Hi folks,
I have two requests for speakers in the Bay Area. Both have said they would be very happy to have experienced WP editors. Discussions would both be generally about WP and the projects. Let me know if you're interested and I will do a link-up.
This one is tentatively set for mid-May:
Eric Goldman wrote:
We are considering organizing a discussion panel about Wikipedia at Santa Clara University. As part of the panel, we may want to include a dedicated Wikipedia editor who can talk about the norms/culture/governance issue from an inside participant's perspective. Do you have any recommendations of such folks in the Bay Area? Thanks, Eric.
And these folks are looking for someone Feb 19 (or somewhere in that area)
Greetings Wikipedia Staff-
I am the Vice-Chair of the San Francisco Chapter of IEEE Communications Society and would like to invite someone from your staff to be a speaker at one of our meetings in 2008. We meet once per month to discuss current topics in communications and web technologies, we typically have about 20 attendees and provide a light dinner. During '07 we had speakers from Digg.com, Second Life, SF Giants and the Internet Archive. Our upcoming meetings are tentatively scheduled for Feb 19, Mar 18 and Apr 15 from 6:30-8:30PM. Would you consider being a speaker or recommending one of your colleagues? Thank you in advance for your efforts.
Best Regards,
Tim
Jay Walsh writes:
Hi folks,
I have two requests for speakers in the Bay Area. [...]
Eric Goldman wrote:
We are considering organizing a discussion panel about Wikipedia at Santa Clara University. As part of the panel, we may want to include a dedicated Wikipedia editor who can talk about the norms/culture/governance issue from an inside participant's perspective.
I was curious who this fellow is, and he appears to be a professor at Santa Clara University who has some strong opinions on Wikipedia and a bet with Mike Godwin that Wikipedia will collapse by 2010:
http://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2008/01/wikipedia_revis.htm
I don't want to dissuade anybody, as he seems like a reasonable guy with some good points. However I'm guessing this panel will be more challenging than the conversations we typically have with people curious about how Wikipedia works. Were I doing it, I'd certainly prep a fair bit.
William
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