All-
Several of us are working to set up a recurring monthly wiki meetup in San
Francisco!
We're using the name "WikiSalon," which has been used by groups in NYC and
Washington DC. There's a planning doc on Meta Wiki:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Monthly_WikiSalon_in_San_Francisco (Some of
you might be more familiar with the "Wiki Wednesday" name...same idea, more
or less :)
We plan to get together the evening of Wednesday, March 30 to solidify
plans. If you're interested in joining in to help plan, please join us! (We
think this one will be a pretty small group, and we'll do a bigger
announcement for the April WikiSalon.)
Looking forward to connecting with more of you in person!
Happy editing,
-Pete
[[User:Peteforsyth]]
All,
I have confirmation that we have a room at the Wikimedia Foundation this
Wednedsay evening at 6:00pm. The office is at 149 New Montgomery Street.
I'm not sure how late the front desk is open, so in case the security guard
leaves at 6:00, you might want to arrive a few minutes early; or if you
can't get in, feel free to text or call me at 503-383-9454.
George: Any way I can assist in getting to the office? I don't have a car,
but if a walking companion would make it easier I'd be happy to meet you
ahead of time.
J: No strong idea about scope or length of time; we just want to chat about
the idea of having a recurring monthly get-together, brainstorm ideas, and
hang out. Probably an hour or two.
Merrilee, Asaf, Neil: Glad to know you're interested! We'll definitely
report back to the list. I'm pretty sure we will be planning the first
meeting for a Wednesday in late April; if there are strong preferences,
please make them known!
-Pete
[[User:Peteforsyth]]
503-383-9454
On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 8:22 AM, Neil Planchon (2.Oakland) <
neil(a)twopointoakland.com> wrote:
> Hello everyone and Pete!
>
> I love the wikisalon idea. I want to participate, contribute, build
> community and learn/relearn editing skills. Once set up, I will also
> promote to my many communities and lists.
>
> I would like to offer Swan's Market Cohousing (http://www.swansway.com),
> a community I am a founding resident of as a possible Wednesday East Bay
> location. Not necessarily every month though. Meets all the other
> requirements :) I also have access to all the Port Workspaces -
> http://portworkspaces.com - in case that might be of interest. Money
> might be needed with them though, not sure.
>
> I cannot make the 3/30 planning meeting. Please keep me posted!
>
> Thanks again
> Neil
>
> —
> Cordially,
> Neil Planchon
>
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>
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>
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>
>
Dear SF Wikimedians,
This last Tuesday marked 4 years since Bassel Khartabil
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bassel_Khartabil>, much-loved Wikipedian and
open web developer, was arrested in Syria.
Tomorrow, March 19th, there will be events in many cities (including SF)
marking this unfortunate anniversary and raising awareness of his case. In
the words of Jimmy Wales
<http://www.theguardian.com/world/shortcuts/2016/mar/16/jimmy-wales-the-worl…>
-
"the world needs to ask: #whereisbassel?"
Here in SF, *we will meet in Golden Gate Park, at the Music Concourse, at
noon*. As in other cities, we will have a life-sized cut out of Bassel that
we will take pictures with and share on social media to help raise
awareness.
Around 1:00 PM we will start walking to the Internet Archive, where we will
bring Bassel in to the *Pwning Tomorrow: Today* event taking place there
(this is a sci-fi author's panel organized by EFF:
https://www.eff.org/event/pwning-tomorrow-today).
Please come if you can, or help spread the word. Here is the link to FB
event: https://www.facebook.com/events/231411853871589/
Many thanks for your support and I hope to see some of you tomorrow.
Best,
Niki
Hi SF Wikimedians!
At previous events I've mentioned to a few of you that I'm working on an
idea to teach a "Wiki Law School" advanced editing workshop primarily for
people underrepresented among Wikipedia editors, which would be focused on
how to successfully make higher-impact potentially-disputed edits. I'll be
trying a first iteration of this on Tuesday March 22 as part of an intro +
advanced editing evening at my women-centered makerspace in Lower Potrero
Hill (
https://doubleunion.tumblr.com/post/141207688762/wikipedia-editing-intro-an…).
If you're interested in learning these kinds of editing skills, feel free
to come! It'll probably be less exciting if you're already an experienced
editor, but you can also just come by and work on articles if you like.
Britta
San Francisco folks,
Regarding OSM US conference in Seattle this year, I'd like to encourage
those who would like to travel to the conference from SF, which I hope will
include one or more WMF staff, to think about traveling as a group. Group
travel and/or lodging may reduce the total costs for the group, which I
hope would make WMF budget managers and the TPS Grant program staff be more
likely to approve financial support for your visit.
I hope to see you in Seattle!
Pine
(Cross-posting)
For Wikimedia folks who are interested in possible collaborations with OSM,
now seems like a good time to start thinking about possible presentations.
Staff from the Wikimedia Foundation, and/or Wikimedia volunteers from
around the US outside of the Seattle area, may want to start thinking about
travel plans.
