Jump to content

Wikipedia:Meetup/San Francisco/Maker Faire 2013

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  In the area? You're invited to
   San Francisco Meetup @ Maker Faire
  Date: May 18 & 19th
  Time: 10am-8pm Sat, 10am-6pm Sun
  Place: San Mateo County Event Center
  prev: Meetup -1 - next: Meetup 1 | All SF meetups & events


The Wikimedia booth at Maker Faire 2010

This is a page for planning for the Wikimedia Foundation booth at the 2013 San Mateo Maker Faire (Homepage), May 18 & 19

Volunteers

[edit]

If you are interested in volunteering, please email me with the day(s), your full name, and email address, so I can add you to the list of for the faire. Stephen (talk)

Schedule

[edit]

We need at least a couple people for every shift.

Friday, May 17

  • Interested in helping set up? circa 5-7pm

Saturday, May 18

    • User:DavidMCEddy (I plan to arrive at the Caltrain station at 8:51 AM and stay the day. The next [northbound] train is scheduled to arrive at 9:51. I could take that if the value of arriving earlier is negligible.)
  • morning (10am- through lunch)
    • Ben (I'll arrive a little after 10:00 a.m., when Caltrain arrives)
    • Shreyas (also on Caltrain)
  • midday (12p-3pm or so)
  • evening (3-7:30p)

Sunday, May 19

Supplies list

[edit]

Please put your name down if you can bring any of these items.

  • Swag of any kind
  • computers, multiple
  • big monitors & laptops
    • touchscreen are a bonus
  • powerstrips
  • duct tape
  • ethernet supplies
  • tablecloths/drapes for the table
  • sample: print on demand books, wikireaders, anything like this
  • signs & banners!
  • blank sign for people to tell us....
  • what they hope the next ten years will be?
  • something else?
  • markers for above
  • list to sign up for the wikisf mailing list
  • water for volunteers
  • ANY ideas for the booth -- games, activities, etc.
  • big print articles about the things happening at Maker Faire?? Big printout of the Maker Faire article itself?


Past games:

Past visualizations:

Ideas:

  • "spot the fake"
  • big printouts of maker faire related articles
  • scavenger hunt
  • Wikidata demonstrations: Reasonator, GeneaWiki.
  • ...

https://www.gitorious.org/wikipedia-guesslang

And looks like I've still got a copy on my site: http://leuksman.com/guesslang/