Representation in such events will raise our profile and help grow membership.
I can also do this but will defer to another candidate if needed.
Cheers,
Abhay
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I could do it, but I really don't know if I'd be the best person. Perhaps someone who's more active in organising actual events and whatnot? Or who even knows who that would be...
-I
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Hullo!
Wikimedia Conference 2017 [1] will take place in Berlin, Germany, from March 31 to April 2, 2017; it's a chance for Wikimedia organizations (such as us!) to meet and discuss plans for pushing the Wikimedia movement forward around the word. According to the Eligibility List [2], it looks like the Wikimedians of Colorado User Group [3] (such as us!) can send ONE person to Berlin to represent us. I think accommodation and airfare are paid for either by the Wikimedia Foundation or WMDE [4].
Anybody interested in going? Check out the questions on the application form [5] and send an e-mail to the group letting us know your interest. If more than one person is interested, we can vote on it or something, but let's see who's interested to begin with. The hard deadline for registering for the conference is January 8, so I'd like to have a final decision on who we want to send by January 6 at the latest. If there's a lack of response we might decide earlier than that, so if you're AT ALL interested, please let all of us know ASAP!
Happy holidays, everybody!
cheers, Gaurav
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Okay, yay, two candidates! Any more any more?
Also, any ideas on how we could pick one? Would anybody be interested in a vote? We could run that at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_of_Colorado_User_Group — otherwise, once all the applicants are in, we could just pick one at random at https://www.randomresult.com/ticket.php. Let me know what you think!
cheers, Gaurav
On 31 Dec 2016, at 10:21 AM, Abhay Natu asnatu@gmail.com wrote:
Representation in such events will raise our profile and help grow membership.
I can also do this but will defer to another candidate if needed.
Cheers,
Abhay
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I could do it, but I really don't know if I'd be the best person. Perhaps someone who's more active in organising actual events and whatnot? Or who even knows who that would be...
-I
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Hullo!
Wikimedia Conference 2017 [1] will take place in Berlin, Germany, from March 31 to April 2, 2017; it's a chance for Wikimedia organizations (such as us!) to meet and discuss plans for pushing the Wikimedia movement forward around the word. According to the Eligibility List [2], it looks like the Wikimedians of Colorado User Group [3] (such as us!) can send ONE person to Berlin to represent us. I think accommodation and airfare are paid for either by the Wikimedia Foundation or WMDE [4].
Anybody interested in going? Check out the questions on the application form [5] and send an e-mail to the group letting us know your interest. If more than one person is interested, we can vote on it or something, but let's see who's interested to begin with. The hard deadline for registering for the conference is January 8, so I'd like to have a final decision on who we want to send by January 6 at the latest. If there's a lack of response we might decide earlier than that, so if you're AT ALL interested, please let all of us know ASAP!
Happy holidays, everybody!
cheers, Gaurav
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Yes - I'm interested! I was going to go to the Wikimedia Developer Summit in San Francisco this month to continue to get more involved with the AI and machine learning work, but election-integrity-related stuff has poured over into the new year, so I can't swing that.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Developer_Summit/2017/Program
I think the candidates should describe their involvement, goals and plans in a few paragraphs, and we should go from there.
Cheers,
-Neal
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Okay, yay, two candidates! Any more any more?
Also, any ideas on how we could pick one? Would anybody be interested in a vote? We could run that at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_of_Colorado_User_Group — otherwise, once all the applicants are in, we could just pick one at random at https://www.randomresult.com/ticket.php. Let me know what you think!
cheers, Gaurav
On 31 Dec 2016, at 10:21 AM, Abhay Natu asnatu@gmail.com wrote:
Representation in such events will raise our profile and help grow membership.
I can also do this but will defer to another candidate if needed.
Cheers,
Abhay
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I could do it, but I really don't know if I'd be the best person. Perhaps someone who's more active in organising actual events and whatnot? Or who even knows who that would be...
-I
On 23/12/16 22:30, Gaurav Vaidya wrote:
Hullo!
Wikimedia Conference 2017 [1] will take place in Berlin, Germany, from March 31 to April 2, 2017; it's a chance for Wikimedia organizations (such as us!) to meet and discuss plans for pushing the Wikimedia movement forward around the word. According to the Eligibility List [2], it looks like the Wikimedians of Colorado User Group [3] (such as us!) can send ONE person to Berlin to represent us. I think accommodation and airfare are paid for either by the Wikimedia Foundation or WMDE [4].
Anybody interested in going? Check out the questions on the application form [5] and send an e-mail to the group letting us know your interest. If more than one person is interested, we can vote on it or something, but let's see who's interested to begin with. The hard deadline for registering for the conference is January 8, so I'd like to have a final decision on who we want to send by January 6 at the latest. If there's a lack of response we might decide earlier than that, so if you're AT ALL interested, please let all of us know ASAP!
Happy holidays, everybody!
cheers, Gaurav
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On 1 Jan 2017, at 11:05 AM, Neal McBurnett neal@bcn.boulder.co.us wrote:
Yes - I'm interested! I was going to go to the Wikimedia Developer Summit in San Francisco this month to continue to get more involved with the AI and machine learning work, but election-integrity-related stuff has poured over into the new year, so I can't swing that.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Developer_Summit/2017/Program
Aw, shoot. I’ve heard those are a lot of fun! I’m hoping to be released from my PhD and able to attend WikiConference USA 2017, so maybe I’ll see you there instead!
I think the candidates should describe their involvement, goals and plans in a few paragraphs, and we should go from there.
Sounds good to me! Whoever wants to go first should set up a subpage at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_of_Colorado_User_Group so this isn’t just happening on the mailing list. Should we set January 6 as a deadline to have these in?
Judging these entries will also be tricky. I can volunteer to judge them, but I wouldn’t want to be the ONLY judge, so if nobody else volunteers to judge, we might end up randomly choosing an entry after all. But I like the idea of candidates having to set out why they’d like to go, what they’ll do in Berlin and how that will benefit WM-US-CO.
cheers, Gaurav
Cheers,
-Neal
On Sat, Dec 31, 2016 at 03:24:55PM -0500, Gaurav Vaidya wrote:
Okay, yay, two candidates! Any more any more?
