Pinging Ellie Young (WMF conference coordinator) so that she's aware that we're discussing having WikiConference USA in Seattle in 2016, possibly in conjunction with OpenStreetMaps' "State of the Map USA" and/or the SeaGL (Seattle GNU/Linux) conference.
Pine Pine On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 4:20 AM, Lane Rasberry <[email protected]> wrote: > Pine, > > I think that 1500 people is a reasonable estimate for an upper limit. > > Considering the population and accessibility of New York City versus > Seattle, then unless the outreach strategy is changed to increase > attendance, I would expect fewer attendees in Seattle than in New York. As > a lower limit, I expect that an attendance of 1000 is reasonable. > > Probably the conference would be Friday - Sunday. On Friday especially > local paid people would come during work hours. Saturday would be the big > community day, and Sunday would be another community day. Because the total > number of attendees will be much greater than the attendees on any given > day, having access to a lecture hall capacity of 6-800 might be reasonable > for a conference with 1500 attendees. > > I would welcome the GNU/Linux side along with other like-minded groups in > the open knowledge and free culture space joining. > > yours, > > > On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 1:04 AM, Pine W <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Great, thanks Lane. > > > > Peaceray has been in talks with the OSM people in Seattle. > > > > Mako was asking about estimated attendance in case we decide to ask UW to > > host a conference in 2016. The information in the Google doc about > > estimated attendance (850 OSM plus at least 350 for WCONUSA) is helpful > to > > get a sense of scale. It sounds like we should estimate combined > attendance > > at about 1500, assuming some year-over-year attendance growth. Does that > > sound right? > > > > I've also asked Peaceray to consider reaching out to the SeaGL (Seattle > > GNU/Linux Conference) people because they might also be interested in the > > concept of a joint conference in Seattle. I'm not sure how active their > > organizers are, but if we have a conference at UW then I think they might > > be interested in joining up with us. > > > > Pine > > > > Pine > > > > > > On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 5:12 AM, Lane Rasberry <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > I attended the United States National Open Street Map conference, State > > of > > > the Map, in New York last weekend. There were about 8 OSMers from > Seattle > > > there, and I met with them. > > > > > > They had proposed hosting their conference in Seattle next year, and I > > > thought also that the Wikipedia community might like a conference in > > > Seattle next year, and I was wondering if Open Street Map and Wikipedia > > > might co-host a conference next year. > > > > > > I started collecting some ideas in a Google Doc. > > > < > > > > > > https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sQxhBIX7mB5TsSZRnqyW9k4wv60fmBAkyKV37aVr5Gg/edit?usp=sharing > > > > > > > > > > Thoughts? > > > > > > -- > > > 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 > > > > > > -- > 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
