Greetings,
We are conducting a poll is being conducted to gauge interest in a
Wikipedia edit-a-thon in the Bay Area to mark Women's history month. We
are trying to identify the date and location that would work best for
attendees. If this is a topic that interests you or if you would like to
help out, please fill out the poll. You should also feel free to post
this to other lists. Please respond by this Friday!
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/K89J3ZM
Best,
Merrilee
Hi folks,
We were recently asked if WMF could provide some awareness/info
sponsorship for a new conference being hosted by the UC Berkeley law
school titled 'Innovate/Activate.' It's a conference about DIY
Activism, Internet advocacy, IP issues, and how make more sharing
happen in the world. The conference is being hosted Saturday, April
20 and Sunday April 21. Our own Wikimedia Board of Trustees member
Kat Walsh will be attending, and it appears she may even run an
awesome talk on the WP Blackout and SOPA. Other Wikimedia Foundation
staff may be there.
Wikimedia Foundation is an 'intellectual sponsor' of the event (what a
charming way to describe ourselves), rather than a financial sponsor.
We're spreading the world to people in the area and joining several
other like-minded orgs. Of course we don't necessarily endorse the
specific panel topics or activities, but the spirit of the event is in
line with topics and issues we care about: free and open web, sharing,
releasing information etc etc.
More about the conference here:
http://www.innovateactivate.org/
And if you're really feeling ambitious you can propose a relevant
talk, although you may only have a few hours left to do so... Late
notice is better than none...
http://www.innovateactivate.org/getactivated
Onpassing for your info!
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Jay Walsh
Head of Communications
WikimediaFoundation.orgblog.wikimedia.org
+1 (415) 839 6885 x 6609, @jansonw
All,
In order to prevent people from getting spamming on the SF list with Maker
Faire planning and to assist in people actually getting some planning done
in advance.... I'm pleased to announce we have a new mailing list dedicated
to Maker Faire: wikimedia-sf-makerfaire
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-sf-makerfaire
If you are even remotely interested/curious in
participating/supporting/helping out/etc with Maker Faire then please
subscribe to that list. We'll make an occasional announcement on the SF
about the important information for Maker Faire. Otherwise I hope to see
you on wm-sf-mf!
-Jon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/San_Francisco/Maker_Faire_20…
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Jon
[[User:ShakataGaNai]] / KJ6FNQ
http://snowulf.com/http://ipv6wiki.net/
Calling on women and others of all stripes, polka dots, and textures - Bay Area Women's History Month call to action and plan development
Please see Fellow Sarah's beginning: http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/SFWHM
KS Rolph
Hey Bay Area Wikimedians,
I just wanted to let you know that the Community Dept will be hosting a
Saturday lunch at the Foundation offices. It's been too long since we had
an SF meetup, and we never had a proper Wikipedia Day celebration in the
office.
So please come if you can, and spread the word because we're hoping to get
people from the Bay Area and California who don't normally attend. As a
side note, that Saturday the Board of Trustees will be in the office, so
some of them may join us on their lunch break.
Details and signup:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/San_Francisco_17
Steven Walling
Hello, all,
To answer my own query:
Given the fact we are already in Black History Month, and that there is no reply except for Sarah's kind offer, it is safe to assume that Wikipedia is not going to celebrate Black History Month 2012. Perhaps the movie ''Redtails'', which is about the [[Tuskegee Airmen]], will spark sufficient interest that Wikipedia will have a Black History Month 2013.
George
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Hi all,
I'm Merrilee, and I work at a non profit that supports libraries - we
are based in Central Ohio, but also have an office in San Mateo. I'd be
happy to host an edit-a-thon and to reach out to our members that have
archival and library collections featuring women (particularly those
that have online content in the public domain) to provide fodder. I am a
Wikipedia newbie, but we are hoping to develop a Wikipedian in Residence
position this summer. I would love to work with a local partner to do
something. So Asaf, I'd be interested in being a partner in crime!
Best,
Merrilee
Merrilee Proffitt, Senior Program Officer
OCLC Research
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Bartov
Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2012 6:15 PM
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Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-SF] International Women's History Month
I don't have time to actually _produce_ or plan anything, but I'm happy
to help out if someone else is. I can deliver outreach talks on a
variety of topics, or co-tutor at a practical workshop.
