Pete - why don't you get a planning page started
up on the Wiki? Would the RCC folks be comfortable adding their input there?
Kul
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On Jan 29, 2012, at 7:57 PM, Sean Parker <sean(a)foundersfund.com> wrote:
I would be open to provide financing for a West
coast event
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Subject: [Wikimedia-SF] Time for a wiki conference on the west coast?
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!
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