[Wikimedia-SF] Berkeley Wikipedians

2013-07-28 Thread Karen Coyle
Hello, all. I've taken up the organizer role for the Berkeley Wikipedia meet-up group. I'll do some figuring out on how to use Meetup. Would the person who volunteered to find a space on UC campus please contact me? I presume that we are aiming at a September first meeting, given how summer

Re: [Wikimedia-SF] Berkeley Wikipedians

2013-07-28 Thread Sarah Stierch
Hi, Weird request and I understand if it gets shot down for locality: If a Berkeley meetup group is being formed, think we can create it as an East Bay group instead? I live in Oakland, and I think ideally it would be unifying (since our groups are so small) to make it an encompassing group so

Re: [Wikimedia-SF] Berkeley Wikipedians

2013-07-28 Thread Karen Coyle
Sarah - No problem with making it broader. Oakland seems to have a wiki presence (which I can't speak to) with a few hacker spaces downtown [2], so I'd like to have some meetings in Berkeley. But if we can figure out a way to combine our efforts, that would be great. I truly don't think that we

Re: [Wikimedia-SF] Berkeley Wikipedians

2013-07-28 Thread Leslie Tom
Hi Karen, In case you want to reach out to CAL students... here's a Berkeley wikipedia club I found while at UC Berkeley. Their listserve is: ( wikipediac...@lists.berkeley.edu). Plus there is always the School of Information (no...@ischool.berkeley.edu)... - http://students.berkeley.ed