Re: [Wikimedia-US-CO] Wikimedia-US-CO Digest, Vol 30, Issue 2

[Gaurav Vaidya]

Thanks for taking the lead on this, Isarra, and thanks all the candidates for 
applying — I wish we had more than one slot to send people on! 

I’ve voted at 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_of_Colorado_User_Group/wmcon-2017/candidates
 — if anybody else has an opinion on this, please make it known ASAP! 

(We should probably also vaguely start thinking about how we can fund as many 
people as possible to WikiConference USA 2017.)

cheers,
Gaurav

> On 7 Jan 2017, at 11:14 AM, Isarra Yos  wrote:
> 
> Okay, Neil and Abhay put in some excellent responses, nobody else bit, so now 
> we need to pick one of them. We can argue about it here, or vote on the page. 
> I recommend voting on the page since that way it'll be easier for anyone to 
> just say one or the other or both if they want to, but it depends who even 
> wants to weigh in, too.
> 
> -I
> 
> On 04/01/17 20:11, Gaurav Vaidya wrote:
>>> On 3 Jan 2017, at 6:24 PM, Spencer Williams IV  
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Of the best-suited to represent Colorado Wikimedians, it may very well 
>>> indeed be the most fierce of competitions between Neal and Gaurav, as Neal 
>>> has obviously made significant contributions to Wikipedia's infrastructure 
>>> while Gaurav has obviously made significant contributions to Wikipedia's 
>>> content. I vote to send them both disguised as one person?
>> Ha, thanks! Unfortunately, I’d be a really bad person to represent 
>> Wikimedians of Colorado given that I’ve moved to Florida :)
>> 
>> Thanks to Neal and Isarra for setting up and sharing 
>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_of_Colorado_User_Group/wmcon-2017/candidates
>>  — we have one candidate already! Let’s see how many we can get by January 
>> 6, maybe 11:59pm MT?
>> 
>> cheers,
>> Gaurav
>> 
>>> If you are curious as to why my response is all the way down here, it's 
>>> because I encountered this very interesting SuperUser answer recently.
>>> 
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>>> 
>>> -Spencer
>>> 
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Re: [Wikimedia-US-CO] Wikimedia-US-CO Digest, Vol 30, Issue 2

[Isarra Yos]

Neal put up a page, so anyone who's interested in doing this, please add 
a blurb so we can argue about it.


https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_of_Colorado_User_Group/wmcon-2017/candidates

As Neal said, involvement, goals, and plans. A quick note or link or 
whatever reminding everyone who you are, would probably be useful, as 
well as something about why you're interested in particular or what you 
would like to do with it. Maybe stuff you've organised in the past, or 
would like to try doing, that sort of thing.


-I

On 03/01/17 23:24, Spencer Williams IV wrote:

On 1/3/17 12:27 PM, Todd Allen wrote:
Sounds alright to me. I'd love to go to Berlin, but really can't 
spare any time to travel right now.


Todd

On Mon, Jan 2, 2017 at 6:56 AM, Neal McBurnett 
> wrote:


I suggest that after the posts go up, anyone who wants to can
evaluate them and then we can all vote.
Or something like that.

-Neal

On Sun, Jan 01, 2017 at 04:54:31PM -0500, Gaurav Vaidya wrote:
>
> > On 1 Jan 2017, at 11:05 AM, Neal McBurnett
> wrote:
> >
> > Yes - I'm interested!  I was going to go to the Wikimedia
Developer Summit in San Francisco this month to continue to get
more involved with the AI and machine learning work, but
election-integrity-related stuff has poured over into the new
year, so I can't swing that.
> >
> >
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Developer_Summit/2017/Program

>
> Aw, shoot. I’ve heard those are a lot of fun! I’m hoping to be
released from my PhD and able to attend WikiConference USA 2017,
so maybe I’ll see you there instead!
>
> > I think the candidates should describe their involvement,
goals and plans in a few paragraphs, and we should go from there.
>
> Sounds good to me! Whoever wants to go first should set up a
subpage at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_of_Colorado_User_Group

so this isn’t just happening on the mailing list. Should we set
January 6 as a deadline to have these in?
>
> Judging these entries will also be tricky. I can volunteer to
judge them, but I wouldn’t want to be the ONLY judge, so if
nobody else volunteers to judge, we might end up randomly
choosing an entry after all. But I like the idea of candidates
having to set out why they’d like to go, what they’ll do in
Berlin and how that will benefit WM-US-CO.
>
> cheers,
> Gaurav
>
> > Cheers,
> >
> > -Neal
> >
> > On Sat, Dec 31, 2016 at 03:24:55PM -0500, Gaurav Vaidya wrote:
> >> Okay, yay, two candidates! Any more any more?
> >>
> >> Also, any ideas on how we could pick one? Would anybody be
interested in a vote? We could run that at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_of_Colorado_User_Group

— otherwise, once all the applicants are in, we could just pick
one at random at https://www.randomresult.com/ticket.php
. Let me know what you
think!
> >>
> >> cheers,
> >> Gaurav
> >>
> >>
> >>> On 31 Dec 2016, at 10:21 AM, Abhay Natu > wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Representation in such events will raise our profile and
help grow membership.
> >>>
> >>> I can also do this but will defer to another candidate if
needed.
> >>>
> >>> Cheers,
> >>>
> >>> Abhay
> >>>
> >>> On Dec 31, 2016 6:00 AM,
> wrote:
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Re: [Wikimedia-US-CO] Wikimedia-US-CO Digest, Vol 30, Issue 2

[Todd Allen]

Sounds alright to me. I'd love to go to Berlin, but really can't spare any
time to travel right now.

