Wikipedia:Meetup/Seattle/archive/2014 Seattle meetups

Monthly meeting December 2014

The December 2014 meetup is a joint holiday event with Seattle TA3M and the Seattle Privacy Coalition. It will feature lightning talks and an extended discussion of Wikimedia's interoperability with Tor. Information is available on the Cascadia Wikimedians public mailing list.

Event report

The signup spreadsheet had 30 unique registrations after removing one person who backed out and two duplicate entries, and I counted about 30 people present at the event.

Affiliations noted on the signup spreadsheet include TA3M Seattle, Cascadia Wikimedians User Group, the University of Washington, Seattle Privacy Coalition, and SURF Incubator.

We had six speakers. The presentations were about the following subjects:

Overview of Surf Incubator
Firmware manifesto to OEMs
Privacy and Wikipedia Zero
Ricochet instant messaging software
Lightning photography with free software
Overview of the Seattle Privacy Coalition

We had a roundtable discussion about editing Wikipedia through Tor and open proxies.

We had more pizza than we needed (:

Anecdotal reports are that the venue was good, the food was good, the presentations were good, and the networking was good.

The suggestion has been made that we hold a similar event in December of next year.

Report by --Pine^✉ 00:42, 22 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

November 2014

Community Data Science Workshops

As we discussed at last week's meeting, Mako, Frances Hocutt and I are organizing a series of free, public workshops that use Wikimedia data to teach people programming and data science skills. The first sessions are on November 7th and 8th. Go here for more information and to register, and contact Mako or me if you'd like to volunteer/mentor! Cheers, - J-Mo ^{Talk to Me} _{Email Me} 18:40, 20 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Monthly meeting October 14, 2014, 6pm to 8pm

At Café Allegro (see Directions above)

Agenda

Unconference
Learn to edit/edit-a-thon at UW for undergrads/the general UW community (introduction, organization, soliciting volunteers to participate) Msengul (talk) 21:31, 13 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
GLAM events / outreach
Bylaws - Peaceray (talk) will bring a print version of Wikimedia DC's bylaws

Probably attending

--Pine^✉ 07:01, 26 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]
--Peaceray (talk) 14:05, 26 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]
—mako ๛ 16:15, 26 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Brianhe (talk) 16:33, 28 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Matthew Brown (Morven) (T:C) 23:57, 30 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Kou Do u 06:11, 6 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
I'm newly living in Seattle and new to being a part of Wikimedia, but looking forward to meeting you all and making new connections. I will only be able to stay for the first hour, however. Monika Sengul-Jones Msengul (talk) 21:29, 13 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- J-Mo ^{Talk to Me} _{Email Me} 23:10, 13 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
--ragesoss (talk) 20:48, 26 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]
On my way. Happybluemo (talk) 00:58, 15 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Maybe attending

Probably not attending

Likely unable to make this one due to travel – Declangi (talk) 23:16, 6 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Monthly meeting September 9, 2014, 6pm to 8pm

At Café Allegro (see Directions above)

Agenda

Plug for Cascadia Wikimedians
Discussion about planning for a Wikiconference USA 2016 bid
September is Wiki Loves Monuments 2014 Canada photo contest
Wikipedia:Personal acquaintances requires face-to-face meetings. Is anybody in Seattle registered? (item added by Brianhe (talk); feel free to ping me)
Discussion of research about the Wikipedia category system

attending

Declan – Declangi (talk) 04:38, 10 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]
--Pine^✉ 07:33, 10 September 2014 (UTC) plus about 5 others who hopefully will remember to sign.[reply]

regrets

Still in NYC. Blue Rasberry (talk) 01:36, 10 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Can't make it this time. :-( --ragesoss (talk) 01:39, 10 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Monthly meeting Sunday, August 17 at Cafe Allegro, 6pm to 8pm

Probably will attend

--Pine^✉ 23:34, 28 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Libcub (talk) 23:57, 28 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Peaceray (talk) 03:18, 29 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
ragesoss (talk) 23:32, 7 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
—mako ๛ 21:14, 12 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Your signature here

Benjamin Mako Hill and all, I'm in a traffic backup that I hope will clear any minute. --Pine^✉ 00:47, 18 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Dennis Bratland (talk) 03:22, 18 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

May attend

~~Dennis Bratland (talk) 01:22, 29 July 2014 (UTC) Can't promise anything but I hope I can make it.~~[reply]
Mihaister (talk) 22:39, 1 August 2014 (UTC)) Busy day for me, but I'll try to come.[reply]
--Mssemantics (talk) 14:39, 13 August 2014 (UTC) I moved to Vashon the day before I left for Wikimania (e.g., I've yet to unpack!), and my parents will be in town this weekend. So, I'll do my best to attend, but I'm 50/50 right now.[reply]
Summer family time but I will try to make it. -- Brianhe (talk) 01:06, 14 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Probably will not attend

At a recent meetup in Boston some Wikipedians in Boston tentatively said that they will host the national meta:WikiConference USA in Boston next summer, with hope that in 2-3 years there can be one in Seattle or Portland. I helped organize this last one in NYC and would like someday to help bring one to Seattle. Sorry guys - I am still in NYC and will not be at this meetup. Blue Rasberry (talk) 16:02, 30 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Agenda

Meet and greet
Discussion of IEG research projects by Mssemantics and Libcub
Discussion of Wikimedia Cascadia

