Re: [Wikimedia-SF] Starting up monthly WikiSalons / WikiWednesday events

2016-03-14 Thread George Herbert 
Cool. Can almost see the WMF building at the far end of the Transbay Terminal 
construction site.  Can possibly walk that far.

George William Herbert
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> On Mar 13, 2016, at 11:34 PM, Pete Forsyth <petefors...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> It will be at, or at least near, the Wikimedia Foundation offices. (Should 
> know if their space is available shortly.) If it's not, I'd imagine we'll 
> find some place nearby. Probably 6 or 6:30pm. Will update the list when we 
> know more.
> -Pete
> 
>> On Sun, Mar 13, 2016 at 11:06 PM, George Herbert <george.herb...@gmail.com> 
>> wrote:
>> Yay!
>> 
>> Where?
>> 
>> I am working / consulting at 201 Mission and somewhat mobility impaired but 
>> can use Muni/BART/cab/Uber if needed.
>> 
>> George William Herbert
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>>> On Mar 13, 2016, at 9:52 PM, Pete Forsyth <petefors...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> All-
>>> 
>>> Several of us are working to set up a recurring monthly wiki meetup in San 
>>> Francisco!
>>> 
>>> We're using the name "WikiSalon," which has been used by groups in NYC and 
>>> Washington DC. There's a planning doc on Meta Wiki: 
>>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Monthly_WikiSalon_in_San_Francisco (Some of 
>>> you might be more familiar with the "Wiki Wednesday" name...same idea, more 
>>> or less :)
>>> 
>>> We plan to get together the evening of Wednesday, March 30 to solidify 
>>> plans. If you're interested in joining in to help plan, please join us! (We 
>>> think this one will be a pretty small group, and we'll do a bigger 
>>> announcement for the April WikiSalon.)
>>> 
>>> Looking forward to connecting with more of you in person!
>>> 
>>> Happy editing,
>>> -Pete
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Re: [Wikimedia-SF] Starting up monthly WikiSalons / WikiWednesday events

2016-03-14 Thread George Herbert 
Yay!

Where?

I am working / consulting at 201 Mission and somewhat mobility impaired but can 
use Muni/BART/cab/Uber if needed.

George William Herbert
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> On Mar 13, 2016, at 9:52 PM, Pete Forsyth  wrote:
> 
> All-
> 
> Several of us are working to set up a recurring monthly wiki meetup in San 
> Francisco!
> 
> We're using the name "WikiSalon," which has been used by groups in NYC and 
> Washington DC. There's a planning doc on Meta Wiki: 
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Monthly_WikiSalon_in_San_Francisco (Some of 
> you might be more familiar with the "Wiki Wednesday" name...same idea, more 
> or less :)
> 
> We plan to get together the evening of Wednesday, March 30 to solidify plans. 
> If you're interested in joining in to help plan, please join us! (We think 
> this one will be a pretty small group, and we'll do a bigger announcement for 
> the April WikiSalon.)
> 
> Looking forward to connecting with more of you in person!
> 
> Happy editing,
> -Pete
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Re: [Wikimedia-SF] Maker Faire 2012

2012-01-30 Thread George Herbert 
FYI -

I am currently working at an office building at Park Place in San
Mateo, just around the corner as it were from the exhibition center.
For any in-person physical-ish stuff getting ready for the actual
event, I can literally just walk over there.  It's about 1,050
meters door-to-door.

I know that large parts of the prep work are not onsite, but I am
certainly here as a resource nearby once onsite starts.


-george

On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 2:41 PM, Jon Davis w...@konsoletek.com wrote:
 First: Save the dates for Maker Faire Bay Area: May 19  20 2012

 Ok, now that's out of the way... Phoebe and I have been nominally in charge
 of the WMF booth for the last few years.  Not that we both don't LOVE Maker
 Faire and love every second we are there... but it's exhausting... and we
 need some time off.  So before we get too close to Maker Faire, Phoebe and I
 are officially handing off the reigns to The List (IE You guys and gals).
  We'd love for someone to speak up and take charge of the Maker Faire booth
 organization this year.  We're happy to help out (as normal people), but
 someone else needs to take the lead.

