015, Conor Casey, Archivist at the Labor Archives of Washington http://guides.lib.washington.edu/content.php?pid=213382&sid=1775505, spoke about what they have digitized & the volume of material still to be digitized. Perhaps one of the things that we need to focus on beyond edit-a-thons is how to best to digitize material & upload it to Commons in a coherent way.Certainly there are resources that we should be able to reach out to who have already coordinated with archives, albeit elsewhere than Seattle.
Yours, Peaceray -- User:Peaceray https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Peaceray peaceray@cascadia.wiki
On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 10:10 AM, Lane Rasberry lane@bluerasberry.com wrote:
Hello Steve,
I am from Seattle but live in New York these days.
I think all of us in the Wikimedia community wish for a better process for digitizing paper media, storing it in Wikimedia projects, and categorizing it in a useful way. There have been efforts to do this but we lack standardization and some of the organizational infrastructure necessary.
There are places in Seattle which have scanners set up to do this and if those places are not sufficiently accessible, then it would be possible to get equipment and set up in a community makerspace. To start digitizing content though several pieces have to come together.
The usual outcome of digitization projects on Wikipedia is that a lot of media is uploaded then it is not sorted or used. To get the maximal value out of a project the digitization has to be paired with an immediate push to try to use the content, that why the project can be promoted and immediately measures can begin to note the impact.
If you want to talk about the landscape of wiki-archiving then write me to talk by voice or video sometime, or just go to local wiki-meetings and talk to others.
yours,
On Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at 12:23 AM, Jason Moore <anotherbelieverwp@gmail.com
wrote:
Welcome, Steve. I am down in Portland, but I hope you find others to
assist
you with these sorts of projects. Glad to hear of your interest in Wikimedia Cascadia. Jason
On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 5:01 PM, Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Steve,
Welcome to the group. Seattle is a good place for people with
multilingual
abilities and international project manager localization experience. I think that some of our local employers would be interested in talking
with
you. You might also want to keep an eye on Wikimedia Foundation and
public
sector job postings.
We have an editathon planned for tomorrow at UW. After that our next meetings will be in May. I need to coordinate with Peaceray about scheduling, and one of us will post a note to the list when a decision
is
reached. We sometimes meet socially on a Tuesday evening when we are
not
having editathons and other events.
I look forward to meeting you!
Pine On Apr 24, 2015 3:43 PM, "Steve Zitkovich" <mailinglists@zitkovich.com
wrote:
Hello Wikimedia-Cascadians,
I just joined the group and want to introduce myself.
I am a native Seattleite (Garfield High School, 1984) but majored in
German
and have lived/worked 12 years of my adult life in Europe (Germany,
France,
UK, Czech Republic, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Slovakia).
Professionally I am an international product manager specialized in localization. I recently left my last position and am looking for a
new
job
based in Seattle with international travel or be based abroad.
There are two reasons I joined the Wikimedia-Cascadia group:
1/ Wikimedia is for me the ultimate internet organization: my
internet
career is a extension of my interest in languages and inspiration of
the
internet as a communications medium to make information available
across
languages regardless of time + geography -- exactly what Wikimedia
does!
I
want to be involved with Wikimedia.
2/ I have a social-entrepreneurial idea around digitizing old print periodicals for which I would like to use some of Wikimedia's
open-source
tools or potentially even partner with Wikimedia itself. I have
talked
to
Jonathan Morgan about it and he suggested I join this group and see
if
there are some people who would be interested in working on the idea with
me.
So if anyone in this group (or has friends outside this group) has a passion for digitizing print materials from the past (ex. DIY music/culture magazines, neighborhood newsletters, school newsletters), send me an
email.
In any case, I hope to meet you in person at an upcoming
Wikimedia-Cascadia
gathering.
Kind regards,
Steve Zitkovich
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Hello group,
Thanks to all who have written welcoming me, how nice!
Hi Lane,
Thanks for the note about how digitization projects have historically gone. I will take you up on the offer to talk about what you have seen by voice; I'll contact you offline from this thread.
Hi Peaceray,
Thanks for much for the lead on the Meetup group, that is very kind of you!! Unfortunately I can't make the Meetup tonight, but it's a great tip for the future, cheers!
It sounds like the Labor Archives of Washington needs are in alignment with the idea I have for digitizing print content. And there are many other examples of archives, for example yesterday I read about the local Vietnamese newspaper "Dat Moi http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2065403-08-datmoinewspaper.html " from the 1970's. (Of course getting copyright release is an important step when it gets to commercial archival content.)
The basic idea is to create a platform which would allow people to digitize + classify materials currently in print form like this:
Scan print content > OCR it into digital form > proof accuracy + edit > add metadata > publish in a similar format as Wikipedia pages
Different people can pick up different parts of the process once the page has been scanned. The Wikipedia process of review would be in place. In essence I would like to use the Wikipedia open-source platform + processes and swap out user-written content for scanned archival content as the start of the process.