Todd

On Mon, Jan 2, 2017 at 6:56 AM, Neal McBurnett 
wrote:

> I suggest that after the posts go up, anyone who wants to can evaluate
> them and then we can all vote.
> Or something like that.
>
> -Neal
>
> On Sun, Jan 01, 2017 at 04:54:31PM -0500, Gaurav Vaidya wrote:
> >
> > > On 1 Jan 2017, at 11:05 AM, Neal McBurnett 
> wrote:
> > >
> > > Yes - I'm interested!  I was going to go to the Wikimedia Developer
> Summit in San Francisco this month to continue to get more involved with
> the AI and machine learning work, but election-integrity-related stuff has
> poured over into the new year, so I can't swing that.
> > >
> > > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Developer_Summit/2017/Program
> >
> > Aw, shoot. I’ve heard those are a lot of fun! I’m hoping to be released
> from my PhD and able to attend WikiConference USA 2017, so maybe I’ll see
> you there instead!
> >
> > > I think the candidates should describe their involvement, goals and
> plans in a few paragraphs, and we should go from there.
> >
> > Sounds good to me! Whoever wants to go first should set up a subpage at
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_of_Colorado_User_Group so
> this isn’t just happening on the mailing list. Should we set January 6 as a
> deadline to have these in?
> >
> > Judging these entries will also be tricky. I can volunteer to judge
> them, but I wouldn’t want to be the ONLY judge, so if nobody else
> volunteers to judge, we might end up randomly choosing an entry after all.
> But I like the idea of candidates having to set out why they’d like to go,
> what they’ll do in Berlin and how that will benefit WM-US-CO.
> >
> > cheers,
> > Gaurav
> >
> > > Cheers,
> > >
> > > -Neal
> > >
> > > On Sat, Dec 31, 2016 at 03:24:55PM -0500, Gaurav Vaidya wrote:
> > >> Okay, yay, two candidates! Any more any more?
> > >>
> > >> Also, any ideas on how we could pick one? Would anybody be interested
> in a vote? We could run that at https://meta.wikimedia.org/
> wiki/Wikimedians_of_Colorado_User_Group — otherwise, once all the
> applicants are in, we could just pick one at random at
> https://www.randomresult.com/ticket.php. Let me know what you think!
> > >>
> > >> cheers,
> > >> Gaurav
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>> On 31 Dec 2016, at 10:21 AM, Abhay Natu  wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>> Representation in such events will raise our profile and help grow
> membership.
> > >>>
> > >>> I can also do this but will defer to another candidate if needed.
> > >>>
> > >>> Cheers,
> > >>>
> > >>> Abhay
> > >>>
> > >>> On Dec 31, 2016 6:00 AM,  lists.wikimedia.org> wrote:
> > >>> Send Wikimedia-US-CO mailing list submissions to
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> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>> Today's Topics:
> > >>>
> > >>>   1. Re: Delegate to Wikimedia Conference 2017 (Mar/Apr in Berlin)
> > >>>  (Isarra Yos)
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>> 
> --
> > >>>
> > >>> Message: 1
> > >>> Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2016 22:06:14 +
> > >>> From: Isarra Yos 
> > >>> To: wikimedia-us-co@lists.wikimedia.org
> > >>> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-US-CO] Delegate to Wikimedia Conference 2017
> > >>>(Mar/Apr in Berlin)
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> > >>>
> > >>> I could do it, but I really don't know if I'd be the best person.
> > >>> Perhaps someone who's more active in organising actual events and
> > >>> whatnot? Or who even knows who that would be...
> > >>>
> > >>> -I
> > >>>
> > >>> On 23/12/16 22:30, Gaurav Vaidya wrote:
> >  Hullo!
> > 
> >  Wikimedia Conference 2017 [1] will take place in Berlin, Germany,
> from
> >  March 31 to April 2, 2017; it's a chance for Wikimedia organizations
> >  (such as us!) to meet and discuss plans for pushing the Wikimedia
> >  movement forward around the word. According to the Eligibility List
> >  [2], it looks like the Wikimedians of Colorado User Group [3] (such
> as
> >  us!) can send ONE person to Berlin to represent us. I think
> >  accommodation and airfare are paid for either by the Wikimedia
> >  Foundation or WMDE [4].
> > 
> >  Anybody interested