All,
See Andrew's exciting message about the CHM exhibit!
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Andrew Lih andrew@andrewlih.com Date: Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 8:39 AM Subject: Wikipedians and the Computer History Museum To: wikimedia-california@lists.wikimedia.org
Dear Wikimedia California folks:
I'd like to announce an exciting opportunity for the week of August 13-17.
I've been working with the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA on a GLAMwiki (galleries, libraries, archives and museums) gathering that would provide a way for Wikipedians to work with the museum to improve Wikipedia articles about objects in their collection. If you haven't been to the museum, it's a spectacular facility in one of the famous Silicon Graphics buildings in Silicon Valley and hosts a new permanent collection about computing machinery through the ages. (http://www.computerhistory.org/ )
Even more interesting, the museum plans to have an exhibit next year about seven software technologies that have changed our lives, and Wikipedia will be one of them. This get-together would also be a time to brainstorm and have Wikipedians give direct input into what is believed to be the first physical museum exhibit about Wikipedia.
This would likely be a 4-8pm event on one of the evenings of the week of August 13-17.
Interested parties, please contact me by email or as User:Fuzheado on English Wikipedia on which days you might prefer, and I'll send out a followup notice.
Thanks,