For Wikimedia volunteers outside of Cascadia Wikimedians territory, you
might consider applying for WMF Travel and Participation Support grants [1].
If you're inside of Cascadia Wikimedians territory and would like to attend
the conference, we may have funds in our budget that can support your
attendance. Contact me off-list for details.
Regards,
Pine
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:TPS
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Clifford Snow <clifford(a)snowandsnow.us>
Date: Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 5:18 PM
Subject: [opensource-107] Seattle to host the 2016 OpenStreetMap State of
the Map US Conference
To: opensource-107-announce(a)meetup.com
I am excited to announce that Seattle was chosen to host the OpenStreetMap
2016 State of the Map US Conference. The conference will take place July
23-25 on SeattleU's campus. We chose SeattleU for their low cost, proximity
to Seattle and access to public transit. The food trucks near by didn't
hurt either.
We are looking for help! Let us know if you want to help. Request for
presentation proposals should be coming fairly soon. Start thinking about
what you want to present or teach.
The formal announcement can be found at:
https://openstreetmap.us/2016/02/sotmus-2016/
Clifford
Hello everyone!
There's already been a lot of inspiring reactions to the the Year of
Science, so I'm delighted to say that the Wiki Education Foundation (Wiki
Ed) is officially launching our Year of Science work in the USA and Canada
today.
There's a blog post pointing to the work we're doing:
https://wikiedu.org/blog/2016/01/19/wikipedia-year-of-science/
There's our Year of Science page for academics and their institutions,
describing what we're doing and how to contact us:
http://wikiedu.org/yearofscience/
And finally, we're handing over the reigns to the Wikipedia Year of Science
Portal to community members, so they can share ideas, news and events
related to the WP:YOS (that's a shortcut! or):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Year_of_Science
We'd love to see what chapters and projects can do with this theme, so
please spread the word freely! We're also hoping people will use
#yearofscience or #YoS when they do.
We're looking forward to seeing what we can all do together.
(Apologies for cross-posting).
--
Eryk Salvaggio
Communications Manager
Wiki Education Foundation
eryk(a)wikiedu.org
User:Eryk (Wiki Ed) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Eryk_(Wiki_Ed)>
@WikiEducation <https://twitter.com/WikiEducation>
wikiedu.org
*Our organization supports the Wikipedia Education Program in the United
States and Canada.*
Hi everyone,
Thank you to the organizers of the Wikipedia 15 celebrations that we shared
today among San Francisco, New York City, Seattle, and elsewhere. (I
believe that remote viewers may have included people who are currently in
Russia and Japan!)
Thanks to the organizers and facilitators:
* Pharos, Joly and company coordinating activities in New York City
* Pete Forsyth, Stephen LaPorte, Rosiestep, and Brendan Campbell for
coordinating activities at SF
* Katherine Maher, Juliet Barbara, and the WMF Communications team, for
facilitating the community takeover of the WMF collaboration space
* Kacie Harold and the Grants Advisory Committee
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/Grant_Advisory_Committee> for
authorizing some of the funds for the event
* And to everyone else who supported or attended today, especially the
presenters and panelists.
Video links to Youtube (Commons uploads will happen in the near future, I
believe):
* Welcome and lightning talks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGhxEpowM6A
* "Wikipedia's content gender gap":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uW1WSVmpvwk
* "Stories from the weird old days":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLmGc-hpp3U
* Panel discussion "The impact of 15 years of Wikipedia":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiEjkxCGmgU
Here's to the next 15 years!
Pine
Hi all,
*Seattle folks*: we're meeting at the University of Washington
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Washington> Seattle campus,
Communications Building, in room 126. Casual conversation and potluck
starting at 12:15 (bring whatever you wish; we've had good luck with
potlucks so far! Please note allergens on food that you bring; some of us
are vegetarian and/or are allergic to certain ingredients). I will bring
cake, plastic silverware, plates, cups and napkins. We'll start the joint
lightning talks at 1 PM sharp.
*San Francisco folks*: you're meeting at the Wikimedia Foundation's
collaboration space. Per the Wikipedia meetup page
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/San_Francisco/Wikipedia_Day_…>,
"Doors open at noon. Bring your own lunch (or perhaps we will find a
sponsor -- watch for an announcement). 12:45pm: Introductions (facilitator:
Rosiestep <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Rosiestep>)" We'll start the
joint lightning talks at 1 PM sharp.
*New York folks*: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC.
The meetup will happen from 10:00 am to 7:00 pm at Tisch School of the Arts
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tisch_School_of_the_Arts>. Photo ID may be
required to access the venue. Coffee and lunch will be provided. Please let
the organizers known in advance if you have vegetarian or other dietary
restrictions.
*If you are joining the video conference from another location*: we will
try to set up Hangouts and/or a livestream so that you can participate.
Clarifications and corrections to this note are welcome from the organizers
in SF and NYC.
See you tomorrow,
Pine