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From: Donna Okubo <dokubo(a)plos.org>
Date: Thu, May 30, 2013 at 5:13 PM
Subject: [okfn-US] OKF Meet up event at PLOS 6/6/13 @ 7:00 p.m.
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Hi everyone,****
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We would like to invite the Open Knowledge Foundation to join a casual Open
Knowledge Meetup on June 6th that will include lightning talks and targeted
discussion of open knowledge issues. The meetup represents a collaboration
between the Open Knowledge Foundation and the Public Library of Science
(PLOS), with the goal of bringing together a variety of involved
individuals and organizations to foster the open knowledge community and
share ideas.****
** **
Join us at the SF Headquarters of PLOS. Will include updates on California
state legislation on Open Access - AB 609 by PLOS, as well as updates from
OA at Berkeley by Angelica Tavella and Mitar Milutinovic
http://oa.berkeley.edu****
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Lightning talks so far:****
* MacKenzie Smith, University Librarian, UC Davis
http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/ul/about/meetnewul.php****
* Florie Charles, PhD Candidate, UCSF, and of Youreka Science
http://yourekascience.com/****
* Annalee Newitz, Journalist, Editor in Chief of io9 http://io9.com/****
* Alexandre Hannud Abdo, Wikimedia Brazil, and Post-doctoral
researcher, Universidade de S?o Paulo http://cecm.usp.br/~eris/en/****
* Christin Chong, Postdoc, UCSF and of http://micropub.org/****
* Martin Fenner, of ORCID EU and PLOS, on "Markdown for Science"
https://mdsci13.eventbrite.com/****
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We hope you will be able to attend. Please RSVP by Friday May 31st at our
event page here.
http://www.meetup.com/OpenKnowledgeFoundation/San-Francisco-CA/910932/ .
Snacks and beverages will be supplied.****
****
Look forward to meeting everyone!****
****
Sincerely, Donna Okubo****
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Dear everyone,
We would like to invite you to a casual meetup for the Bay Area open
knowledge community at the SF HQ of the Public Library of Science (PLOS) at
7PM on Thurs. June 6th. The meetup represents a collaboration between PLOS
and the Open Knowledge Foundation with the goal of bringing together a
variety of involved individuals and organizations to foster the open
knowledge community and share ideas. The evening will include lightning
talks and targeted discussion of open knowledge issues along with snacks
and drinks!
**We will include updates on California state legislation on Open Access -
AB 609 by PLOS, as well as updates from OA at Berkeley by Angelica Tavella
and Mitar Milutinovic http://oa.berkeley.edu
Scheduled lightning talks include:
**
- MacKenzie Smith, University Librarian, UC Davis
http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/ul/about/meetnewul.php
- Florie Charles, PhD Candidate, UCSF, and of Youreka Science
http://yourekascience.com/
- Annalee Newitz, Journalist, Editor in Chief of io9 http://io9.com/
- Alexandre Hannud Abdo, Wikimedia Brazil, and Post-doctoral
researcher, Universidade de S?o Paulo http://cecm.usp.br/~eris/en/
- Christin Chong, Postdoc, UCSF and of http://micropub.org/
- Martin Fenner, of ORCID EU and PLOS, on "Markdown for Science"
https://mdsci13.eventbrite.com/
**
**
**
**
**
**
**We hope you will be able to attend! Please RSVP by Friday May 31st at our
event page here:
http://www.meetup.com/OpenKnowledgeFoundation/San-Francisco-CA/910932/.
Snacks and beverages will be supplied.
**
Sincerely,
Marina Kukso
Editorial Manager, *PLOS Pathogens* & *PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases*
1160 Battery Street, Suite 100, San Francisco, CA 94111
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415-546-4090
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forwarded from wikimedia-l and perhaps of interest to local
wikipedians: Open Street Map's conference will be in SF, June 7-10!
-- phoebe
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From: Tom Morris <tom(a)tommorris.org>
Date: Fri, May 24, 2013 at 1:51 AM
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] State of the Map US, San Francisco June 7-10
To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Of possible interest to WMF staff and others in San Francisco, State
of the Map US is happening in a few weeks.
http://stateofthemap.us/
Schedule: http://stateofthemap.us/schedule.html
They are discussing a wide variety of things which have crossover to
Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects including use of OSM in
secondary and higher education, technical matters including building
the new editor, vector maps, imports and operations, data analysis,
community and social issues. Looks like fun.
The main State of the Map conference this year is in Birmingham,
England in September. http://2013.stateofthemap.org/
In terms of governance stuff, the OSM Foundation is going through a
similar process of long-term strategy as Wikimedia did many years ago:
trying to decide whether to stay small or expand, how to work with
community members, businesses who use OSM data, developers and so on.
In these discussions, frequent reference is made to Wikimedia as a big
sister. ;-)
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Hello! Everyone is invited to the 5th WikiWomen's edit-a-thon, to be held:
* Saturday May 25
* 10a-2pm (and possibly later...)
