Hello all,
My name is Teemu. I am from Finland, but right now a visiting fellow in the SRI International (http://www.sri.com), a research institution in the Menlo Park, CA.
This Wednesday, 11:30-13:00, in the SRI campus we are having a Community Teaming Day, an event where staff can learn about volunteer opportunities from their co-workers and people of different community organizations.
I promised to present Wikimedia in the event. It would be great to have someone more experienced "Wikimedian" in there. Please, let me know if someone in the list could come over to the SRI Campus and help me. I am not well educated on all the Wikimedia projects and would appreciate help, especially when it comes to the practices of the English Wikipedia.
In practice the event is non-formal table with some material where the staff members can come over pick-up materials, eat lunch with us and ask questions. So, there is free lunch.
Cary Bass from the WMF office told me today that they could give me a few flyers and giveaways they have prepared for the Maker Fair. I am planning to drive tomorrow over to the WMF office to pick the stuff from there.
Best regards,
- Teemu
PS. From other NGOs I have learned that having (tangible) promotional materials easily available for the volunteers is a great way to market the organization's work. Maybe the WMF could provide all the Chapters some materials, which could then be distributed for the volunteers to be used in different kind of events and gatherings.
----------------------------------------------- Teemu Leinonen http://www.uiah.fi/~tleinone/ +358 50 351 6796 Media Lab http://mlab.uiah.fi University of Art and Design Helsinki -----------------------------------------------
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