On 2/23/09 3:29 PM, Brion Vibber wrote:

I know there's a fair amount of overlap between Wikimedians and folks experimenting in the Open Microblogging world... There's going to be a meetup of Identica 'denters here in SF, 7pm this Tuesday at the Edinburgh Castle pub on Geary:

http://identi.ca/notice/2333146

Anybody want to come hang out? Evan Prodromou will be in town, doing a little post-RecentChangesCamp traveling down the coast. Come hang out with wacky microblog& wiki people! It'll be fun!

Just a quick report -- there was wacky fun! Beers were drunk, fish and chips were eaten, netbooks were compared, and there was a nice little turnout of Wikimedians and Creative Commoners in the group.

There was talk about some of the various ways in which microblogging feeds are being used (there are Twitter and Identica feeds of Wikinews updates[1], as well as a feed we set up recently with server administration log updates[2]) and some talk of possible set up of localization work for the Laconica software at Betawiki[3] where most of MediaWiki's localizations are maintained.

We also discussed the necessity of setting firmer plans ahead of time for our next Wikimedia meetups. ;)

Also of note -- there's a Laconica hackfest[4] planned in Berkeley tomorrow (Saturday, February 28), which may be of interest to some coders.

[1] http://identi.ca/enwikinews http://twitter.com/en_wikinews

[2] http://identi.ca/wikimediatech http://twitter.com/wikimediatech

[3] http://translatewiki.net/

[4] http://laconi.ca/trac/wiki/east_bay_laconica_hackfest

-- brion