* WMF offices, San Francisco
Come one, come all! This will be a casual edit-a-thon -- bring any
topics you are interested in working on. Experienced editors will be
available to answer questions and help out -- everyone is welcome.
Sign up if you can make it or have comments:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/San_Francisco_WikiWomen%27s_E…
cheers,
Phoebe
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support Wikimedia: http://donate.wikimedia.org
Forwarding to a few chapter mailing lists, please feel free to forward to
any that I might have missed!
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From: Howie Fung <hfung(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: 18 May 2013 06:58
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Hiring Community Liaisons (Contract)
To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
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Hey all,
For the last 18 months, the Engineering & Product Development department
has been experimenting with the role of “Community Liaison, Product
Development” - a staff member embedded in the Product team and tasked with
factoring community concerns into our software development process, keeping
editors informed about what we’re doing, and maintaining a dialogue between
those who write code and those who write articles.
While there is always room for improvement, I think this role has shown a
lot of promise. We have a number of large projects coming down the
pipeline (e.g., visual editor, discussion systems) and we need more help
reaching out to our contributor communities, especially our non-English
speaking projects, as our outreach there has traditionally been challenged.
We’d like to recruit a small number of English-speaking or multilingual
editors to do the Community Liaison job with different development teams
and focuses.
In particular we’re looking for people with a strong history of
contributions to our projects who can provide sound and reasoned judgment
and are trusted to do so by their community. Speaking other languages in
addition to English is a major plus, as one of the objectives here is to
ensure we can properly interact with and support non-English projects.
I’ve included the full job description below.
Our immediate need is for help with the Visual Editor. We’d like to hire a
few community liaisons to help inform different Wikipedia language
communities of the upcoming launch, create spaces for feedback and
discussion, synthesize feedback for the Visual Editor team, and other
activities required to support the Visual Editor launch later this year.
If this is a role that would interest you, please e-mail Philippe Beaudette
at pbeaudette(a)wikimedia.org<
https://mail.google.com/mail/?view=cm&fs=1&tf=1&to=pbeaudette@wikimedia.org
>.
And if you know someone else who might fit the role, let them know about
it :-). We’re provisionally interested in hiring 2-3 liaisons, at an hourly
rate commensurate with experience. This can be a part-time role, but we’ll
need at least 15 hours/week for the length of the engagement (minimum 3
months). Please do apply if you think it’s a role that suits you, and if
you find places we haven’t notified, spread the word!
Thanks.
Howie
*
_________________________
Howie Fung
Director of Product Development
Wikimedia Foundation
*
Community Liaison Job Description
Background Information and Statement of Purpose
The Wikimedia Foundation’s Engineering & Product Development Department is
looking at ways to more effectively incorporate broad community
perspectives in decisions and hold dialogues with our editors about the
scope, pace and features of upcoming changes to Wikimedia projects. As part
of this, it is hiring additional Community Liaisons from our volunteer
community.
Scope of Work
Support and improve our ongoing software development projects, in
particular:
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Building up a network of volunteers from both English language and
non-English language wikis, increasing the number of projects we can
interact with;
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Engaging the community in the software development process, by acting as
a conduit for community questions, bugs and and feature requests, talking
to editors about our work and how they can participate in it effectively,
and recruiting them for workgroups and studies;
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Being available from time to time to provide expertise and knowledge
about our projects, including but not limited to training
externally-sourced staff in the way our projects work, answering their
questions, and providing expert advice on an ad-hoc basis;
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Ensuring that our community is represented in the decision-making
process and that our planned software adequately reflects user needs;
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Monitoring Wikimedia projects, with the assistance of a network of
volunteers, for emerging issues that have an impact on Engineering
programmes; and
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Other duties as needed.
Requirements
Effective Community Liaisons will be:
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Experienced users of Wikimedia projects, capable of representing our
community within the Foundation and vice-versa.
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Strong communicators (both verbally and with the written word), able to
explain our products to different groups of users with different levels
of
technical understanding.
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Able to focus on the larger picture, understanding which concerns and
views are widespread and which are marginal or individual.
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Approachable, as both users and product developers must be able to trust
these people for the relationship to function.
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Self-motivated - they will be given important projects and expected to
execute with little to no supervision.
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Strongly empathetic - they excel at understanding the perspectives of
others and bridging the gap between different approaches to the world.
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Willing and able to remain resilient in the face of frustration from our
users, in order to get the job done.
Pluses
Other positive attributes or areas of knowledge include:
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Diverse language skills. While the Wikimedia Foundation communicates
internally in English, we aim to be able to talk to our different
communities natively.
-
Experience with the software development process. You will be thrown
into teams that are actively working on new features; having a background
that reduces the slope of your learning curve is a plus.
- Familiarity with multiple Wikimedia projects is a major plus; we are
about more than just Wikipedia.
