I'd like to let you all know about "Story Jam New
York"(http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Story_Jam_New_York), an event for One
Laptop Per Child per child project being held at UNICEF this weekend.
This is being organized by Mel Chua (User:Mchua), who I met at a
recent NYU Free Culture meeting.
She's inviting SJ Klein (User:Sj), a very active Wikimedian and
OLPCer, along with New York City Wikipedians/Wikimedians and anyone
else interested to a Wikimedia BOF lunch on Saturday at noon
(http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Story_Jam_New_York/Schedule).
I'll be at the lunch, where we can discuss the interaction between
Wikipedia/Wikimedia and OLPC, and how Wikimedia content can be used in
education in the developing world.
There are many other events also scheduled over the weekend.
If you plan on attending, you should register online here first:
http://hackronym.com/jamreg/storyjamregistration.html
Long live the NYC Free Culture Alliance!
Thanks,
Pharos
"Wikipedia Takes Manhattan"
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Takes_Manhattan) has
been postponed one week to Friday April 4, due to inclement weather.
All the other details remain the same, and you can still look forward
to great happenings on the new date.
Please update your friends you may have shared this event with about
the new date.
Thanks,
Pharos
'"Wikipedia Takes Manhattan!"
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Takes_Manhattan) is
a scavenger hunt and free content photography contest aimed at
illustrating Wikipedia articles covering the wondrous sights on the
island of Manhattan.
The goal is to take as many photos as possible for Wikipedia articles
that currently don't have any pictures.
We're doing this event with the sponsorship of Free Culture Columbia,
with cooperation from Free Culture NYU.
You can look at their pages, which have their details on the event:
http://www.freeculturenyu.orghttp://www.freeculturecolumbia.org/
Most of the participants will probably be Columbia and NYU students.
But the event is open to students and non-students, Wikipedians and
non-Wikipedians, and anyone else who wants to compete or participate.
Everyone will meet up and check in at one of the two starting points,
and after a day of subways, street rambles, photography and free
culture goodness, the night will conclude with a party back at
Columbia.
It is important to register if there's a possibility of your coming to
the party that night, whether or not you choose to compete (for
example, if you want to volunteer, or just to hang out). If you don't
register, we might have problems letting you in the building. If you
don't plan on competing, you can note that in the 'Team name' section.
*Register online here:
http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?key=p6ZUwmVAR5AffdgwuyvNNKA
You can compete in teams of three, or fewer if you wish.
Remember:
* Each team should use only one camera.
* You should start the day with an empty flash card.
* Bring a pen or marker to write with.
At the starting points, you can check-in, and will receive the
finalized goal list of articles needing photographs, and the rules.
The starting points will operate till 7 PM for latecomers. You must
check-in at one of the starting points to compete.
*Columbia University starting point: the Sundial in front of Low
Memorial Library at 11:30 AM (information packets with goal list will
be given out at 12 noon). Will run till 7 PM.
*Union Square starting point (run by NYU students): Union Square Park,
in front of Washington's Statue, at 12 noon. Will run till 7 PM.
The ending party will be held that night at Columbia, the photographs
will be uploaded, and prizes given to the winners. You must come to
the party to be eligible for the prizes.
The first prize winning team members will get iPod nanos jammed with
free music, and the second and third prize winning team members will
win free copies of the newly-published '' Wikipedia: The Missing
Manual'', generously donated by O'Reilly Media.
*Party location: J.D. Satow Room 5th Floor, Lerner Hall
(http://www.columbia.edu/about_columbia/map/lerner.html), at 11 PM.
Lerner Hall is the student center at Columbia. The party will run
till about midnight, or possibly later.
If you are interested in volunteering that day (either helping people
check-in during the day or helping with uploading and tallying the
winners that evening), please respond to my personal e-mail address,
with your name and mobile phone number.
Now is also your last chance to add items to our goal list of articles
needing photos. That list needs to be complete by Wednesday evening.
Thanks,
Pharos
Hey all.
I'll be driving down to the meetup from the Hartford area on Sunday. Anyone
who would like a lift between here and there let me know.
