Hi SF wikimedia,
based on our experiences of the past few years, I have started a list of all the supplies we will need. Please sign up for a volunteer slot and if you can bring any of this stuff: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/San_Francisco/Maker_Faire_2011
Dear awesome coders and others, if you have a displayable visualization or game in mind can you either link it or somehow get it to one of us to install? Offline stuff would be the bomb. (Stephen, did you ask them about internet access?)
cheers, Phoebe
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Stephen LaPorte stephen.laporte@gmail.com Date: Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 6:04 PM Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-SF] maker faire this year To: San Francisco Bay Area Wikimedians wikimedia-sf@lists.wikimedia.org
Good news, we have a spot for Maker Faire on May 21 and 22! This gives us ~3 weeks to plan an amazing booth.
Since this is a '''Maker''' faire, I think we should should brainstorm some simple opportunities to allow people to make/build/contribute at our booth! Last year we had computers with Wikipedia games (the language guessing game and the article race game), a larger screen with a map of recent changes, and volunteers talked to people and answered questions. Simple and interactive work best. It can be noisy and crowded, but that article race game last year had people engaged. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/San_Francisco_12 for last year's planning notes.
If you have any ideas, stories from previous years, or are interested in volunteering, please let me know and/or share on wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/San_Francisco/Maker_Faire_2011
Cheers, Stephen
PS, ...here are some bizarre/practical suggestions for this year, from Jon circa 2010: "Temporary tattoo's, new games (Jimmy side scroller, "Citation Needed" - guess the fact), Offline Presentations & Auxiliary internet access methods."
On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 8:29 AM, phoebe ayers phoebe.ayers@gmail.com wrote:
Awesome! Thanks Stephen! phoebe
On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 11:46 PM, Stephen LaPorte < stephen.laporte@gmail.com> wrote:
Phoebe,
I just submitted a late application for Maker Faire, and I will keep everyone updated if we get space!
Cheers, Stephen
On Apr 7, 2011, at 5:07 PM, phoebe ayers wrote:
Hi SF,
As you know Wikimedia-SF has had a booth at Maker Faire the past three years. Maker Faire is awesome! It's a fair amount of work to put together, however. Last year Jon Davis and I coordinated the booth. Unfortunately this year we have both been super busy all spring, and we missed the deadline for sending in the registration form.
If anyone else is interested in leading the Maker Faire efforts, we could still ask if there are any last-minute places. But we would need to act very quickly -- so please speak up if you want to do this (or just do it -- contact info is on the website). And if no one is interested in leading the booth, we will take a break from Maker Faire this year (and return triumphantly next year???)
best, Phoebe
p.s. How would people feel about a get-together in a couple weeks ... the weekend of the 23rd? Maybe Sunday the 24th? It's been a long time since we've had a casual meetup.
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Thanks!
If you plan to volunteer and haven't told me already, please email me as soon as you can with your full name and day(s), and I will be sure you are on the list for the faire.
Phoebe, they gave us wireless, but I will see if we can get actual internet access.
Cheers, Stephen
On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 8:51 PM, phoebe ayers phoebe.ayers@gmail.com wrote:
Hi SF wikimedia,
based on our experiences of the past few years, I have started a list of all the supplies we will need. Please sign up for a volunteer slot and if you can bring any of this stuff:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/San_Francisco/Maker_Faire_2011
Dear awesome coders and others, if you have a displayable visualization or game in mind can you either link it or somehow get it to one of us to install? Offline stuff would be the bomb. (Stephen, did you ask them about internet access?)
cheers, Phoebe
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Stephen LaPorte stephen.laporte@gmail.com Date: Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 6:04 PM Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-SF] maker faire this year To: San Francisco Bay Area Wikimedians wikimedia-sf@lists.wikimedia.org
Good news, we have a spot for Maker Faire on May 21 and 22! This gives us ~3 weeks to plan an amazing booth.
Since this is a '''Maker''' faire, I think we should should brainstorm some simple opportunities to allow people to make/build/contribute at our booth! Last year we had computers with Wikipedia games (the language guessing game and the article race game), a larger screen with a map of recent changes, and volunteers talked to people and answered questions. Simple and interactive work best. It can be noisy and crowded, but that article race game last year had people engaged. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/San_Francisco_12 for last year's planning notes.
If you have any ideas, stories from previous years, or are interested in volunteering, please let me know and/or share on wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/San_Francisco/Maker_Faire_2011
Cheers, Stephen
PS, ...here are some bizarre/practical suggestions for this year, from Jon circa 2010: "Temporary tattoo's, new games (Jimmy side scroller, "Citation Needed" - guess the fact), Offline Presentations & Auxiliary internet access methods."
