I know there's a fair amount of overlap between Wikimedians and folks
experimenting in the Open Microblogging world... There's going to be a
meetup of Identica 'denters here in SF, 7pm this Tuesday at the
Edinburgh Castle pub on Geary:
http://identi.ca/notice/2333146
Anybody want to come hang out? Evan Prodromou will be in town, doing a
little post-RecentChangesCamp traveling down the coast. Come hang out
with wacky microblog & wiki people! It'll be fun!
-- brion
Apologies for the off-topic nature of this, but I think it may be
interesting to many list subscribers.
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Sunshine Week is a national initiative about the importance of open
government and freedom of information. This year, two library
organizations, NOCALL GRC and the Sierra Nevada Chapter of SLA, are
partnering with McGeorge School of Law in Sacramento to bring you a
national webcast about open government followed by two speakers on
freedom of information and journalism.
The webcast, live from Washington D.C., is called "Opening Doors:
Finding the Keys to Open Government" and will feature two panels: one
consisting of Congressional and Administration policy-makers who will
discuss how the government and the public can make the federal
government more open, and the other consisting of individuals with
expertise in making government information available in a useful
format online.
Following the webcast, two speakers will present: Terry Francke,
General Counsel and Founder of Californians Aware, and Andrew
McIntosh, a senior writer at The Sacramento Bee, where he serves as a
public records and FOIA specialist.
The event is Wednesday, March 25 at McGeorge, from 9:00am-1:00pm.
Lunch is included, and the program costs $15. For more information and
to register, see:
http://units.sla.org/chapter/csrn/events.html
For more information on the national sunshine week efforts, see:
http://www.sunshineweek.org/
Please send this along to anyone interested in open government, FOIA,
or related issues.
best,
Phoebe
>From the foundation-l list.... anyone interested in participating in
this at a Bay Area museum? Are there any ones that would be
particularly good to try and coordinate with?
-- Phoebe
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From: Pharos <pharosofalexandria(a)gmail.com>
Date: Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 8:12 PM
Subject: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia Loves Art- photography contest at
museums worldwide
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hi folks,
I'd like to let you folks know about "Wikipedia Loves Art", a
scavenger hunt and free content photography contest project being
organized at several museums worldwide in February.
So far these museums are confirmed:
Brooklyn Museum in New York City
Victoria and Albert Museum in London
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Inadianapolis Museum of Art
But we're very interested in recruiting other institutions to join.
There have been some rumblings in Australia, Hungary and Germany on
that front, I think.
Here are the main relevant links:
http://www.flickr.com/groups/wikipedia_loves_art/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Loves_Art
These links also cover some of our past photography projects in New
York City (which this project is partly an evolution on):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Takes_Manhattan/Spring_2008http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Takes_Manhattanhttp://www.streetfilms.org/archives/wikis-take-manhattan/
If anyone anywhere is interested in helping their local museum to
participate in this project, please contact me and I'll help.
Thanks,
Pharos
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FYI:
> Dreamfish is hosting our first San Francisco Wiki Wednesday this week on
> Thursday, February 5, at 6pm. Nothing big or fancy, but it would be
> great if you came.
>
> Please also forward or invite anyone else you think might be appropriate!
>
> Info / RSVP:
> http://www.socialtext.net/wikiwed/index.cgi?san_francisco_february_2009