I emailed "them" about a week or two ago about a related topic but haven't heard back. I will ping them again about this. Just as a note, last year the "names at the front desk" thing didn't work out too well - but no matter - we'll figure something out.

And remember everyone, we're less than 2 weeks away - so if have any suggestions for what to do at MF - speak now!

-Jon

On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 12:53, Jay Walsh jwalsh@wikimedia.org 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!

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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 phoebe.ayers@gmail.com 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 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!

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On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 1:50 PM, Jay Walsh jwalsh@wikimedia.org wrote:

Yeah - I think there were last minute problems with the volunteer list in general last year - they had also given me 50 tickets to give away which further complicated matters (but in a good way!) I suspect that if you reach out to the right folks (feel free to hit up sherry huss, sherry@oreilly.com) and let them know you have volunteers and you'd like them to get passes then you should be in good shape. I'm assured they process ought to be better this year...

Thanks!

I understand that people who showed up to help on setup days had little hassle, whereas William and I (showing up on Sunday) had a hard time last year.

Would it just be easiest for all of everyone who's helping to show up during one of the setup days to get badging dealt with?

I suppose this means I am volunteering, too.

Hey, can I throw in this: Anyone who's going to staff the booth at Maker Faire is fairly likely to encounter local donors/supporters. For example last year, IIRC, both Alan Bauer and Neeru Khosla made their way to our booth.

So to the extent that any of you have time, it might be nice to take a spin through the Benefactors page beforehand so you'll recognize people's names if they drop by and self-introduce :-)

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On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 4:56 PM, Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org wrote:

Bonus points for spotting anonymous donors.

Just kidding,

We should make up some new buttons, with the Wikipedia globe and a superimposed translucent smiley face, for anonymous donors who identify themselves at the table...