It was great that people liked the bookmarks, but MakerFairePedia has been more work than I expected so far. If there were exhibits that you liked but I missed, please improve it: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/MakerFairePedia
Is anyone other than Cam and I going to Mountain View on Thursday for the PLATO at 50 event? I'm going both days, Cam is going on Thursday evening, if I remember correctly, carpooling down from the East Bay. So let Cam Vilay know if you want to carpool with us. There's a pizza place next door we're thinking about afterward, around 6:15 p.m. or so.
Registration is free here: http://www.computerhistory.org/events/listing/plato-at-50/
Directions: http://3.ly/zZv
Regards, James Salsman
On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 11:03 AM, James Salsman jsalsman@gmail.com wrote:
Phoebe sent the event below months ago. They've made some adjustments to their program and made it more specific at http://www.computerhistory.org/events/listing/plato-at-50/
I'm most interested in Program 4 on June 3 at 1:30 (Online Education & Courseware) but I expect Program 6 at 4pm on online communities will be more interesting to most Wikimedians. The number of really smart people in the bay area who think the WELL was the first online community is surprising, and the information they will be presenting about PLATO in the early 1960s should be fascinating.
Do we want to make a meet-up out of it afterward, next door at http://www.mvpizzeriaventi.com/ ? If so, would 6:00 or 6:30 be better?
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Computer History Museum event@computerhistory.org Date: Fri, May 7, 2010 at 9:07 AM Subject: Register Now: PLATO@50- Seeing the Future Through the Past
Perhaps the greatest untold story in the history of computing is the development of the PLATO system at the University of Illinois and later also at Control Data Corporation. Largely unknown today to the general public, PLATO's list of innovations and seminal influences is considerable. For the first time ever, this event will assemble many of the key people involved with the creation of the PLATO phenomenon.
This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to meet and learn from an amazing variety of technology innovators, including Don Bitzer, creator of PLATO and co-inventor of the flat-panel gas plasma display, Microsoft's Ray Ozzie (who got his start on PLATO at the University of Illinois), and many others.
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Wednesday, June 2, 2010 PLATO@50: Seeing the Future Through The Past 6p.m. Reception 7p.m. Program
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Hi all,
I'd love to hear how this event was, if anyone was able to make it. I wasn't able to go after all :(
best, Phoebe
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 10:16 AM, phoebe ayers phoebe.ayers@gmail.com wrote:
I'd love to hear how this event was, if anyone was able to make it.
I had a great time -- the highlight was meeting Karen Sue Rolph, who just left Stanford Management Company as their Special Projects Director, and is looking to support the open source community. She knows more than half a dozen languages, is an anthropologist (but has Ph.D.s in multiple subjects) and so I think she would be ideal for California Chapter Principal Investigator.
The PLATO exhibit was excellent, but there are strong parallels with today: the educational aspects were overshadowed by the entertainment aspects. I was able to talk to Paul Tenczar about TUTOR/CONCEPT answer judging, and I added pattern matching for fill-in-the-blank answers to the to-do list for GIFT: http://microformats.org/wiki/gift#Notes_for_further_work -- I should also take this opportunity to mention that Yaron Koren, a Wikimedia/Google Summer of Code Mentor, has offered to do the GIFT enhancement to the Mediawiki Quiz module for only $2,500 -- less than half of what it would have cost Google -- and have it ready in a month, with unit tests. This would allow us to start offering the assessments from more than 5,000 hours of coursework from the UK Open University on Wikiversity.
I also got a chance to talk about acquiring a Hayes telegraph (ticker tape) transmitter with the museum board of trustees chair and the founding curator. They are planning a telegraphy installation from 1959 through the transatlantic cable, so I am glad I was able to point them to the first digital electronic alphanumeric communications system.
Phoebe, at http://www.phoebeayers.info/phlog/?p=1617#comments you said that you didn't think the California community was ready for a chapter, and that you don't see a strong connection between the ideas on http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_California and what a chapter can do. Would you please elaborate? There are some things that I've included in the initial draft Chapter grant request but aren't listed there. For example, a Chapter could establish a mirror of foundation servers -- which would be necessary to experiment with peer-to-peer wiki technology (third-party edit conflict resolution), and/or make Wikinews an independent, funded entity. Do you think either or both of those are worthy goals?
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 4:10 PM, James Salsman jsalsman@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 10:16 AM, phoebe ayers phoebe.ayers@gmail.com wrote:
I'd love to hear how this event was, if anyone was able to make it.
I had a great time -- the highlight was meeting Karen Sue Rolph, who just left Stanford Management Company as their Special Projects Director, and is looking to support the open source community. She knows more than half a dozen languages, is an anthropologist (but has Ph.D.s in multiple subjects) and so I think she would be ideal for California Chapter Principal Investigator.
Correction: Karen Sue has a Bachelors of Science in Conservation and Resource Studies from UC, and the rest of her work, including her Ph.D., is in anthropology. She speaks and reads English, Spanish, German, French, two dialects of Quechua, and reads Portuguese, Navajo, Tohono O'Odham, and Chumash.
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