On Sep 18, 2013 7:07 PM, "Gaurav Vaidya" <gaurav@ggvaidya.com> wrote:

Hi everybody!

On 4 Sep, 2013, at 11:11 PM, Todd Allen <toddmallen@gmail.com> wrote:
> So, if we can all bring along a camera.
(Or not -- we had a surprisingly fun Wiki Takes Boulder last year with one camera between three people!)

> It depends where we want to go. If we'd like to go by car, I'd have probably 3 seats available, long as someone doesn't mind the middle in the back. If by train to downtown, however many would like to go. We can meet up at my car from there if need be, at Mineral.
I'm not sure where Mineral is, but thanks for the offer!

> I would like to stop downtown to get some photos of Biker Jim's, as I'm currently working on that article. We can do that in either case, and I can bring my camera to work if it's really opposed, but I'd really rather prefer it to be on the same day. And they really do have some good food. :) I'd prefer not to go downtown by car, since I can get there for free on the train, and would rather do that than pay for parking. But I'd be happy to drive to some farther out areas after that's done.
>
> So, anyone opposed to meeting downtown for lunch/photos prior to lunch, and hitting the Botanic Gardens or other locations from there?
I like this plan, and have set up the first part of the paperwork: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Takes_America/2013/Denver

I've proposed September 28 as the day of photography, since I'm leaving Boulder for a week from Sunday, September 29. Once we know how many people are interested, and have a time and a date finalised (hopefully by this weekend), we'll have all of next week to run geonotices (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Geonotice).

> On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 10:10 PM, Spencer Williams IV <enderandpeter@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hey there, good folks. I'm totally up for Wikipedia Loves Monuments or Takes America, or whatever it might be this month. However, I should warn you, I'm totally, like, dirt poor. And so I couldn't provide transportation or anything like that. Ideally, I hope Gaurav might convince his roommate to go so I could jump into their car or something. I do have an iPhone though, and the Wikimedia app. So I'm set in that department.
Sorry, Spencer -- I think my friend (not roommate!) might be out of town then. Would a bus trip to Denver be too expensive for you?

> Any of the places Todd Allen suggested sound great. I don't have a particular preference, but the Children's Museum might be interesting. The Botanical Gardens would be nice too. I don't think I've been there yet. But really anywhere on that list sounds great.
There's space on the event page to start throwing up ideas. Being on 16th Street means that we can go anywhere from Union Station to the Capitol for free. There must be something interesting within walking distance of that, right?

> So if any of y'all are planning to go, please let me know. Also, I was very interested in helping out with Wikipedia Loves Libraries next month. Was there anyone else here who wanted to get together to make something happen in that regard? I think I may be able to ask someone at BPL to get a room reserved. I don't really have a solid game plan laid out, but I definitely wanted to do something like talk about basic Wikipedia editing, and then more advanced stuff like Templates, transclusion vs. substition, customizing your theme, custom CSS and stuff like that. Nothing too heavy, though, as I suspect there will mainly be people new to the project. But just to give people a sense of how to go about contributing a variety of content.
Let me know how this goes! I'm trying to think of something we could do at either the CU Libraries or the CU Museum, but it's going to take a lot more organising than I'll have time for this semester.

cheers,
Gaurav
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