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Hi all!
Given that I've missed the last few meetups, do we have a next date planned?
Ready to hear ideas...
- -- Cary Bass Volunteer Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation
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...crickets chirping and all that jazz...
Anyways, the last meeting 2 important suggestions came up. 1) We should have meet ups more often (like once a month) with the knowledge that people simply wont make every single one (rather than trying to accommodate everyone every time). 2) We should have "field trips" - translation: We should have a meetup where we go and _do_ something rather than sit around and chat.
Since last time we talked, I'd say we should do a field trip. We've got a small list on-wiki already [[w:Wikipedia:Meetup/San Francisco#Future]] ( http://enwn.net/Ae10 ). If anyone has a suggestion of somewhere else to go, great, if not, lets pick something off the list.
-Jon
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 09:45, Cary Bass cary@wikimedia.org wrote:
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Hi all!
Given that I've missed the last few meetups, do we have a next date planned?
Ready to hear ideas...
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The Bay Area is a pretty big place, so I think we should also make our meet up locations more diverse, for example. For one month, have an event in the east bay, the next in the north, then the Peninsula. Also, i'd like to use Facebook RSVP to also get the word out for these events.
________________________________ From: Jon Davis wiki@konsoletek.com To: San Francisco Wikimedians wikimedia-sf@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Friday, September 25, 2009 4:43:21 PM Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-SF] Next meetup date?
...crickets chirping and all that jazz...
Anyways, the last meeting 2 important suggestions came up. 1) We should have meet ups more often (like once a month) with the knowledge that people simply wont make every single one (rather than trying to accommodate everyone every time). 2) We should have "field trips" - translation: We should have a meetup where we go and _do_ something rather than sit around and chat.
Since last time we talked, I'd say we should do a field trip. We've got a small list on-wiki already [[w:Wikipedia:Meetup/San Francisco#Future]] ( http://enwn.net/Ae10 ). If anyone has a suggestion of somewhere else to go, great, if not, lets pick something off the list.
-Jon
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 09:45, Cary Bass cary@wikimedia.org wrote:
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Hi all!
Given that I've missed the last few meetups, do we have a next date planned?
Ready to hear ideas...
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Agree with Leon. I will most probably be able to make a meeting soon, but up till this point, that's what has gotten in the way; I just haven't been able to get into the city on time.
On events and team-building events, my suggestion would be to do barn-raising/team-editing events for socially conscious and/or public/social service wikis for causes or non-profits...
Sabahat. -- Sabahat I Ashraf ("iFaqeer") iFaqeer @ Gmail/Gtalk, Skype, Twitter darwaish @ yahoo
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 6:50 PM, Leon Bacud lbmixpro707@yahoo.com wrote:
The Bay Area is a pretty big place, so I think we should also make our meet up locations more diverse, for example. For one month, have an event in the east bay, the next in the north, then the Peninsula. Also, i'd like to use Facebook RSVP to also get the word out for these events.
From: Jon Davis wiki@konsoletek.com To: San Francisco Wikimedians wikimedia-sf@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Friday, September 25, 2009 4:43:21 PM Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-SF] Next meetup date?
...crickets chirping and all that jazz...
Anyways, the last meeting 2 important suggestions came up. 1) We should have meet ups more often (like once a month) with the knowledge that people simply wont make every single one (rather than trying to accommodate everyone every time). 2) We should have "field trips" - translation: We should have a meetup where we go and _do_ something rather than sit around and chat.
Since last time we talked, I'd say we should do a field trip. We've got a small list on-wiki already [[w:Wikipedia:Meetup/San Francisco#Future]] ( http://enwn.net/Ae10 ). If anyone has a suggestion of somewhere else to go, great, if not, lets pick something off the list.
-Jon
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 09:45, Cary Bass cary@wikimedia.org wrote:
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Hi all!
Given that I've missed the last few meetups, do we have a next date planned?
Ready to hear ideas...
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I would also like to see us do something like
"San Francisco Loves Wikipedia" or "The Bay Area Loves Wikipedia" or similar, given the fact that we were unable to take part in last February's "Wikis Love Art" because our museums did not get back to us in time.
See http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Britain_Loves_Wikipedia as an example of a future event. I think we might even plan something for sooner, on a smaller scale. Heck, I'm even willing to devote myself under "volunteer time" for something like this :)
Cary
Jon Davis wrote:
...crickets chirping and all that jazz...
Anyways, the last meeting 2 important suggestions came up. 1) We should have meet ups more often (like once a month) with the knowledge that people simply wont make every single one (rather than trying to accommodate everyone every time). 2) We should have "field trips" - translation: We should have a meetup where we go and _do_ something rather than sit around and chat.
Since last time we talked, I'd say we should do a field trip. We've got a small list on-wiki already [[w:Wikipedia:Meetup/San Francisco#Future]] ( http://enwn.net/Ae10 ). If anyone has a suggestion of somewhere else to go, great, if not, lets pick something off the list.