Also, any ideas on how we could pick one? Would anybody be interested in a vote? We could run that at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_of_Colorado_User_Group — otherwise, once all the applicants are in, we could just pick one at random at https://www.randomresult.com/ticket.php. Let me know what you think!
cheers, Gaurav
On 31 Dec 2016, at 10:21 AM, Abhay Natu asnatu@gmail.com wrote:
Representation in such events will raise our profile and help grow membership.
I can also do this but will defer to another candidate if needed.
Cheers,
Abhay
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I could do it, but I really don't know if I'd be the best person. Perhaps someone who's more active in organising actual events and whatnot? Or who even knows who that would be...
-I
On 23/12/16 22:30, Gaurav Vaidya wrote:
Hullo!
Wikimedia Conference 2017 [1] will take place in Berlin, Germany, from March 31 to April 2, 2017; it's a chance for Wikimedia organizations (such as us!) to meet and discuss plans for pushing the Wikimedia movement forward around the word. According to the Eligibility List [2], it looks like the Wikimedians of Colorado User Group [3] (such as us!) can send ONE person to Berlin to represent us. I think accommodation and airfare are paid for either by the Wikimedia Foundation or WMDE [4].
Anybody interested in going? Check out the questions on the application form [5] and send an e-mail to the group letting us know your interest. If more than one person is interested, we can vote on it or something, but let's see who's interested to begin with. The hard deadline for registering for the conference is January 8, so I'd like to have a final decision on who we want to send by January 6 at the latest. If there's a lack of response we might decide earlier than that, so if you're AT ALL interested, please let all of us know ASAP!
Happy holidays, everybody!
cheers, Gaurav
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I suggest that after the posts go up, anyone who wants to can evaluate them and then we can all vote. Or something like that.
-Neal
On Sun, Jan 01, 2017 at 04:54:31PM -0500, Gaurav Vaidya wrote:
On 1 Jan 2017, at 11:05 AM, Neal McBurnett neal@bcn.boulder.co.us wrote:
Yes - I'm interested! I was going to go to the Wikimedia Developer Summit in San Francisco this month to continue to get more involved with the AI and machine learning work, but election-integrity-related stuff has poured over into the new year, so I can't swing that.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Developer_Summit/2017/Program
Aw, shoot. I’ve heard those are a lot of fun! I’m hoping to be released from my PhD and able to attend WikiConference USA 2017, so maybe I’ll see you there instead!
I think the candidates should describe their involvement, goals and plans in a few paragraphs, and we should go from there.
Sounds good to me! Whoever wants to go first should set up a subpage at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_of_Colorado_User_Group so this isn’t just happening on the mailing list. Should we set January 6 as a deadline to have these in?
Judging these entries will also be tricky. I can volunteer to judge them, but I wouldn’t want to be the ONLY judge, so if nobody else volunteers to judge, we might end up randomly choosing an entry after all. But I like the idea of candidates having to set out why they’d like to go, what they’ll do in Berlin and how that will benefit WM-US-CO.
cheers, Gaurav
Cheers,
-Neal
On Sat, Dec 31, 2016 at 03:24:55PM -0500, Gaurav Vaidya wrote:
Okay, yay, two candidates! Any more any more?
Also, any ideas on how we could pick one? Would anybody be interested in a vote? We could run that at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_of_Colorado_User_Group — otherwise, once all the applicants are in, we could just pick one at random at https://www.randomresult.com/ticket.php. Let me know what you think!
cheers, Gaurav
On 31 Dec 2016, at 10:21 AM, Abhay Natu asnatu@gmail.com wrote:
Representation in such events will raise our profile and help grow membership.
I can also do this but will defer to another candidate if needed.
Cheers,
Abhay
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I could do it, but I really don't know if I'd be the best person. Perhaps someone who's more active in organising actual events and whatnot? Or who even knows who that would be...
-I
On 23/12/16 22:30, Gaurav Vaidya wrote:
Hullo!
Wikimedia Conference 2017 [1] will take place in Berlin, Germany, from March 31 to April 2, 2017; it's a chance for Wikimedia organizations (such as us!) to meet and discuss plans for pushing the Wikimedia movement forward around the word. According to the Eligibility List [2], it looks like the Wikimedians of Colorado User Group [3] (such as us!) can send ONE person to Berlin to represent us. I think accommodation and airfare are paid for either by the Wikimedia Foundation or WMDE [4].
Anybody interested in going? Check out the questions on the application form [5] and send an e-mail to the group letting us know your interest. If more than one person is interested, we can vote on it or something, but let's see who's interested to begin with. The hard deadline for registering for the conference is January 8, so I'd like to have a final decision on who we want to send by January 6 at the latest. If there's a lack of response we might decide earlier than that, so if you're AT ALL interested, please let all of us know ASAP!
Happy holidays, everybody!
cheers, Gaurav
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Sounds alright to me. I'd love to go to Berlin, but really can't spare any time to travel right now.
Todd
On Mon, Jan 2, 2017 at 6:56 AM, Neal McBurnett neal@bcn.boulder.co.us wrote:
I suggest that after the posts go up, anyone who wants to can evaluate them and then we can all vote. Or something like that.
-Neal
On Sun, Jan 01, 2017 at 04:54:31PM -0500, Gaurav Vaidya wrote:
On 1 Jan 2017, at 11:05 AM, Neal McBurnett neal@bcn.boulder.co.us
wrote:
Yes - I'm interested! I was going to go to the Wikimedia Developer
Summit in San Francisco this month to continue to get more involved with the AI and machine learning work, but election-integrity-related stuff has poured over into the new year, so I can't swing that.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Developer_Summit/2017/Program
Aw, shoot. I’ve heard those are a lot of fun! I’m hoping to be released
from my PhD and able to attend WikiConference USA 2017, so maybe I’ll see you there instead!
I think the candidates should describe their involvement, goals and
plans in a few paragraphs, and we should go from there.
Sounds good to me! Whoever wants to go first should set up a subpage at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_of_Colorado_User_Group so this isn’t just happening on the mailing list. Should we set January 6 as a deadline to have these in?
Judging these entries will also be tricky. I can volunteer to judge
them, but I wouldn’t want to be the ONLY judge, so if nobody else volunteers to judge, we might end up randomly choosing an entry after all. But I like the idea of candidates having to set out why they’d like to go, what they’ll do in Berlin and how that will benefit WM-US-CO.
cheers, Gaurav
Cheers,
-Neal
On Sat, Dec 31, 2016 at 03:24:55PM -0500, Gaurav Vaidya wrote:
Okay, yay, two candidates! Any more any more?
