I would prefer the 28th as well, since I'll be taking a friend to the airport on the 21st. Any trouble with this? On Sep 18, 2013 7:07 PM, "Gaurav Vaidya" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi everybody! > > On 4 Sep, 2013, at 11:11 PM, Todd Allen <[email protected]> wrote: > > So, if we can all bring along a camera. > (Or not -- we had a surprisingly fun Wiki Takes Boulder last year with one > camera between three people!) > > > It depends where we want to go. If we'd like to go by car, I'd have > probably 3 seats available, long as someone doesn't mind the middle in the > back. If by train to downtown, however many would like to go. We can meet > up at my car from there if need be, at Mineral. > I'm not sure where Mineral is, but thanks for the offer! > > > I would like to stop downtown to get some photos of Biker Jim's, as I'm > currently working on that article. We can do that in either case, and I can > bring my camera to work if it's really opposed, but I'd really rather > prefer it to be on the same day. And they really do have some good food. :) > I'd prefer not to go downtown by car, since I can get there for free on the > train, and would rather do that than pay for parking. But I'd be happy to > drive to some farther out areas after that's done. > > > > So, anyone opposed to meeting downtown for lunch/photos prior to lunch, > and hitting the Botanic Gardens or other locations from there? > I like this plan, and have set up the first part of the paperwork: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Takes_America/2013/Denver > > I've proposed September 28 as the day of photography, since I'm leaving > Boulder for a week from Sunday, September 29. Once we know how many people > are interested, and have a time and a date finalised (hopefully by this > weekend), we'll have all of next week to run geonotices ( > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Geonotice). > > > On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 10:10 PM, Spencer Williams IV < > [email protected]> wrote: > > Hey there, good folks. I'm totally up for Wikipedia Loves Monuments or > Takes America, or whatever it might be this month. However, I should warn > you, I'm totally, like, dirt poor. And so I couldn't provide transportation > or anything like that. Ideally, I hope Gaurav might convince his roommate > to go so I could jump into their car or something. I do have an iPhone > though, and the Wikimedia app. So I'm set in that department. > Sorry, Spencer -- I think my friend (not roommate!) might be out of town > then. Would a bus trip to Denver be too expensive for you? > > > Any of the places Todd Allen suggested sound great. I don't have a > particular preference, but the Children's Museum might be interesting. The > Botanical Gardens would be nice too. I don't think I've been there yet. But > really anywhere on that list sounds great. > There's space on the event page to start throwing up ideas. Being on 16th > Street means that we can go anywhere from Union Station to the Capitol for > free. There must be something interesting within walking distance of that, > right? > > > So if any of y'all are planning to go, please let me know. Also, I was > very interested in helping out with Wikipedia Loves Libraries next month. > Was there anyone else here who wanted to get together to make something > happen in that regard? I think I may be able to ask someone at BPL to get a > room reserved. I don't really have a solid game plan laid out, but I > definitely wanted to do something like talk about basic Wikipedia editing, > and then more advanced stuff like Templates, transclusion vs. substition, > customizing your theme, custom CSS and stuff like that. Nothing too heavy, > though, as I suspect there will mainly be people new to the project. But > just to give people a sense of how to go about contributing a variety of > content. > Let me know how this goes! I'm trying to think of something we could do at > either the CU Libraries or the CU Museum, but it's going to take a lot more > organising than I'll have time for this semester. > > cheers, > Gaurav > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-US-CO mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-us-co >
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