On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 8:29 AM, phoebe ayers phoebe.ayers@gmail.comwrote:
Awesome! Thanks Stephen! phoebe
On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 11:46 PM, Stephen LaPorte < stephen.laporte@gmail.com> wrote:
Phoebe,
I just submitted a late application for Maker Faire, and I will keep everyone updated if we get space!
Cheers, Stephen
On Apr 7, 2011, at 5:07 PM, phoebe ayers wrote:
Hi SF,
As you know Wikimedia-SF has had a booth at Maker Faire the past three years. Maker Faire is awesome! It's a fair amount of work to put together, however. Last year Jon Davis and I coordinated the booth. Unfortunately this year we have both been super busy all spring, and we missed the deadline for sending in the registration form.
If anyone else is interested in leading the Maker Faire efforts, we could still ask if there are any last-minute places. But we would need to act very quickly -- so please speak up if you want to do this (or just do it -- contact info is on the website). And if no one is interested in leading the booth, we will take a break from Maker Faire this year (and return triumphantly next year???)
best, Phoebe
p.s. How would people feel about a get-together in a couple weeks ... the weekend of the 23rd? Maybe Sunday the 24th? It's been a long time since we've had a casual meetup.
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Hey all!
I am also happy to provide some printing service here at the Foundation, if I get enough lead time to produce stuff.
We have a 24" epson roll printer which we most recently used to make some pretty awesome banners (designed by David Peters who also did our recent annual report).
If you were at the Wikipedia 10 party in SF you saw these:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia_10_SF_IMG_9881.JPG
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WP10_San_Francisco_party.jpg
I can reprint any of these: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_10_banners
OR I can print some fresh stuff, but whatever you want would need to be printed fairly quickly. The banner dimensions are 24" wide, and we can go pretty long - well over 10ft. They can take up a lot of space.
You could put a few of the vertical banners up if you have the fence backing again, or make a table runner. I know you'll want the WP logo and wordmark, which I can also make 24" x 24" versions of.
Let me know what you think!
jay
On May 9, 2011, at 8:51 PM, phoebe ayers wrote:
Hi SF wikimedia,
based on our experiences of the past few years, I have started a list of all the supplies we will need. Please sign up for a volunteer slot and if you can bring any of this stuff: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/San_Francisco/Maker_Faire_2011
Dear awesome coders and others, if you have a displayable visualization or game in mind can you either link it or somehow get it to one of us to install? Offline stuff would be the bomb. (Stephen, did you ask them about internet access?)
cheers, Phoebe
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Stephen LaPorte stephen.laporte@gmail.com Date: Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 6:04 PM Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-SF] maker faire this year To: San Francisco Bay Area Wikimedians wikimedia-sf@lists.wikimedia.org
Good news, we have a spot for Maker Faire on May 21 and 22! This gives us ~3 weeks to plan an amazing booth.
Since this is a '''Maker''' faire, I think we should should brainstorm some simple opportunities to allow people to make/build/contribute at our booth! Last year we had computers with Wikipedia games (the language guessing game and the article race game), a larger screen with a map of recent changes, and volunteers talked to people and answered questions. Simple and interactive work best. It can be noisy and crowded, but that article race game last year had people engaged. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/San_Francisco_12 for last year's planning notes.
If you have any ideas, stories from previous years, or are interested in volunteering, please let me know and/or share on wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/San_Francisco/Maker_Faire_2011
Cheers, Stephen
PS, ...here are some bizarre/practical suggestions for this year, from Jon circa 2010: "Temporary tattoo's, new games (Jimmy side scroller, "Citation Needed" - guess the fact), Offline Presentations & Auxiliary internet access methods."
On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 8:29 AM, phoebe ayers phoebe.ayers@gmail.com wrote: Awesome! Thanks Stephen! phoebe
On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 11:46 PM, Stephen LaPorte stephen.laporte@gmail.com wrote: Phoebe,
I just submitted a late application for Maker Faire, and I will keep everyone updated if we get space!
Cheers, Stephen
On Apr 7, 2011, at 5:07 PM, phoebe ayers wrote:
Hi SF,
As you know Wikimedia-SF has had a booth at Maker Faire the past three years. Maker Faire is awesome! It's a fair amount of work to put together, however. Last year Jon Davis and I coordinated the booth. Unfortunately this year we have both been super busy all spring, and we missed the deadline for sending in the registration form.