Also, any ideas on how we could pick one? Would anybody be interested
in a vote? We could run that at https://meta.wikimedia.org/ wiki/Wikimedians_of_Colorado_User_Group — otherwise, once all the applicants are in, we could just pick one at random at https://www.randomresult.com/ticket.php. Let me know what you think!
cheers, Gaurav
On 31 Dec 2016, at 10:21 AM, Abhay Natu asnatu@gmail.com wrote:
Representation in such events will raise our profile and help grow
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I can also do this but will defer to another candidate if needed.
Cheers,
Abhay
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I could do it, but I really don't know if I'd be the best person. Perhaps someone who's more active in organising actual events and whatnot? Or who even knows who that would be...
-I
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Hullo!
Wikimedia Conference 2017 [1] will take place in Berlin, Germany,
from
March 31 to April 2, 2017; it's a chance for Wikimedia organizations (such as us!) to meet and discuss plans for pushing the Wikimedia movement forward around the word. According to the Eligibility List [2], it looks like the Wikimedians of Colorado User Group [3] (such
as
us!) can send ONE person to Berlin to represent us. I think accommodation and airfare are paid for either by the Wikimedia Foundation or WMDE [4].
Anybody interested in going? Check out the questions on the application form [5] and send an e-mail to the group letting us know your interest. If more than one person is interested, we can vote on it or something, but let's see who's interested to begin with. The hard deadline for registering for the conference is January 8, so
I'd
like to have a final decision on who we want to send by January 6 at the latest. If there's a lack of response we might decide earlier
than
that, so if you're AT ALL interested, please let all of us know
ASAP!
Happy holidays, everybody!
cheers, Gaurav
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On 1/3/17 12:27 PM, Todd Allen wrote:
Sounds alright to me. I'd love to go to Berlin, but really can't spare any time to travel right now.
Todd
On Mon, Jan 2, 2017 at 6:56 AM, Neal McBurnett <neal@bcn.boulder.co.us mailto:neal@bcn.boulder.co.us> wrote:
I suggest that after the posts go up, anyone who wants to can evaluate them and then we can all vote. Or something like that. -Neal On Sun, Jan 01, 2017 at 04:54:31PM -0500, Gaurav Vaidya wrote: > > > On 1 Jan 2017, at 11:05 AM, Neal McBurnett <neal@bcn.boulder.co.us <mailto:neal@bcn.boulder.co.us>> wrote: > > > > Yes - I'm interested! I was going to go to the Wikimedia Developer Summit in San Francisco this month to continue to get more involved with the AI and machine learning work, but election-integrity-related stuff has poured over into the new year, so I can't swing that. > > > > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Developer_Summit/2017/Program <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Developer_Summit/2017/Program> > > Aw, shoot. I’ve heard those are a lot of fun! I’m hoping to be released from my PhD and able to attend WikiConference USA 2017, so maybe I’ll see you there instead! > > > I think the candidates should describe their involvement, goals and plans in a few paragraphs, and we should go from there. > > Sounds good to me! Whoever wants to go first should set up a subpage at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_of_Colorado_User_Group <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_of_Colorado_User_Group> so this isn’t just happening on the mailing list. Should we set January 6 as a deadline to have these in? > > Judging these entries will also be tricky. I can volunteer to judge them, but I wouldn’t want to be the ONLY judge, so if nobody else volunteers to judge, we might end up randomly choosing an entry after all. But I like the idea of candidates having to set out why they’d like to go, what they’ll do in Berlin and how that will benefit WM-US-CO. > > cheers, > Gaurav > > > Cheers, > > > > -Neal > > > > On Sat, Dec 31, 2016 at 03:24:55PM -0500, Gaurav Vaidya wrote: > >> Okay, yay, two candidates! Any more any more? > >> > >> Also, any ideas on how we could pick one? Would anybody be interested in a vote? We could run that at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_of_Colorado_User_Group <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_of_Colorado_User_Group> — otherwise, once all the applicants are in, we could just pick one at random at https://www.randomresult.com/ticket.php <https://www.randomresult.com/ticket.php>. Let me know what you think! > >> > >> cheers, > >> Gaurav > >> > >> > >>> On 31 Dec 2016, at 10:21 AM, Abhay Natu <asnatu@gmail.com <mailto:asnatu@gmail.com>> wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>> Representation in such events will raise our profile and help grow membership. > >>> > >>> I can also do this but will defer to another candidate if needed. > >>> > >>> Cheers, > >>> > >>> Abhay > >>> > >>> On Dec 31, 2016 6:00 AM, <wikimedia-us-co-request@lists.wikimedia.org <mailto:wikimedia-us-co-request@lists.wikimedia.org>> wrote: > >>> Send Wikimedia-US-CO mailing list submissions to > >>> wikimedia-us-co@lists.wikimedia.org <mailto:wikimedia-us-co@lists.wikimedia.org> > >>> > >>> To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-us-co <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-us-co> > >>> or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > >>> wikimedia-us-co-request@lists.wikimedia.org <mailto:wikimedia-us-co-request@lists.wikimedia.org> > >>> > >>> You can reach the person managing the list at > >>> wikimedia-us-co-owner@lists.wikimedia.org <mailto:wikimedia-us-co-owner@lists.wikimedia.org> > >>> > >>> When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > >>> than "Re: Contents of Wikimedia-US-CO digest..." > >>> > >>> > >>> Today's Topics: > >>> > >>> 1. Re: Delegate to Wikimedia Conference 2017 (Mar/Apr in Berlin) > >>> (Isarra Yos) > >>> > >>> > >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >>> > >>> Message: 1 > >>> Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2016 22:06:14 +0000 > >>> From: Isarra Yos <zhorishna@gmail.com <mailto:zhorishna@gmail.com>> > >>> To: wikimedia-us-co@lists.wikimedia.org <mailto:wikimedia-us-co@lists.wikimedia.org> > >>> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-US-CO] Delegate