While I cannot commit until closer to the time I might be up to shoot some vid of this.
Richard please keep me posted. On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 2:04 PM, Pharos <pharosofalexand...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > My name is Lane Rasberry and I am the Wikipedian in Residence at > Consumer Reports. Consumer Reports is a research facility, publisher, > and advocacy organization. Most of the organization's scientists and > engineers work in any of the 50 laboratories at the Yonkers > headquarters. Almost all of the publishing work happens here also. I > am writing to invite Wikipedians on a tour of this place. If you are > interested please vote in this poll for a date and time. > <http://doodle.com/4zkask42ib8iyf3u#table> > > Consumer Reports is best known as a product testing organization. > Staff here review dozens of every kind of household appliance, > household product, and consumer good. I cannot plan exactly what this > tour will include because different testing happens on different days, > but I would expect that we would visit at least three laboratories and > the engineers who manage them. Most things in laboratories can be > photographed. In addition to the tour the staff here is curious to > meet Wikipedians and would like to talk with any of you. I am curious > to hear if any of you have ideas on what to do on Wikipedia with the > information this place collects. > > The agenda is to receive a ten minute presentation of what Consumer > Reports does, to take the tour, and then to talk about the potential > for organizations like this to engage with the Wikipedia community. > The tour will last a least an hour and discussion after the tour will > be as we like. > > There is no easy public transportation within about a mile of here. > There are Consumer Reports shuttles to and from the 1 line at 242nd > and the Hastings station on the Metro North Hudson Line - after > choosing a date I will arrange for this if there is demand. > > Thanks for your attention and reply to this or write me with any questions. > yours, > > -- > Lane Rasberry > 206.801.0814 > l...@bluerasberry.com > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-US-NYC-Discuss mailing list > Wikimedia-US-NYC-Discuss@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-us-nyc-discuss -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast WWWhatsup NYC - http://wwwhatsup.com http://pinstand.com - http://punkcast.com VP (Admin) - ISOC-NY - http://isoc-ny.org -------------------------------------------------------------- - _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-US-NYC-Discuss mailing list Wikimedia-US-NYC-Discuss@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-us-nyc-discuss
