Hi SF wikimedia,
based on our experiences of the past few years, I have started a list of all the supplies we will need. Please sign up for a volunteer slot and if you can bring any of this stuff: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/San_Francisco/Maker_Faire_2011
Dear awesome coders and others, if you have a displayable visualization or game in mind can you either link it or somehow get it to one of us to install? Offline stuff would be the bomb. (Stephen, did you ask them about internet access?)
cheers, Phoebe
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Stephen LaPorte stephen.laporte@gmail.com Date: Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 6:04 PM Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-SF] maker faire this year To: San Francisco Bay Area Wikimedians wikimedia-sf@lists.wikimedia.org
Good news, we have a spot for Maker Faire on May 21 and 22! This gives us ~3 weeks to plan an amazing booth.
Since this is a '''Maker''' 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 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/San_Francisco_12 for last year's planning notes.
If you have any ideas, stories from previous years, or are interested in volunteering, please let me know and/or share on wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/San_Francisco/Maker_Faire_2011
Cheers, Stephen
PS, ...here are some bizarre/practical suggestions for this year, from Jon circa 2010: "Temporary tattoo's, new games (Jimmy side scroller, "Citation Needed" - guess the fact), Offline Presentations & Auxiliary internet access methods."
On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 8:29 AM, phoebe ayers phoebe.ayers@gmail.com wrote:
Awesome! Thanks Stephen! phoebe
On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 11:46 PM, Stephen LaPorte < stephen.laporte@gmail.com> wrote:
Phoebe,
I just submitted a late application for Maker Faire, and I will keep everyone updated if we get space!
Cheers, Stephen
On Apr 7, 2011, at 5:07 PM, phoebe ayers wrote:
Hi SF,
As you know Wikimedia-SF has had a booth at Maker Faire the past three years. Maker Faire is awesome! It'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.
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???)
best, Phoebe
p.s. How would people feel about a get-together in a couple weeks ... the weekend of the 23rd? Maybe Sunday the 24th? It's been a long time since we've had a casual meetup.
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