wikimedia-dc January 2011

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Wikimania DC bid mailing list
by James Hare 29 Jan '11

29 Jan '11

Good afternoon, If you are interested in volunteering for, or receiving updates about, the Wikimania 2012 bid for Washington, DC, I have created a Google Group for internal communications. Sign up at: <http://groups.google.com/group/wikimania-dc-bid>. I will keep future communications pertaining to the bid on that list (and off this main one). -- James Hare

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Wikimania 2012 update for January 24
by K Anderson 29 Jan '11

29 Jan '11

Hello all, Lots of interest at LC for presenting at this event! Tours possible in various languages, people from Copyright interested in attending etc. Getting institutional sponsorship appears highly unlikely for 2012 bid. Too short a time frame. Sufficient interest that I think we have a chance at instiutional participation / sponsorship if we try for 2013. We need an official committee, they need to know who they're working with, other orgs involved, venue, etc. Also, the internal LC policies and work on Wikipedia will be a little more defined by 2013 than they are now. Anyone considered partnering with Smithsonian for the Folklife Festival? We could have one of the cultures represented be "Cyberspace," and have the Wikimania in tents ... This would be a very straightforward pitch to LC and other agencies, I think; plus, Smithsonian has the logistics down for the event. >From my perspective, I'd say let's try 2013 and try to get more official participation lined up from LC. Along with the Archives, LC is one of the biggest stashes of verifiable, open-source facts in the world. Cheers, Kristin / Djembayz Looking forward to results of meeting, have conflicting appt. so will not attend.

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REMINDER: Wikimania bid meeting Saturday at 1PM
by James Hare 28 Jan '11

28 Jan '11

Greetings! This is a reminder that there will be a meeting of the Wikimania 2012 bid team at the Starbucks in Dupont Circle. Just take the red line to Dupont Circle and you will see the Starbucks right there. I will be there with my gigantic laptop. I understand a number of you won't be able to attend, so if there is anything you would like entered into the record (for instance, if you have contacted a potential venue or speaker), let me know. So far I've recorded down that Gallaudet University and the Artisphere have been contacted, with the Artisphere being removed from consideration for being too small a venue. I've also delisted the National Harbor, since we don't appear to be very enthusiastic about it as a venue option. (Feel free to disagree.) No one appears to have been delegated to contact Catholic University or the Kennedy Center, so I also removed those. I am still in the middle of drafting the meeting agenda, but I imagine this meeting to be part strategy and part delegation of responsibility. So far, I have only heard back from Racepacket and Kumioko about venues. I am not too concerned about this, since we still have time to pick a venue and we do not have a coordinated message. We will thus spend some time working on coordinating our message, and once we get that done, then I'll expect more. We will also be deciding who will be taking on what task. After this meeting, I am imagining we will have fewer meetings and more doing, with our work cut out for us. I'll continue to rally people as necessary. If you would look to keep abreast of the meeting, I will also be on IRC in the #wikimedia-northeast channel. If you're not familiar with IRC, you can simply go to http://webchat.freenode.net and use that to get to #wikimedia-northeast. I look forward to this meeting and an impressive bid for Wikimania 2012! James Hare (harej)

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Wikimania 2012 update for January 24
by James Hare 28 Jan '11

28 Jan '11

Good morning! If you are receiving this email, it is either because you are on the Wikimedia DC mailing list or because you gave me your business card and so I have blind-carbon-copied you on this email. If you have not already done so, I strongly advise you sign up for the mailing list through <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-dc>. At the Capitol City Brewery on Saturday night we decided on a 2012 bid, with 2013 remaining as an option if we do not get to host in 2012. We also decided on a list of some places to consider pursuing. The criteria for naming a place was that if someone named it, someone had to also be able to call them. We have our list here, on the bid page: <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2012/Bids/Washington,_D.C.>. If you have other ideas for venues, feel free to list them, but also take the responsibility and ask them about being a venue for Wikimania in 2012. Considerations include being able to accommodate 600-1000 people, housing options (for instance, if we chose a university, we would have access to dormitories), proximity to an airport (such as with sites in Crystal City), and, of course, wireless Internet access. If we are going to be contacting these various venues, we need to be coordinated on our message. How should we sell ourselves? What exactly are our demands? I suggest we discuss this on the talk page, <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimania_2012/Bids/Washington,_D.C.>. I suggest we have this all laid out by Friday, as I believe it was suggested in the meetup, and then we can get to contacting. Also, are there any updates on the sponsorship front? If we should hold a meeting in the interim, please let us know. I'm good for spontaneously meeting somewhere such as Starbucks in the morning or evening -- late morning and afternoon is when I tend to have class, so ask me and I'll let you know if I'll be able to make it or not. --James Hare (User:Harej)