 If you're interested in Maker Faire (or trying to figure out what the heck
 I'm talking about) please see:

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/San_Francisco/Maker_Faire
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/San_Francisco/Maker_Faire_2010
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/San_Francisco/Maker_Faire_2011

 So far as I can tell, Maker registration is not open yet. So we've still got
 time to make plans and make them good!

 Also, for your planning
 enjoyment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/San_Francisco/Maker_Faire_2012

 Thanks
 -Jon (And Phoebe, who cannot be blamed for my terrible writing)


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Re: [Wikimedia-SF] [Wikimedia-california] San Francisco Meetup 16?

2010-09-07 Thread George Herbert 
I'm potentially able to make it, and this weekend (11th) better than
others as I'm in and out of town on business a lot these days...

-george

On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 11:31 AM, Jon Davis w...@konsoletek.com wrote:
 I vote this weekend (the 11th)! That way we can decided on the WCWC11 venue
 (And maybe I'll remember to come!)

 -Jon

 On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 10:22, phoebe ayers phoebe.ay...@gmail.com wrote:

 On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 11:33 PM, Robert Rohde raro...@gmail.com wrote:

 On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 1:01 PM, Cary Bass c...@wikimedia.org wrote:
  We need to schedule a meeting.
 
  We have some stuff to discuss with the WikiConference West Coast.  It's
  now late August, and January is just around the corner.
 
  I'm sure there are some other things we can talk about too, perhaps
  discuss the WikiConference NYC, and how it wen this time? :)
 
  Maybe we should meet up in the East Bay.  How does Berkeley sound?

 Berkeley is definitely good for me, since I live on that side of the Bay.

 However, depending on when it ends up being scheduled I could end up
 being in the UK at the time, so it wouldn't matter anyway.  When were
 people thinking of meeting?

 -Robert Rohde

 Hi all,
 Let's coordinate a day here:
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/San_Francisco_16

 Back in the spring I raised an idea that we start meeting consistently on,
 say, the 1st Saturday of the month. So if you can't make it -- at least you
 know that there'll be another meeting the following month.

 Of course we just zoomed by the first Saturday of the month for Sept and I
 don't know that we want to wait all the way to October. But what do people
 think of this idea?

 Also: should we have a separate conference planning meeting in addition to
 the regular meetup?

 best,
 Phoebe

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Re: [Wikimedia-SF] meetup 14: potential time change?

2010-04-29 Thread George Herbert 
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 3:48 PM, James Salsman jsals...@gmail.com wrote:
 I, too can make it at 1 but not 3.

 On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 3:40 PM, Jon Davis w...@konsoletek.com wrote:
 I have no issues changing the time.  I just suggested 3 as a random starting
 point.

 On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 14:47, phoebe ayers phoebe.ay...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hi all,
 we're planning a meetup this Saturday, May 1st, in SF:
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/San_Francisco_14

 There hasn't been much interest yet. So:

 * if you are interested please sign up!
 * time change: how would you feel about a time change to be earlier --
 perhaps 1 pm for a lunch get-together? I can't make it at the current
 time of 3pm unfortunately (I need to be in Sacramento at 6).

 If that doesn't work let me know.

 Phoebe

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I have an evening company + families run to Hangar 1 / St George's
Distillery tomorrow night, so later is better on Saturday, but 1pm
should work for me.


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Re: [Wikimedia-SF] Mini-Meet (#14?) Saturday, May 1. Afternoon-ish.

2010-04-21 Thread George Herbert 
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 5:55 PM, Jon Davis w...@konsoletek.com wrote:
 Ok people, all things fast and loose.  Maker Fair last minute planning and
 such meeting. Basic things like figuring out what has been done, still needs
 to be done or isn't going to get done.  Plus some hanging out, maybe food.

 Haven't figured out the exact details on when, but the approximate goes like
 this:
 Who: Anyone that wants to hang out, or be involved in Maker Faire, or pick
 on us that are trying to figure out what's going on
 What: Mostly Maker Faire
 Where: San Francisco, Maybe somewhere with food (if so, we can push the
 meeting time towards a meal time)
 When: Saturday, May 1 @ ~3pm
 Why: Phoebe thought it would be a good idea.

 Basically after May 1, we should have down pay what is and isn't going to
 happen.  Maker Faire isn't until the end of the moth, but for all those
 things that need time to prep - we need to be finishing em up soon.

