A reminder that Wikipedia Day @ NYU is today, Saturday Jan 28!
The location is ITP at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts (721 Broadway), and
the program will run from 10am until well into the evening.
See full event details and schedule here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Wikipedia_Day
Thanks,
Richard
(User:Pharos)
Wikimedia NYC
Tomorrow, on Wednesday Jan 18, Wikipedia will hold a blackout to protest
the SOPA/PIPA legislation in Congress that poses a serious threat to the
open Internet:**
**http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/English_Wikipedia_anti-SOPA_blackout
More locally, on Wednesday from 12:30-2 PM, the NY Tech Meetup is hosting a
'Rally for the Future of Tech' in front of 780 Third Ave, at 49th street,
in Manhattan:
http://nytm.org/sos/
These speakers have been confirmed for the rally: Clay Shirky, Alexis
Ohanian, Scott Heiferman, John Perry Barlow, Andrew McLaughlin, Eli
Pariser, Tim Karr, and David Segal.
Bring a sign on why Wikipedia and similar projects need an open Internet to
thrive, and maybe we can also find each other, and go get lunch as a
wiki-group afterward.
Also, I'd like to welcome everyone of our upcoming Wiki-Conference at NYU
on Jan 28, where SOPA certainly promises to be a hot topic:
http://bit.ly/wikiday2012
**Thanks,
Richard
(User:Pharos)
Wikimedia NYC
The Wikipedia Day 11th Birthday Bash is a celebration and
mini-conference to be held on Saturday January 28, 2012, hosted at ITP
at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, and also supported by Wikimedia New
York City, Free Culture @ NYU and other Free Culture Alliance NYC
partners.
The NYC celebration is one of a number of Wikipedia Day being held in
the United States and worldwide.
You can register for the Wiki-Conference here:
http://bit.ly/wikiday2012
See full event details and schedule (and add your own lightning talk!) at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Wikipedia_Day
Thanks,
Richard
(User:Pharos)
Wikimedia NYC