Setting up the board
Communications: meta:Talk:Cascadia Wikimedians#Portland/Oregon/WikiProject Oregon notifications
Invitations to TA3M and other groups
Possible collaborations with other local groups and nonprofits such as the Gates Foundation

Anyone interested in applying to attend a training in DC? Wikipedia:2014 Workshop Facilitator Training

Wiknik! Sunday, July 6

Archived at Wikipedia:Meetup/Seattle/Wiknic/2014

Monthly meeting Thursday, June 12 at Cafe Allegro, 6pm to 8pm

Mssemantics and I showed up. We walked around several times, but didn't see anyone who looked like they were there for the meetup. We stayed till 6:30p. Hope to see you all next month! Libcub (talk) 02:38, 13 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Mssemantics and Libcub, sorry, as I said in my email to Mssemantics I was stuck, stuck, stuck in traffic. I got here around 7. I think that traffic affected at least one other person who planned to attend, and someone else had something come up. Private discussion sent via email to Mssemantics, feel free to share with Libcub. --Pine^✉ 02:49, 13 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

RSVP

--Pine^✉ 06:16, 3 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Libcub (talk) 19:42, 3 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
--Mssemantics (talk) 14:43, 4 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Brianhe (talk) 15:07, 6 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Fhocutt (talk) 09:12, 11 June 2014 (UTC) (possibly!)[reply]

Agenda

Meet and greet
Discussion of IEG research projects by Mssemantics and Libcub
Discussion of Wikimedia Cascadia

Communications: meta:Talk:Cascadia Wikimedians#Portland/Oregon/WikiProject Oregon notifications
Planning for Wicnik

Invitations to TA3M and other groups
Location and timing

Monday, May 19, 2014 meeting

We will meet at 6 PM at Black Coffee Coop, 501 E. Pine St; Seattle, WA 98122. The meeting is open to the public. At 7 PM we will join the Techno Activism 3rd Monday (TA3M) meeting in the same coffee shop. We are inviting TA3M members to come early to participate in the Wikimedia portion.

RSVP

--Pine^✉ 06:50, 13 May 2014 (UTC) and others have confirmed via email[reply]

Ima be there - J-Mo ^{Talk to Me} _{Email Me} 15:58, 13 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Me too - Brianhe (talk) 06:54, 14 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
~~Tentative yes.~~ Sorry. --Dennis Bratland (talk) 01:43, 20 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
I'll be there --Liquidzoot (talk) 18:21, 19 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Community Data Science Workshops

I'm helping Benjamin_Mako_Hill with a series of programming workshops at UW, focused on learning how to use data science tools & methods to explore large public datasets. Because we are who we are, we'll be working with a lot of Wikipedia data. The workshops will take place on three saturdays between April and May. Participation is free and open to the public. You don't have to have any experience with programming, science, etc. to participate—that's kind of the point, in fact. Signup instructions are on the website! Ping me or Mako if you have questions. Cheers, - J-Mo ^{Talk to Me} _{Email Me} 18:38, 17 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Wikiconference USA 2014

Please come if you can!

Hello! In New York City Friday 30 May - Sunday 1 June Wikiconference USA will be held as a national United States Wikipedia meetup hosted by Wikimedia New York City and Wikimedia DC. All are welcome to attend. Scholarship applications to cover travel expenses are accepted until the end of March and presentation submissions are requested until that time but can be accepted until closer to the conference.

In previous years New York City conferences have gathered 150 attendees. At this conference we are hoping for more people to attend.

It would be nice if participants and supporters of the Seattle meetup could attend. Anyone with questions may contact me or any of the other organizers, or post on the conference website. Blue Rasberry (talk) 22:02, 12 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Archive of past meetings

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April 8, 2014 at 6pm

Please note the change of date and time. Sign if you're planning to come. Thanks!

--Pine^✉ 07:36, 5 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

- J-Mo ^{Talk to Me} _{Email Me} 23:33, 6 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

February and March 2014

No meetings

January 11, 2014

Change for this month to accommodate people's availabilities: This month we'll meet at the University of Washington HUB Pagliacci Pizza on January 11 at 6 PM for dinner and conversation. (Bring or buy your own food.) Please sign up below with four tildes (~~~~)). There may also be a second meeting later in the month with Wikimedia visitors from outside our area.

Regrets - won't be available until June. — Brianhe (talk)
--Pine^✉ 01:11, 1 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]
I will attend virtually by Skype. Blue Rasberry (talk) 02:31, 1 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Regrets ~~I can make it.~~ Currently I'm working on new maps on Black River (Duwamish River) and Black River (Duwamish River) and other terraforming projects. Also going to photograph the mayor/city council inauguration. Dennis Bratland (talk) 03:33, 1 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- I thought I could come but too many chores today. If anyone's on Google chat I can connect. My Skype is on the fritz. --Dennis Bratland (talk) 02:07, 12 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]
I'll be joining by Skype as well. Blurpeace 09:33, 1 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]
I'll also probably join by Skype.--Pharos (talk) 01:55, 2 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]
I will attend virtually by Skype (can someone tell me the details of configuring the Skype call/the username or group name I should find?)-- OR drohowa (talk) 17:25, 2 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

OR drohowa I'll send an email when the time gets closer. --Pine^✉ 05:54, 4 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I'll be there! —mako ๛ 18:47, 11 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]