Good news, we have a spot for Maker Faire on May 21 and 22! This gives us ~3 weeks to plan an amazing booth.<div><br></div><div>Since this is a &#39;&#39;&#39;Maker&#39;&#39;&#39; faire, I think we should should brainstorm some simple opportunities to allow people to make/build/contribute at our booth! Last year we had computers with Wikipedia games (the language guessing game and the article race game), a larger screen with a map of recent changes, and volunteers talked to people and answered questions. Simple and interactive work best. It can be noisy and crowded, but that article race game last year had people engaged. See <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/San_Francisco_12">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/San_Francisco_12</a> for last year&#39;s planning notes.</div>
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<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; ">If you have any ideas, stories from previous years, or are interested in volunteering, please let me know and/or share o</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; ">n wiki: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/San_Francisco/Maker_Faire_2011">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/San_Francisco/Maker_Faire_2011</a></span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; ">Cheers,</span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; ">Stephen</span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><br>
</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;">PS, ...here</span></font> are some bizarre/practical suggestions for this year, from Jon circa 2010: &quot;<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; ">Temporary tattoo&#39;s, new games (Jimmy side scroller, &quot;Citation Needed&quot; - guess the fact), Offline Presentations &amp; Auxiliary internet access methods.&quot;</span></div>
<div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 8:29 AM, phoebe ayers <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:phoebe.ayers@gmail.com">phoebe.ayers@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Awesome! Thanks Stephen! <br><font color="#888888">phoebe <br></font><div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 11:46 PM, Stephen LaPorte <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:stephen.laporte@gmail.com" target="_blank">stephen.laporte@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);padding-left:1ex">

<div style="word-wrap:break-word">Phoebe,<div><br></div><div>I just submitted a late application for Maker Faire, and I will keep everyone updated if we get space!</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Stephen</div>

<div><br><div><div><div></div><div><div>On Apr 7, 2011, at 5:07 PM, phoebe ayers wrote:</div><br></div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div></div><div>Hi SF, <br><br>As you know Wikimedia-SF has had a booth at Maker Faire the past three years. Maker Faire is awesome! It&#39;s a fair amount of work to put together, however. Last year Jon Davis and I coordinated the booth. Unfortunately this year we have both been super busy all spring, and we missed the deadline for sending in the registration form.  <br>


<br>If anyone else is interested in leading the Maker Faire efforts, we could still ask if there are any last-minute places. But we would need to act very quickly -- so please speak up if you want to do this (or just do it -- contact info is on the website). And if no one is interested in leading the booth, we will take a break from Maker Faire this year (and return triumphantly next year???) <br>


<br>best, <br>Phoebe <br><br>p.s. How would people feel about a get-together in a couple weeks ... the weekend of the 23rd? Maybe Sunday the 24th? It&#39;s been a long time since we&#39;ve had a casual meetup. <br clear="all">


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