Wikipedia:Meetup/San Francisco 11
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| San Francisco Meetup # 11 | |
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| Date: Saturday, February 6th, 2010 | |
| Time: 15:00 (3PM) | |
| Place: WMFoundation offices | |
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- Date: Saturday, February 6th, 2010
- Time: 15:00 (3pm) PST.
- Location: Wikimedia Foundation Offices (149 New Montgomery, San Francisco)
- Yay! We're going to terrorize the new WMF offices! --ShakataGaNai ^_^ 00:54, 16 January 2010 (UTC)
- By "terrorize", you, of course, mean "admire the shiny-ness of...", right? Right. /me makes a note to steer ShakataGaNai away from his desk.... :-P Philippe Beaudette, Facilitator, Strategy Project (talk) 00:54, 3 February 2010 (UTC)
Attendees
[edit]Please add your name if you plan to come
- --ShakataGaNai ^_^ 00:54, 16 January 2010 (UTC)
- -- phoebe / (talk to me) 01:31, 16 January 2010 (UTC)
- --wL<speak·check> 01:33, 16 January 2010 (UTC)
- - Philippe 05:21, 16 January 2010 (UTC).
Sorry, there's a Board Meeting that day, and I may be occupied. :(Looks like I'll be able to make it after all, Board meeting permitting. - Dragons flight (talk) 15:46, 16 January 2010 (UTC)
- guillom 20:40, 16 January 2010 (UTC)
- Delirium (talk) 18:52, 19 January 2010 (UTC)
- ProveIt I'll be there... -- Prove It (talk) 23:42, 26 January 2010 (UTC)
- Stephen LaPorte (talk) 01:55, 27 January 2010 (UTC)
- Sabahat Ashraf "iFaqeer" (talk) 05:57, 27 January 2010 (UTC) Will try to make it.
- Stu (talk) 05:59, 27 January 2010 (UTC)
- Malpern (talk) 03:42, 28 January 2010 (UTC)
- The editor apparently known as 99.56.138.51 (talk) 17:27, 28 January 2010 (UTC)
- Pete Forsyth (WMF) (talk)
- Shuhari (Naoko Komura) (talk) 17:32, 2 February 2010 (UTC)
- James Owen (talk) 17:40, 2 February 2010 (UTC) Will attend after the WMF Board of Trustees Meeting Concludes
- Cam Vilay (talk)
- girl2k (talk)--Girl2k (talk) 19:28, 2 February 2010 (UTC)
- user:Lucadealfaro
- babbage (talk) 23:40, 2 February 2010 (UTC) ☺☻☺☻
- Az1568 (talk) 02:45, 3 February 2010 (UTC)
- Eekim (talk) 23:07, 4 February 2010 (UTC)
- EugeneZelenko (talk) 04:10, 5 February 2010 (UTC)
- brion (talk) 18:39, 5 February 2010 (UTC)
- Eloquence* 19:09, 5 February 2010 (UTC)
- Edward (talk) 17:42, 6 February 2010 (UTC)
- Me too! --66.159.230.95 (talk) 19:31, 6 February 2010 (UTC)
- Newell Post (talk) 21:53, 6 February 2010 (UTC)
Agenda
[edit]- Socialize until everyone arrives
- 3:05pm: Introductions
- Announcements
- Planning Wikipedia:Meetup/San Francisco 12
- recruiting more meetup members
- People will signup to "run" one meeting.
- Only 9 months remaining
- Can be anywhere (Even Vallejo)
- Can be any activity you think Wikimedians would enjoy
- Brainstorm other place we'd like to go
- Samovar in the Yerba Buena gardens seemed to work well, though it's not cheap
- Maybe if we all behave really well we'll be allowed to use the office again
- other locations have been proposed
- Planning for Maker Faire 2010
- What is Maker Faire?
- Last years results
- Almost no one edits, need to do something different.
- IRC Recent Changes/Commons pictures always big hit
- Recent changes on an LED wall display? (e.g. [1])
- Will Foundation sponsor if they can mount it in their lobby after the Faire?
- 'Phosphor' xscreensaver url feed on lcd panels?
- Recent changes on an LED wall display? (e.g. [1])
- This years activities?
- People go to Maker Faire to "Do Stuff"
- Games
- Reliable source criteria quiz game?
- Donations!
- How can we best help Haiti? http://haiti.com ?
- Q&A for Foundation officials [if time, may be informal]
- 4:00pm: Planning for possible Bay Area Wikimania 2011 (or 2012) bid
- 5mn introduction to Wikimania by Phoebe
- Bid process
- What's going on
- What people expect
- Requirements and criteria
- Locations
- Wikipedia:Meetup/San Francisco/Wikimania (UCSC)
- Quote received from U.C. Berkeley
- m:Wikimania 2011/Bids/Stanford (Stanford; no quote by promised date)
- Added placeholder for SF. UCSF?
- 2011 or 2012?
- Phoebe's checklist -- Can we divide responsibilities?
- 5mn introduction to Wikimania by Phoebe
- 4:20pm: Wrap up, socialize. Meet the board?
- 4:30pm: leave for drinking/food/escapades/escaping/etc.
- informal gathering at a local bar & eatery
Results
[edit]- Future Meetups:
- 12 - March - Micah Alpern-Malpern - Maker Faire Marketing
- 13 - April - James Salsman - Angel Island
- May - Maker Faire
- (Maybe) 14 - June - ShakataGaNai - USS Hornet
- 17 - September - Lucadealfaro - Google?
- November -- "Wiki Conference West" -- see below
- We still need July, August, October, December (Assuming Nov is WCW)
- Maker Faire
- INTERACTIVE is the word of the day
- Hopefully contact O'Reilly to get a double wide/better space
- Games are important
- Guess the WP language
- Wiktionary tie definition game?
- Touch screens would be AMAZINGLY useful
- Be "other project"-centric
- Wandering Commons photographers with Eye-Fi cards
- Present live images from the cards, upload to commons
- Have the ability to give short URLs?
- Have small macro object booth
- Present images live, upload to commons
- Photo scavenger hunt/bingo
- Scout Friday night and make something up?
- Contact groups going to be there in advance and work something out?
- Place "Q" Cards about. Little cards w/ logo and code to take pictures of
- "Make" stuff before hand (?)
- Marketing Materials:
- posters
- leaflets
- 1-2page brochures
- Maker Faire specific
- booth setup
- Visualizations
- Digital
- Analog (Posters)
- Computer Displays
- Trading Card Game
- Schedule Talks/Presentations/Howto's
- Get a whiteboard to use
- 15 minutes, tops
- "Why it's cool" from the other projects
- How to edit, and get someone from the audience to do so
- How to upload on commons, get audience to do it
- Give away more valuable swag for people that actually edit (T-shirts?)
- Swag?
- Stickers
- Mini-Commons!!!
- Tshirts
- Books (sell?)
- Stickers
- Volunteers Saturday & Sunday
- 3 hour shifts
- At least 2 people
- 1 extra commons photog separate
- One or two peoples help on Friday depending on complexity
- Visualizations
- RC Always Popular
- Commons featured pictures
- Wandering commons photog uploads
- LED RC?
- What can we build/do that the office can put up?
- How can we present the other projects?
- Donation jar for the loose change/cash that isn't "tacky" (Point of contention from years past)
- What about just "selling" symbolic items like t-shirts for donation prices? ($10 donation comes with a sticker, or something)
- Wikimania SF
- Bid for 2012
- Research now is still useful
- Look at old bids, keep an eye on this years bids
- If Montreal gets 2011, might be difficult to get 2012
- Sponsorship will be important
- Expect up to 1000 people
- Find out how many people have gone each year
- WikiConfrence West
- Expect 100-200 people
- Unconference
- See if we can get one serious (scheduled) talk/demo from each project
- Usability project presentation
- Fall of 2010 - Early November
- Use as launching point for Wikimania 2012 bid
- Set date soon.
- Get a few people willing to "lead" the project
- Booze!
- Mailing List URL: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-sf
- Pictures! Commons:Category:SF Meetup 11