to Wikimedia Conference 2017 > >>> (Mar/Apr in Berlin) > >>> Message-ID: <56604d0d-745a-df5e-dcfc-2a66db1c39a9@gmail.com <mailto:56604d0d-745a-df5e-dcfc-2a66db1c39a9@gmail.com>> > >>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed > >>> > >>> I could do it, but I really don't know if I'd be the best person. > >>> Perhaps someone who's more active in organising actual events and > >>> whatnot? Or who even knows who that would be... > >>> > >>> -I > >>> > >>> On 23/12/16 22:30, Gaurav Vaidya wrote: > >>>> Hullo! > >>>> > >>>> Wikimedia Conference 2017 [1] will take place in Berlin, Germany, from > >>>> March 31 to April 2, 2017; it's a chance for Wikimedia organizations > >>>> (such as us!) to meet and discuss plans for pushing the Wikimedia > >>>> movement forward around the word. According to the Eligibility List > >>>> [2], it looks like the Wikimedians of Colorado User Group [3] (such as > >>>> us!) can send ONE person to Berlin to represent us. I think > >>>> accommodation and airfare are paid for either by the Wikimedia > >>>> Foundation or WMDE [4]. > >>>> > >>>> Anybody interested in going? Check out the questions on the > >>>> application form [5] and send an e-mail to the group letting us know > >>>> your interest. If more than one person is interested, we can vote on > >>>> it or something, but let's see who's interested to begin with. The > >>>> hard deadline for registering for the conference is January 8, so I'd > >>>> like to have a final decision on who we want to send by January 6 at > >>>> the latest. If there's a lack of response we might decide earlier than > >>>> that, so if you're AT ALL interested, please let all of us know ASAP! > >>>> > >>>> Happy holidays, everybody! > >>>> > >>>> cheers, > >>>> Gaurav > >>>> > >>>> [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2017 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2017> > >>>> [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2017/Eligibility_Criteria#Wikimedia_User_Groups <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2017/Eligibility_Criteria#Wikimedia_User_Groups> > >>>> [3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_of_Colorado_User_Group <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_of_Colorado_User_Group> > >>>> [4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2017/Travel_and_Hotel_Booking_Information#Group_2 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2017/Travel_and_Hotel_Booking_Information#Group_2> > >>>> [5] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2017/Program_Design_Process#Prepare_for_the_registration <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2017/Program_Design_Process#Prepare_for_the_registration> > >>>> > >>>> _______________________________________________ > >>>> Wikimedia-US-CO mailing list > >>>> Wikimedia-US-CO@lists.wikimedia.org <mailto:Wikimedia-US-CO@lists.wikimedia.org> > >>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-us-co <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-us-co> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> ------------------------------ > >>> > >>> Subject: Digest Footer > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> Wikimedia-US-CO mailing list > >>> Wikimedia-US-CO@lists.wikimedia.org <mailto:Wikimedia-US-CO@lists.wikimedia.org> > >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-us-co <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-us-co> > >>> > >>> > >>> ------------------------------ > >>> > >>> End of Wikimedia-US-CO Digest, Vol 30, Issue 2 > >>> ********************************************** > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> Wikimedia-US-CO mailing list > >>> Wikimedia-US-CO@lists.wikimedia.org <mailto:Wikimedia-US-CO@lists.wikimedia.org> > >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-us-co <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-us-co> > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Wikimedia-US-CO mailing list > >> Wikimedia-US-CO@lists.wikimedia.org <mailto:Wikimedia-US-CO@lists.wikimedia.org> > >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-us-co <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-us-co> > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia-US-CO mailing list > > Wikimedia-US-CO@lists.wikimedia.org <mailto:Wikimedia-US-CO@lists.wikimedia.org> > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-us-co <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-us-co> > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-US-CO mailing list > Wikimedia-US-CO@lists.wikimedia.org <mailto:Wikimedia-US-CO@lists.wikimedia.org> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-us-co <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-us-co> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-US-CO mailing list Wikimedia-US-CO@lists.wikimedia.org <mailto:Wikimedia-US-CO@lists.wikimedia.org> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-us-co <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-us-co>
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Of the best-suited to represent Colorado Wikimedians, it may very well indeed be the most fierce of competitions between Neal and Gaurav, as Neal has obviously made significant contributions to Wikipedia's infrastructure while Gaurav has obviously made significant contributions to Wikipedia's content. I vote to send them both disguised as one person?
If you are curious as to why my response is all the way down here, it's because I encountered this very interesting SuperUser answer http://superuser.com/a/229722/184651 recently.
Neal put up a page, so anyone who's interested in doing this, please add a blurb so we can argue about it.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_of_Colorado_User_Group/wmcon-201...
As Neal said, involvement, goals, and plans. A quick note or link or whatever reminding everyone who you are, would probably be useful, as well as something about why you're interested in particular or what you would like to do with it. Maybe stuff you've organised in the past, or would like to try doing, that sort of thing.
-I
On 03/01/17 23:24, Spencer Williams IV wrote:
On 1/3/17 12:27 PM, Todd Allen wrote:
Sounds alright to me. I'd love to go to Berlin, but really can't spare any time to travel right now.
