New subject: Maker Faire -- STATUS UPDATE

19 May 2009

OK, so here is where we are at:
* We have a limited amount of swag
* We have the vests (I have some, Ariel has some)
* We have some computers coming from the WMF offices, to be picked up
on the friday before (do those come with monitors? :) )
* plus a plethora of laptops

* Phoebe and Jon to set up on Friday; other volunteers?

* we are located next to Wikihow, so we can share people if necessary;
Chris Hadley (cc'd) is the contact for WikiHow

THINGS WE ARE WORKING ON:
* The pass situation -- both Jon and I have been pestering O'Reilly
people, but no answer yet.

THINGS WE STILL NEED:

* Some sort of sign/banner advertising our Wikimedia-ness (Jay, does
the office have any banners?)
* Ideas for visualizations to run on the computers
* Ideas for an "interactive" display (guess the picture? learn how to edit?)
* Ideas for a couple of big signs to hang -- I don't think we have
space for the projector and cloth this year -- so are there other big
poster ideas we could make up? A giant markup cheatsheet? Please send
your ideas ASAP and I'll get some posters made up.
* more folding chairs -- does anyone have some they can loan?
* what about info-en business cards like someone suggested?

* And we need. ... you to sign up if you're planning on volunteering
and haven't already:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/San_Francisco/Maker_Faire

Thanks!
Phoebe

On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 12:53 PM, Jay Walsh &lt;jwalsh(a)wikimedia.org&gt; wrote:
...
  Per last year, will you have a list of the volunteers
names given to the
 front desk people so they can get in for free with a lanyard?
 This should be a pretty standard process.  The organizers just need to know
 who is coming and who to give the lanyards to at the 'volunteer
 registration' booth way at the front of the event.
 I'm willing to put together:
 * 100 or so wiki pencils
 * up to 500 wiki pins
 * about 500 mini wiki stickers
 * the wiki vests for your use
 Not much more stock than that right now - we will do a big re-order with our
 new budget.
 that means materials should be handed out in person rather than scattered
 out as a grab-all.  You'd run out fast :(
 I'm signed up for Saturday morning to help kick it off!
 --
 Jay Walsh
 Head of Communications
 WikimediaFoundation.org
 +1 (415) 839 6885 x 609
 On May 4, 2009, at 9:02 AM, Brion Vibber wrote:

 I'd love to prep some activity visualizations to run in the background but
 I'll be out of town for the event so will need a volunteer proxy to make
 sure there's hardware to run em on. :)

 -- brion vibber (brion @ wikimedia.org)
 El May 3, 2009, a las 14:29, phoebe ayers &lt;phoebe.ayers(a)gmail.com&gt; escribió:

 Hi all,

 We need to start seriously planning for Maker Faire, which is four short
 weeks away. Please add your thoughts on cool things to bring to this page:
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/San_Francisco/Maker_Faire

 I also added a section for volunteers -- if you want to help staff the
 booth, please add your name!

 -- Phoebe

 - http://phoebeayers.info | phoebe.ayers(a)gmail.com

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