Heya,
So far, the RSVP form has eight positive replies, with 4 "almost certains" (+ 2 on Facebook) and 4 maybes (+1 on Facebook). So it looks like there'll be 4 to 11 people come next Saturday.
So far, a lot of people seem to like the idea of just meeting up for coffee - I did that at Slashdot's 10th anniversary, and it was plenty of fun just like that. Does anybody know any nice coffee places with enough space for 10-20 people? (our numbers might go up over the next week if we can market this event a bit on mailing lists and Facebook) If so, let me know and I'll make a reservation.
A slightly more sophisticated meet up could be at Hackerspace.sg (if we can talk them into lending us the space). The question is, what would we do there? Other WikiX events seem to have a lot of talks in them, but I don't know where we'd find speakers for that at such short notice. So unless somebody comes up with a good idea for this, I don't think we'll bother. But ...
... we could run a (mini) Editathon, like they're doing at the British Library, London [1]. It sounds awesome and also a lot of fun, and would give us something to focus on in terms of our organization. We could pick Singapore related pages to clean up and work on, or just work on our own articles or interests. This would be brilliant, as we'd have definite goals, would keep people interested all day long, but also have plenty of time to disengage and chat with each other. Space *oughtn't* to be an issue, as I think this is the sort of event that Hackerspace might get excited about. There might be networking issues or other problems, but if we're on a public Wifi I think we ought to probably be okay.
Interestingly, *three* of the people interested in coming for the party have *never* edited Wikipedia at all, so maybe we can also have "How to edit your first article" type discussions or lectures. Would anybody be interested in organizing those?
Meanwhile, I'm going to try to get the people who signed up on Wikipedia but didn't RSVP to do so, so we know how likely their showing up is. I'll also drop e-mails to NLB and Hackerspace, and see if they'd be interested or have ideas as to how to run this.
cheers, Gaurav
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 1:14 AM, Gaurav Vaidya gaurav@ggvaidya.com wrote:
... we could run a (mini) Editathon, like they're doing at the British Library, London [1]. It sounds awesome and also a lot of fun, and would give us something to focus on in terms of our organization. We could pick Singapore related pages to clean up and work on, or just work on our own articles or interests. This would be brilliant, as we'd have definite goals, would keep people interested all day long, but also have plenty of time to disengage and chat with each other.
This is a great idea! But are you planning on having a day-long event?
Interestingly, *three* of the people interested in coming for the party have *never* edited Wikipedia at all, so maybe we can also have "How to edit your first article" type discussions or lectures. Would anybody be interested in organizing those?
A great idea once again. Perhaps you should find some presentations on slideshare, or use this page as a base for a presentation:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Your_first_article
Great work, Gaurav!
anirudh
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I can't find the facebook page. Kindly share the link or add me "York Koon TAN".
A sharing session on how to edit and clean up pages sounds brilliant. So minimally the place for coffee should have wifi and those of us with laptops should bring them.
Another (old) idea is to hangout at one of those board/card game cafes like "The Mind Cafe" or "Pitstop".
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 3:55 AM, Anirudh Bhati anirudhsbh@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 1:14 AM, Gaurav Vaidya gaurav@ggvaidya.com wrote:
... we could run a (mini) Editathon, like they're doing at the British
Library, London [1]. It sounds awesome and also a lot of fun, and would give us something to focus on in terms of our organization. We could pick Singapore related pages to clean up and work on, or just work on our own articles or interests. This would be brilliant, as we'd have definite goals, would keep people interested all day long, but also have plenty of time to disengage and chat with each other.
This is a great idea! But are you planning on having a day-long event?
Interestingly, *three* of the people interested in coming for the party
have *never* edited Wikipedia at all, so maybe we can also have "How to edit your first article" type discussions or lectures. Would anybody be interested in organizing those?
A great idea once again. Perhaps you should find some presentations on slideshare, or use this page as a base for a presentation:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Your_first_article
Great work, Gaurav!
anirudh
00 91 9328712208
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Hi York Koon,
On 05-Jan-2011, at 9:52 AM, York Koon Tan wrote:
I can't find the facebook page. Kindly share the link or add me "York Koon TAN".
It's at http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=124971230903799 I guess the link to the Facebook event page is hard to find. Could you please check out http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singapore and let me know if the Facebook event page is more prominent now?
A sharing session on how to edit and clean up pages sounds brilliant. So minimally the place for coffee should have wifi and those of us with laptops should bring them.
Another (old) idea is to hangout at one of those board/card game cafes like "The Mind Cafe" or "Pitstop".
Hmm. I know board game cafes can get really noisy, since they're really designed for loud and fun gameplay. But if you know a nice quite one with Wifi that you would recommend, do let us know!
cheers, Gaurav
Gaurav, yup both the pages are fine :) and you're right board game cafes tend to be noisy indeed. News is, there's a chance I get to work on that day :S so I am not not going to confirm attendance just yet. Hope to drop by and say hi minimally.
Cheers
On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 12:23 AM, Gaurav Vaidya gaurav@ggvaidya.com wrote:
Hi York Koon,
On 05-Jan-2011, at 9:52 AM, York Koon Tan wrote:
I can't find the facebook page. Kindly share the link or add me "York
Koon TAN". It's at http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=124971230903799 I guess the link to the Facebook event page is hard to find. Could you please check out http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singapore and let me know if the Facebook event page is more prominent now?
A sharing session on how to edit and clean up pages sounds brilliant. So
minimally the place for coffee should have wifi and those of us with laptops should bring them.
Another (old) idea is to hangout at one of those board/card game cafes
like "The Mind Cafe" or "Pitstop". Hmm. I know board game cafes can get really noisy, since they're really designed for loud and fun gameplay. But if you know a nice quite one with Wifi that you would recommend, do let us know!
cheers, Gaurav
Those who cmi can do skyping like me. :)
Brgds,
Terence Ong terenceong92@gmail.com Sent from my iPhone
On Jan 6, 2011, at 15:35, York Koon Tan yktan9@gmail.com wrote:
Gaurav, yup both the pages are fine :) and you're right board game cafes tend to be noisy indeed. News is, there's a chance I get to work on that day :S so I am not not going to confirm attendance just yet. Hope to drop by and say hi minimally.
Cheers
On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 12:23 AM, Gaurav Vaidya gaurav@ggvaidya.com wrote: Hi York Koon,
On 05-Jan-2011, at 9:52 AM, York Koon Tan wrote:
I can't find the facebook page. Kindly share the link or add me "York Koon TAN".
It's at http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=124971230903799 I guess the link to the Facebook event page is hard to find. Could you please check out http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singapore and let me know if the Facebook event page is more prominent now?
A sharing session on how to edit and clean up pages sounds brilliant. So minimally the place for coffee should have wifi and those of us with laptops should bring them.
Another (old) idea is to hangout at one of those board/card game cafes like "The Mind Cafe" or "Pitstop".
Hmm. I know board game cafes can get really noisy, since they're really designed for loud and fun gameplay. But if you know a nice quite one with Wifi that you would recommend, do let us know!
cheers, Gaurav
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