Cheers,
Asaf
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 4:27 PM, Sarah Stierch <sarah.stierch(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Hi everyone,
I finally joined this list the other day! So hello! I'm Sarah, a long
time Wikipedian and I'm serving as a community fellow at the Foundation,
focusing on gender gap work. I actually split my time between Washington
DC and San Francisco, where my family lives. I'm wrapping up my master's
here in DC and will be moving back to the Bay Area come early June.
Anyhoo, enough about me.
March is International Women's History Month and I'm just curious if
anyone on list have anything planned to celebrate in regards to outreach
events. We'll be having an edit-a-thon here in Washington, DC related to
women in science! I'd love to see something taking place in San
Francisco, of course, and have Wikimedians regardless of gender inspire
one another to contribute to women's history coverage on any language
and project.
Of course, outreach events that bring new users would be fabulous as
well!
I'd like to provide support anyway I can, please let me know if you'd
like assistance in making something wonderful happen in your area.
I'll be developing a page on Wiki to celebrate events, and it'd be
wonderful to have events to fill it up with, of course! This could be as
simple as having an edit-a-thon with friends at your house, to having a
more structured event. I'd also love to see some outreach events that
involve photographs of historical landmarks related to women's history.
I look forward to hearing from you, and feel free to forward this
message to any appropriate people or parties!
-Sarah
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Hey all,
Recently, the idea of a RecentChangesCamp in Portland, San Francisco,
Seattle, or elsewhere on the west coast has popped up on the RCC-planning
mailing list.
For those who don't know, RCC is one of the longer-standing wiki
conferences, and has been held in Portland more than anywhere else. The
last Portland one was in 2008; it's also been held in Montreal (x2),
Camberra, Australia (x2), Boston, and Palo Alto.
I think it's fantastic that this community remembers Portland so fondly,
and is so interested in having a conference there. And there's clearly a
very fertile soil in SF as well. From past experience, this conference only
happens if there is strong local will to pull it off. But if that exists,
there is a good core, international group of volunteers who will help out,
and provide insights from past events.
At the same time, it seems to me that the wiki world has evolved since RCC
was first held. There are now several similar models, including the
WikiConference (the Wikimedia movement's name for regional conferences; one
was held last year in San Francisco); WikiSym (an academic conference about
online collaboration, which has grown to include an Open Space component
like RCC). Also, the PortlandWiki grown up since the last one, and has
found some solid allies and beneficiaries in independent groups like Occupy
and Portland Afoot.
So, my question is: do people feel like putting together a wiki conference
in 2012? And is RCC a good model for doing that?
I'd highly recommend joining the RCC-planning email list and discussing
there, so that we don't get separate discussions going.
https://groups.google.com/group/rcc-planning
-Pete
p.s. As an aside, I recently set up an IRC channel : #wikimedia-westcoast.
While I know that many of you are more "wiki" people than "Wikimedia"
people, I hope this is a useful tool for networking -- if you're an IRC
user, please join us and say hi sometime!
Isn't there anything going for Black History Month?
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I don't have time to actually _produce_ or plan anything, but I'm happy to
help out if someone else is. I can deliver outreach talks on a variety of
topics, or co-tutor at a practical workshop.
Cheers,
Asaf
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 4:27 PM, Sarah Stierch <sarah.stierch(a)gmail.com>wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I *finally* joined this list the other day! So hello! I'm Sarah, a long
> time Wikipedian and I'm serving as a community fellow at the Foundation,
> focusing on gender gap work. I actually split my time between Washington DC
> and San Francisco, where my family lives. I'm wrapping up my master's here
> in DC and will be moving back to the Bay Area come early June. Anyhoo,
> enough about me.
>
> March is International Women's History Month and I'm just curious if
> anyone on list have anything planned to celebrate in regards to outreach
> events. We'll be having an edit-a-thon here in Washington, DC related to
> women in science! I'd love to see something taking place in San Francisco,
> of course, and have Wikimedians regardless of gender inspire one another to
> contribute to women's history coverage on any language and project.
>
> Of course, outreach events that bring new users would be fabulous as well!
>
> I'd like to provide support anyway I can, please let me know if you'd like
> assistance in making something wonderful happen in your area.
>
> I'll be developing a page on Wiki to celebrate events, and it'd be
> wonderful to have events to fill it up with, of course! This could be as
> simple as having an edit-a-thon with friends at your house, to having a
> more structured event. I'd also love to see some outreach events that
> involve photographs of historical landmarks related to women's history.
>
> I look forward to hearing from you, and feel free to forward this message
> to any appropriate people or parties!
>
> -Sarah
>
>
>
>
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> *Wikimedia Foundation Community Fellow*
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