Todd
On Mon, Jan 2, 2017 at 6:56 AM, Neal McBurnett <neal@bcn.boulder.co.us mailto:neal@bcn.boulder.co.us> wrote:
I suggest that after the posts go up, anyone who wants to can evaluate them and then we can all vote. Or something like that. -Neal On Sun, Jan 01, 2017 at 04:54:31PM -0500, Gaurav Vaidya wrote: > > > On 1 Jan 2017, at 11:05 AM, Neal McBurnett <neal@bcn.boulder.co.us <mailto:neal@bcn.boulder.co.us>> wrote: > > > > Yes - I'm interested! I was going to go to the Wikimedia Developer Summit in San Francisco this month to continue to get more involved with the AI and machine learning work, but election-integrity-related stuff has poured over into the new year, so I can't swing that. > > > > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Developer_Summit/2017/Program <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Developer_Summit/2017/Program> > > Aw, shoot. I’ve heard those are a lot of fun! I’m hoping to be released from my PhD and able to attend WikiConference USA 2017, so maybe I’ll see you there instead! > > > I think the candidates should describe their involvement, goals and plans in a few paragraphs, and we should go from there. > > Sounds good to me! Whoever wants to go first should set up a subpage at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_of_Colorado_User_Group <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_of_Colorado_User_Group> so this isn’t just happening on the mailing list. Should we set January 6 as a deadline to have these in? > > Judging these entries will also be tricky. I can volunteer to judge them, but I wouldn’t want to be the ONLY judge, so if nobody else volunteers to judge, we might end up randomly choosing an entry after all. But I like the idea of candidates having to set out why they’d like to go, what they’ll do in Berlin and how that will benefit WM-US-CO. > > cheers, > Gaurav > > > Cheers, > > > > -Neal > > > > On Sat, Dec 31, 2016 at 03:24:55PM -0500, Gaurav Vaidya wrote: > >> Okay, yay, two candidates! Any more any more? > >> > >> Also, any ideas on how we could pick one? Would anybody be interested in a vote? We could run that at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_of_Colorado_User_Group <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_of_Colorado_User_Group> — otherwise, once all the applicants are in, we could just pick one at random at https://www.randomresult.com/ticket.php <https://www.randomresult.com/ticket.php>. Let me know what you think! > >> > >> cheers, > >> Gaurav > >> > >> > >>> On 31 Dec 2016, at 10:21 AM, Abhay Natu <asnatu@gmail.com <mailto:asnatu@gmail.com>> wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>> Representation in such events will raise our profile and help grow membership. > >>> > >>> I can also do this but will defer to another candidate if needed. > >>> > >>> Cheers, > >>> > >>> Abhay > >>> > >>> On Dec 31, 2016 6:00 AM, <wikimedia-us-co-request@lists.wikimedia.org <mailto:wikimedia-us-co-request@lists.wikimedia.org>> wrote: > >>> Send Wikimedia-US-CO mailing list submissions to > >>> wikimedia-us-co@lists.wikimedia.org <mailto:wikimedia-us-co@lists.wikimedia.org> > >>> > >>> To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-us-co <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-us-co> > >>> or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > >>> wikimedia-us-co-request@lists.wikimedia.org <mailto:wikimedia-us-co-request@lists.wikimedia.org> > >>> > >>> You can reach the person managing the list at > >>> wikimedia-us-co-owner@lists.wikimedia.org <mailto:wikimedia-us-co-owner@lists.wikimedia.org> > >>> > >>> When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > >>> than "Re: Contents of Wikimedia-US-CO digest..." > >>> > >>> > >>> Today's Topics: > >>> > >>> 1. Re: Delegate to Wikimedia Conference 2017 (Mar/Apr in Berlin) > >>> (Isarra Yos) > >>> > >>> > >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >>> > >>> Message: 1 > >>> Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2016 22:06:14 +0000 > >>> From: Isarra Yos <zhorishna@gmail.com <mailto:zhorishna@gmail.com>> > >>> To: wikimedia-us-co@lists.wikimedia.org <mailto:wikimedia-us-co@lists.wikimedia.org> > >>> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-US-CO] Delegate to Wikimedia Conference 2017 > >>> (Mar/Apr in Berlin) > >>> Message-ID: <56604d0d-745a-df5e-dcfc-2a66db1c39a9@gmail.com <mailto:56604d0d-745a-df5e-dcfc-2a66db1c39a9@gmail.com>> > >>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed > >>> > >>> I could do it, but I really don't know if I'd be the best person. > >>> Perhaps someone who's more active in organising actual events and > >>> whatnot? Or who even knows who that would be... > >>> > >>> -I > >>> > >>> On 23/12/16 22:30, Gaurav Vaidya wrote: > >>>> Hullo! > >>>> > >>>> Wikimedia Conference 2017 [1] will take place in Berlin, Germany, from > >>>> March 31 to April 2, 2017; it's a chance for Wikimedia organizations > >>>> (such as us!) to meet and discuss plans for pushing the Wikimedia > >>>> movement forward around the word. According to the Eligibility List > >>>> [2], it looks like the Wikimedians of Colorado User Group [3] (such as > >>>> us!) can send ONE person to Berlin to represent us. I think > >>>> accommodation and airfare are paid for either by the Wikimedia > >>>> Foundation or WMDE [4]. > >>>> > >>>> Anybody interested in going? Check out the questions on the > >>>> application form [5] and send an e-mail to the group letting us know > >>>> your interest. If more than one person is interested, we can vote on > >>>> it or something, but let's see who's interested to begin with. The > >>>> hard deadline for registering for the conference is January 8, so I'd > >>>> like to have a final decision on who we want to send by January 6 at > >>>> the latest. If there's a lack of response we might decide earlier than > >>>> that, so if you're AT ALL interested, please let all of us know ASAP! > >>>> > >>>> Happy holidays, everybody! > >>>> > >>>> cheers, > >>>> Gaurav > >>>> > >>>> [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2017 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2017> > >>>> [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2017/Eligibility_Criteria#Wikimedia_User_Groups <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2017/Eligibility_Criteria#Wikimedia_User_Groups> > >>>> [3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_of_Colorado_User_Group <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_of_Colorado_User_Group> > >>>> [4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2017/Travel_and_Hotel_Booking_Information#Group_2 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2017/Travel_and_Hotel_Booking_Information#Group_2> > >>>> [5] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2017/Program_Design_Process#Prepare_for_the_registration <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2017/Program_Design_Process#Prepare_for_the_registration> > >>>> > >>>> _______________________________________________ > >>>> Wikimedia-US-CO mailing list > >>>> Wikimedia-US-CO@lists.wikimedia.org <mailto:Wikimedia-US-CO@lists.wikimedia.org> > >>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-us-co <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-us-co> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> ------------------------------ > >>> > >>> Subject: Digest Footer > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> Wikimedia-US-CO mailing list > >>> Wikimedia-US-CO@lists.wikimedia.org <mailto:Wikimedia-US-CO@lists.wikimedia.org> > >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-us-co <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-us-co> > >>> > >>> > >>> ------------------------------ > >>> > >>> End of Wikimedia-US-CO Digest, Vol 30, Issue 2 > >>> ********************************************** > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> Wikimedia-US-CO mailing list > >>> Wikimedia-US-CO@lists.wikimedia.org <mailto:Wikimedia-US-CO@lists.wikimedia.org> > >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-us-co <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-us-co> > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Wikimedia-US-CO mailing list > >> Wikimedia-US-CO@lists.wikimedia.org <mailto:Wikimedia-US-CO@lists.wikimedia.org> > >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-us-co <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-us-co> > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia-US-CO mailing list > > Wikimedia-US-CO@lists.wikimedia.org <mailto:Wikimedia-US-CO@lists.wikimedia.org> > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-us-co <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-us-co> > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-US-CO mailing list > Wikimedia-US-CO@lists.wikimedia.org <mailto:Wikimedia-US-CO@lists.wikimedia.org> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-us-co <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-us-co> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-US-CO mailing list Wikimedia-US-CO@lists.wikimedia.org <mailto:Wikimedia-US-CO@lists.wikimedia.org> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-us-co <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-us-co>
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Of the best-suited to represent Colorado Wikimedians, it may very well indeed be the most fierce of competitions between Neal and Gaurav, as Neal has obviously made significant contributions to Wikipedia's infrastructure while Gaurav has obviously made significant contributions to Wikipedia's content. I vote to send them both disguised as one person?
