Hello Wikimedians of Colorado,
How about getting together to take stock of our activities and plan a few
small things over the next few months?
We can plan to meet in Boulder or somewhere on the Turnpike one of the
evenings during the week of 8/26 (week after next) or week of 9/2 (Labor
Day week.) Let us know what works for you.
Thanks,
Abhay
--
Keep it simple.
As simple as possible.
But no simpler. --- A. Einstein
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From: Kevin Payravi <kevinpayravi(a)gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Sep 6, 2019 at 10:19 AM
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] WCNA 2019: Nov 8-11 in Boston / Submissions +
Scholarships open!
To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hello,
For those interested, WikiConference North America 2019 will be taking
place in Boston, Massachusetts on Friday, November 8 through Monday,
November 11!
https://wikiconference.org/wiki/2019/Main_Page
Plans are under way for our annual Culture Crawl, hackathon and programming
days. We're also teaming up with and are thrilled to have the support of
the Credibility Coalition to put on a great event with reliability as a
central theme.
Session proposals are open: We are pleased to announce that we are
accepting submissions for WCNA lectures, panels, workshops, etc. Visit our
submissions page on the conference wiki to learn more and start your
submission. Submissions are due by September 20th (or September 27th for
academic proposals).
https://wikiconference.org/wiki/2019/Submissions
Scholarship applications are also open: You can apply for a scholarship
through September 20th. Everything you need to know about the scholarship
-the criteria, application timeline, evaluation process, a FAQ section, as
well as a link to the application form- are available on our scholarship
page.
https://wikiconference.org/wiki/2019/Scholarships
If you'd like to stay tuned on social media, you can follow us on Facebook
or Twitter.
https://www.facebook.com/wikiconferencena/https://twitter.com/WikiConNA
On behalf of WikiConference North America,
Kevin Payravi
SuperHamster on-wiki
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Hey all - as a followup to the informal meetup we had at the end of
august, this seems like something we could probably benefit a lot from
doing more regularly. Some things that came up or stuff:
* When planning events, no matter how small/informal, we should
probably be starting a few weeks in advance, where there's at least
a week or two to discuss/finalise what we're doing, and another week
between then and the thing itself to ensure the plan has time to,
well, actually reach everyone.
o This went reasonably well for the first part, the second less
so, but bear in mind too that something actually happening at
all is still a major success regardless so we shouldn't be
getting too tripped up on small parts that don't work as well.
* We'll never find a time everyone's going to make it, but that's
probably fine, because:
* This is likely something we should be doing on a monthly or
bi-monthly basis, or quarterly, or whatever, depending on interest.
So basic proposal:
We should do these regularly, just a general dinner/drinks/awkward
loitering/whatever floats your goat (the point is the /options/ are
there for all of us) meetup where we talk and catch up on things and
maybe hatch diabolical plans for other things. We should set a
particular time for them, say, 6pm on the third wednesday of every other
month, and stick to whatever schedule we come up with unless we really
need to change it for some reason, so that it's predictable and can be
planned around. We should have a general area for them (such as sticking
to pearl street, if that works for people) and move the venue we
actually use around there unless/until we find something that's just
perfect. We should make a thing for it on Meetup, and anyone using
social media etc should advertise it there so we can reach a potentially
wider audience and bring in users from the wider editing, reading, and
GLAM/whatever communities.
Thoughts, issues, recommendations?
-I
Hi all,
WikiConference North America 2019 will be taking place in Boston,
Massachusetts on Friday, November 8 through Monday, November 11.
https://wikiconference.org/wiki/2019/Main_Page
Plans are under way for our annual Culture Crawl, hackathon and programming
days. We're also teaming up with and are thrilled to have the support of
the Credibility Coalition to put on a great event with reliability as a
central theme.
Session proposals are open! We are pleased to announce that we are
accepting submissions for WCNA lectures, panels, workshops, etc. Visit our
submissions page on the conference wiki to learn more and start your
submission. Submissions are due by September 20th (or September 27th for
academic proposals).
https://wikiconference.org/wiki/2019/Submissions
Scholarship applications are also open! You can apply for a scholarship
from September 1st through September 20th. Everything you need to know
about the scholarship -the criteria, application timeline, evaluation
process, a FAQ section, as well as a link to the application form- are
available on our scholarship page.
https://wikiconference.org/wiki/2019/Scholarships
If you'd like to stay tuned on social media, you can follow us on Facebook
or Twitter.
https://www.facebook.com/wikiconferencena/https://twitter.com/WikiConNA
See you in Boston in November!
On behalf of WikiConference North America,
Kevin Payravi
SuperHamster on-wiki