For those at WCNA currently, I suggest a lunchtime meeting today to apply for a Wikipedia Day grant for January. This is a rather smaller thing than hosting WCNA, but still substantial, and maybe a good intermediate step.
Technically, Nov 15 is the last day to apply, so I think it would be best to just do it at the conference when people are together: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid/Apply You can apply for $500-$2,000, possibly you would have a single grant to cover two or three events in the Cascadia region. Here are some examples from last year that you are free to borrow from and remix: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid/L235/Stanford_Wikipedia_Day_2019 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid/Wikipedia_Day_Chicago_2019 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid/Wikipedia_Day_NC_2019 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid/Wikipedia_Day_LA,_2019 I will be glad to set up a fundraising-style banner for both editors and readers of Wikipedia and other projects, which should bring in a big enough crowd to justify it, and worked well for the other localities last year. The format is sort of a combined birthday party and one day mini-conference, with maybe a panel or two and heavy use of lightning talks. Thanks, Richard (User:Pharos) On Sun, Nov 10, 2019 at 12:10 AM Su-Laine Brodsky <[email protected]> wrote: > I agree the main campuses of UBC and SFU are too far away from downtown > and from accommodations. > > UBC Robson Square might be big enough: > https://robsonsquare.ubc.ca/event-conference-planning/ > > Other downtown options could be SFU’s downtown buildings, or BCIT’s > downtown campus. See http://www.sfu.ca/mecs/vancouver-main.html and > https://www.bcit.ca/rentals/downtown.shtml . SFU’s Morris J. Wosk Centre > for Dialog is an incredible space aesthetically - I’m not sure if has > enough of the right-sized rooms though. > > Is there a list of the requirements, e.g. “at least one room that will fit > 300 people and five other spaces that will hold 30 people each” kind of > thing? > > Su-Laine > (currently at WikiConference NA - please find me and say hi if I haven’t > met you yet) > > > > > > On Nov 9, 2019, at 9:46 PM, Joe Mabel <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Do you know if UBC's facility at Robson Square in Vancouver might be in > the running? Or is it too small and/or too busy? > > > > JM > > > > On 11/9/2019 5:26 PM, Bruce Englehardt wrote: > >> An event in the Northwest would be best during September or early > October > >> before the weather turns (but after peak pricing and the wildfire > season). > >> > >> The major universities in Seattle (UW) and Portland (PSU) are close to > >> downtown, but Vancouver's (UBC or SFU) are remote and require bus > transfers. > >> > >> Any of the three would be fine, but note that Portland has fewer plane > >> connections. There are trains and Intercity coach buses that connect the > >> three, taking about 3.5 to 4 hours for Portland-Seattle and > >> Seattle-Vancouver (including border customs). > >> > >> I'd be happy to work on this if we can grab some local sponsors. > >> > >> On Sat, Nov 9, 2019, 14:09 Chan, Judy <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >>> Happy to help out, but not wanting to over commit myself yet :) > >>> > >>> > >>> Judy > >>> > >>> Judy C. K. Chan, Ph. D. > >>> (she/her/hers) > >>> Educational Developer | Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology > >>> Faculty/CTLT Liaison | Faculty of Land and Food Systems > >>> The University of British Columbia | Vancouver > >>> 217 – 1961 East Mall | Musqueam Territory< > >>> > https://www.mail.ubc.ca/owa/redir.aspx?C=HVWU5Tzu5EuQcaQXM-Nkogcagjp_edEIYzj7oKOLvERarpVYEWZkBSpLePlU9DMp5xq3zOjYmdY.&URL=http%3a%2f%2fmusqueam.bc.ca%2f > >, > >>> BC Canada V6T 1Z1 > >>> Phone 604 822 5811 | Fax 604 822 9826 > >>> Teaching Portfolio: blogs.ubc.ca/judychan > >>> Twitter: @judycchan > >>> > >>> > >>> ________________________________ > >>> From: Wikimedia-Cascadia < > [email protected]> > >>> on behalf of Luiza Wainer <[email protected]> > >>> Sent: November 9, 2019 11:00 AM > >>> To: Wikimedia Cascadia group mailing list > >>> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Cascadia] Wikipedia Conference 2020 > >>> > >>> I know someone in Toronto who was going to suggest their city. The > feeling > >>> I got talking to some folks is that they were trying to have it be more > >>> accessible to others, having the event either away from the coasts of > the > >>> USA (some one mentioned Detroit) or in other North American countries > >>> (Canada, Mexico). In this case I'd love to see it happen in Vancouver > >>> instead of Seattle or Portland. > >>> > >>> On Sat, 9 Nov 2019 at 10:39, Joe Mabel <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> > >>>> I'd certainly be in, though this is not necessarily the time of year > >>>> people would most want to be in Seattle. > >>>> > >>>> How many people "on the ground" do you think it requires? How big is > >>>> this year's conference? > >>>> > >>>> JM > >>>> > >>>> On 11/9/2019 9:52 AM, Raymond Leonard wrote: > >>>>> People attending from the NW include SounderBruce, Another Believer, > >>>>> RageSoss, & Peaceray, so I suggest taking with some of us. Let us not > >>>>> forget Vancouver, BC as well! > >>>>> > >>>>> On Sat, Nov 9, 2019 at 12:40 Dulaney <[email protected]> wrote: > >>>>> > >>>>>> On Samh 09, 2019 aig 12:13:24f -0500, sgrìobh Liz 99: > >>>>>>> I'm not sure who to direct this message to but I'm at Wikipedia > >>>>>> Conference > >>>>>>> North America & I've had 6 different people suggest to me that next > >>>>>> year's > >>>>>>> conference be in Seattle or Portland (and that is just on the first > >>>> day) > >>>>>> Do > >>>>>>> you think this would be of interest to this chapter? Are there > enough > >>>>>>> members here to pull this off? Just planting a seed. > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> Liz > >>>>>> FWIW, I'm interested in helping out. > >>>>>> > >>>>>> -- > >>>>>> Tapadh leabh, > >>>>>> Mairi Dulaney. > >>>>>> > >>>>>> _______________________________________________ > >>>>>> 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 > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
