I've been thinking (irregardless of our Wikimania bid) that it's important we make some outreach effort in the local area to teach people about Wikipedia, aim to bring in new editors and increase our diversity, such as more African Americans & women. It would also be great to reach out to populations like Ethiopians.
One way for us to do this would be to organize periodic workshops or classes at the local libraries in DC. We could start out with something at the MLK library in downtown DC.
Here's our local outreach page ( http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_DC/Local_outreach) which needs to be filled out to make it more than just ideas and include concrete plans to do something.
Good idea? Who wants to help out? I do have some contacts at DC Library so could see about arranging something once we have enough of us interested in doing this.
Cheers, Katie
Fairfax County would be a good location, too - there are large Korean and Vietnamese communities, and a big Spanish-speaking population, too, who would be great for outreach to South and Central America. There's also a Mongolian community in Arlington County, and an Afghan presence in the area generally. I'm all in favor of fostering involvement among them, too.
2011/3/4 aude aude.wiki@gmail.com
I've been thinking (irregardless of our Wikimania bid) that it's important we make some outreach effort in the local area to teach people about Wikipedia, aim to bring in new editors and increase our diversity, such as more African Americans & women. It would also be great to reach out to populations like Ethiopians.
One way for us to do this would be to organize periodic workshops or classes at the local libraries in DC. We could start out with something at the MLK library in downtown DC.
Here's our local outreach page ( http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_DC/Local_outreach) which needs to be filled out to make it more than just ideas and include concrete plans to do something.
Good idea? Who wants to help out? I do have some contacts at DC Library so could see about arranging something once we have enough of us interested in doing this.
Cheers, Katie
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2011/3/4 Steve P. verdianspursfan@gmail.com
Fairfax County would be a good location, too - there are large Korean and Vietnamese communities, and a big Spanish-speaking population, too, who would be great for outreach to South and Central America. There's also a Mongolian community in Arlington County, and an Afghan presence in the area generally. I'm all in favor of fostering involvement among them, too.
Good idea, definitely agree that we could do a lot of outreach around Fairfax and other suburban areas (e.g. Falls Church).
Cheers, Katie
2011/3/4 aude aude.wiki@gmail.com
I've been thinking (irregardless of our Wikimania bid) that it's important we make some outreach effort in the local area to teach people about Wikipedia, aim to bring in new editors and increase our diversity, such as more African Americans & women. It would also be great to reach out to populations like Ethiopians.
One way for us to do this would be to organize periodic workshops or classes at the local libraries in DC. We could start out with something at the MLK library in downtown DC.
Here's our local outreach page ( http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_DC/Local_outreach) which needs to be filled out to make it more than just ideas and include concrete plans to do something.
Good idea? Who wants to help out? I do have some contacts at DC Library so could see about arranging something once we have enough of us interested in doing this.
Cheers, Katie
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2011/3/4 Steve P. verdianspursfan@gmail.com
Fairfax County would be a good location, too - there are large Korean and
Vietnamese communities, and a big Spanish-speaking population, too, who would be great for outreach to South and Central America. There's also a Mongolian community in Arlington County, and an Afghan presence in the area generally. I'm all in favor of fostering involvement among them, too.
Good idea, definitely agree that we could do a lot of outreach around Fairfax and other suburban areas (e.g. Falls Church).
Last Summer, I briefly talked to one of the chief administrators at the Martin Luther King Memorial library and they said that they would be interested in holding a workshop in their space as long as we made sure that the space would be open to the public (they have a computer lab with projector in their space). They also said that if we wanted to do meetings there, as a chapter, we were more than welcome to reserve the space. I was planning on continuing the activity there if we got a number of people interested in the Smithsonian outreach and we solidified as a chapter, which we didn't last summer. I have a card for the person sitting on my desk back in Springfield, however since I am in England right now, don't have access too it. If you contact the person responsible for reserving spaces, she is the executive assistant for the directors there, and she may be able to put you in contact with him,
Alex Stinson
On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 3:06 PM, Alex Stinson stinsoad@dukes.jmu.edu wrote:
2011/3/4 aude aude.wiki@gmail.com
2011/3/4 Steve P. verdianspursfan@gmail.com
Fairfax County would be a good location, too - there are large Korean and
Vietnamese communities, and a big Spanish-speaking population, too, who would be great for outreach to South and Central America. There's also a Mongolian community in Arlington County, and an Afghan presence in the area generally. I'm all in favor of fostering involvement among them, too.