If you are curious as to why my response is all the way down here, it's because I encountered this very interesting SuperUser answer http://superuser.com/a/229722/184651 recently.
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On 3 Jan 2017, at 6:24 PM, Spencer Williams IV williamcwilliams@gmail.com wrote:
Of the best-suited to represent Colorado Wikimedians, it may very well indeed be the most fierce of competitions between Neal and Gaurav, as Neal has obviously made significant contributions to Wikipedia's infrastructure while Gaurav has obviously made significant contributions to Wikipedia's content. I vote to send them both disguised as one person?
Ha, thanks! Unfortunately, I’d be a really bad person to represent Wikimedians of Colorado given that I’ve moved to Florida :)
Thanks to Neal and Isarra for setting up and sharing https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_of_Colorado_User_Group/wmcon-201... — we have one candidate already! Let’s see how many we can get by January 6, maybe 11:59pm MT?
cheers, Gaurav
If you are curious as to why my response is all the way down here, it's because I encountered this very interesting SuperUser answer recently.
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-Spencer
"What a lark! What a plunge!"
- Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf
Wikimedia-US-CO mailing list Wikimedia-US-CO@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-us-co
Okay, Neil and Abhay put in some excellent responses, nobody else bit, so now we need to pick one of them. We can argue about it here, or vote on the page. I recommend voting on the page since that way it'll be easier for anyone to just say one or the other or both if they want to, but it depends who even wants to weigh in, too.
-I
On 04/01/17 20:11, Gaurav Vaidya wrote:
On 3 Jan 2017, at 6:24 PM, Spencer Williams IV williamcwilliams@gmail.com wrote:
Of the best-suited to represent Colorado Wikimedians, it may very well indeed be the most fierce of competitions between Neal and Gaurav, as Neal has obviously made significant contributions to Wikipedia's infrastructure while Gaurav has obviously made significant contributions to Wikipedia's content. I vote to send them both disguised as one person?
Ha, thanks! Unfortunately, I’d be a really bad person to represent Wikimedians of Colorado given that I’ve moved to Florida :)
Thanks to Neal and Isarra for setting up and sharing https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_of_Colorado_User_Group/wmcon-201... — we have one candidate already! Let’s see how many we can get by January 6, maybe 11:59pm MT?
cheers, Gaurav
If you are curious as to why my response is all the way down here, it's because I encountered this very interesting SuperUser answer recently.
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-Spencer
"What a lark! What a plunge!"
- Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf
Wikimedia-US-CO mailing list Wikimedia-US-CO@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-us-co
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Thanks for taking the lead on this, Isarra, and thanks all the candidates for applying — I wish we had more than one slot to send people on!
I’ve voted at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_of_Colorado_User_Group/wmcon-201... — if anybody else has an opinion on this, please make it known ASAP!
(We should probably also vaguely start thinking about how we can fund as many people as possible to WikiConference USA 2017.)
cheers, Gaurav
On 7 Jan 2017, at 11:14 AM, Isarra Yos zhorishna@gmail.com wrote:
Okay, Neil and Abhay put in some excellent responses, nobody else bit, so now we need to pick one of them. We can argue about it here, or vote on the page. I recommend voting on the page since that way it'll be easier for anyone to just say one or the other or both if they want to, but it depends who even wants to weigh in, too.
-I
On 04/01/17 20:11, Gaurav Vaidya wrote:
On 3 Jan 2017, at 6:24 PM, Spencer Williams IV williamcwilliams@gmail.com wrote:
Of the best-suited to represent Colorado Wikimedians, it may very well indeed be the most fierce of competitions between Neal and Gaurav, as Neal has obviously made significant contributions to Wikipedia's infrastructure while Gaurav has obviously made significant contributions to Wikipedia's content. I vote to send them both disguised as one person?
Ha, thanks! Unfortunately, I’d be a really bad person to represent Wikimedians of Colorado given that I’ve moved to Florida :)
Thanks to Neal and Isarra for setting up and sharing https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_of_Colorado_User_Group/wmcon-201... — we have one candidate already! Let’s see how many we can get by January 6, maybe 11:59pm MT?
cheers, Gaurav
If you are curious as to why my response is all the way down here, it's because I encountered this very interesting SuperUser answer recently.
--
-Spencer
"What a lark! What a plunge!"
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The hard deadline to apply is sometime today (unclear exactly when), so please jump in now so our winning candidate can register and actually attend!
See background, candidates and "Support" votes at https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikimedians_of_Colorado_User_Gr...
I imagine that people can express opinions about and support as many candidates as they like, "Approval voting style" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Approval_voting) so I've done so. If folks think we should have different ground rules, please speak up about that also ;)
Cheers,
Neal McBurnett http://neal.mcburnett.org/
On Sat, Jan 07, 2017 at 12:36:51PM -0500, Gaurav Vaidya wrote:
Thanks for taking the lead on this, Isarra, and thanks all the candidates for applying — I wish we had more than one slot to send people on!
I’ve voted at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_of_Colorado_User_Group/wmcon-201... — if anybody else has an opinion on this, please make it known ASAP!
(We should probably also vaguely start thinking about how we can fund as many people as possible to WikiConference USA 2017.)
cheers, Gaurav
On 7 Jan 2017, at 11:14 AM, Isarra Yos zhorishna@gmail.com wrote:
Okay, Neil and Abhay put in some excellent responses, nobody else bit, so now we need to pick one of them. We can argue about it here, or vote on the page. I recommend voting on the page since that way it'll be easier for anyone to just say one or the other or both if they want to, but it depends who even wants to weigh in, too.
-I
On 04/01/17 20:11, Gaurav Vaidya wrote:
On 3 Jan 2017, at 6:24 PM, Spencer Williams IV williamcwilliams@gmail.com wrote:
Of the best-suited to represent Colorado Wikimedians, it may very well indeed be the most fierce of competitions between Neal and Gaurav, as Neal has obviously made significant contributions to Wikipedia's infrastructure while Gaurav has obviously made significant contributions to Wikipedia's content. I vote to send them both disguised as one person?
