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.
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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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