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There was a very interesting lightning presentation at Wikimania about
wikimeetups by Elke Weitzig. One of the points she put forth was the
idea to elect the next meetup organizer at that meetup. Apparently it's
been working quite well in Frankfurt :)
Jon wrote:
| Indeed. Generally all we do is introduce ourselves and then things
| devolve into chatter amongst one another. I'm all for adding a tiny bit
| of structure (by that I mean preplan some topics to talk about). If
| there is a short presentation, cool. Maybe talk about the next meetup
| and any other events going on in the Bay that might be of interest.
|
| If anyone else has anything they'd like to suggest talking about. Lets
| hear it!
|
| -Jon
|
| On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 1:48 PM, Brion Vibber <
brion@wikimedia.org
| <mailto:
brion@wikimedia.org>> wrote:
|
| Kirrily Robert wrote:
| > Sounds good to me! I'll get things in order wrt the space.
|
| > A related question, since I haven't actually been to a previous
| > Wikimedia meetup: are there presenters/talks/structured
| discussion, or
| > is it unstructured? If structured, would people be interested in
| > hearing about how Freebase uses Wikipedia? I know some of our guys
| > have given talks about that before and might be interested in
| > repeating them.
|
| They've generally been very unstructured, but it might be nice to have
| at least a little structure. :)
|
| A presentation to kick things off would I think be welcome.
|
| -- brion
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