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| San Francisco Meetup # 12 | |
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| Date: March 28th | |
| Time: 2PM | |
| Place: Yahoo! Campus: 701 First Avenue, Sunnyvale CA Building *D*, 1st floor. Yahoo!Opoly | |
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Meetup details edit
Micah Alpern w:User:Malpern is in charge.
- Date: Sunday, March 28th 2010
- Time: 2 PM
- Location: Yahoo! Campus: 701 First Avenue, Sunnyvale CA Building D, 1st Floor Yahoo!Opoly.
Notes from the Meeting edit
- Goals
- Awareness - Our awesomeness, other projects
- Activity/Engagement - Edit/Upload
- Support the Foundation - Donation Jar & Mobile Uploading
- Assumption: Majority of interactions will be 2 min or less
- To Prepare
- 1) JON: Guess the Language - JON to get url from AUSTIN. MICAH may help improve the visuals.
- 2) JON: Recent Changes Visualization
- a) Harass BRIAN: Leverage Twitter Vision to put Recent Changes on an animated map.
- b) Backup: just project the IRC channel
- 3) JAMES: Time Lapse Video of an article growing
- 4) JON: Featured Images Slideshow
- 5) JAMES: Task cards to hand out to get people to contribute to an article
- 6) JAMES: Donation Global
- Print Materials
- 1) Posters
- a) MICAH: Mobile Wikipedia & Donate via short code
- b) EUGENE to ask for help: Commons Poster
- 2) Leaflets
- a) How to Edit - JON write, STEVEN copy edit, MICAH visuals
- b) How to Upload - JON write, STEVEN copy edit, MICAH visuals
- 3) JON: Trading Cards - Need to ask CAREY for card stock.
- 4) CAREY: Annual Reports
- 5) JAMES & STEVEN: Bookmarks: Edit page, Upload images, Donate, Reference desk
- 6) JAY: Scwag - Stickers, Pins, Pencils, T-Shirts?
- 7) MICAH: Existing published visualizations of Wikipedia activity.
- 1) Posters
- Logistics
- 1) JON: Volunteers & Shifts. - 3 Hour Shifts. 2/3 per slot for 2 days.
- 2) JON: Computers/Power/Network - From Jay, Carey
- 3) JON: Secure a booth
- 4) DENISE: Projector/LCDs
Summary of items above we need help from the foundation:
- 3) JON: Trading Cards - Need to ask CAREY for card stock.
- 6) JAY: Scwag - Stickers, Pins, Pencils, T-Shirts? -
- Logistics 4) DENISE: Projector/LCDs
We'll review our progress and next steps at the next meeting on April 10
Attendees edit
Add your name to the Invite list if you want to be invited on your talk page to future meetups.. thanks!
- I've reserved a room at the Yahoo! Campus in Sunnyvale for the meeting. Please list your user name and full name below so I can clear it with Yahoo! Security ahead of time.
Attending edit
- Malpern (talk) 23:32, 1 March 2010 (UTC) - Micah Alpern
- Woot! Wikimedian's invade Yahoo! --ShakataGaNai ^_^ 23:43, 1 March 2010 (UTC) -- Jon Davis
- Stephen (talk) 18:36, 8 March 2010 (UTC) - Stephen LaPorte
- James Salsman 22:59, 8 March 2010 (UTC)
- EugeneZelenko (talk) 13:53, 26 March 2010 (UTC)
Maybe Attending edit
- Jack Herrick from wikiHow. Hope to see y'all there.
- Pat,
if I can figure out how to get down there.Meh, I misunderestimated how long it would take to get down there via Caltrain. Was looking forward to helping out with Maker Faire :( Guillaume Paumier, if I can figure out how to get down there.Actually, as much as I like you guys, I'm not going to spend ~5 hours in public transportation for a ~2 hour meetup. guillom 15:41, 26 March 2010 (UTC)- Luca de Alfaro
- George William Herbert - Definite maybe, I'm pretty busy this weekend but I'd like to make time and be there if I can.
Pre-Meeting Planning Notes Maker Faire edit
- Contact O'Reilly to get a double wide/better space
- INTERACTIVE is the word of the day
- Volunteers Saturday & Sunday
- 3 hour shifts
- At least 2 people
- 1 extra commons photog separate
- One or two people help on Friday depending on complexity
- Make stuff before hand
- Games are important
- Guess the WP language
- Wiktionary tie definition game?
- Trading Card Game
- Reliable sources quiz?
- Quiz buzzer?
- Touch screens would be AMAZINGLY useful
- Photo scavenger hunt/bingo
- Scout Friday night and make something up?
- Contact groups going to be there in advance and work something out?
- Place "Q" Cards about. Little cards w/ logo and code to take pictures of
- Wandering Commons photographers uploading with Eye-Fi cards
- Present live images from the cards, upload to commons (email upload usability request)
- Have the ability to give short URLs? (someone should put this and email upload in bugzilla)
- Have small macro object booth
- Present images live, upload to commons
- Marketing Materials:
- posters
- leaflets: 1-2page brochures
- Outreach multimedia proposals
- Digital
- What can we build/do that the office can put up?
- RecentChanges always popular
- LCD HDTV display
- Commons featured pictures
- Uploads from macro image booth and wandering commons photographers
- http://stats.grok.se on topics visitors claim expertise in to show them the size of their potential audience
- What can we build/do that the office can put up?
- Maker Faire specific
- Present the other projects?
- Progress report on MediaWiki Quiz extension for Wikiversity to support assessment content
- plan to proofread materials at the next Meetup April 10th on Angel Island.
- booth setup
- how many tables?
- Does foundation approve a LCD HDTV display for re-use in lobby?
- can we physicially secure large display against accidental bumps?
- and/or projector and screen
- Does foundation approve a LCD HDTV display for re-use in lobby?
- will we need our own cabling, power, conduits, coverings and safety markings?
- will we need microphones and public address system for speakers?
- best way(s) to secure cpus to booth?
- how many tables?
- Donation jar for the loose change/cash that isn't "tacky" (Point of contention from years past)
- Hollow globe?
- What about just "selling" symbolic items like t-shirts for donation prices? (e.g., $10 donation comes with a sticker)
- Games are important
- Schedule Talks/Presentations/Howto's
- Get a whiteboard to use
- 15 minutes, tops
- "Why it's cool" from the other projects
- How to edit, and get someone from the audience to do so
- How to upload on commons, get audience to do it
- Give away more valuable swag for people that actually edit (T-shirts?)
- Stickers
- Mini-Commons!!!?
- Tshirts
- Books
- Sell?
- Stickers