I definitely think in-person meetings make sense. As someone who has attended a lot of them, there's definitely a significant difference between what types of people and what is accomplished during in-person meetups vs online ones. The Berkeley campus group was never really active (it was more-or-less Matt Senate and Derrick Coetzee's idea, I just signed to hit the minimum requirement.)
I could probably get a room on UCB's campus (although I won't be a student for more than another couple weeks I'd probably be able to anyway,) but the wifi is a pain to set up which makes it a less than ideal choice for a meet-up location. I suspect the library would be willing to host us given how much libraries tend to like Wikipedia (potentially helped by the fact that we are right next to the WMF.) I would like to host an editathon in the non-student cooperative in northern oakland I live in at some point, but that will probably be a little bit away and not necessarily a frequent event. I'll definitely show up wherever there is a meetup though :) --- Kevin Gorman On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 9:17 AM, Wjhonson <wjhon...@aol.com> wrote: > The issue I've always had with IRC is that if you are not a gear-head, > you really have never used it. The logs are *mostly* either not indexed at > Google, or not even kept at all, so you cannot link to a discussion of what > this one or that one said, and you cannot read those discussions. > > Yes I'm aware that *some* chats are being logged. > > If the community wants to *reach out* to all the non technologists, IRC is > not the way to reach. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Karen Coyle <kco...@kcoyle.net> > To: wikimedia-sf <wikimedia-sf@lists.wikimedia.org> > Sent: Tue, Jul 30, 2013 6:27 am > Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-SF] Berkeley Wikipedians > > On 7/29/13 8:12 PM, Jeremy Baron wrote: > > > > > I think IRC's not too scary if there's an appointed meeting time with > > people that are guaranteed to be friendly and helpful and there's only > > one channel to have to pay attention to. It's easy to make a webchat > > link with the fields all pre-filled (e.g. with the channel name. or > > even IRC nick) > > IRC is not scary for you, but it is a significant barrier to anyone who > doesn't already know it. So, no, I personally will not be organizing any > "meetings" on IRC. YMMV. > > kc > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-SF mailing list > Wikimedia-SF@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-sf > >
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