Re: [Wikimedia-SF] maker faire this year

2011-04-30 Thread Jon Davis
What can I say? Its no fun if my notes make sense to anyone else. Let me explicate: - people thought our stickers were tatoos. They actually really wanted em as such. Lil late to explore that at this point but I can ask jay - someone thought a jimmy side scroller (Ala Mario) would be fun. Vandals

Re: [Wikimedia-SF] maker faire this year

2011-04-30 Thread phoebe ayers
Woot! time to break out your best ideas for showing/telling our favorite projects. Things that are big and manipulable might be good... (cutouts of wiki syntax?), ideas for printed posters, signs, stories (a display about 10M files on commons? A display about Wikipedia around the world, from

Re: [Wikimedia-SF] maker faire this year

2011-04-30 Thread Steven Walling
On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 7:42 PM, phoebe ayers phoebe.ay...@gmail.comwrote: Our two most successful games ever are the 10 degrees of Wikipedia game and guess the language. More games and cool visualizations would be super. How about spot the fake game where we gather fun stuff from the April

Re: [Wikimedia-SF] maker faire this year

2011-04-08 Thread phoebe ayers
Awesome! Thanks Stephen! phoebe On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 11:46 PM, Stephen LaPorte stephen.lapo...@gmail.comwrote: Phoebe, I just submitted a late application for Maker Faire, and I will keep everyone updated if we get space! Cheers, Stephen On Apr 7, 2011, at 5:07 PM, phoebe ayers

Re: [Wikimedia-SF] maker faire this year

2011-04-08 Thread Pete Forsyth
Re: that specific weekend, I've been meaning to announce -- the weekend of the 23rd is the first Good Internet conference at Berkeley. Should be a great event for anyone on this list: it's designed to explore the idea of digital citizenship, i.e. how to use the Internet for good. I believe

[Wikimedia-SF] maker faire this year

2011-04-07 Thread phoebe ayers
Hi SF, As you know Wikimedia-SF has had a booth at Maker Faire the past three years. Maker Faire is awesome! It's a fair amount of work to put together, however. Last year Jon Davis and I coordinated the booth. Unfortunately this year we have both been super busy all spring, and we missed the