Hey everyone! RCC needs volunteers. The food coordination is the
biggest job right now. If anyone is local and has some time this week
to help out, please let me/us know as soon as possible!
cheers,
phoebe
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: John Abbe <johnabbe(a)gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 2:31 PM
RecentChangesCamp is less than two weeks away! Help make this a great
event by signing up to coordinate food or create badge stickers.
And/or join the next planning call this Friday (May 2) - call info and
agenda-building here:
<http://rcc2008.blueoxen.net/may_2_planning_meeting>
=== Feed the People ===
We need a coordinator for food. Spend money to make people's stomachs
happy! Sign up if you're interested here:
<http://rcc2008.blueoxen.net/Food>.
=== Outreach / Child Care / WikiBus from the Northwest ===
* Invite your friends. Especially invite people outside the usual
geek crowd. Take
a look at the invitation list for ideas, or add yours there.
<http://rcc2008.blueoxen.net/invitation_list>
* Keiki is sponsoring child care. Let Evan Prodromou <evan(a)prodromou.name>
know how many kids you're likely to bring, so that he can make sure there are
enough caretakers.
* WikiBus - Get hours of extra conference time by travelling with
others down the west coast from. Express your interest
=== BadgeStickers ===
An (in?)famous RecentChangesCamp tradition is to cover your badges
with little stickers of participants and sponsors' logos. If you'd
like to create the stickers this year, say so on the wiki -
<http://rcc2008.blueoxen.net/BadgeStickers>. If you want stickers of
your logo made, post a link there.
Life,
John
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Hello all,
My name is Teemu. I am from Finland, but right now a visiting fellow
in the SRI International (http://www.sri.com), a research institution
in the Menlo Park, CA.
This Wednesday, 11:30-13:00, in the SRI campus we are having a
Community Teaming Day, an event where staff can learn about volunteer
opportunities from their co-workers and people of different community
organizations.
I promised to present Wikimedia in the event. It would be great to
have someone more experienced "Wikimedian" in there. Please, let me
know if someone in the list could come over to the SRI Campus and
help me. I am not well educated on all the Wikimedia projects and
would appreciate help, especially when it comes to the practices of
the English Wikipedia.
In practice the event is non-formal table with some material where
the staff members can come over pick-up materials, eat lunch with us
and ask questions. So, there is free lunch.
Cary Bass from the WMF office told me today that they could give me a
few flyers and giveaways they have prepared for the Maker Fair. I am
planning to drive tomorrow over to the WMF office to pick the stuff
from there.
Best regards,
- Teemu
PS. From other NGOs I have learned that having (tangible) promotional
materials easily available for the volunteers is a great way to
market the organization's work. Maybe the WMF could provide all the
Chapters some materials, which could then be distributed for the
volunteers to be used in different kind of events and gatherings.
-----------------------------------------------
Teemu Leinonen
http://www.uiah.fi/~tleinone/
+358 50 351 6796
Media Lab
http://mlab.uiah.fi
University of Art and Design Helsinki
-----------------------------------------------
Thanks to everyone who has offered to sign up for Maker Faire on May 3/4.
We could still use about 10 more volunteers to ensure we have 4 separate and
manageable shifts of 5 volunteers each!
There's still time, let me know by Friday - Monday latest if you can still make it.
I'll be sharing plans with those who have offered to help out in the next few days.
Cary will be in touch with you to see what days/times work best - i.e. filling up
the shifts!
Thanks,
--
Jay Walsh
Head of Communications
WikimediaFoundation.org
+1 (415) 839 6885 x 609
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| Samuel Wantman
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| Cary Bass wrote:
| Jay would like to have a quick meetup before Maker Faire (this weekend
| if possible). Can we come up with a nice date and time?
I thank a Saturday meetup could work in the afternoon. How is 2:00pm
for everyone? Somewhere in the city... North Market area possibly or a
library (Phoebe's suggestion at one time). How does this sound?
- --
Cary Bass
Volunteer Coordinator
Your continued donations keep Wikipedia running! Support the Wikimedia
Foundation today: http://donate.wikimedia.org
Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
Phone: 415.839.6885 x 601
Fax: 415.882.0495
E-Mail: cary(a)wikimedia.org
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You're invited to Recent Changes Camp! RCC is scheduled for May 9-11,
2008 at the Socialtext offices in Palo Alto.
RCC is an informal barcamp-style conference focussed on wikis.
Previous incarnations have been held in Montreal and Portland, Oregon.
Wiki enthusiasts and members of all wiki communities are welcome.
As the invitation says:
RecentChangesCamp was born from the intersection of wiki and OpenSpace
- a very wiki-like way of organizing gatherings. A lot of cool people
into wiki, community and collaboration will be there - what do you
want to talk with them about? Every participant is invited to lead
their own sessions; the guideline is to take responsibility for what
you love. In addition to general and technical conversations about -
and actual coding on - wikis and other software, session topics from
past RCCs have covered subjects from art to social organizing to
philanthropy, playing a creative conversation game, and individual &
group coding practices. See the past conference wikis for more
complete lists and session notes.
Anyone and everyone is invited to attend. You will especially enjoy
Recent Changes Camp, if you happen to be any of the the following:
* Member of any open wiki community or someone who uses wikis at
work, school or in any other context
* Interested in community, action, collaboration, creativity or any
other activity in which the self-organizing power of wiki might be
helpful
* Interested in the OpenCulture and/or OpenTechnology movements
* Interested in knowledge creation and sharing knowledge
* A generally curious and inquisitive person
RCC is also looking for volunteers! You can sign up, get more
information, and help with the planning here:
http://rcc2008.blueoxen.net/
I hope many members of the Wikimedia community can make it! Post your
questions on the wiki, or I can help answer questions -- just let me
know.
best,
Phoebe
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Jay would like to have a quick meetup before Maker Faire (this weekend
if possible). Can we come up with a nice date and time?
