[WikiX-l] report on San Francisco events

[phoebe ayers]

Hi all,

We had two events in San Francisco this weekend: the West Coast
WikiConference (http://2011.westcoastwikicon.org) which was organized
by the local meetup group here, and an evening party, which was hosted
by the Foundation. Both were quite successful!

Around 100 people attended the conference throughout the day, which
featured two keynote speakers: Ward Cunningham and Kevin Kelly
(co-founder of Wired magazine). We also had up to 80 people watching a
live stream of the conference. The rest of the day featured breakout
open space sessions, where participants chose the topic of discussion.
Notes from many of these conversations can be found on our wiki,
above. Some highlights of the day were a discussion about video on
Wikipedia and about HTML5 implementation. While most of our attendees
were from California and the local area we did have people from all
over the west coast, the rest of the U.S., and even a couple of
international attendees.

In the evening, we all went over to a local arts space in San
Francisco, where we had food, a cash bar, and a great DJ for a
club-like atmosphere. We had a raffle for prizes, watched the Jimmy
Wales video, and I gave a (very) short speech welcoming and thanking
everyone. Then we cut our massive cake :) We had many invited guests
as well as conference attendees, and the space was decorated with some
beautifully designed signs and posters featuring all the Wikipedia 10
logos.

There's a pic of our cake & the conference group here:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_10_San_Francisco

Thanks to everyone who helped out with organizing and participating in
these events. It was a great time.

-- phoebe

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