Wikipedia:Meetup/San Francisco 12
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| San Francisco Meetup # 12 | |
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| Date: March 28th | |
| Time: 2PM | |
| Place: Yahoo! Campus: 701 First Avenue, Sunnyvale CA Building *D*, 1st floor. Yahoo!Opoly | |
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Meetup details
[edit]Micah Alpern w:User:Malpern is in charge.
- Date: Sunday, March 28th 2010
- Time: 2 PM
- Location: Yahoo! Campus: 701 First Avenue, Sunnyvale CA Building D, 1st Floor Yahoo!Opoly.
Notes from the Meeting
[edit]- Goals
- Awareness - Our awesomeness, other projects
- Activity/Engagement - Edit/Upload
- Support the Foundation - Donation Jar & Mobile Uploading
- Assumption: Majority of interactions will be 2 min or less
- To Prepare
- 1) JON: Guess the Language - JON to get url from AUSTIN. MICAH may help improve the visuals.
- 2) JON: Recent Changes Visualization
- a) Harass BRIAN: Leverage Twitter Vision to put Recent Changes on an animated map.
- b) Backup: just project the IRC channel
- 3) JAMES: Time Lapse Video of an article growing
- 4) JON: Featured Images Slideshow
- 5) JAMES: Task cards to hand out to get people to contribute to an article
- 6) JAMES: Donation Global
- Print Materials
- 1) Posters
- a) MICAH: Mobile Wikipedia & Donate via short code
- b) EUGENE to ask for help: Commons Poster
- 2) Leaflets
- a) How to Edit - JON write, STEVEN copy edit, MICAH visuals
- b) How to Upload - JON write, STEVEN copy edit, MICAH visuals
- 3) JON: Trading Cards - Need to ask CAREY for card stock.
- 4) CAREY: Annual Reports
- 5) JAMES & STEVEN: Bookmarks: Edit page, Upload images, Donate, Reference desk
- 6) JAY: Scwag - Stickers, Pins, Pencils, T-Shirts?
- 7) MICAH: Existing published visualizations of Wikipedia activity.
- 1) Posters
- Logistics
- 1) JON: Volunteers & Shifts. - 3 Hour Shifts. 2/3 per slot for 2 days.
- 2) JON: Computers/Power/Network - From Jay, Carey
- 3) JON: Secure a booth
- 4) DENISE: Projector/LCDs
Summary of items above we need help from the foundation:
- 3) JON: Trading Cards - Need to ask CAREY for card stock.
- 6) JAY: Scwag - Stickers, Pins, Pencils, T-Shirts? -
- Logistics 4) DENISE: Projector/LCDs
We'll review our progress and next steps at the next meeting on April 10
Attendees
[edit]Add your name to the Invite list if you want to be invited on your talk page to future meetups.. thanks!
- I've reserved a room at the Yahoo! Campus in Sunnyvale for the meeting. Please list your user name and full name below so I can clear it with Yahoo! Security ahead of time.
Attending
[edit]- Malpern (talk) 23:32, 1 March 2010 (UTC) - Micah Alpern
- Woot! Wikimedian's invade Yahoo! --ShakataGaNai ^_^ 23:43, 1 March 2010 (UTC) -- Jon Davis
- Stephen (talk) 18:36, 8 March 2010 (UTC) - Stephen LaPorte
- James Salsman 22:59, 8 March 2010 (UTC)
- EugeneZelenko (talk) 13:53, 26 March 2010 (UTC)
Maybe Attending
[edit]- Jack Herrick from wikiHow. Hope to see y'all there.
- Pat,
if I can figure out how to get down there.Meh, I misunderestimated how long it would take to get down there via Caltrain. Was looking forward to helping out with Maker Faire :( Guillaume Paumier, if I can figure out how to get down there.Actually, as much as I like you guys, I'm not going to spend ~5 hours in public transportation for a ~2 hour meetup. guillom 15:41, 26 March 2010 (UTC)- Luca de Alfaro
- George William Herbert - Definite maybe, I'm pretty busy this weekend but I'd like to make time and be there if I can.
Pre-Meeting Planning Notes Maker Faire
[edit]- Contact O'Reilly to get a double wide/better space
- INTERACTIVE is the word of the day
- Volunteers Saturday & Sunday
- 3 hour shifts
- At least 2 people
- 1 extra commons photog separate
- One or two people help on Friday depending on complexity
- Make stuff before hand
- Games are important
- Guess the WP language
- Wiktionary tie definition game?
- Trading Card Game
- Reliable sources quiz?
- Quiz buzzer?
- Touch screens would be AMAZINGLY useful
- 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
- Wandering Commons photographers uploading with Eye-Fi cards
- Present live images from the cards, upload to commons (email upload usability request)
- Have the ability to give short URLs? (someone should put this and email upload in bugzilla)
- Have small macro object booth
- Present images live, upload to commons
- Marketing Materials:
- posters
- leaflets: 1-2page brochures
- Outreach multimedia proposals
- Digital
- What can we build/do that the office can put up?
- RecentChanges always popular
- LCD HDTV display
- Commons featured pictures
- Uploads from macro image booth and wandering commons photographers
- http://stats.grok.se on topics visitors claim expertise in to show them the size of their potential audience
- What can we build/do that the office can put up?
- Maker Faire specific
- Present the other projects?
- Progress report on MediaWiki Quiz extension for Wikiversity to support assessment content
- plan to proofread materials at the next Meetup April 10th on Angel Island.
- booth setup
- how many tables?
- Does foundation approve a LCD HDTV display for re-use in lobby?
- can we physicially secure large display against accidental bumps?
- and/or projector and screen
- Does foundation approve a LCD HDTV display for re-use in lobby?
- will we need our own cabling, power, conduits, coverings and safety markings?
- will we need microphones and public address system for speakers?
- best way(s) to secure cpus to booth?
- how many tables?
- Donation jar for the loose change/cash that isn't "tacky" (Point of contention from years past)
- Hollow globe?
- What about just "selling" symbolic items like t-shirts for donation prices? (e.g., $10 donation comes with a sticker)
- Games are important
- 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?)
- Stickers
- Mini-Commons!!!?
- Tshirts
- Books
- Sell?
- Stickers