Good idea, definitely agree that we could do a lot of outreach around Fairfax and other suburban areas (e.g. Falls Church).
Last Summer, I briefly talked to one of the chief administrators at the Martin Luther King Memorial library and they said that they would be interested in holding a workshop in their space as long as we made sure that the space would be open to the public (they have a computer lab with projector in their space). They also said that if we wanted to do meetings there, as a chapter, we were more than welcome to reserve the space. I was planning on continuing the activity there if we got a number of people interested in the Smithsonian outreach
and we solidified as a chapter, which we didn't last summer. I have a card
for the person sitting on my desk back in Springfield, however since I am in England right now, don't have access too it. If you contact the person responsible for reserving spaces, she is the executive assistant for the directors there, and she may be able to put you in contact with him,
It's not a problem to contact them. I know a couple folks there and can try her too. I think we'd want 3-4 volunteers to run each workshop or class.
We could try this out by doing 2 workshops, one at MLK and one in Fairfax.
I assume there are materials from the public policy initiative that could be a starting point, and maybe an ambassador or two that wants to help (but not required).
Cheers, Katie
Alex Stinson
I assume there are materials from the public policy initiative that could be a starting point, and maybe an ambassador or two that wants to help (but not required).
Richard (User:Pharos) and David Goodman (User:DGG) developed a library workshop which can be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Pharos/NWCU and the relevant PPI documents would be: *http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Campus_Intro_to_Wikipedia_slides.pdf , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Campus_Wikipedia_Literacy_slides.pdf , and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Campus_Wikipedia_Essentials_slides.pdf .
Also the other pamphlets at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Ambassadors/Resources are very useful and will offer a good set of information which to base a presentation on,
Alex
If you would like to use space at the Library of Congress I think I could arrange something in the National Digital Library Learning Center which can hold up to 40 people, and has public wifi, and a projector for slides/demos/etc.
//Ed
2011/3/4 Alex Stinson stinsoad@dukes.jmu.edu:
2011/3/4 aude aude.wiki@gmail.com
2011/3/4 Steve P. verdianspursfan@gmail.com
Fairfax County would be a good location, too - there are large Korean and Vietnamese communities, and a big Spanish-speaking population, too, who would be great for outreach to South and Central America. There's also a Mongolian community in Arlington County, and an Afghan presence in the area generally. I'm all in favor of fostering involvement among them, too.
Good idea, definitely agree that we could do a lot of outreach around Fairfax and other suburban areas (e.g. Falls Church).
Last Summer, I briefly talked to one of the chief administrators at the Martin Luther King Memorial library and they said that they would be interested in holding a workshop in their space as long as we made sure that the space would be open to the public (they have a computer lab with projector in their space). They also said that if we wanted to do meetings there, as a chapter, we were more than welcome to reserve the space. I was planning on continuing the activity there if we got a number of people interested in the Smithsonian outreach and we solidified as a chapter, which we didn't last summer. I have a card for the person sitting on my desk back in Springfield, however since I am in England right now, don't have access too it. If you contact the person responsible for reserving spaces, she is the executive assistant for the directors there, and she may be able to put you in contact with him, Alex Stinson
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On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 3:18 PM, Ed Summers ehs@pobox.com wrote:
If you would like to use space at the Library of Congress I think I could arrange something in the National Digital Library Learning Center which can hold up to 40 people, and has public wifi, and a projector for slides/demos/etc.
Ed,
Thanks! We always have a need for space to do things. If/when we want to do a workshop targeted towards GLAM folks, that would be perfect.
For community workshops though, with the demographics we're targeting and at least at the outset, I think MLK (and eventually the neighborhood libraries in and beyond DC) would be ideal. They/we could put up flyers, etc., and think it's important to build good relationships between our group and the city and local govs.