Ha, thanks! Unfortunately, I’d be a really bad person to represent Wikimedians of Colorado given that I’ve moved to Florida :)
Thanks to Neal and Isarra for setting up and sharing https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_of_Colorado_User_Group/wmcon-201... — we have one candidate already! Let’s see how many we can get by January 6, maybe 11:59pm MT?
cheers, Gaurav
If you are curious as to why my response is all the way down here, it's because I encountered this very interesting SuperUser answer recently.
--
-Spencer
"What a lark! What a plunge!"
- Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf
Wikimedia-US-CO mailing list Wikimedia-US-CO@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-us-co
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On 8 Jan 2017, at 1:54 PM, Neal McBurnett neal@bcn.boulder.co.us wrote:
The hard deadline to apply is sometime today (unclear exactly when), so please jump in now so our winning candidate can register and actually attend!
See background, candidates and "Support" votes at https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikimedians_of_Colorado_User_Gr...
I imagine that people can express opinions about and support as many candidates as they like, "Approval voting style" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Approval_voting) so I've done so. If folks think we should have different ground rules, please speak up about that also ;)
Yay, thanks! How does Approval Voting work if you vote for all the candidates, though? Doesn’t that mean that only my (old-fashioned, first-past-the-post) vote counts?
We could set a deadline for 5pm or 7pm MT unless we hear back from your query to the Foundation. If we don’t have enough votes for a winning candidate (maybe three?), it might be more fair to pick one randomly, which I’d have no problem with — all three candidates are GREAT, and I’d no problem with sending any of them to this meeting!
cheers, Gaurav
Cheers,
Neal McBurnett http://neal.mcburnett.org/
On Sat, Jan 07, 2017 at 12:36:51PM -0500, Gaurav Vaidya wrote:
Thanks for taking the lead on this, Isarra, and thanks all the candidates for applying — I wish we had more than one slot to send people on!
I’ve voted at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_of_Colorado_User_Group/wmcon-201... — if anybody else has an opinion on this, please make it known ASAP!
(We should probably also vaguely start thinking about how we can fund as many people as possible to WikiConference USA 2017.)
cheers, Gaurav
On 7 Jan 2017, at 11:14 AM, Isarra Yos zhorishna@gmail.com wrote:
Okay, Neil and Abhay put in some excellent responses, nobody else bit, so now we need to pick one of them. We can argue about it here, or vote on the page. I recommend voting on the page since that way it'll be easier for anyone to just say one or the other or both if they want to, but it depends who even wants to weigh in, too.
-I
On 04/01/17 20:11, Gaurav Vaidya wrote:
On 3 Jan 2017, at 6:24 PM, Spencer Williams IV williamcwilliams@gmail.com wrote:
Of the best-suited to represent Colorado Wikimedians, it may very well indeed be the most fierce of competitions between Neal and Gaurav, as Neal has obviously made significant contributions to Wikipedia's infrastructure while Gaurav has obviously made significant contributions to Wikipedia's content. I vote to send them both disguised as one person?
Ha, thanks! Unfortunately, I’d be a really bad person to represent Wikimedians of Colorado given that I’ve moved to Florida :)
Thanks to Neal and Isarra for setting up and sharing https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_of_Colorado_User_Group/wmcon-201... — we have one candidate already! Let’s see how many we can get by January 6, maybe 11:59pm MT?
cheers, Gaurav
If you are curious as to why my response is all the way down here, it's because I encountered this very interesting SuperUser answer recently.
--
-Spencer
"What a lark! What a plunge!"
- Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf
Wikimedia-US-CO mailing list Wikimedia-US-CO@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-us-co
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On Sun, Jan 08, 2017 at 02:04:23PM -0500, Gaurav Vaidya wrote:
On 8 Jan 2017, at 1:54 PM, Neal McBurnett neal@bcn.boulder.co.us wrote:
The hard deadline to apply is sometime today (unclear exactly when), so please jump in now so our winning candidate can register and actually attend!
See background, candidates and "Support" votes at https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikimedians_of_Colorado_User_Gr...
I imagine that people can express opinions about and support as many candidates as they like, "Approval voting style" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Approval_voting) so I've done so. If folks think we should have different ground rules, please speak up about that also ;)
Yay, thanks! How does Approval Voting work if you vote for all the candidates, though? Doesn’t that mean that only my (old-fashioned, first-past-the-post) vote counts?
Good question. All votes of support count. Supporting everyone is a valid opinion (and the world would be a better place with more widespread support of each other ;). The winner (if we use this process, vs random selection) would simply be the candidate with the most support.
But even as an election geek, I haven't dug properly in to the various ways decisions are made in Wikimedia-land, so I welcome insights and alternative proposals. If more of us had responded back when you brought this all up, Gaurav, we might have done something more sensible. E.g. does it make more sense to have public votes, or a secret ballot for this sort of thing? Hopefully our delegate will find out more at the conference ;)
We could set a deadline for 5pm or 7pm MT unless we hear back from your query to the Foundation. If we don’t have enough votes for a winning candidate (maybe three?), it might be more fair to pick one randomly, which I’d have no problem with — all three candidates are GREAT, and I’d no problem with sending any of them to this meeting!
Great questions and ideas. Thanks again, Gaurav!
Neal McBurnett http://neal.mcburnett.org/
cheers, Gaurav
Cheers,
Neal McBurnett http://neal.mcburnett.org/
On Sat, Jan 07, 2017 at 12:36:51PM -0500, Gaurav Vaidya wrote:
Thanks for taking the lead on this, Isarra, and thanks all the candidates for applying — I wish we had more than one slot to send people on!
I’ve voted at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_of_Colorado_User_Group/wmcon-201... — if anybody else has an opinion on this, please make it known ASAP!
(We should probably also vaguely start thinking about how we can fund as many people as possible to WikiConference USA 2017.)
cheers, Gaurav
On 7 Jan 2017, at 11:14 AM, Isarra Yos zhorishna@gmail.com wrote:
Okay, Neil and Abhay put in some excellent responses, nobody else bit, so now we need to pick one of them. We can argue about it here, or vote on the page. I recommend voting on the page since that way it'll be easier for anyone to just say one or the other or both if they want to, but it depends who even wants to weigh in, too.
