---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Lane Rasberry lane@bluerasberry.com

Hello,

There will be a tour of Consumer Reports for Wikipedians on Tuesday, January 15, from 3-5pm. Consumer Reports is in Yonkers. If you plan to attend then please confirm by signing up on the NYC meetup page at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/January_2013

I apologize to those who cannot make this time and there will be an additional opportunity to visit after a few months. Feel free to share this invitation with Wikipedians in the area and do not hesitate to call or write if you want to know more.

My name is Lane Rasberry and I am the Wikipedian in Residence at Consumer Reports. Consumer Reports is a research facility, publisher, and advocacy organization. Most of the organization's scientists and engineers work in any of the 50 laboratories at the Yonkers headquarters. Almost all of the publishing work happens here also. I am writing to invite Wikipedians on a tour of this place and to ask questions about Consumer Reports' interest in Wikipedia and what this could mean for Wikipedians in the area and internationally.

Consumer Reports is best known as a product testing organization. Staff here review dozens of every kind of household appliance, household product, and consumer good. I cannot plan exactly what this tour will include because different testing happens on different days, but I would expect that we would visit about seven laboratories and the engineers who manage them. Most things in laboratories can be photographed. In addition to the tour the staff here is curious to meet Wikipedians and would like to talk with any of you. I am curious to hear if any of you have ideas on what to do on Wikipedia with the information this place collects.

Here is the agenda: 2:30pm - anyone who arrives early will be received by me to talk. 3:15-4:30 pm - a tour which walks through several laboratories 4:30-5:15 - discussion with Consumer Reports staff. Perhaps you have questions for them and they also have questions for you. 5:15pm-till whenever - leave Consumer Reports to go for coffee and dinner somewhere

There is no easy public transportation within about a mile of here. At 3pm upon request from at least one person, there will be a shuttle from the Hastings station on the Metro North Hudson Line to Consumer Reports. Upon request, there can also be a shuttle back to the Hastings station sometime after the tour ends. At 5:20, 5:50, and 6:20, there are shuttles from Consumer Reports to the 1 line on 242nd Street in the Bronx.

Thanks for your attention and reply to this or write me with any questions. yours,

-- Lane Rasberry 206.801.0814 lrasberry@consumer.org