Thanks! If you plan to volunteer and haven't told me already, please email me as soon as you can with your full name and day(s), and I will be sure you are on the list for the faire.
Phoebe, they gave us wireless, but I will see if we can get actual internet access. Cheers, Stephen On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 8:51 PM, phoebe ayers <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi SF wikimedia, > > based on our experiences of the past few years, I have started a list of > all the supplies we will need. Please sign up for a volunteer slot and if > you can bring any of this stuff: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/San_Francisco/Maker_Faire_2011 > > Dear awesome coders and others, if you have a displayable visualization or > game in mind can you either link it or somehow get it to one of us to > install? Offline stuff would be the bomb. (Stephen, did you ask them about > internet access?) > > cheers, > Phoebe > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Stephen LaPorte <[email protected]> > Date: Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 6:04 PM > Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-SF] maker faire this year > To: San Francisco Bay Area Wikimedians <[email protected]> > > > Good news, we have a spot for Maker Faire on May 21 and 22! This gives us > ~3 weeks to plan an amazing booth. > > Since this is a '''Maker''' faire, I think we should should brainstorm some > simple opportunities to allow people to make/build/contribute at our > booth! Last year we had computers with Wikipedia games (the language > guessing game and the article race game), a larger screen with a map of > recent changes, and volunteers talked to people and answered > questions. Simple and interactive work best. It can be noisy and crowded, > but that article race game last year had people engaged. See > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/San_Francisco_12 for last > year's planning notes. > > If you have any ideas, stories from previous years, or are interested in > volunteering, please let me know and/or share on wiki: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/San_Francisco/Maker_Faire_2011 > > Cheers, > Stephen > > PS, ...here are some bizarre/practical suggestions for this year, from Jon > circa 2010: "Temporary tattoo's, new games (Jimmy side scroller, "Citation > Needed" - guess the fact), Offline Presentations & Auxiliary internet access > methods." > > On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 8:29 AM, phoebe ayers <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Awesome! Thanks Stephen! >> phoebe >> >> >> >> On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 11:46 PM, Stephen LaPorte < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Phoebe, >>> >>> I just submitted a late application for Maker Faire, and I will keep >>> everyone updated if we get space! >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Stephen >>> >>> On Apr 7, 2011, at 5:07 PM, phoebe ayers wrote: >>> >>> Hi SF, >>> >>> As you know Wikimedia-SF has had a booth at Maker Faire the past three >>> years. Maker Faire is awesome! It's a fair amount of work to put together, >>> however. Last year Jon Davis and I coordinated the booth. Unfortunately this >>> year we have both been super busy all spring, and we missed the deadline for >>> sending in the registration form. >>> >>> If anyone else is interested in leading the Maker Faire efforts, we could >>> still ask if there are any last-minute places. But we would need to act very >>> quickly -- so please speak up if you want to do this (or just do it -- >>> contact info is on the website). And if no one is interested in leading the >>> booth, we will take a break from Maker Faire this year (and return >>> triumphantly next year???) >>> >>> best, >>> Phoebe >>> >>> p.s. How would people feel about a get-together in a couple weeks ... the >>> weekend of the 23rd? Maybe Sunday the 24th? It's been a long time since >>> we've had a casual meetup. >>> >>> >>> -- >>> support Wikimedia: http://donate.wikimedia.org >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wikimedia-SF mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-sf >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wikimedia-SF mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-sf >>> >>> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-SF mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-sf > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-SF mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-sf > >
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