I just got sent this:
http://hyperallergic.com/15410/museum-of-arts-design-lifts-photo-ban/
Thought folks in NYC might like to know :-)
(although, I suppose that many things in there are still copyrighted which
means that - with no USA freedom of panorama - you still can't put them on
Commons...)
Perhaps you already new this and it's old news, but good news nevertheless!
Do you have, and if not, do you think it would be valuable to create, a
document listing the status of various cultural institutions in the NYC area
according to their photographic and other policies that have bearing on
free-culture? Perhaps that might be a good pilot project for the
free-culture alliance??
-Liam
wittylama.com/blog
Peace, love & metadata
Dear Wikimedia New York City,
As many of you know, I'm part of the Wikimedia Foundation's Public
Policy Initiative, a pilot program to find better ways of getting
teachers and their students to contribute to Wikipedia and of
mobilizing the volunteer community to support such students and
teachers as "Wikipedia Ambassadors".
Right now, we're recruiting professors for the spring semester (the
second, and last besides possibly the summer term, wave of classes
before the pilot program ends and turns the future of the ambassador
program entirely to the volunteer community). The basic way that
we're going about spreading the ambassador program is by selecting and training
volunteers who will serve as "Campus Ambassadors" to provide local
support to professors doing major Wikipedia assignments in their
classes. A couple of ambassadors from each region where we have participating
professors will be brought to San Francisco in early January for a two-day
'train the trainers' program, and then return to their own regions to
run ambassador training events for other volunteers. For future
terms, the ambassadors will be in charge of figuring out how to train
new sets of campus ambassadors, and how fast it is feasible to spread
the program.
I think it would be a shame not to get a foothold for the ambassador
program in the NYC area for this next term. Given the concentration
of Wikipedians and the strong interest in Wikimedia ambassadorship in
the general sense, having an ambassador training event in NYC makes
sense. For that to happen for the spring term, though, we need to
find NYC-area professors who teach public policy-related courses and
want to participate in the Public Policy Initiative. We have one
prospect at NYU, but don't yet have a verbal commitment on that. But
most of the WMF staff focus for the coming term is on recruiting from
women's and minority colleges and universities, and I don't anticipate
we will spend much time trying to find professors in the New York
area. Which gets to the point of this message:
Please help recruit one or more professors who teach public
policy-related courses to participate in the Public Policy Initiative
for the spring semester. This page [2] has an example email you can
use to contact professors. Later this week, we should have the new
versions of the "memorandum of understanding" and assignment
guidelines that we are asking professors to sign and use for designing
assignments, respectively. Those, as well as this example syllabus
[1] can be used to give potential participants a good idea of what the
program is about and what it will involve on their part. If you find
professors who are interested and make the initial contacts, then pass
the conversation on to Annie Lin (alin(a)wikimedia.org), the Campus Team
Coordinator for the project; she will handle the final stage of
securing commitments and discussing the final versions of the
requirements, etc.
The soft deadline for putting interested professors in touch with
Annie is next Friday, 19 November.
If we can get to the point of verbal commitments from NYC professors,
then we can start identifying and selecting campus ambassadors in the
area, including someone to come to SF and return to lead a training
event in NYC in January. The basic plan is to have the training
events be open to all interested Wikimedians who think they would
benefit from it, not just those who are selected to be campus ambassadors.
Please keep Annie Lin informed of interested instructors and feel free
to contact me about questions and/or let me know if you're trying this
out. Thanks!
-Sage Ross
[1] = http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Ambassadors/Resources/Example_syllab…
[2] = http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Ambassadors/Recruiting_instructors
Our next Wikipedia NYC Meetup is this weekend on Saturday Dec 4 at
Brooklyn Museum during their awesome First Saturdays program, starting
at 5 PM.
http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/visit/first_saturdays.php
A particular highlight for the wiki crowd will be 'Seductive
Subversion: Women Pop Artists, 1958–1968', and the accompanying
"WikiPop" project, with specially-created Wikipedia articles on the
artists displayed on iPads in the gallery.
This will be a museum touring and partying meetup, so no excuses about
being a shy newbie this time.
Bring a friend!
---Meeting details---
5:00 PM – 11:00 PM: Meetup starts at 5 PM at Brooklyn Museum grand
front entrance (by the trees)
Page on Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC
You can officially 'sign up' at that page if you'd like too.
Thanks,
Richard
(User:Pharos)
Wikimedia NYC
http://wikimedianyc.org
Our next Wikipedia NYC Meetup is this weekend on Saturday Nov 20 at
Ollie's Noodle Shop @ 2957 Broadway by 116th St, starting a 5 PM.
This will be a very special eating-and-schmoozing-only meetup, with no
fussy agenda or anything.
So, no excuses about being a shy newbie this time!
We welcome all guests. If you support open education and free
culture, we are your people. If you have a project you want to work
on with us, this is a great opportunity to get acquainted. If you want
someone to give a talk or teach a class with an inside view of
Wikipedia, meet your volunteers. And if you just have any questions,
we'd be glad to try to answer them.
---Meeting details---
5:00 PM onwards:
Ollie's Noodle Shop @ 2957 Broadway by 116th St.
http://www.yelp.com/biz/ollies-new-york
Also, we just might go out for drinks and brownies after dinner.
Page on Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC
You can officially 'sign up' at that page if you'd like too.
Thanks,
Richard
(User:Pharos)
Wikimedia NYC
http://wikimedianyc.org
Come one, come all!
Our next meeting for Wikimedia NYC is Saturday October 16 (next
weekend) at the historic Jefferson Market Library @ 425 Avenue of the
Americas (6th Ave) in Lower Manhattan..