Cheers, Katie
PS - We also have contacts in the city's GIS office and could invite/involve them if/when we want to do a Wikipedia Takes DC / or "Wikipedia Loves Art" type event.
//Ed
2011/3/4 Alex Stinson stinsoad@dukes.jmu.edu:
2011/3/4 aude aude.wiki@gmail.com
2011/3/4 Steve P. verdianspursfan@gmail.com
Fairfax County would be a good location, too - there are large Korean
and
Vietnamese communities, and a big Spanish-speaking population, too, who would be great for outreach to South and Central America. There's also
a
Mongolian community in Arlington County, and an Afghan presence in the
area
generally. I'm all in favor of fostering involvement among them, too.
Good idea, definitely agree that we could do a lot of outreach around Fairfax and other suburban areas (e.g. Falls Church).
Last Summer, I briefly talked to one of the chief administrators at the Martin Luther King Memorial library and they said that they would be interested in holding a workshop in their space as long as we made sure
that
the space would be open to the public (they have a computer lab with projector in their space). They also said that if we wanted to do
meetings
there, as a chapter, we were more than welcome to reserve the space. I
was
planning on continuing the activity there if we got a number of people interested in the Smithsonian outreach and we solidified as a chapter,
which
we didn't last summer. I have a card for the person sitting on my desk
back
in Springfield, however since I am in England right now, don't have
access
too it. If you contact the person responsible for reserving spaces, she
is
the executive assistant for the directors there, and she may be able to
put
you in contact with him, Alex Stinson
Wikimedia-DC mailing list Wikimedia-DC@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-dc
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My mother has contact info for the volunteer coordinator of outreach at my local library, and I'm sure similar info for others wouldn't be difficult to find. Mine's a small one, and I'm not sure a workshop there would be of much use, but at others in the system it would be great.
2011/3/4 aude aude.wiki@gmail.com
On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 3:18 PM, Ed Summers ehs@pobox.com wrote:
If you would like to use space at the Library of Congress I think I could arrange something in the National Digital Library Learning Center which can hold up to 40 people, and has public wifi, and a projector for slides/demos/etc.
Ed,
Thanks! We always have a need for space to do things. If/when we want to do a workshop targeted towards GLAM folks, that would be perfect.
For community workshops though, with the demographics we're targeting and at least at the outset, I think MLK (and eventually the neighborhood libraries in and beyond DC) would be ideal. They/we could put up flyers, etc., and think it's important to build good relationships between our group and the city and local govs.
Cheers, Katie
PS - We also have contacts in the city's GIS office and could invite/involve them if/when we want to do a Wikipedia Takes DC / or "Wikipedia Loves Art" type event.
//Ed
2011/3/4 Alex Stinson stinsoad@dukes.jmu.edu:
2011/3/4 aude aude.wiki@gmail.com
2011/3/4 Steve P. verdianspursfan@gmail.com
Fairfax County would be a good location, too - there are large Korean
and
Vietnamese communities, and a big Spanish-speaking population, too,
who
would be great for outreach to South and Central America. There's
also a
Mongolian community in Arlington County, and an Afghan presence in the
area
generally. I'm all in favor of fostering involvement among them, too.
Good idea, definitely agree that we could do a lot of outreach around Fairfax and other suburban areas (e.g. Falls Church).
Last Summer, I briefly talked to one of the chief administrators at the Martin Luther King Memorial library and they said that they would be interested in holding a workshop in their space as long as we made sure
that
the space would be open to the public (they have a computer lab with projector in their space). They also said that if we wanted to do
meetings
there, as a chapter, we were more than welcome to reserve the space. I
was
planning on continuing the activity there if we got a number of people interested in the Smithsonian outreach and we solidified as a chapter,
which
we didn't last summer. I have a card for the person sitting on my desk
back
in Springfield, however since I am in England right now, don't have
access
too it. If you contact the person responsible for reserving spaces, she
is
the executive assistant for the directors there, and she may be able to
put
you in contact with him, Alex Stinson
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