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Fwd: Call For Makers for Maker Faire Bay Area 2013 is now open!
by Jon Davis 13 Feb '13

13 Feb '13

If anyone feels like stepping forward and signing up for the psuedo-traditional WMF booth... the call is now open. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Maker Faire <makers(a)makerfaire.com> Date: Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 1:19 PM Subject: Call For Makers for Maker Faire Bay Area 2013 is now open! ** Maker Faire Newsletters keep you informed on key information, exciting news and more! Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser<http://us4.campaign-archive1.com/?u=6445a17f0f4864bcc9492655b&id=e752cc1b75…>. *Dear Maker,* We are pleased to inform you that the "Call For Makers<http://makerfaire.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6445a17f0f4864bcc949265…>" is now open for Maker Faire Bay Area 2013. You are invited to submit an application for the *8th Annual Maker Faire Bay Area.* *If you are interested in applying for World Maker Faire New York 2013, check the Maker Faire<http://makerfaire.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6445a17f0f4864bcc949265…>website the first of June for updates. * ------------------------------ *Calling All Makers!* Produced by the folks who bring you MAKE magazine<http://makerfaire.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6445a17f0f4864bcc949265…>, Maker Faire celebrates things people create themselves -- from rockets and robots, to DIY science and technology, to sustainable foods and upcycled clothes. *Maker Faire* invites Makers to submit projects for this year’s 8th annual festival. More than 900 Makers and Maker organizations will participate and showcase their projects. The festival is expected to draw over 100,000 attendees from all over the world. *When:* Saturday, May 18th - 10am-8pm Sunday, May 19th - 10am-6pm *Where:* San Mateo County Event Center<http://makerfaire.us4.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=6445a17f0f4864bcc94926…> 1346 Saratoga Drive, San Mateo, CA ------------------------------ *How to Apply* The first step to participating in Maker Faire is to *submit an entry* that tells us about you and your project. Entries can be submitted from * individuals* as well as from *groups* such as *hobbyist clubs, schools and organizations*. Please provide a short description of what you make and what you will actually bring to Maker Faire. Be sure to link to a photograph or video of what you make to your application. We particularly encourage exhibits that are *interactive* and that highlight the process of making things. Check our website for ideas on topics and areas that we're looking for. *Call for Makers Application and Information can be found at the following link: http://makerfaire.com/bayarea-2013-callformakers<http://makerfaire.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6445a17f0f4864bcc949265…> * If you are an indy crafter, and your primary intent is to sell your products at Maker Faire, please apply to Bazaar Bizarre<http://makerfaire.us4.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=6445a17f0f4864bcc94926…>. Bazaar Bizarre is an independent craft faire within Maker Faire. Applications open at the end of February. Enter early so we can reserve space for your exhibit. Entry Close Date: *Friday, March 15, 2013* ------------------------------ *Support the Maker Movement and get Great Deal on MAKE magazine!* If you are not already a subscriber to MAKE magazine, we encourage you to sign up to get the latest projects, special features and Maker profiles throughout the year by taking advantage of the special Maker discount – 50% off of the subscription price! Get a *full year of MAKE magazine for only $17.50* (and, if you are a subscriber – use the code below to extend your subscription at this price). *Use code M9CMK* when ordering to get your special discount here<http://makerfaire.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6445a17f0f4864bcc949265…> . And don't forget—follow @MakerFaire<http://makerfaire.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6445a17f0f4864bcc949265…> on twitter and visit Maker Faire on Facebook<http://makerfaire.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6445a17f0f4864bcc949265…>. We have also created a special Maker Faire Community<http://makerfaire.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6445a17f0f4864bcc949265…>on G+, please join us here to get updates and connect with the Maker Faire team and other Makers. ------------------------------ We are really looking forward to Maker Faire this year and are excited to receive your application with more information about your project. If you have any questions, email makers(a)makerfaire.com. If there are others in your community that you believe should be participating, please feel free to share this information with them. Thank you for your support, and looking forward to seeing you at Maker Faire! Best, *Sherry* Sherry Huss Vice President Maker Media, Inc. www.makerfaire.com<http://makerfaire.us4.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=6445a17f0f4864bcc94926…> sherry(a)makermedia.com ------------------------------ *See you at Maker Faire!* <http://makerfaire.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6445a17f0f4864bcc949265…> *Copyright © 2013 Maker Media, Inc., All rights reserved.* You are receiving this email because you have expressed interest in Maker Faire Bay Area 2013. *Our mailing address is:* Maker Media, Inc. 1005 Gravenstein Highway North Sebastopol, CA 95472 Add us to your address book<http://makerfaire.us4.list-manage1.com/vcard?u=6445a17f0f4864bcc9492655b&id…> unsubscribe from this list | update subscription preferences -- Jon [[User:ShakataGaNai]] / KJ6FNQ http://snowulf.com/ http://ipv6wiki.net/