-Jon
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 09:45, Cary Bass <cary@wikimedia.org mailto:cary@wikimedia.org> wrote:
Hi all!
Given that I've missed the last few meetups, do we have a next date planned?
Ready to hear ideas...
_______________________________________________ Wikimedia-SF mailing list Wikimedia-SF@lists.wikimedia.org mailto:Wikimedia-SF@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-sf
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On 9/28/09 4:57 PM, Cary Bass wrote:
I would also like to see us do something like
"San Francisco Loves Wikipedia" or "The Bay Area Loves Wikipedia" or similar, given the fact that we were unable to take part in last February's "Wikis Love Art" because our museums did not get back to us in time.
Seehttp://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Britain_Loves_Wikipedia as an example of a future event. I think we might even plan something for sooner, on a smaller scale. Heck, I'm even willing to devote myself under "volunteer time" for something like this :)
If we want to concentrate on San Francisco and Bay Area local history and local curiosities, it might be interesting to organize something with these folks: http://foundsf.org/
They're using MediaWiki for their community-built history project, and seem to be poking around with CC stuff.
I met briefly with one of their folks at a meetup earlier this year and keep meaning to run around town and take photos for it but just haven't had the time -- taking current photos from the same angle to compare to historical ones is always a crowd-pleaser!
-- brion
Hi!
Taking photos of historical buildings is very good idea. Just check how much "white spots" Wikipedia have (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:National_Register_of_Historic_Places_i...) even for National Register of historic places.
I'm even not talking about neighborhoods which have old buildings (Victorian, Italianate, etc). Just look in GeoCommons (http://toolserver.org/~para/GeoCommons) in San Jose, Santa, Clara, Alameda...
Eugene.
On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 1:45 PM, Brion Vibber brion@wikimedia.org wrote:
On 9/28/09 4:57 PM, Cary Bass wrote:
I would also like to see us do something like
"San Francisco Loves Wikipedia" or "The Bay Area Loves Wikipedia" or similar, given the fact that we were unable to take part in last February's "Wikis Love Art" because our museums did not get back to us in time.
Seehttp://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Britain_Loves_Wikipedia as an example of a future event. I think we might even plan something for sooner, on a smaller scale. Heck, I'm even willing to devote myself under "volunteer time" for something like this :)
If we want to concentrate on San Francisco and Bay Area local history and local curiosities, it might be interesting to organize something with these folks: http://foundsf.org/
They're using MediaWiki for their community-built history project, and seem to be poking around with CC stuff.
I met briefly with one of their folks at a meetup earlier this year and keep meaning to run around town and take photos for it but just haven't had the time -- taking current photos from the same angle to compare to historical ones is always a crowd-pleaser!
-- brion
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I would love to see an SF Loves Wikipedia event too, but yes --as you suggested, Cary-- it would need to be driven by volunteers. The Wikimedia Foundation's not the SF chapter or even the US chapter; we shouldn't do stuff for SF that we can't do for Cairo or Montreal or Johannesburg.
(Having said that, if something gets underway, I might participate as a volunteer too :-)
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I would also like to see us do something like
"San Francisco Loves Wikipedia" or "The Bay Area Loves Wikipedia" or similar, given the fact that we were unable to take part in last February's "Wikis Love Art" because our museums did not get back to us in time.
See http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Britain_Loves_Wikipedia as an example of a future event. I think we might even plan something for sooner, on a smaller scale. Heck, I'm even willing to devote myself under "volunteer time" for something like this :)
Cary
Jon Davis wrote:
...crickets chirping and all that jazz...
Anyways, the last meeting 2 important suggestions came up. 1) We should have meet ups more often (like once a month) with the knowledge that people simply wont make every single one (rather than trying to accommodate everyone every time). 2) We should have "field trips" - translation: We should have a meetup where we go and _do_ something rather than sit around and chat.
Since last time we talked, I'd say we should do a field trip. We've got a small list on-wiki already [[w:Wikipedia:Meetup/San Francisco#Future]] ( http://enwn.net/Ae10 ). If anyone has a suggestion of somewhere else to go, great, if not, lets pick something off the list.
-Jon
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 09:45, Cary Bass <cary@wikimedia.org mailto:cary@wikimedia.org> wrote:
Hi all!
Given that I've missed the last few meetups, do we have a next date planned?
Ready to hear ideas...
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On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 16:57, Cary Bass cary@wikimedia.org wrote:
I would also like to see us do something like
"San Francisco Loves Wikipedia" or "The Bay Area Loves Wikipedia" or similar, given the fact that we were unable to take part in last February's "Wikis Love Art" because our museums did not get back to us in time.
See http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Britain_Loves_Wikipedia as an example of a future event. I think we might even plan something for sooner, on a smaller scale. Heck, I'm even willing to devote myself under "volunteer time" for something like this :)
I'd definitely volunteer personally and publicize via Creative Commons.
A bay area http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Takes_The_City may be a step toward organizing something bigger in cooperation with memory institutions?
Mike
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