Re: [Wikimedia-SF] Summary of today's meetup

2010-02-06 Thread Guillaume Paumier
On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 9:20 PM, Guillaume Paumier guillom@gmail.com wrote:

 Just a quick heads-up to try and summarize what was discussed today. I
 see someone also added stuff to the meetup page, but I'm lazy so I'll
 just send a quick e-mail.

Btw, I forgot to ask. I had brought some stickers to use as name tags
for today's meetup; the stickers were of 2 colors, to distinguish
people who didn't want their picture to be published. Unfortunately,
we didn't use these stickers, so I don't know which pictures I can
publish and which I can't.

I usually prefer to have explicit consent, but I don't know what the
usual practice for SF meet-ups is. Would it be acceptable to give a
heads-up on this list, give people a week to say they don't want their
picture published, and assume that anyone else is ok with it?

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[Wikimedia-SF] Summary of today's meetup

2010-02-06 Thread Guillaume Paumier
Hi all,

Just a quick heads-up to try and summarize what was discussed today. I
see someone also added stuff to the meetup page, but I'm lazy so I'll
just send a quick e-mail.

* Maker Faire:
** The next meet-up will be coordinated by Micah and may focus on
preparation for the Maker Faire. We will probably organize teams to
work on general marketing materials, maker faire-specific materials,
visualization, booth set-up, etc.
** I will help coordinate activities related to the marketing
marathon, printed documents, etc.
** It would be nice to have a specific booth for Commons, with a few
laptops featuring the new upload interface. We would show people how
to upload a few of their photos to Commons, so that they can try to
upload more photos when they're at home. We could tie this to
workshops on how to take pictures of such or such topic (portraits,
objects, etc.). Might be even more easier to attract people and
recruit new participants.

* Wikimania 2011
** Basically, won't happen here.

* Wikimania 2012
** There may be a bid, and it might happen here. If someone wants it to happen.

* Smaller regional conference
** Easier to organize than a Wikimania
** Would be a good opportunity to see what the BA community is capable of
** Mid/late Fall 2010 may be a good time
** It would make sense to organize this in coordination with the Media
participation campaign that we'd like to run about the same time (Fall
2010) to raise awareness about Commons.

I probably left out a lot of things since I focused on stuff that
interest me. Feel free to add to it, here or on
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/San_Francisco_11

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Re: [Wikimedia-SF] Summary of today's meetup

2010-02-06 Thread Jon Davis
First I'd like to say thank you to everyone that came.  I'd also like to
thank the Board and Foundation staff that joined us.  Biggest meetup we've
had in a long time.  I wasn't too sure how an agenda would work out with the
ground, but everything seemed to have gone well enough, we got stuff done,
and that's what is important.

Regarding pictures, generally I've posted what I've had w/o checking first.
People who don't want their pictures taken generally don't show up, or do a
good job dodging the cameras.  Plus they can simply not be identified (or
request image be deleted).

Below is my very brief notes that I scratched down from memory afterwards.
I've put them on the wiki.  If you have other notes of your own about
specific topics, please feel free to update the wiki.  I know that I'm
missing a lot of little bits and all sorts of details.

Once again, thanks all!
-Jon



== Results ==

* Future Meetups:

** 12 - March - Micah Alpern-Malpern - Maker Faire Marketing

** 13 - April - James Salsman - Angel Island

** May - Maker Faire

** (Maybe) 14 - June - ShakataGaNai - USS Hornet

** 17 - September - Lucadealfaro - Google?

** We still need July, August, October, December (Assuming Nov is WCW)

* Maker Faire

** INTERACTIVE is the word of the day

** Hopefully contact O'Reilly to get a double wide/better space

** Games are important

*** Guess the WP language

*** Wiktionary tie definition game?

*** Touch screens would be AMAZINGLY useful

** Be other project-centric

** Wandering Commons photographers with Eye-Fi cards

*** Present live images from the cards, upload to commons

*** Have the ability to give short URLs?

** Have small macro object booth

*** Present images live, upload to commons

** Photo scavenger hunt/bingo

*** Scout Friday night and make something up?

*** Contact groups going to be there in advance and work something out?

*** Place Q Cards about. Little cards w/ logo and code to take pictures of

** Make stuff before hand (?)

** Marketing Materials:

*** posters

*** leaflets

*** 1-2page brochures

*** Maker Faire specific

*** booth setup

*** Visualizations

* Digital

* Analog (Posters)

*** Computer Displays

*** Trading Card Game

** Schedule Talks/Presentations/Howto's

*** Get a whiteboard to use

*** 15 minutes, tops

*** Why it's cool from the other projects

*** How to edit, and get someone from the audience to do so

*** How to upload on commons, get audience to do it

*** Give away more valuable swag for people that actually edit (T-shirts?)

** Swag?

*** Stickers

 Mini-Commons!!!

*** Tshirts

*** Books (sell?)

** Volunteers Saturday  Sunday

*** 3 hour shifts

*** At least 2 people

*** 1 extra commons photog separate

*** One or two peoples help on Friday depending on complexity

** Visualizations

*** RC Always Popular

*** Commons featured pictures

*** Wandering commons photog uploads

*** LED RC?

*** What can we build/do that the office can put up?

*** How can we present the other projects?

** Donation jar for the loose change/cash that isn't tacky (Point of
contention from years past)

* Wikimania SF

** Bid for 2012

** Research now is still useful

** Look at old bids, keep an eye on this years bids

** If Montreal gets 2011, might be difficult to get 2012

** Sponsorship will be important

** Expect up to 1000 people

** Find out how many people have gone each year

* WikiConfrence West

** Expect 100-200 people

** Unconference

** See if we can get one serious (scheduled) talk/demo from each project

** Usability project presentation

** Fall of 2010 - Early November

** Use as launching point for Wikimania 2012 bid

** Set date soon.

** Get a few people willing to lead the project

* Booze!


On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 21:37, Guillaume Paumier guillom@gmail.comwrote:

 On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 9:20 PM, Guillaume Paumier guillom@gmail.com
 wrote:
 
  Just a quick heads-up to try and summarize what was discussed today. I
  see someone also added stuff to the meetup page, but I'm lazy so I'll
  just send a quick e-mail.

 Btw, I forgot to ask. I had brought some stickers to use as name tags
 for today's meetup; the stickers were of 2 colors, to distinguish
 people who didn't want their picture to be published. Unfortunately,
 we didn't use these stickers, so I don't know which pictures I can
 publish and which I can't.

 I usually prefer to have explicit consent, but I don't know what the
 usual practice for SF meet-ups is. Would it be acceptable to give a
 heads-up on this list, give people a week to say they don't want their
 picture published, and assume that anyone else is ok with it?

 --
 Guillaume Paumier
 [[m:User:guillom]]
 http://www.gpaumier.org

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