Pete - why don't you get a planning page started up on the Wiki? Would the RCC folks be comfortable adding their input there?
Kul Sent from my iPhone On Jan 29, 2012, at 7:57 PM, Sean Parker <s...@foundersfund.com> wrote: > I would be open to provide financing for a West coast event > > From: wikimedia-sf-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org > <wikimedia-sf-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org> > To: portlandw...@googlegroups.com <portlandw...@googlegroups.com>; San > Francisco Bay Area Wikimedians <wikimedia-sf@lists.wikimedia.org> > Sent: Sat Jan 28 18:23:21 2012 > Subject: [Wikimedia-SF] Time for a wiki conference on the west coast? > > Hey all, > > Recently, the idea of a RecentChangesCamp in Portland, San Francisco, > Seattle, or elsewhere on the west coast has popped up on the RCC-planning > mailing list. > > For those who don't know, RCC is one of the longer-standing wiki conferences, > and has been held in Portland more than anywhere else. The last Portland one > was in 2008; it's also been held in Montreal (x2), Camberra, Australia (x2), > Boston, and Palo Alto. > > I think it's fantastic that this community remembers Portland so fondly, and > is so interested in having a conference there. And there's clearly a very > fertile soil in SF as well. From past experience, this conference only > happens if there is strong local will to pull it off. But if that exists, > there is a good core, international group of volunteers who will help out, > and provide insights from past events. > > At the same time, it seems to me that the wiki world has evolved since RCC > was first held. There are now several similar models, including the > WikiConference (the Wikimedia movement's name for regional conferences; one > was held last year in San Francisco); WikiSym (an academic conference about > online collaboration, which has grown to include an Open Space component like > RCC). Also, the PortlandWiki grown up since the last one, and has found some > solid allies and beneficiaries in independent groups like Occupy and Portland > Afoot. > > So, my question is: do people feel like putting together a wiki conference in > 2012? And is RCC a good model for doing that? > > I'd highly recommend joining the RCC-planning email list and discussing > there, so that we don't get separate discussions going. > https://groups.google.com/group/rcc-planning > > -Pete > > p.s. As an aside, I recently set up an IRC channel : #wikimedia-westcoast. > While I know that many of you are more "wiki" people than "Wikimedia" people, > I hope this is a useful tool for networking -- if you're an IRC user, please > join us and say hi sometime! > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-SF mailing list > Wikimedia-SF@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-sf
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