I am encouraged by the responses from this group; I can see I have found a supportive group to move the idea forward, thanks all!
Steve Z
From: Raymond Leonard [mailto:raymond.f.leonard.jr@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2015 11:09 To: Wikimedia Cascadia group mailing list; mailinglists@zitkovich.com Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Cascadia] Introduction by new group member Steve Zitkovich
Steve,
Hi! I have been meaning to respond to you, but have been swamped as of late.
First, a totally non-Wikimedia resource. If, as a international product manager, you are looking for a tech connection, I recommend http://www.meetup.com/Seattle-DevOps-Meetup-Group/
They are meeting tonight, Tuesday, at 6:30pm at the offices at Whitepages http://www.whitepages.com/ , details in the link the meetup.com link.
During introductions, people get a chance to say whether they are looking to hire or looking for work. Usually there are folks from Microsoft & Amazon, sometimes Google, & a myriad of other organizations.
Second, I am glad to hear about your interests in digitization. At our recent WikiWork http://commons.lib.washington.edu/wikiwork ! edit-a-thon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Seattle/UW_Library_Special_Collections_edit-a-thon_4-25-2015 , Conor Casey, Archivist at the Labor Archives of Washington http://guides.lib.washington.edu/content.php?pid=213382&sid=1775505 , spoke about what they have digitized & the volume of material still to be digitized. Perhaps one of the things that we need to focus on beyond edit-a-thons is how to best to digitize material & upload it to Commons in a coherent way.Certainly there are resources that we should be able to reach out to who have already coordinated with archives, albeit elsewhere than Seattle.
Yours,
Peaceray --
User:Peaceray https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Peaceray
peaceray@cascadia.wiki
On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 10:10 AM, Lane Rasberry lane@bluerasberry.com wrote:
Hello Steve,
I am from Seattle but live in New York these days.
I think all of us in the Wikimedia community wish for a better process for digitizing paper media, storing it in Wikimedia projects, and categorizing it in a useful way. There have been efforts to do this but we lack standardization and some of the organizational infrastructure necessary.
There are places in Seattle which have scanners set up to do this and if those places are not sufficiently accessible, then it would be possible to get equipment and set up in a community makerspace. To start digitizing content though several pieces have to come together.
The usual outcome of digitization projects on Wikipedia is that a lot of media is uploaded then it is not sorted or used. To get the maximal value out of a project the digitization has to be paired with an immediate push to try to use the content, that why the project can be promoted and immediately measures can begin to note the impact.
If you want to talk about the landscape of wiki-archiving then write me to talk by voice or video sometime, or just go to local wiki-meetings and talk to others.
yours,
On Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at 12:23 AM, Jason Moore anotherbelieverwp@gmail.com wrote:
Welcome, Steve. I am down in Portland, but I hope you find others to assist you with these sorts of projects. Glad to hear of your interest in Wikimedia Cascadia. Jason
On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 5:01 PM, Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Steve,
Welcome to the group. Seattle is a good place for people with
multilingual
abilities and international project manager localization experience. I think that some of our local employers would be interested in talking
with
you. You might also want to keep an eye on Wikimedia Foundation and
public
sector job postings.
We have an editathon planned for tomorrow at UW. After that our next meetings will be in May. I need to coordinate with Peaceray about scheduling, and one of us will post a note to the list when a decision is reached. We sometimes meet socially on a Tuesday evening when we are not having editathons and other events.
I look forward to meeting you!
Pine On Apr 24, 2015 3:43 PM, "Steve Zitkovich" mailinglists@zitkovich.com wrote:
Hello Wikimedia-Cascadians,
I just joined the group and want to introduce myself.
I am a native Seattleite (Garfield High School, 1984) but majored in
German
and have lived/worked 12 years of my adult life in Europe (Germany,
France,
UK, Czech Republic, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Slovakia).
Professionally I am an international product manager specialized in localization. I recently left my last position and am looking for a new
job
based in Seattle with international travel or be based abroad.
There are two reasons I joined the Wikimedia-Cascadia group:
1/ Wikimedia is for me the ultimate internet organization: my internet career is a extension of my interest in languages and inspiration of
the
internet as a communications medium to make information available
across
languages regardless of time + geography -- exactly what Wikimedia
does!
I
want to be involved with Wikimedia.
2/ I have a social-entrepreneurial idea around digitizing old print periodicals for which I would like to use some of Wikimedia's
open-source
tools or potentially even partner with Wikimedia itself. I have talked
to
Jonathan Morgan about it and he suggested I join this group and see if there are some people who would be interested in working on the idea with me.
So if anyone in this group (or has friends outside this group) has a passion for digitizing print materials from the past (ex. DIY music/culture magazines, neighborhood newsletters, school newsletters), send me an
email.
In any case, I hope to meet you in person at an upcoming
Wikimedia-Cascadia
gathering.
Kind regards,
Steve Zitkovich
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