While I'm not in the Bay Area proper (I live in Sacramento), I'm about
two hours way and visit frequently (Mom lives in Fremont). I only work
three days a week right now, and I'd be happy to speak. I've spoken at
conferences before, both technical and more philosophical (Extropians).
I was greatly involved in the early days of Wikipedia and in the
creation of its software.
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Lee Daniel Crocker
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Lee_Daniel_Crocker>
Hi folks,
I have two requests for speakers in the Bay Area. Both have said they would be very happy to have experienced WP editors. Discussions would both be
generally about WP and the projects. Let me know if you're interested and I will do a link-up.
This one is tentatively set for mid-May:
Eric Goldman wrote:
> We are considering organizing a discussion panel about Wikipedia at
> Santa Clara University. As part of the panel, we may want to include a
> dedicated Wikipedia editor who can talk about the
> norms/culture/governance issue from an inside participant's
> perspective. Do you have any recommendations of such folks in the Bay
> Area? Thanks, Eric.
And these folks are looking for someone Feb 19 (or somewhere in that area)
Greetings Wikipedia Staff-
> > I am the Vice-Chair of the San Francisco Chapter of IEEE Communications
> > Society and would like to invite someone from your staff to be a speaker
> > at one of our meetings in 2008. We meet once per month to discuss
> > current topics in communications and web technologies, we typically have
> > about 20 attendees and provide a light dinner. During '07 we had
> > speakers from Digg.com, Second Life, SF Giants and the Internet Archive.
> > Our upcoming meetings are tentatively scheduled for Feb 19, Mar 18 and
> > Apr 15 from 6:30-8:30PM. Would you consider being a speaker or
> > recommending one of your colleagues? Thank you in advance for your
> > efforts.
> >
> > Best Regards,
> >
> > Tim
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Jay Walsh
Head of Communications
WikimediaFoundation.org
1 (415) 287-0680
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Hey all you Wikimedians --
We're now hiring for a software development position at the new San
Francisco office. This is an entry-level position, but existing
experience with MediaWiki or other LAMP-style development will be a big
help.
Since we're still a small office, the new guy will need to help people
with basic IT issues as well; we have a mixed environment with Mac,
Linux, and Windows machines, and varying degrees of tech-savvy.
Fuller job description at:
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Job_openings/Software_Developer_/_IT_Su…
Drop me a mail if you're interested; we'll be scheduling interviews in
the next few weeks.
We're planning to open up a couple more dev positions over the coming
months as budget allows, but no timetable yet.
- -- brion vibber (brion @ wikimedia.org)
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All -
does anyone on the list have recommendations for SF (preferably SOMA)
design firms that could help us with basic CI stuff, but also
event-based things like dinner invitations & signs? Obviously we can
always check Yelp & Co., but if you have personal recommendations,
we'd appreciate them :-)
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Erik Möller
Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation
Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate
Hi all,
Thanks for the information about the SF Weekly story, Cary. Do you
think that they would be willing to do email interviews, or are they
looking for in-person? In-person would be tough for me.
I think we should get a friendly coast-to-coast competition going with
Boston re: whose free paper can produce a better Wikipedia story
(http://new.thephoenix.com/article_ektid52864.aspx) :)
To everyone: welcome to this new list! I hope we can make good use of
it. Please encourage other Wiki/m/pedians in the area to subscribe.
cheers,
phoebe
Hi all!
The San Francisco Weekly is looking for a few editors to interview for
an upcoming story. If you are interested, please forward your contact
information to Sandra Ordonez <sordonez (at) wikimedia (pont) org>.
Yours very truly,
Cary Bass
Volunteer Coordinator
Wikimedia Foundation
(insert new contact information :)