-I
On 04/01/17 20:11, Gaurav Vaidya wrote:
On 3 Jan 2017, at 6:24 PM, Spencer Williams IV williamcwilliams@gmail.com wrote:
Of the best-suited to represent Colorado Wikimedians, it may very well indeed be the most fierce of competitions between Neal and Gaurav, as Neal has obviously made significant contributions to Wikipedia's infrastructure while Gaurav has obviously made significant contributions to Wikipedia's content. I vote to send them both disguised as one person?
Ha, thanks! Unfortunately, I’d be a really bad person to represent Wikimedians of Colorado given that I’ve moved to Florida :)
Thanks to Neal and Isarra for setting up and sharing https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_of_Colorado_User_Group/wmcon-201... — we have one candidate already! Let’s see how many we can get by January 6, maybe 11:59pm MT?
cheers, Gaurav
If you are curious as to why my response is all the way down here, it's because I encountered this very interesting SuperUser answer recently.
--
-Spencer
"What a lark! What a plunge!"
- Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf
Wikimedia-US-CO mailing list Wikimedia-US-CO@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-us-co
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On 08/01/17 19:22, Neal McBurnett wrote:
On Sun, Jan 08, 2017 at 02:04:23PM -0500, Gaurav Vaidya wrote:
On 8 Jan 2017, at 1:54 PM, Neal McBurnett neal@bcn.boulder.co.us wrote:
The hard deadline to apply is sometime today (unclear exactly when), so please jump in now so our winning candidate can register and actually attend!
See background, candidates and "Support" votes at https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikimedians_of_Colorado_User_Gr...
I imagine that people can express opinions about and support as many candidates as they like, "Approval voting style" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Approval_voting) so I've done so. If folks think we should have different ground rules, please speak up about that also ;)
Yay, thanks! How does Approval Voting work if you vote for all the candidates, though? Doesn’t that mean that only my (old-fashioned, first-past-the-post) vote counts?
Good question. All votes of support count. Supporting everyone is a valid opinion (and the world would be a better place with more widespread support of each other ;). The winner (if we use this process, vs random selection) would simply be the candidate with the most support.
But even as an election geek, I haven't dug properly in to the various ways decisions are made in Wikimedia-land, so I welcome insights and alternative proposals. If more of us had responded back when you brought this all up, Gaurav, we might have done something more sensible. E.g. does it make more sense to have public votes, or a secret ballot for this sort of thing? Hopefully our delegate will find out more at the conference ;)
Generally speaking, if it works at all, you can be pretty sure at least SOME group within wikimedia does it. It's a wide and very diverse movement, so I don't think we need to worry about being strange, at least...
And I see no problem with approval voting, at least.
We could set a deadline for 5pm or 7pm MT unless we hear back from your query to the Foundation. If we don’t have enough votes for a winning candidate (maybe three?), it might be more fair to pick one randomly, which I’d have no problem with — all three candidates are GREAT, and I’d no problem with sending any of them to this meeting!
Great questions and ideas. Thanks again, Gaurav!
Yeah, sure, unless either you or Abhay feel particularly inclined (more than the other, I mean) to put in a very rushed official registration thing. Given they didn't specify a time zone, we can probably get away with using MST, but normally it probably would be UTC, and it's already pretty late on that clock.
So, uh, let's just move forward and send a thorough prodding to the unlucky winner (you're going to have to do work, you know) around 18:00 local. EVERYONE ELSE VOTE NOW THANKS.
-I
Alright, it's almost 8pm MT, so I think we should call this. As of https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikimedians_of_Colorado_User_Gr..., the winning candidate is Abhay Natu with three votes. Every candidate got at least two votes, which I think is a testament to the strengths of all of them. Thanks to everybody who applied, voted or discussed this proposal!
Abhay: you need to apply at http://wmde.org/wmcon17registration ASAP -- hopefully you'll still make it before anybody shows up at the office Monday morning (in around four hours!). Congratulations, and we look forward to hearing from you once you get back!
cheers, Gaurav
On 8 January 2017 at 14:52, Isarra Yos zhorishna@gmail.com wrote:
On 08/01/17 19:22, Neal McBurnett wrote:
On Sun, Jan 08, 2017 at 02:04:23PM -0500, Gaurav Vaidya wrote:
On 8 Jan 2017, at 1:54 PM, Neal McBurnett neal@bcn.boulder.co.us wrote:
The hard deadline to apply is sometime today (unclear exactly when), so please jump in now so our winning candidate can register and actually attend!
See background, candidates and "Support" votes at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikimedians_of_Colorado_User_Gr...
I imagine that people can express opinions about and support as many candidates as they like, "Approval voting style" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Approval_voting) so I've done so. If folks think we should have different ground rules, please speak up about that also ;)
Yay, thanks! How does Approval Voting work if you vote for all the candidates, though? Doesn’t that mean that only my (old-fashioned, first-past-the-post) vote counts?
Good question. All votes of support count. Supporting everyone is a valid opinion (and the world would be a better place with more widespread support of each other ;). The winner (if we use this process, vs random selection) would simply be the candidate with the most support.
But even as an election geek, I haven't dug properly in to the various ways decisions are made in Wikimedia-land, so I welcome insights and alternative proposals. If more of us had responded back when you brought this all up, Gaurav, we might have done something more sensible. E.g. does it make more sense to have public votes, or a secret ballot for this sort of thing? Hopefully our delegate will find out more at the conference ;)
Generally speaking, if it works at all, you can be pretty sure at least SOME group within wikimedia does it. It's a wide and very diverse movement, so I don't think we need to worry about being strange, at least...
And I see no problem with approval voting, at least.
We could set a deadline for 5pm or 7pm MT unless we hear back from your query to the Foundation. If we don’t have enough votes for a winning candidate (maybe three?), it might be more fair to pick one randomly, which I’d have no problem with — all three candidates are GREAT, and I’d no problem with sending any of them to this meeting!
Great questions and ideas. Thanks again, Gaurav!
Yeah, sure, unless either you or Abhay feel particularly inclined (more than the other, I mean) to put in a very rushed official registration thing. Given they didn't specify a time zone, we can probably get away with using MST, but normally it probably would be UTC, and it's already pretty late on that clock.
So, uh, let's just move forward and send a thorough prodding to the unlucky winner (you're going to have to do work, you know) around 18:00 local. EVERYONE ELSE VOTE NOW THANKS.
-I
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