I haven't heard anyone object to the idea of a November 3rd panel discussion followed by free dinner courtesy of Mako. Mako, is this plan OK with you? If so, I'll pencil this in for our November meeting. The 6 PM start time for panel discussion would give your students some opportunity to brainstorm questions before they meet us.
Thanks, Pine On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 10:58 PM, Pine W <[email protected]> wrote: > Your gratitude is not decreasingly dubious, good sir. (: > > I propose that we simply make the November meetup be at Mako's November 3 > session. I anticipate that most of us are available no earlier than about > 6, so we could have a panel discussion from 6 to 7ish. We can take up Mako > on his dinner offer after class. > > Pine > On Sep 23, 2014 8:07 PM, "Benj. Mako Hill" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Greetings! >> >> In my day job, I teach at the University of Washington. This quarter, >> I'm teaching a class about online communities. The syllabus is here: >> >> http://mako.cc/teaching/2014/interpersonal_media/ >> >> As part of the class, I'm trying to get everybody in the class to >> learn about Wikipedia and it's, norms, policies, and rules and then >> demonstrate this learning by "joining" our community and making a >> series of valuable contributions. We're using a lot of the material >> that the education program has developed although my goal is a little >> more "meta" than usual (i.e., I'm interested in teaching about >> Wikipedia as an example of an online community more than I am >> concerned about who folks are writing about). >> >> Although I've been around our community long enough that I can play a >> pretty convincing Wikipedian, I would love to invite others from >> Wikimedia Cascadia in or around Seattle to come visit on either of >> these two dates: >> >> 1. Monday October 6rd (~5:30-7pm) >> >> We'll be talking quite a bit about their Wikipedia assignments on 10/6 >> and it might be nice to have another Wikimedian around to help give >> some perspective and/or advice. Since we'll be talking about >> motivation and incentives, anyone who wants to come along would be >> welcome to talk about this as well. >> >> 2. November 3rd (430-7pm) >> >> We'll be having a "debrief" about our whole Wikipedia contribution >> assignment on this day. I'd love to have as many local Wikipedians as >> possible join us! >> >> Send me an email offlist ([email protected]) if you're interested. In >> return, I can offer you dinner and the decreasingly dubiously valuable >> gifts of my gratitude and company. >> >> Regards, >> Mako >> >> >> -- >> Benjamin Mako Hill >> http://mako.cc/academic/ >> >> Creativity can be a social contribution, but only in so far >> as society is free to use the results. --GNU Manifesto >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia-Cascadia mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-cascadia >> >>
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