Re: [Wikimedia-SF] Berkeley Wikipedians

I definitely think in-person meetings make sense. As someone who has attended a lot of them, there's definitely a significant difference between what types of people and what is accomplished during in-person meetups vs online ones. The Berkeley campus group was never really active (it was more-or-less Matt Senate and Derrick Coetzee's idea, I just signed to hit the minimum requirement.) I could probably get a room on UCB's campus (although I won't be a student for more than another couple weeks I'd probably be able to anyway,) but the wifi is a pain to set up which makes it a less than ideal choice for a meet-up location. I suspect the library would be willing to host us given how much libraries tend to like Wikipedia (potentially helped by the fact that we are right next to the WMF.) I would like to host an editathon in the non-student cooperative in northern oakland I live in at some point, but that will probably be a little bit away and not necessarily a frequent event. I'll definitely show up wherever there is a meetup though :) --- Kevin Gorman On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 9:17 AM, Wjhonson <wjhonson(a)aol.com> wrote: