By bluerasberry on 2016-08-10
Sometimes people ask about particular Wikipedia community projects and want to use the precedent as a model for their own project. For example, in New York there are various projects including Wikipedia editing events at libraries, museums, nonprofit organizations, and other community centers. A project typically includes a group of community volunteers working with experts […]
Posted in New York City, Wikipedia | Tagged management, meetup
By bluerasberry on 2013-10-16
On Friday 4 October I went to Seattle and returned Sunday 13 October. I wanted to visit friends and have coffee. On 5 October Lee and I went to the zoo to visit animals. It felt good to go there but I was very tired. I missed Lee a lot. I went to Evan’s place […]
Posted in clinical research, Open access, Portland, research, Seattle | Tagged Brian Glanz, Christian, Cyan, Evan, Jason, Jonathan, Kelly, Lee Haertel, Mark, meetup, PATH, Patrick, Roman
By bluerasberry on 2013-07-24
I went to the Wikipedia meetup in Boston on Saturday 20 July. I was already in Boston to present to Lisa Gualtieri’s health communications class, so I stayed another day and attended this. I was riding the train there and Molly User:GorillaWarfare said hello to me. I would not have recognized her because I had […]
Posted in Boston, Wikipedia | Tagged meetup
By bluerasberry on 2013-04-29
From April 26-28 Lori and Dominic, staff Wikipedians for a Children’s Museum and the National Archives, hosted a “GLAM Boot Camp” in DC. GLAM is an acronym for galleries, libraries, archives, and museums. They announced it months in advance and I reserved my room and booked my travel as soon as dates were posted, but […]
Posted in DC, Open access, presentation, Wikipedia | Tagged meetup
By bluerasberry on 2013-03-19
From March 14-15 the Cato Institute hosted a Wikipedia meetup. The major outcome of this event was the creation of a WikiProject to develop Wikipedia articles on US Federal Government legislation. At the same time I was attending the conference of the Consumer Federation of America, so I was only able to attend this after […]
Posted in DC, education, legal, non-profit, Open access, rights | Tagged Jake Orlowitz, meetup, Pete Forsyth
By bluerasberry on 2011-10-26
On Tuesday 25 October from 7-9 Kat and I hosted a Seattle Wikipedia meetup for the “Wikipedia loves libraries!” program. The intent of the meetup was to promote local libraries, and Wikipedia had encouraged all users around the country to do the same thing in their own regions. I was fresh from Infocamp was was […]
Posted in Wikipedia | Tagged coffee, meetup