Come one, come all!
Our next meeting for Wikimedia NYC is Sunday May 17 at Columbia University.
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.
One big topic of discussion, out of many, will be preparing for our
'Wiki-Conference New York' at NYU this summer.
Other topics will be recent experiences at the WMF Chapters meeting
and in cooperating with local groups in NYC, photography for Wikinews,
and discussing issues relevant to Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia
projects.
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---
2:30 PM - 5:00PM:
Room 1402 Pupin Hall, Columbia University. Take the elevator to the
13th floor and then walk up one flight of stairs. Meeting to be held
in the library at the east end of the hall.
5:00 PM onwards:
Meetup at Pupin Hall, and then walk together to The Symposium, a local
Greek restaurant with an oddly appropriate name..
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)
Dear NYC Wikimedians,
Please consider attending and spreading the word about this conference we're
organizing. We've just confirmed a talk with Erik Moeller and Michael Dale
about "Collaborative Video in Wikipedia," which we're very excited to add to
the mix!
Thanks,
Elizabeth
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Register now!* http://openvideoconference.org/registration/
on Twitter/Identi.ca: @openvideo
on Facebook: http://is.gd/xeL8
June 19-20, 2009
New York City
40 Washington Square South (NYU Law School)
http://openvideoconference.org
*Details*
The Open Video Conference is a two-day gathering of thought leaders in
technology, business, public policy, art, and activism from around the world
to explore the future of the moving image.
Thanks to a proliferation of tools for recording, editing, and distributing
video online, anyone can be a broadcaster. Sites like YouTube are bursting
at the seams with user-created content. Individuals armed with cell phone
cameras are effectively citizen journalists. And emerging artistic forms
like video commentary and remix/mashup create new vocabularies for creative
and political expression.
Yet as the medium matures, we face a crossroads. Will technology and public
policy support a more participatory culture—one that encourages and enables
free expression and broader cultural engagement? Or will online video become
a glorified TV-on-demand service, a central part of a permissions-based
culture? Web video holds tremendous potential, but limits on broadband,
playback technology, and fair use threaten to undermine the ability of
individuals to engage in dialogues in and around this new media ecosystem.
*Highlights*
Bestselling author Clay Shirky will give a talk about the disruptive effects
of the web. Harvard's Jonathan Zittrain (TBC) will moderate a discussion on
platform innovation with Boxee CEO Avner Ronen, Blip.tv CEO Mike Hudack, and
representatives from YouTube and Adobe. Lizz Winstead, activist and
co-creator of The Daily Show, will discuss web video as political
commentary. Legendary hacker Jon Lech Johansen (DVD Jon) will address data
portability. Mozilla, makers of the Firefox web browser, will highlight what
it's doing to cement open video standards. You'll hear from Anthony
Falzone—executive director at Stanford's Fair Use Project and counsel to
graphic artist Shepherd Fairey—about the new battle lines drawn around fair
use. Voices from the blogosphere, public media, and traditional media will
explore the ways to make their content work in an open video ecosystem. Josh
Silver, executive director of Free Press, will highlight the ways telecom
policy hinders independent media, and much more.
This is just a peek—have a look at our schedule page for more details:
http://www.openvideoconference.org/agenda.
In addition to two full days of high-profile programming, you can expect a
slate of workshops and behind-the-scenes technical working groups with
leading edge video developers from projects like VLC, Ogg Theora, GStreamer,
Blender, PiTiVi, Miro, Kaltura, Firefox, and many more. This event should
interest anyone with a stake in art, culture, technology, policy,
journalism, or online business.
*Registration*
Registration entitles you to all conference benefits: talks and
presentations, workshops, screenings, two lunches, and a cool afterparty
featuring video turntablists Eclectic Method. Plus you'll get to mingle with
thought leaders in online video and take home a cool bag of schwag! Don't
wait—register at http://www.openvideoconference.org/registration.
*Organizers*
Our conference co-organizers are Participatory Culture Foundation, Yale ISP,
iCommons, and Kaltura. Our partners include Mozilla, Berkman Center for
Internet and Society at Harvard, Free Press, Creative Commons, Big Think,
NYU Information Law Institute, Intelligent TV, The Workbook Project, FGV
Brazil CTS, NEXA Italy, and more.
For more information, contact conference(a)openvideoalliance.org.
Hello Wikimedia NYC!
I'm writing because someone from your group expressed interest in
participating in the upcoming Open Everything NYC event. I'd like to invite
you all to attend, the full details are below. Furthermore, if you like the
idea, please feel free to pass this email on to others. If you're a blogger,
a short post to help get the word out about the event would be very helpful
(send me a link to your post so we can link back to you).
I look forward to seeing you at the event!
> Open Everything NYC <http://nyc.openeverything.us/> will take place on
> Saturday 18 April 2009 at the UNICEF headquarters in the United Nations
> Plaza, NYC. The event will run the full day, registration will open at
> 8:00AM and things will be in full swing by 9:00AM.
>
> The event will be 100% free and open to the public on a first come first
> serve basis, online pre-registration<http://nyc.openeverything.us/#registration>is required. The main hall can hold up to 250 guests.
>
> The event will consist of two keynote presentations (one opening & one
> closing) each of about 1 hour in duration. In the time between the two
> keynotes attendees will be in control of the program (Barcamp<http://barcamp.org/>style). There
> will be a number of conference rooms available for individuals to hold
> talks & discussions on topics they see fit. Past events have included
> topics such as Open Publishing, Open Education, Government Transparency,
> Open Access, Open Research Data, Creative Commons, Open Hardware, and
> more.