This is a meeting for volunteers to the projects of the non-profit
Wikimedia Foundation, and everyone else too, who has ever looked at
Wikipedia and wondered what's going on behind it.
A couple of big topics of discussion, out of many, will be preparing
for future 'Wikipedia Academies' and Wiki Workshops for different
groups in the NYC area, and making the way for 'Wikipedians in
Residence' to volunteer at local cultural and academic institutions.
We welcome all guests. If you support open education and free
culture, we are your people. If you have a project you want to work
on with us, this is a great opportunity to get acquainted. If you want
someone to give a talk or teach a class with an inside view of
Wikipedia, meet your volunteers. And if you just have any questions,
we'd be glad to try to answer them.
Remember, the agenda here is up to you! I encourage anyone who is
interested to sign up to give a presentation or suggest a topic for
general discussion at our wikimeetup page (given below).
---Meeting details---
2:00 PM - 4:30PM:
Jefferson Market Library @ 425 Avenue of the Americas (6th Ave) in
Lower Manhattan.
5:00 PM onwards:
Meetup at Jefferson Market Library, and then walk together to a
neighborhood restaurant (help us decide!).
Page on Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC
You can officially 'sign up' at that page, and please add your ideas
to the agenda!
Thanks,
Richard
(User:Pharos)
Wikimedia NYC
http://wikimedianyc.org
PS, If you are new and have any questions about this event, feel free
to email me personally:
pharosofalexandria(a)gmail.com
If you are in DC or need an excuse to come visit Washington DC, please join
us for the next DC Wikimedia meetup on October 23, 6pm at Bertucci's in
Foggy Bottom. (21st & I St / Penn Ave NW)
The date/time are all definite! Come and discuss about collaboration
activities with the Smithsonian, hang out with other Wikipedians and "geek
out". :)
For more details and to RSVP, see the meetup page:
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/DC_12
The meetup coincides with the MediaWiki Hack-A-Ton DC (err... it will be out
in Tysons Corner, but there will be car pools & probably a shuttle between
the metro and the venue) that is taking place that weekend, thus we will
have developers, Wikimedia CTO Danese Cooper and other Wikimedia staff
joining us!
If you feel like fixing some MediaWiki bugs, feel free to also join the
Hack-A-Ton:
* http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Hack-A-Ton_DC
Cheers,
Katie (user:aude)
An update with new info on Clay Shirky's keynote:
Our 2nd annual Wiki-Conference NYC will be held over this coming
weekend of August 28-29 2010, hosted by ITP at NYU's Tisch School of
the Arts, and also supported by Free Culture @ NYU and Wikimedia New
York City.
Here Comes Everybody author Clay Shirky will be giving Saturday's
keynote, and Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director Sue Gardner will
be giving Sunday's keynote.
There's still plenty of time to join a panel, or to propose a
lightning talk or an open space session.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Wiki-Conference
Register for the Wiki-Conference here:
http://bit.ly/wikinyc
Also, I'll be glad to answer any questions you may have about the
Wiki-Conference.
Thanks,
Richard
(User:Pharos)
Wikimedia New York City
http://nyc.wikimedia.org
An update:
Our 2nd annual Wiki-Conference NYC will be held over the weekend of
August 28-29 2010, hosted by ITP at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts,
and also supported by Free Culture @ NYU and Wikimedia New York City.
Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director Sue Gardner will be giving a
keynote, and we will also have a second keynote speaker TBA.
There's still plenty of time to join a panel, or to propose a
lightning talk or an open space session.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Wiki-Conference
Register for the Wiki-Conference here:
http://bit.ly/wikinyc
Also, I'll be glad to answer any questions you may have about the
Wiki-Conference.
Thanks,
Richard
(User:Pharos)
Wikimedia New York City
http://nyc.wikimedia.org
Our 2nd annual Wiki-Conference NYC will be held over the weekend of
August 28-29 2010, hosted by ITP at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts,
and also supported by Free Culture @ NYU and Wikimedia New York City.
There's still plenty of time to join a panel, or to propose a
lightning talk or an open space session.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Wiki-Conference
Register for the Wiki-Conference here:
http://bit.ly/wikinyc
Thanks,
Richard
(User:Pharos)
Wikimedia New York City
http://nyc.wikimedia.org
Hi Wikimedia / Free Culture/ Free Software fans in the NYC area,
I'm happy to pass along this note about Debian Day, a free and open
public day that our friends at DebConf are holding on Sunday August 1.
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http://debconf10.debconf.org/debianday.xhtml
Debian Day will take place from 10 AM to 6:40 PM on Sunday, August 1,
2010 at Columbia University, New York City, New York.
After ten editions in nine different countries spanning four
continents, and for the first time in the United States, the Debian
project is holding their annual Debian Developer conference, DebConf,
at Columbia University in New York City. DebConf includes Debian Day,
when it opens its doors to the general public. Debian Day kicks off
DebConf, is free of charge, and open for everybody interested in Free
Software. During this event, there will be a full day of talks on
several subjects such as free software in government, design and free
software, free software advocacy as well as string of talks about the
Debian project and operating system.
The Debian Project is an association of individuals who have made
common cause to create a free and open operating system. This
operating system that we have been creating is called Debian
GNU/Linux, or simply Debian for short. Every year, DebConf allows new
and existing Debian project participants from around the world to
assemble, share knowledge and ideas, make collaborative contributions
to Debian, build tighter community bonds and improve communication
within the project.
We would love to see you join us at Debian Day. Registration is
required but is free.
To register, please send an email with intent to attend to:
debianday(a)debconf.org If you are registered for DebConf, you do not
need to register for Debian Day.
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Thanks,
Richard
(User:Pharos)