(CCing PA and NY Wikimedians; please come!)
As you are hopefully aware by now, since it is in the geonotice and I have spammed talk pages, this Saturday, the National Archives will be hosting us for a backstage pass tour and editathon. We have lots of space, and we could have up to 40 people! So far, only 2 people have signed up as sure yeses, which is a bit sad. :-( If you can possibly come, please do! Don't feel like you need to come for the whole day if you can't/don't want to. If you are afraid you may have trouble getting to College Park without a car, we can make arrangements to make sure you get here, too. So, for everyone, whether you can make it or not, I'd like to ask your help in getting the word out. Please help make sure we have a good turnout. The meetup page is < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/DC_20%3E.
We will be given a tour of the facility, including an opportunity to go in the closed stacks and see some documents. There will also be time for lunch. Afterward, we will convene in the research rooms for an editathon, and will hopefully be joined by several staff members who want to get involved in Wikipedia. I am holding a crash course in Wikipedia for staff all this week. We also have a scanner (and visitors can bring their own), which we can use to digitize documents for Commons; submit requests ahead of time, or a staff member will pick some for us. New scans we do for documents not yet in the catalog will then be cataloged by NARA staff using our scans! And there are plenty of books and journals on hand for article research; let me know if you want to pick a theme for the editing.
Dominic
2011/8/1 Dominic McDevitt-Parks mcdevitd@gmail.com
(CCing PA and NY Wikimedians; please come!)
As you are hopefully aware by now, since it is in the geonotice and I have spammed talk pages, this Saturday, the National Archives will be hosting us for a backstage pass tour and editathon. We have lots of space, and we could have up to 40 people! So far, only 2 people have signed up as sure yeses, which is a bit sad. :-( If you can possibly come, please do! Don't feel like you need to come for the whole day if you can't/don't want to. If you are afraid you may have trouble getting to College Park without a car, we can make arrangements to make sure you get here, too.
There's a bit of a conflict here. When you say "If you are afraid you may have trouble getting to College Park without a car, we can make arrangements to make sure you get here, too," it looks as if there is no public transportation to the place and you're thinking "carpool." But in that case, I'd be tied to the schedule of whoever is operating the car I'd be riding in, and my schedule would be a lot more rigidly constrained than is implied by "Don't feel like you need to come for the whole day if you can't/don't want to." So, unless there is a regular public bus (or train), operated by Metro or The Bus, I would have to beg off.
2011/8/2 Bruce R. Gilson brg1942@gmail.com
2011/8/1 Dominic McDevitt-Parks mcdevitd@gmail.com
(CCing PA and NY Wikimedians; please come!)
As you are hopefully aware by now, since it is in the geonotice and I have spammed talk pages, this Saturday, the National Archives will be hosting us for a backstage pass tour and editathon. We have lots of space, and we could have up to 40 people! So far, only 2 people have signed up as sure yeses, which is a bit sad. :-( If you can possibly come, please do! Don't feel like you need to come for the whole day if you can't/don't want to. If you are afraid you may have trouble getting to College Park without a car, we can make arrangements to make sure you get here, too.
There's a bit of a conflict here. When you say "If you are afraid you may have trouble getting to College Park without a car, we can make arrangements to make sure you get here, too," it looks as if there is no public transportation to the place and you're thinking "carpool." But in that case, I'd be tied to the schedule of whoever is operating the car I'd be riding in, and my schedule would be a lot more rigidly constrained than is implied by "Don't feel like you need to come for the whole day if you can't/don't want to." So, unless there is a regular public bus (or train), operated by Metro or The Bus, I would have to beg off.
The National Archives has a shuttle bus that operates regularly (each hour) between the Prince George's Plaza metro station and their College Park facility.
http://www.archives.gov/dc-metro/college-park/
I think it can also be arranged to pick up / drop off people at the metro station.
Cheers, Katie
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2011/8/2 Bruce R. Gilson brg1942@gmail.com
2011/8/1 Dominic McDevitt-Parks mcdevitd@gmail.com
(CCing PA and NY Wikimedians; please come!)
As you are hopefully aware by now, since it is in the geonotice and I have spammed talk pages, this Saturday, the National Archives will be hosting us for a backstage pass tour and editathon. We have lots of space, and we could have up to 40 people! So far, only 2 people have signed up as sure yeses, which is a bit sad. :-( If you can possibly come, please do! Don't feel like you need to come for the whole day if you can't/don't want to. If you are afraid you may have trouble getting to College Park without a car, we can make arrangements to make sure you get here, too.
There's a bit of a conflict here. When you say "If you are afraid you may have trouble getting to College Park without a car, we can make arrangements to make sure you get here, too," it looks as if there is no public transportation to the place and you're thinking "carpool." But in that case, I'd be tied to the schedule of whoever is operating the car I'd be riding in, and my schedule would be a lot more rigidly constrained than is implied by "Don't feel like you need to come for the whole day if you can't/don't want to." So, unless there is a regular public bus (or train), operated by Metro or The Bus, I would have to beg off.
Public transportation is possible; it just happens to be fairly infrequent to the facility, since it's not within walking distance of the Metro station. The shuttle from Prince George's Plaza that Katie mentioned runs every hour and there is also a bus from the College Park Metro that runs every half hour. There is a lot more information about transportation on the meetup page, thanks to Rfc1394 ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/DC_20).
Dominic
2011/8/2 Dominic McDevitt-Parks mcdevitd@gmail.com
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Public transportation is possible; it just happens to be fairly infrequent to the facility, since it's not within walking distance of the Metro station. The shuttle from Prince George's Plaza that Katie mentioned runs every hour and there is also a bus from the College Park Metro that runs every half hour. There is a lot more information about transportation on the meetup page, thanks to Rfc1394 ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/DC_20).
The more I think about it, the less likely it is that I could come. Yes, there is transit, but I'd need to ride at least 3 buses to get there. Just too long a trip.
On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 2:29 PM, Bruce R. Gilson brg1942@gmail.com wrote:
[...] The more I think about it, the less likely it is that I could come. Yes, there is transit, but I'd need to ride at least 3 buses to get there. Just too long a trip.
Actually, I just saw the instructions and it's the C8 bus I'd need, which makes all the difference. Instead of hauling out to College Park and then taking yet another bus, I just take the C8 from White Flint -- it passes within 3 blocks of me enroute. So I likely will come,
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