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[pardon the cross-post and English-only post at this time]
Hello everyone,
*This is a reminder that there are 2 days left to apply to attend the first
Program Evaluation & Design Workshop, which will take place in Budapest,
June 22-23. Applications close at 12 AM PST May 17.*
Please review this recent blog announcing the event:
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/05/09/program-evaluation-workshop-budapest/
*Wikimedia community members, chapter staff/volunteers, solitary volunteers
- anyone who is a program leader is encouraged to apply. Please note, we
have only 20 slots available and limited funding to support attendees. If
you do apply, you must email me at sarah(a)wikimedia.org if you are
requesting funding before/after you apply. *
We will be filming our workshop, so don't fret if you cannot attend this
first one, or aren't accepted to attend this time.
*You can get a better taste for the event through our evolving Meta Event
page: *
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Program_Evaluation_and_Design/June_2013_Work…
Thank you Wikimedia Magyarország for your support and assistance.
-Sarah
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*Donate<http://wikimediafoundation.org/w/index.php?title=Donate/en&utm_source=&utm_…>
today
and keep it free!
Visit me on Wikipedia <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:SarahStierch>!
Pheobe,
I had a great time doing this last year and very much regret it
is not possible this year. I have an all-day summer camp staff
training on Saturday, and am attending another event on Sunday.
Please keep me notified of future opportunities to support
Wikipedia.
Jonathan Harvey
One must still have chaos in oneself, to give birth to a dancing
star.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche in "Thus Spake Zarathustra"
On Sat May 11 17:51:24 CDT 2013, phoebe ayers
<phoebe.ayers(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Sign up here if you can make it, or leave your ideas!
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/San_Francisco/Maker_Faire_20…
>
> thanks a ton,
> (the ever-procrastinating) phoebe
>
> On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 3:20 PM, phoebe ayers
> <phoebe.ayers(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> We do have a Wikimedia booth spot at Maker Faire, which is next
>> weekend in San Mateo! (Saturday & Sunday, May 18 & 19th)
>>
>> We are urgently looking for volunteers who can staff the booth
>> and
>> talk about Wikimedia projects with passers by. It's a fun way to
>> interact with the public and answer lots (and lots and lots) of
>> questions; we also have free tickets for volunteers, so you can
>> see
>> the rest of the ultra-cool Maker Faire too.
>>
>> We are especially short on coordinators this year as several of
>> the
>> long-time volunteer coordinators (including myself) have other
>> commitments that weekend. Hence the short notice! So we are
>> looking
>> for:
>>
>> * setup help on Friday evening (after work)
>> * staff for Saturday
>> * staff and a coordinator for Sunday -- the coordinator will
>> help make
>> sure that the booth gets broken down and is adequately
>> supervised all
>> day
>> * people with cars who can help drive on Friday and Sunday
>>
>> Let me and Stephen Laporte (stephen.laporte(a)gmail.com) know if
>> you can
>> do any of these things. Wiki page coming shortly.
>>
>> -- phoebe
>>
>>
>> --
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>> support Wikimedia: http://donate.wikimedia.org
>
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Hi all,
We do have a Wikimedia booth spot at Maker Faire, which is next
weekend in San Mateo! (Saturday & Sunday, May 18 & 19th)
We are urgently looking for volunteers who can staff the booth and
talk about Wikimedia projects with passers by. It's a fun way to
interact with the public and answer lots (and lots and lots) of
questions; we also have free tickets for volunteers, so you can see
the rest of the ultra-cool Maker Faire too.
We are especially short on coordinators this year as several of the
long-time volunteer coordinators (including myself) have other
commitments that weekend. Hence the short notice! So we are looking
for:
* setup help on Friday evening (after work)
* staff for Saturday
* staff and a coordinator for Sunday -- the coordinator will help make
sure that the booth gets broken down and is adequately supervised all
day
* people with cars who can help drive on Friday and Sunday
Let me and Stephen Laporte (stephen.laporte(a)gmail.com) know if you can
do any of these things. Wiki page coming shortly.
-- phoebe
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support Wikimedia: http://donate.wikimedia.org
Hi,
Do you know a team or an organization in the Bay Area that would like to
collaborate with Wikimedia in a joint tech activity? Say a 3 hour
workshop in our / their location.
We want to engage with established tech friendly groups to work together
in joint activities like e.g. testing this new feature, write automated
tests for that old feature, improve this tutorial...
Most of these activities can be also performed by non-developers and
actually by pure tech-curious novices. Think of Wikipedia meetups,
college students of any kind, tech clubs, social or cultural
organizations...
I'm personally motivated in exploring beyond the usual and very busy
suspects (e.g. tech meetups, although we want to tap those too). For
instance, what about those having a harder time because of their
abilities, age, gender, language, or cultural, ethnic, or economic
background.
It's just a lot easier for us to find the critical mass and organize a
successful activity when we can start from a motivated group, instead of
having to recruit volunteers one by one. And a first contact with a
group is a lot easier when it comes with a first introduction from
someone they know.
Thank you!
--
Quim Gil
Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil
Hey folks!
We're hiring a Managing Director here at LocalWiki (http://localwiki.org)
to help us scale up our effort to collect, share and open the world's local
knowledge. If you or someone you know may be interested, please apply or
forward along!
http://localwiki.org/jobs/2013_managing_director/
Best,
Philip