--
Elias Friedman A.S., EMT-P
President Congregation Knesseth Israel
http://www.ellingtonshul.org/
elipongo(a)gmail.com
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Elipongo
Come one, come all!
Our next meeting for Wikimedia NYC is this Sunday March 16 at Columbia
University.
This is a meeting for volunteers to the projects of the non-profit
Wikimedia Foundation, and everyone else too, who has ever looked at
Wikipedia and wondered what's going on behind it.
One big topic of discussion, out of many, will be our March 28
'Wikipedia Takes Manhattan' event.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Takes_Manhattan
We welcome all guests. If you support open education and free
culture, we are your people. If you have a project you want to work
on with us, this is a great opportunity to get acquainted. If you want
someone to give a talk or teach a class with an inside view of
Wikipedia, meet your volunteers. And if you just have any questions,
we'd be glad to try to answer them.
---Meeting details---
2:30 PM - 5:00PM:
Room 1402 Pupin Hall, Columbia University. Take the elevator to the
13th floor and then walk up one flight of stairs. Meeting to be held
in the library at the east end of the hall.
5:00 PM onwards:
Meetup at Pupin Hall, and then walk together to The Symposium, a local
Greek restaurant with an oddly appropriate name. After the restaurant,
we can return to Pupin Hall for an observing session with the
telescopes on the roof, weather permitting.
Page on Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC
Page on Upcoming (oriented more to non-Wikipedians):
http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/434328/
You can also officially 'sign up' at these pages if you want to.
Thanks,
Pharos
Hi all,
And now for an update!
We're currently planning a joint event for Friday March 28 (Rain date:
Saturday March 29) with our friends at the Students for Free Culture
chapter at Columbia University, with students to be scrambling all
over Manhattan in a competition to snap Wikipedia-requested photos.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Takes_Manhattan
If you have any photo requests of any kind, don't be shy. Add them to:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Takes_Manhattan/Targets
There's also going to be some role for Wikipedian/Wikimedian
volunteers at this event, perhaps assissting some of the competing
teams during the day, and certainly working on uploading the images at
the party in the evening, and placing them in Wikipedia articles.
To clarify, the "Wikipedia Academy" article-writing event with Free
Culture Columbia I mentioned in my previous message is still being
planned, but it will be a separate event, held later in the semester.
If you have any questions, comments or suggestions about these
developments, we'd be glad to hear them.
Thanks,
Pharos
Welcome,
This list now has 30+ subscribers, which is a pretty good start!
I hope this can be a forum for more free-ranging and detailed
discussions than are possible on-wiki, and also a place to send out
timely notices about upcoming events.
This is an open mailing list, and the posts will be viewable to the public.
I think a good starting post should introduce our friends at the
[[Students for Free Culture]] chapter at Columbia University. The
Free Culture Columbia people are really enthusiastic about holding a
big [[Wikipedia:Academy]] event this semester, and we'll need some
volunteers for that. There will probably be speakers, an
article-writing drive, and a scavenger hunt across the city by
students snapping requested photographs. I've already had a couple of
meetings with this group (they meet every Wednesday).
http://www.freeculturecolumbia.org/
If anyone wants to join me, I won't be there every Wednesday, but I do
plan on attending semi-regularly; I think it would be good to consider
the Free Culture Columbia meetings a "home away from home" for us
(especially as we have been having our own meetings at Columbia
University). I am going to be there this upcoming Wednesday (February
27).
And we're also lucky to have a couple of members of Columbia Free
Culture on this mailing list, which should facilitate cooperation
between our two groups. If anyone wants to bring up issues of mutual
interest, this will be a great forum for that.
I've already put out some feelers on a possible writing focus for a
Wikiopedia Academy:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(miscellaneous)#Neglect…http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Pharos#Wikipedia_Academy
I'm also working on a usable list of city articles which need photos,
for the scavenger hunt.
Feel free to contribute to these discussions.
The (very) tentative date for the Wikipedia Academy we've been
discussing is Friday March 28 or thereabouts.
The next chapter meeting of Wikimedia NYC is of course scheduled for
Sunday March 16.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC
Tonight I'm going to be visiting for the first time with the Students
for Free Culture chapter at NYU.
http://www.freeculturenyu.org/
Thanks,
Pharos