https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Atlanta/Atlanta_8Despite two of our regular attendees not being able to make it during
the holiday weekend, I'm really happy with how this event went. We had 5
editors and 2 guests in attendance, which broke the attendance record
of 5 total for our first meetup two years ago. It was the first meetup
for 2 of the editors.
Attendees
I was expecting the new location to be an improvement, but it was a
more significant improvement than I expected. We were able to sit at
benches in the shade. Parking was very easy and close. It was easy to
find each other. There were multiple food options within a quarter of a
mile walk. We forgot to bring recreational equipment, but during lulls
in the conversations we could watch the local
SCA group practice.
After getting caught up with each other's activities, we had several
discussions. Data about WikiProject popularity was a good conversation
starter. We were all surprised at how popular the National Register of
Historic Places and Disaster Management WikiProjects are. We looked at
recent reports from several international, funded groups. Participating
in library and university events focused on free knowledge, hosting
edit-a-thons, and photography outings were all things we are interested
in arranging. I'm going to follow up with
Ganeshk and
LadyofShalott about the necessary paperwork.
One of our new members, Juan, suggested a video might help with
attracting new members. After some discussion, we settled on making a
time lapse video that shows how an actual article progresses from stub
to featured status. I've done a fair bit of data visualization work, so
I'm going to prototype a simple, automated animation, and then we can
polish it with proper editing and design. I'm going to send this summary
out to the email list and then post some pictures here from the event
later this week.