- --
Cary Bass
Volunteer Coordinator
Your continued donations keep Wikipedia running! Support the Wikimedia
Foundation today: http://donate.wikimedia.org
Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
Phone: 415.839.6885
Fax: 415.882.0495
E-Mail: cary(a)wikimedia.org
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One of my German Wikipedian friends asked if anyone in SF would be
taking pictures of the Olympic torch run/protest for commons or
wikinews (or both...)
http://www.sfgate.com/olympictorch/
-- phoebe
Jimmy Wales wrote:
> Finally, I think there is the matter of the "language compactness". And
> this to me is most persuasive. For the most part, non-English languages
> are more "compact" than English. For an extreme example, consider
> Dutch: virtually all Dutch speakers can make it to anywhere in Holland
> within 2-3 hours by train. This means that when a meetup happens,
> everyone who is anyone is likely to be there.
Fun fact: the geographical catchment area for even the "local" SF Bay
Area meetups is not much smaller than the entire Netherlands. So
logistically, organizing even a local meetup in the hypothetical case of
people all working on SF-specific subjects is about on the same level of
difficulty as organizing a Netherlands-wide meetup. Never mind even
organizing a meeting of something as geographically gigantic, yet
content-wise still pretty specific, as Wikiproject California...
[Numbers: People come to SF meetups from about an 80-mile radius in all
directions, vaguely delimited by Sacramento in the northeast and
Monterey/Hollister in the south, forming a half-circle of about 10,000
sq miles---the Netherlands is about 16,000 sq miles, and has a lot more
trains within that area.]
So, yeah, I think that's a big part of it. If I think of the top 20
people I've interacted with on the English Wikipedia and wouldn't mind
meeting with in person, they're on three different continents, and even
the ones in North America range from Los Angeles to Montreal. So I tend
to treat local meetups as just a social opportunity only marginally
connected with what I "really" do on the wikis.
-Mark
All;
After discussion with several individuals much more knowledgable than I, I have decided to retract the chapter proposal. However I did see interest in further delineating the issue, especially in regard to the Foundation and chapters.
With that said, I am considering forming a US West Chapters Working Group on Meta to discuss these issues and finally hash out a idea of what the boundaries are and if chapters would be ideal.
Is anyone interested?
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Good idea. Where i see this as beneficial would be in several areas. This might end up including the West Coast
Whereever we stage events, the visas are going to be a nightmare. California has several dozen consulates and INS offices. A Wikimedia California would have the boots on the ground to get Consular Officers to help us with visas. Even if we still have to submit a stack of paper, it will be a lot more coordinated than worrying about someone being denied at the border.
Also museums often bar public members from photographing their collections. A organization would have the ability to get these museums to open their doors.
----- Original Message ----
From: Kul Takanao Wadhwa <kwadhwa(a)wikimedia.org>
Cc: wikimedia-sf(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Sent: Monday, March 31, 2008 1:49:10 PM
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-SF] California Chapter
We should probably have a discussion with Mike (general counsel) to
figure out the best
legal structure for this depending what we want to accomplish as a US
"chapter."
--Kul
Head of Business Development
Wikimedia Foundation
phoebe ayers wrote:
>I think the answer is, as Brion said, "it's hard." It has been really
>difficult to organize US-based chapters so far because of our
>particular legal structures. Therefore a better question to ask is "If
>we had one, what would the chapter be doing, and can we do those
>things anyway?" Because we are in the US and therefore money can be
>handled directly by the Foundation, having the structure of a chapter
>may not actually provide much benefit. That does not stop us however
>from getting together and doing stuff, like the current chapters do
>now.
>
>-- phoebe
>
>On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 12:30 PM, Geoffrey Plourde <geo.plrd(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
>>Several meetups have already occurred, I am curious as to whther or not
>>people are interested in making a chapter.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>----- Original Message ----
>>From: Brion Vibber <brion(a)wikimedia.org>
>>To: wikimedia-sf(a)lists.wikimedia.org
>>Sent: Monday, March 31, 2008 12:27:25 PM
>>Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-SF] California Chapter
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>>Geoffrey Plourde wrote:
>>
>>
>>>San Francisco Wikipedians (Sanfranpedians?);
>>>
>>>I am looking into starting Wikimedia California. Would anyone here be
>>>interested?
>>>
>>>
>>I think we have yet to figure out firmly what the mission or legal
>>structure for chapters in the US would be... :)
>>
>>For other countries, a big part of it is to establish a local legal
>>structure that can accept tax-free donations -- something the Wikimedia
>>Foundation itself handles here the US.
>>
>>But that structure can also be a useful way to organize local
>>activities, outreach, conferences and meetups as well as other online
>>and offline activity by Wikipedians other Wikimedians. Since the
>>Wikimedia Foundation decided not to become a membership-based
>>organization, concentrating on the high-level hosting and PR, there's a
>>bit of a vacuum still on how individuals can get involved and organized.
>>
>>
>>Rather than starting by saying "let's start a chapter", I might suggest
>>picking some particular event to organize, such as a California or west
>>coast-based Wikimedia user conference, and then we can see what kind of
>>organization can and should grow up around the community that builds it.
>>
>>I should also stress that such an event should be a community-organized,
>>community-oriented affair. Make the Wikimedia Foundation a guest, not an
>>organizer or a funder... :)
>>
>>- -- brion vibber (brion @ wikimedia.org)
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