Steve, Hi! I have been meaning to respond to you, but have been swamped as of late.
First, a totally non-Wikimedia resource. If, as a international product manager, you are looking for a tech connection, I recommend http://www.meetup.com/Seattle-DevOps-Meetup-Group/ They are meeting tonight, Tuesday, at 6:30pm at the offices at Whitepages <http://www.whitepages.com/>, details in the link the meetup.com link. During introductions, people get a chance to say whether they are looking to hire or looking for work. Usually there are folks from Microsoft & Amazon, sometimes Google, & a myriad of other organizations. Second, I am glad to hear about your interests in digitization. At our recent WikiWork <http://commons.lib.washington.edu/wikiwork>! edit-a-thon <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Seattle/UW_Library_Special_Collections_edit-a-thon_4-25-2015>, Conor Casey, Archivist at the Labor Archives of Washington <http://guides.lib.washington.edu/content.php?pid=213382&sid=1775505>, spoke about what they have digitized & the volume of material still to be digitized. Perhaps one of the things that we need to focus on beyond edit-a-thons is how to best to digitize material & upload it to Commons in a coherent way.Certainly there are resources that we should be able to reach out to who have already coordinated with archives, albeit elsewhere than Seattle. Yours, Peaceray -- User:Peaceray <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Peaceray> [email protected] On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 10:10 AM, Lane Rasberry <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Steve, > > I am from Seattle but live in New York these days. > > I think all of us in the Wikimedia community wish for a better process for > digitizing paper media, storing it in Wikimedia projects, and categorizing > it in a useful way. There have been efforts to do this but we lack > standardization and some of the organizational infrastructure necessary. > > There are places in Seattle which have scanners set up to do this and if > those places are not sufficiently accessible, then it would be possible to > get equipment and set up in a community makerspace. To start digitizing > content though several pieces have to come together. > > The usual outcome of digitization projects on Wikipedia is that a lot of > media is uploaded then it is not sorted or used. To get the maximal value > out of a project the digitization has to be paired with an immediate push > to try to use the content, that why the project can be promoted and > immediately measures can begin to note the impact. > > If you want to talk about the landscape of wiki-archiving then write me to > talk by voice or video sometime, or just go to local wiki-meetings and talk > to others. > > yours, > > > > On Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at 12:23 AM, Jason Moore <[email protected] > > > wrote: > > > Welcome, Steve. I am down in Portland, but I hope you find others to > assist > > you with these sorts of projects. Glad to hear of your interest in > > Wikimedia Cascadia. > > Jason > > > > On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 5:01 PM, Pine W <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Hi Steve, > > > > > > Welcome to the group. Seattle is a good place for people with > > multilingual > > > abilities and international project manager localization experience. I > > > think that some of our local employers would be interested in talking > > with > > > you. You might also want to keep an eye on Wikimedia Foundation and > > public > > > sector job postings. > > > > > > We have an editathon planned for tomorrow at UW. After that our next > > > meetings will be in May. I need to coordinate with Peaceray about > > > scheduling, and one of us will post a note to the list when a decision > is > > > reached. We sometimes meet socially on a Tuesday evening when we are > not > > > having editathons and other events. > > > > > > I look forward to meeting you! > > > > > > Pine > > > On Apr 24, 2015 3:43 PM, "Steve Zitkovich" <[email protected] > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > Hello Wikimedia-Cascadians, > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I just joined the group and want to introduce myself. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I am a native Seattleite (Garfield High School, 1984) but majored in > > > German > > > > and have lived/worked 12 years of my adult life in Europe (Germany, > > > France, > > > > UK, Czech Republic, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Slovakia). > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Professionally I am an international product manager specialized in > > > > localization. I recently left my last position and am looking for a > new > > > job > > > > based in Seattle with international travel or be based abroad. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > There are two reasons I joined the Wikimedia-Cascadia group: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > 1/ Wikimedia is for me the ultimate internet organization: my > internet > > > > career is a extension of my interest in languages and inspiration of > > the > > > > internet as a communications medium to make information available > > across > > > > languages regardless of time + geography -- exactly what Wikimedia > > does! > > > I > > > > want to be involved with Wikimedia. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > 2/ I have a social-entrepreneurial idea around digitizing old print > > > > periodicals for which I would like to use some of Wikimedia's > > open-source > > > > tools or potentially even partner with Wikimedia itself. I have > talked > > to > > > > Jonathan Morgan about it and he suggested I join this group and see > if > > > > there > > > > are some people who would be interested in working on the idea with > me. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > So if anyone in this group (or has friends outside this group) has a > > > > passion > > > > for digitizing print materials from the past (ex. DIY music/culture > > > > magazines, neighborhood newsletters, school newsletters), send me an > > > email. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > In any case, I hope to meet you in person at an upcoming > > > Wikimedia-Cascadia > > > > gathering. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Kind regards, > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Steve Zitkovich > > > > > > > > subscribed with "[email protected]", primary email = > > > > "[email protected]" > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Wikimedia-Cascadia mailing list > > > > [email protected] > > > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-cascadia > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Wikimedia-Cascadia mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-cascadia > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia-Cascadia mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-cascadia > > > > > > -- > Lane Rasberry > user:bluerasberry on Wikipedia > 206.801.0814 > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-Cascadia mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-cascadia > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-Cascadia mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-cascadia
