Thanks for keeping me in the loop!
> On Jul 2, 2015, at 6:45 PM, Pine W <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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] > <mailto:[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] > <mailto:[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] > > <mailto:[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 > > > > <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sQxhBIX7mB5TsSZRnqyW9k4wv60fmBAkyKV37aVr5Gg/edit?usp=sharing> > > > > > > > > > > Thoughts? > > > > > > -- > > > Lane Rasberry > > > user:bluerasberry on Wikipedia > > > 206.801.0814 <tel:206.801.0814> > > > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Wikimedia-Cascadia mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > <mailto:[email protected]> > > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-cascadia > > > <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-cascadia> > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia-Cascadia mailing list > > [email protected] > > <mailto:[email protected]> > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-cascadia > > <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-cascadia> > > > > > > -- > Lane Rasberry > user:bluerasberry on Wikipedia > 206.801.0814 <tel:206.801.0814> > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-Cascadia mailing list > [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-cascadia > <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-cascadia> > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-Cascadia mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-cascadia