>
> From http://openeverything.net: <http://openeverything.net/>
>
> Open Everything is a global conversation about the art, science and spirit
>> of 'open'. It gathers people using openness to create and improve
>> software, education, media, philanthropy, architecture, neighbourhoods,
>> workplaces and the society we live in: everything. It's about thinking,
>> doing and being open.
>>
> Open Everything was started by a few people back in the beginning of 2008,
> and it has grown to include events in cities around the world. New York is
> going to be the next and we'd be delighted if you would participate.
>
Cheers,
John Britton
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contact info:
http://www.johndbritton.com
--
http://www.hostgrown.com
Come one, come all!
Our next meeting for Wikimedia NYC is Sunday March 29 at Columbia University.
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.
One big topic of discussion, out of many, will be signing
incorporation papers for our Wikimedia NYC chapter.
Other topics will be a review of our recent 'Wikipedia Loves Art'
events at several museums in our city, our representation at the WMF
Chapters meeting (and the possibility of applying for WMF grants) and
Open Everything NYC in April, classes at the New York Public Library
in May, and discussing issues relevant to Wikipedia and the other
Wikimedia projects.
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---
2:30 PM - 5:00PM:
Room 1402 Pupin Hall, Columbia University. Take the elevator to the
13th floor and then walk up one flight of stairs. Meeting to be held
in the library at the east end of the hall.
5:00 PM onwards:
Meetup at Pupin Hall, and then walk together to The Symposium, a local
Greek restaurant with an oddly appropriate name..
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,
Pharos
Thanks for all the positive feedback about Open Everything NYC.
I'm looking for a few people to volunteer by documenting the events at Open
Everything NYC. The job is fairly easy, just attend sessions and record the
details of the conversation in the event wiki. If you have a audio recorder
or video camera you could tape the sessions and post the media on the wiki.
If you're interested just send me an email.
Thanks,
John Britton
--
contact info:
http://www.johndbritton.com
--
http://www.hostgrown.com
Hi folks,
I wanted to forward you the info on the book launch for Andrew Lih's
"Wikipedia Revolution" at Columbia University this Thursday March 19.
Wish I could make it myself, but unfortunately I have a class at this time.
Thanks,
Pharos
---------- Forwarded message ----------
I just wanted to let you know that I'll be having the book launch for
The Wikipedia Revolution in NYC on March 19, 6pm at Columbia
University Journalism school, and it would be great to see you folks
there and meet you in person. Also feel free to tell other Wikipedians
you may know about it, as it's an open event.
The Facebook event is here: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=125548270310
The web site and info can be found here too:
http://www.wikipediarevolution.com/Blog+News.html
-Andrew
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-Andrew Lih
New media research
Come one, come all!
We're celebrating the conclusion of the monthlong global "Wikipedia
Loves Art" photo project events with one final event this Friday Feb
27 at MOMA.
---Photo event details---
Friday, February 27 from 6:00-8:00 pm, Museum of Modern Art. MOMA is
free Friday nights. We'll be joined by the Free Culture folks in the
section of the museum lobby right after the visitor's ticket is taken
(the lobby facing the garden), where we'll do check-in, meet the
participants and explain the project.
Page on Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC
You can officially 'sign up' at that page!
Thanks,
Pharos
Come one, come all!
We're celebrating the monthlong global "Wikipedia Loves Art" photo
project events with another event this Thursday Feb 19 at the Jewish
Museum.
---Photo event details---
Thursday, February 19 from 6:30-8:00 pm, Jewish Museum. We'll have
special free admission passes available that evening for Wikipedians
and our Free Culture friends. We'll be joined by the Free Culture
folks in the museum lobby, where we'll do check-in, meet the
participants and explain the project. Photography will be in the
Culture and Continuity: The Jewish Journey permanent exhibition on the
3rd and 4th floors. This is a special opportunity to enhance
Wikipedia, because photography is not usually permitted in this
museum.
Page on Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC
You can officially 'sign up' at that page!
Thanks,
Pharos
Come one, come all!
We're celebrating the monthlong global "Wikipedia Loves Art" photo
project events with another event this Friday Feb 13 (two days from
now) at the New-York Historical Society.
This is part of our broader "Wikipedia Loves Art!" project, which also
extends to other city institutions, including the Brooklyn Museum, the
Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Film Society of Lincoln Center, the
Jewish Museum and the Museum of Modern Art.
See our main page on Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Loves_Art
We're also on Flickr:
http://www.flickr.com/groups/wikipedia_loves_art/
And Facebook:
http://en-gb.facebook.com/group.php?gid=43008300207
So spread those links around :)
And invite all your non-Wikipedian friends and family; this is a big
tent event for everyone, just like Wikis Take Manhattan was (
http://www.streetfilms.org/archives/wikis-take-manhattan/ ).
---Photo event details---
Friday, February 13 from 6:00-8:00 pm, New-York Historical Society.
Museum admission is free at this time. We'll be joined by the Free
Culture folks in the museum lobby, where we'll do check-in, meet the
participants and explain the project. Photography will be in the
Henry Luce III Center For The Study Of American Culture on the 4th
floor
Page on Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC
You can officially 'sign up' at that page!
Thanks,
Pharos