On Sep 16, 2010, at 5:46 PM, Danese Cooper dcooper@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi Aude,
Very awesome that no travel is required!
Yes, we did that just for you ;-). Seriously...we were hoping to attract some of the many "super-users" of MediaWiki in the greater DC area.
I can do any amount of outreach to the broader DC tech community or ping particular folks.
We are also looking to do a DC Wikipedia meetup in October and think there is a possibility of coodinating so it's the same weekend.
What help do you need from local DC wikipedians? Although we are not yet a chapter, we could perhaps help with getting a venue (though danese probably can handle it too) or other ways of helping organize.
Well, we've spoken to our CrisisCommons pals about help seeking a venue (after scrubbing out with some of our vendor friends), and we're hoping to close on that issue this week or early next. We're currently looking hard at Balfour Center and also hoping we'll get an offer from Sunlight Foundation or NPR. Either way, we should be able to open a block of hotel rooms shortly.
If you want me to ping folks at sunlight and/or NPR, let me know. NPR & CrisisCommons are very supportive (understated) of CrisisWiki and sure they would love to get some hacking to support it.
@aude
Cool :)
Glad you think so :-). This is a "first year" version of the Hack A Ton. I'm sure we'll learn a lot and hopefully schedule more of these around the world.
Danese
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