Hello Cascadia,
It's great to have a way to communicate with the Oregon and Washington groups together!
The Washington group has interests in global health, motorcycling, technical work, and editor growth. I hope that we can grow our group of Seattle participants.
What has Oregon learned about how to attract participants? It looks like Oregon attracts participants to cultural documentation and edit-a-thon events.
Thanks,
Pine
Where would everyone like to have Seattle Wiknic this year? The scheduled date is June 22.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wiknic
Wiknics have happened at Golden Gardens and Gasworks Park in the past. This year I would like to propose that we meet at the Arboretum, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Park_Arboretum, with an exact location in the Arboretum to be determined. It is possible to rent the Visitors Center and if the cost is reasonable we could ask to rent part of the center for the afternoon, which would also provide us some cover in the event of rain and give us enough room to have laptops etc available for us to do outreach. We could ask for a small grant from WMF to cover the costs.
What does everyone think?
Pine
Hello,
There is now a mailing list for Wikimedia Cascadia, a community group for
Wikipedia enthusiasts in the Pacific Northwest. Right now this list will
mostly be used to send out announcements of Wikipedia meetups in Seattle
and Portland.
Please subscribe to this list if you wish to stay connected to the
Wikipedia community in this region! To join this mailing list please go to
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The next Seattle Wikipedia meetup is Monday, May 19, 2014 at 6 PM at Black
Coffee Coop, 501 E. Pine St; Seattle, WA 98122. The meeting is open to the
public. At 7 PM everyone will be invited to the Techno Activism 3rd Monday
(TA3M) meeting in the same coffee shop. TA3M members have been invited to
come early to participate in the Wikimedia portion.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Seattle>
The next Portland Wikipedia meetup is not scheduled, but will be a photo
hunt in the Hollywood neighborhood.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Portland/Hollywood>
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Thanks!
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