If anyone else is interested in leading the Maker Faire efforts, we could still ask if there are any last-minute places. But we would need to act very quickly -- so please speak up if you want to do this (or just do it -- contact info is on the website). And if no one is interested in leading the booth, we will take a break from Maker Faire this year (and return triumphantly next year???)
best, Phoebe
p.s. How would people feel about a get-together in a couple weeks ... the weekend of the 23rd? Maybe Sunday the 24th? It's been a long time since we've had a casual meetup.
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Actually I just did a check with David and I think the better 'big' banner will be a 24" high version that has the Wikipedia puzzle globe on one side and the 'WikipediA' stylized wordmark adjacent. I think that will be about 6 ft in length total, which would make it perfect to hang up above the booth.
If anyone has an alternate suggestion, let me know. I can have a few others of the ones I listed made too, including one of the '10 years of...' banners so people can come up and sign up. I bet they could fill one of those up in a day, and we could put it in the office here for safe keeping and presentation later.
On May 10, 2011, at 11:42 AM, jay walsh wrote:
Hey all!
I am also happy to provide some printing service here at the Foundation, if I get enough lead time to produce stuff.
We have a 24" epson roll printer which we most recently used to make some pretty awesome banners (designed by David Peters who also did our recent annual report).
If you were at the Wikipedia 10 party in SF you saw these:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia_10_SF_IMG_9881.JPG
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WP10_San_Francisco_party.jpg
I can reprint any of these: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_10_banners
OR I can print some fresh stuff, but whatever you want would need to be printed fairly quickly. The banner dimensions are 24" wide, and we can go pretty long - well over 10ft. They can take up a lot of space.
You could put a few of the vertical banners up if you have the fence backing again, or make a table runner. I know you'll want the WP logo and wordmark, which I can also make 24" x 24" versions of.
Let me know what you think!
jay
On May 9, 2011, at 8:51 PM, phoebe ayers wrote:
Hi SF wikimedia,
based on our experiences of the past few years, I have started a list of all the supplies we will need. Please sign up for a volunteer slot and if you can bring any of this stuff: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/San_Francisco/Maker_Faire_2011
Dear awesome coders and others, if you have a displayable visualization or game in mind can you either link it or somehow get it to one of us to install? Offline stuff would be the bomb. (Stephen, did you ask them about internet access?)
cheers, Phoebe
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Stephen LaPorte stephen.laporte@gmail.com Date: Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 6:04 PM Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-SF] maker faire this year To: San Francisco Bay Area Wikimedians wikimedia-sf@lists.wikimedia.org
Good news, we have a spot for Maker Faire on May 21 and 22! This gives us ~3 weeks to plan an amazing booth.
Since this is a '''Maker''' faire, I think we should should brainstorm some simple opportunities to allow people to make/build/contribute at our booth! Last year we had computers with Wikipedia games (the language guessing game and the article race game), a larger screen with a map of recent changes, and volunteers talked to people and answered questions. Simple and interactive work best. It can be noisy and crowded, but that article race game last year had people engaged. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/San_Francisco_12 for last year's planning notes.
If you have any ideas, stories from previous years, or are interested in volunteering, please let me know and/or share on wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/San_Francisco/Maker_Faire_2011
Cheers, Stephen
PS, ...here are some bizarre/practical suggestions for this year, from Jon circa 2010: "Temporary tattoo's, new games (Jimmy side scroller, "Citation Needed" - guess the fact), Offline Presentations & Auxiliary internet access methods."
On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 8:29 AM, phoebe ayers phoebe.ayers@gmail.com wrote: Awesome! Thanks Stephen! phoebe
On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 11:46 PM, Stephen LaPorte stephen.laporte@gmail.com wrote: Phoebe,
I just submitted a late application for Maker Faire, and I will keep everyone updated if we get space!
Cheers, Stephen
On Apr 7, 2011, at 5:07 PM, phoebe ayers wrote:
Hi SF,
As you know Wikimedia-SF has had a booth at Maker Faire the past three years. Maker Faire is awesome! It's a fair amount of work to put together, however. Last year Jon Davis and I coordinated the booth. Unfortunately this year we have both been super busy all spring, and we missed the deadline for sending in the registration form.
If anyone else is interested in leading the Maker Faire efforts, we could still ask if there are any last-minute places. But we would need to act very quickly -- so please speak up if you want to do this (or just do it -- contact info is on the website). And if no one is interested in leading the booth, we will take a break from Maker Faire this year (and return triumphantly next year???)
best, Phoebe
p.s. How would people feel about a get-together in a couple weeks ... the weekend of the 23rd? Maybe Sunday the 24th? It's been a long time since we've had a casual meetup.
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