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Join the Wikipedia volunteer response team
by Pete Forsyth 04 Feb '13

04 Feb '13

Hi all, This email list is full of knowledgeable, helpful Wikipedians/Wikimedians. Would you like to join the volunteer team that responds to incoming email requests about Wikipedia articles, etc.? For instance, the subjects of articles reporting factual errors or defamation, or submitting photos of themselves. It's important and rewarding work. If this sounds interesting, see below! -Pete [[User:Peteforsyth]] Begin forwarded message: > From: Casey Brown <lists(a)caseybrown.org> > Date: February 2, 2013 11:00:52 AM PST > To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, English Wikipedia <wikien-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikimedia Commons Discussion List <commons-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikipedia mailing list <wikipedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > Subject: [Wikipedia-l] Call for OTRS volunteers > Reply-To: Wikipedia mailing list <wikipedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > > The Wikimedia OTRS team[1] is receiving an increasing number of > emails, with almost 55,000 general information and permissions tickets > responded to in 2012 alone.[2] We are greatly in need of more > volunteers to catch up and help prevent continued backlog. OTRS > volunteers have the benefit of choosing how much time they'd like to > commit and share a wide variety of tools to help when responding to > inquires. Your private information would not be exposed to the public; > replies are issued from a shared Wikimedia email address. > > We are looking especially for people who are strong in any or all of > the following areas: > > * Familiar with processes on any Wikimedia project and able to answer > routine questions about them (some common responses include reference > desk referrals; explanations of deletion processes or how to edit. The > kind of thing you might run into at the Teahouse or Help desks); > > * Familiar with acceptable licenses for images and text and willing to > handle correspondence related to permissions (many routine, but some > issues include unclear statements of permission or permissions issued > by people who can't be clearly connected to the source); > > * Familiar with policies regarding living people and organizations and > able to assist article subjects with lightweight needs (updating > logos, correcting small information) or serious concerns (allegations > of gross inaccuracy; bias). > > For more information about volunteering, please see the recruiting > page[3] on Meta. Being a member of the OTRS team is a great chance to > be part of the public face of Wikimedia. We can't always help people, > but we do our best to leave them impressed with our professionalism > and responsiveness. If this sounds like something you'd be interested > in, we encourage you to consider applying[4]. > > While the English queues are the busiest, the info queues for all > languages could use help, and we are always looking for new > volunteers. Please translate this message and pass the word along to > those in your local communities who may wish to apply. > > We look forward to seeing your applications on Meta-Wiki. If you have > any questions, please feel free to contact myself or any other > administrator of the system.[5] > > For the OTRS admins, > Casey Brown > > [1]https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/OTRS > [2]https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/OTRS/Reports/2012 > [3]https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/OTRS/Recruiting > [4]https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/OTRS/Volunteering > [5]https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/OTRS#OTRS_administrators > > -- > Casey Brown (Cbrown1023) > caseybrown.org > > _______________________________________________ > Wikipedia-l mailing list > Wikipedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l

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German Wikipedia mini edit-a-thon in San Francisco this Saturday
by HaeB 02 Feb '13

02 Feb '13

Hi all, a handful of German Wikipedia editors from the Bay Area are going to meet this Saturday, February 2, from 9am until about 12am in the WMF offices at 149 New Montgomery Street in SF, to join a kind of multi-city edit-a-thon held on the German Wikipedia on that day: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Musketiere (Basically, that event was recently conceived as a collaborative effort to help other editors in all kinds of wiki tasks, with only two rules: 1) No work on one's "own" articles 2) Relax and be nice ;) , and those who initiated it named it somewhat whimsically after the Three Musketeers - "all for one, one for all".) It's envisaged to be a small group in SF (we have four and a half confirmed participants so far, plus other German Wikipedians living in the US joining remotely per Google Hangout), but anyone editing the German Wikipedia - or interested in doing do - is welcome to come by. Email me offlist for details. Regards, HaeB (Tilman)

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WikiBUG and Oakland Wiki
by Vicky Knox 29 Jan '13