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Fwd: Wikimania Bidding 2012
by aude 15 Jan '11

15 Jan '11

All, Please see message below from Joseph Seddon about doing a bid for 2012 Wikimania here in DC. I know that James (Harej) has talked about this, but want more feedback on what DC folks think? I have some hesitations about it, as I know it's a massive time commitment, and I'm unsure how much time I personally can commit. But, if we have enough (people willing to do *tons* of work to make this happen then, I support it. In 2009, I was on the program committee, and it was a serious commitment of time (10 hours/week or easily more), and I had a minor role. Here is a list of tasks & roles that we need people to fill. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2012/Bids/Washington,_D.C. The other critical thing would be to get the *right* venue... very preferably very close to the Metro that can accommodate ~500 attendees (maybe a bit more than that to be safe). Cheers, Katie (@aude) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Joseph Seddon <seddonwiki(a)gmail.com> Date: Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 2:43 AM Subject: Re: Wikimania Bidding 2012 To: aude.wiki(a)gmail.com Could please forward this around the DC community :) Dear DC community, Earlier this month the bidding for Wikimania 2012 opened and I wanted to encourage your community to consider submitting a bid. Failing to win shouldn't stop you since so much can be learnt by bidding anyway nor should the rotation of Wikimania be an issue since there hasn't been a North American wikimania since 2006. Wikimania provides an excellent opportunity for the local community to come together to work on something big and it may well lead on to other things so please think about it. Creation of bids closes on February 6th so there is plenty of time to create a page and start the work on a bid. If you need any advice please feel free to ask on this list. Many Thanks Joseph Seddon Wikimania 2012 Jury Moderator

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Join campus ambassadors for dinner!
by aude 08 Jan '11

08 Jan '11

Campus ambassadors are doing training this weekend (Jan 8-9) at Georgetown University. I have been told that Wikipedians will be invited to join them for dinner on Saturday, at Bangkok Thai in Georgetown. * * *I can send a follow-up message once I know what time dinner will be. * To get there from Metro is pretty easy. - From Rosslyn, take the red DC Circulator bus (stop at 19th St N & North Moore - walking out of the metro, turn left) and get off at Wisconsin & M St. Walk up Wisconsin Avenue NW (north) one block and go west (left) on Prospect St. You will see Bangkok Thai on the right. - From Foggy Bottom, take the DC Circulator from the westbound stop at 22nd St & Penn Ave NW (walk around Washington Circle). Get off the first stop after the bus turns onto Wisconsin Avenue (at N St). and walk a block south to Prospect, cross Wisconsin and Bangkok Thai is on Prospect (on the right). - From Farragut North, there is a DC Circulator stop right outside the K & Connecticut Ave St exit of the station. Get off the first stop after the bus turns onto Wisconsin Avenue (at N St). and walk a block south to Prospect, cross Wisconsin and Bangkok Thai is on Prospect (on the right). - From Dupont Circle, the Circulator stop is at the corner of 19th & N St NW. (walk out the south exit of the station, turn left). Get off at M St & Potomac St (second bus stop after the bus crosses Key Bridge). Cross M St, go up Potomac St one block, turn right (by Booeymonger) and Bangkok Thai is on Prospect (on the left). Circulator costs $1 or use your SmarTrip card and it's 50 cents transfer from Metro rail. (Yes, I was just very recently told about this or otherwise we might have coordinated last weekend and this weekend better!) Cheers, Katie (@aude)

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ten.wikipedia.org
by Ed Summers 05 Jan '11

05 Jan '11

A friend of mine in NY pointed me at the ten.wikipedia.org event going on later this month to celebrate Wikipedia's 10th Birthday, and specifically the DC event [1]. Did this come up at the meeting on Sunday? Unfortunately I wasn't able to make it. I did sign up to do a lightning talk though. It would be great to get the word out about this event, I see that Kat got it added to the DC-TechEvents [2] calendar, which is good. I wonder if there's any way we can spread the word a bit more? //Ed [1] http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_DC [2] http://www.dctechevents.com/week-of/2011-01-17#2011-01-22

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Status of time and place for meetup....
by Alex Stinson 01 Jan '11

01 Jan '11

Hey all, Have we decided on a time or place for the meetup? Alex

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