 -Jon

 PS.  Sorry about the scatter brainedness of this email, Blame Phoebe (TM)

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I will pay $5 for a Blame Phoebe (TM) T-shirt.

Also, will attempt to be there at the mini-meetup.


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Re: [Wikimedia-SF] Maker Faire!

2009-05-18 Thread George Herbert 
On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 1:50 PM, Jay Walsh jwa...@wikimedia.org wrote:

 Yeah - I think there were last minute problems with the volunteer list in
 general last year - they had also given me 50 tickets to give away which
 further complicated matters (but in a good way!)
 I suspect that if you reach out to the right folks (feel free to hit up
 sherry huss, she...@oreilly.com) and let them know you have volunteers and
 you'd like them to get passes then you should be in good shape.  I'm assured
 they process ought to be better this year...

 Thanks!


I understand that people who showed up to help on setup days had little
hassle, whereas William and I (showing up on Sunday) had a hard time last
year.

Would it just be easiest for all of everyone who's helping to show up during
one of the setup days to get badging dealt with?

I suppose this means I am volunteering, too.


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Re: [Wikimedia-SF] Maker Faire -- STATUS UPDATE

2009-05-18 Thread George Herbert 
On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 10:03 PM, phoebe ayers brassratg...@gmail.comwrote:

 OK, so here is where we are at:
 * We have a limited amount of swag
 * We have the vests (I have some, Ariel has some)
 * We have some computers coming from the WMF offices, to be picked up
 on the friday before (do those come with monitors? :) )
 * plus a plethora of laptops

 * Phoebe and Jon to set up on Friday; other volunteers?

 * we are located next to Wikihow, so we can share people if necessary;
 Chris Hadley (cc'd) is the contact for WikiHow

 THINGS WE ARE WORKING ON:
 * The pass situation -- both Jon and I have been pestering O'Reilly
 people, but no answer yet.

 THINGS WE STILL NEED:

 * Some sort of sign/banner advertising our Wikimedia-ness (Jay, does
 the office have any banners?)
 * Ideas for visualizations to run on the computers
 * Ideas for an interactive display (guess the picture? learn how to
 edit?)
 * Ideas for a couple of big signs to hang -- I don't think we have
 space for the projector and cloth this year -- so are there other big
 poster ideas we could make up? A giant markup cheatsheet? Please send
 your ideas ASAP and I'll get some posters made up.
 * more folding chairs -- does anyone have some they can loan?
 * what about info-en business cards like someone suggested?

 * And we need. ... you to sign up if you're planning on volunteering
 and haven't already:
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/San_Francisco/Maker_Faire

 Thanks!
 Phoebe


 On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 12:53 PM, Jay Walsh jwa...@wikimedia.org wrote:
  Per last year, will you have a list of the volunteers names given to the
  front desk people so they can get in for free with a lanyard?
  This should be a pretty standard process.  The organizers just need to
 know
  who is coming and who to give the lanyards to at the 'volunteer
  registration' booth way at the front of the event.
  I'm willing to put together:
  * 100 or so wiki pencils
  * up to 500 wiki pins
  * about 500 mini wiki stickers
  * the wiki vests for your use
  Not much more stock than that right now - we will do a big re-order with
 our
  new budget.
  that means materials should be handed out in person rather than scattered
  out as a grab-all.  You'd run out fast :(
  I'm signed up for Saturday morning to help kick it off!
  --
  Jay Walsh
  Head of Communications
  WikimediaFoundation.org
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  On May 4, 2009, at 9:02 AM, Brion Vibber wrote:
 
  I'd love to prep some activity visualizations to run in the background
 but
  I'll be out of town for the event so will need a volunteer proxy to make
  sure there's hardware to run em on. :)
 
  -- brion vibber (brion @ wikimedia.org)
  El May 3, 2009, a las 14:29, phoebe ayers phoebe.ay...@gmail.com
 escribió:
 
  Hi all,
 
  We need to start seriously planning for Maker Faire, which is four short
  weeks away. Please add your thoughts on cool things to bring to this
 page:
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/San_Francisco/Maker_Faire
 
  I also added a section for volunteers -- if you want to help staff the
  booth, please add your name!
 
  -- Phoebe
 
  - http://phoebeayers.info | phoebe.ay...@gmail.com
 

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I just signed up on the meetup page, I can help Friday pm and either (or in
extremis both) Sat and Sun afternoons).


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