29 Jan '13

Hello Bay Area Wikimedians! I'm a fellow Wikimedian who spammed our list once to promote the Oakland Wiki Local History Editathon<http://oaklandwiki.org/Local_History_Editathons>series my fellow volunteers and I have been putting on. I had originally hoped to spam you once, catch the lot of you who swam into my Oakland Wiki listserv net<https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/oaklandwiki-announcements>, and leave the rest of us alone to our own WMF-oriented endeavors. Now that I've gotten a few of you involved, I realize that there is a lot of opportunity to get more good local history content onto Wikipedia and Commons. We have been meeting every other Sunday at the Oakland History Room, a special repository of the Oakland Public Library. The editathon this past Sunday lead to edits to the Idora Park<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idora_Park>Wikipedia article and the digitization of images that can potentially be uploaded to Commons (here<http://oaklandwiki.org/Francis_Marion_%22Borax%22_Smith?&redirected_from=%2…>, here <http://oaklandwiki.org/Mary_R._Smith>, here<http://oaklandwiki.org/Arbor_Villa>). On the latter topic, a local historian began bringing his mounted camera to the library to create beautiful, digitized images. A large collection of what is available meets criteria for inclusion in Wikimedia Commons. The spirit of WikiBUG really excites me around the possibility of greater communication amongst any networks of like-minded folk that may have previously been disconnected. I'd love to see how this will contribute to greater participation in outreach events such as Oakland Wiki's editathons and Pete Forsyth's WikiWomen editathons, and other types of wiki events. Please contribute your voice and the voices of your networks to the WikiBUG Meta-Wiki page <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_BUG>! Vicky/Eekiv PS: I will spam you with event announcements again (no overkill) unless someone objects!

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Wiki BUG
by maiki 28 Jan '13

28 Jan '13

Hey folks, I wanted to draw your attention to a discussion that Pete started, concerning Wiki BUG (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_BUG). It is a user group that focuses on less technical issues, and would cover the region that BART runs to. I think it is a great idea, and covers more things than have been stated in the SF group's page. Quim has done a great job, nearly single-handedly as far as I can tell, to get this group together. I don't want to see that effort put to waste, so I think it should be under consideration for merging the two groups together, covering more than either would alone. I love the idea of folks working in communities, and getting more people using wikae to document their communities. I also like the support and technology that comes out of the WMF. If there is enough overlap, then it makes sense to work together. The only way for us to know if there is an overlap is for members to say what they are interested in, and what they think we should do. So please pipe up in that thread! ^_^ maiki

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Tomorrow: Edit-a-thon in Oakland!
by Pete Forsyth 25 Jan '13

25 Jan '13

Hi all, just a friendly reminder: tomorrow I'm hosting a Wikipedia edit-a-thon, along with the California League of Women Voters, at Tech Liminal. If you have books or other references relating to women and democracy, California public policy, or any other topic you'd like to work on, please bring them along! If you came last month, please note that Tech Liminal has moved! The new location is at 555 12th St., Suite 110 -- right by the 12th St. BART. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Bay_Area_WikiWomen%27s_Edit-… Hope to see you tomorrow afternoon! -Pete [[User:Peteforsyth]] p.s. In case you missed it, here's a brief recap from last month's edit-a-thon: http://oaklandlocal.com/article/jamming-wikipedia-ca-league-women-voters-co…

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In town Feb 23-28, anyone wanna meet up?
by Mike Doherty 24 Jan '13

24 Jan '13

Hi guys n gals, It's been a while since I've been involved with the Wikimedia world. I've moved to the programming world, and am quite involved with FOSS, and still interested in the Wikimedia movement. In any event, I'd love to get some folks together one evening. If there's a group meetup going on, I'll happily come. Of if not, maybe one of you wants to meet this AWOL ex-steward? I'd be happy to buy you a beer in return for showing me around for a few hours. Thanks, -Mike

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Next Engineering meetup: The Wikimedia mobile challenge
by Quim Gil 22 Jan '13

22 Jan '13

Hi, the topic of the next Wikipedia Engineering meetup is The Wikimedia mobile challenge [http://www.meetup.com/Wikipedia-Engineering-Meetup/events/100444752/ Brion Vibber will do one presentation. There is one slot available for a speaker chosen by the MediaWiki Group San Francisco, hopefully presenting a mobile related topic as well. Suggestions welcome, here or (better) at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Groups/San_Francisco#Next_meetup:__22984 -- Quim Gil Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil

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I'll be a promoter
by maiki 21 Jan '13

21 Jan '13

Heya folks. I added myself as a promoter for the SF group. I coerced JudyTuna to co-promote with me, since both of us want to help, but can't commit as much as either of us want, so we are having a go at it together. We would like feedback from the group on what they would like from it, and I encourage you to use the discussion page (http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Groups/San_Francisco) or this list to share yer ideas. And of course, the more promoters the merrier! maiki

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memorials for aaron swartz
by phoebe ayers 15 Jan '13

15 Jan '13

Hi folks, For those in the SF area who want to get together to remember Aaron Swartz, there are at least two public events in the coming days: *Tomorrow evening, Wednesday, Bill Pollack and No Starch Press are hosting an open house at 7p to remember Aaron and other hackers. Their office is 38 Ringold Street (between Harrison and Folsom and 8th and 9th). Everyone is welcome. * On Jan 24th, the Internet Archive will be hosting a memorial starting at 7pm. Announcement here: http://blog.archive.org/2013/01/15/memorial-for-aaron-swartz/ There is an on-wiki condolences page here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:AaronSw#RIP best, phoebe

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