Re: [Wikimedia-SF] maker faire this year
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 instead of koombas. Use your imagination. Also probably too much work for now - citation needed game was a theory for some sort of true/false game. Like how en.WP homepage is all real facts on april 1? Take those plus some actual lies (and some easier facts) and put them into a webish format game. Cake for a programmer, but we'd need to collect the info for em - we need some offline presentations to give, in case we lose internet access. The wifi got murdered last year and we were effectivly offline for half of saturday until they got us ethernet. - aux internet is exactly what it sounds like. Jack from wiki how brought a cellmodem and shared access with us for a while My 2 cents? Give people games/interactive activities and have handouts. We've done this for 3 years now and almost never get people to edit. Lets be honest, its maker fire...you get to play with cool toys and watch cupcake cars go chasing about...no one wants to sit about and edit. I think the best we can do is educate them about the other projects (the WMF Trading Card went over fairly decently) and that they _can_ edit (with a how to and maybe some suggestions on places to start, like home town) 3 weeks? This is gonna be fun- -Jon On Apr 30, 2011 6:04 PM, Stephen LaPorte stephen.lapo...@gmail.com wrote: Good news, we have a spot for Maker Faire on May 21 and 22! This gives us ~3 weeks to plan an amazing booth. Since this is a '''Maker''' faire, I think we should should brainstorm some simple opportunities to allow people to make/build/contribute at our booth! Last year we had computers with Wikipedia games (the language guessing game and the article race game), a larger screen with a map of recent changes, and volunteers talked to people and answered questions. Simple and interactive work best. It can be noisy and crowded, but that article race game last year had people engaged. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/San_Francisco_12 for last year's planning notes. If you have any ideas, stories from previous years, or are interested in volunteering, please let me know and/or share on wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/San_Francisco/Maker_Faire_2011 Cheers, Stephen PS, ...here are some bizarre/practical suggestions for this year, from Jon circa 2010: Temporary tattoo's, new games (Jimmy side scroller, Citation Needed - guess the fact), Offline Presentations Auxiliary internet access methods. On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 8:29 AM, phoebe ayers phoebe.ay...@gmail.com wrote: Awesome! Thanks Stephen! phoebe On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 11:46 PM, Stephen LaPorte stephen.lapo...@gmail.com wrote: 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 wrote: 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 deadline for sending in the registration form. If anyone else is interested in leading the Maker Faire efforts, we could still ask if there are any last-minute places. But we would need to act very quickly -- so please speak up if you want to do this (or just do it -- contact info is on the website). And if no one is interested in leading the booth, we will take a break from Maker Faire this year (and return triumphantly next year???) best, Phoebe p.s. How would people feel about a get-together in a couple weeks ... the weekend of the 23rd? Maybe Sunday the 24th? It's been a long time since we've had a casual meetup. -- support Wikimedia: http://donate.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia-SF mailing list Wikimedia-SF@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-sf ___ Wikimedia-SF mailing list Wikimedia-SF@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-sf ___ Wikimedia-SF mailing list Wikimedia-SF@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-sf
Re: [Wikimedia-SF] maker faire this year
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 Wiki10?) are also great. Maybe we could even come up with a theme this year?? (10 years of Wikipedia would be pretty obvious, but maybe there's something else?) 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. Thanks for doing this, Stephen. Everyone sign up for a volunteer slot! And for those new on the list, here's the information about maker faire from last year: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/San_Francisco/Maker_Faire_2010#About_the_Faire_and_our_booth phoebe On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 6:04 PM, Stephen LaPorte stephen.lapo...@gmail.comwrote: Good news, we have a spot for Maker Faire on May 21 and 22! This gives us ~3 weeks to plan an amazing booth. Since this is a '''Maker''' faire, I think we should should brainstorm some simple opportunities to allow people to make/build/contribute at our booth! Last year we had computers with Wikipedia games (the language guessing game and the article race game), a larger screen with a map of recent changes, and volunteers talked to people and answered questions. Simple and interactive work best. It can be noisy and crowded, but that article race game last year had people engaged. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/San_Francisco_12 for last year's planning notes. If you have any ideas, stories from previous years, or are interested in volunteering, please let me know and/or share on wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/San_Francisco/Maker_Faire_2011 Cheers, Stephen PS, ...here are some bizarre/practical suggestions for this year, from Jon circa 2010: Temporary tattoo's, new games (Jimmy side scroller, Citation Needed - guess the fact), Offline Presentations Auxiliary internet access methods. On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 8:29 AM, phoebe ayers phoebe.ay...@gmail.comwrote: Awesome! Thanks Stephen! phoebe On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 11:46 PM, Stephen LaPorte stephen.lapo...@gmail.com wrote: 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 wrote: 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 deadline for sending in the registration form. If anyone else is interested in leading the Maker Faire efforts, we could still ask if there are any last-minute places. But we would need to act very quickly -- so please speak up if you want to do this (or just do it -- contact info is on the website). And if no one is interested in leading the booth, we will take a break from Maker Faire this year (and return triumphantly next year???) best, Phoebe p.s. How would people feel about a get-together in a couple weeks ... the weekend of the 23rd? Maybe Sunday the 24th? It's been a long time since we've had a casual meetup. -- support Wikimedia: http://donate.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia-SF mailing list Wikimedia-SF@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-sf
Re: [Wikimedia-SF] maker faire this year
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 Fools Main Pages and WP:UA, throw in a few total fakes, and then have people guess what's not true? In any case, I would be happy to get some Wikipedia books from the WMF as prizes/giveaways for the games. Maybe we put all the winners into a bowl and 5-10 folks get a book (I'm not sure how big the crowds are... Steven ___ Wikimedia-SF mailing list Wikimedia-SF@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-sf
Re: [Wikimedia-SF] maker faire this year
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 wrote: 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 deadline for sending in the registration form. If anyone else is interested in leading the Maker Faire efforts, we could still ask if there are any last-minute places. But we would need to act very quickly -- so please speak up if you want to do this (or just do it -- contact info is on the website). And if no one is interested in leading the booth, we will take a break from Maker Faire this year (and return triumphantly next year???) best, Phoebe p.s. How would people feel about a get-together in a couple weeks ... the weekend of the 23rd? Maybe Sunday the 24th? It's been a long time since we've had a casual meetup. -- support Wikimedia: http://donate.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia-SF mailing list Wikimedia-SF@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-sf ___ Wikimedia-SF mailing list Wikimedia-SF@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-sf ___ Wikimedia-SF mailing list Wikimedia-SF@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-sf
Re: [Wikimedia-SF] maker faire this year
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 speakers are confirmed from Wikimedia, Code for America, Creative Commons, Electronic Frontier Foundation, etc. Here's a link for more details: http://www.media-alliance.org/article.php?id=1974 Maybe a Wikimedia meetup right after, on Saturday evening, would make sense? -Pete On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 5:07 PM, phoebe ayers phoebe.ay...@gmail.com wrote: p.s. How would people feel about a get-together in a couple weeks ... the weekend of the 23rd? Maybe Sunday the 24th? It's been a long time since we've had a casual meetup. ___ Wikimedia-SF mailing list Wikimedia-SF@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-sf
