Cool! Is there a Wikipedia meetup page yet? Maybe we can develop a list of related articles to work on!
Hope that lots of folks can come, -- Phoebe On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 1:16 PM, Stephen LaPorte <[email protected]>wrote: > Hello all, > > This Saturday, March 15, is a #FreeBassel day event in San Francisco. Some > people from Creative Commons and the open community will join, and I hope > to encourage a few Wikipedia edits. If you are interested in joining, it > would be great to see some Wikipedians at the event. No editing experience > is required: bring a laptop if you feel like editing, and feel free to > bring a friend or attend if you just want to learn about Bassel. > > If you don't know Bassel Khartabil (known online as Bassel Safadi): he is > an open web developer and dedicated Internet volunteer who has been > imprisoned (without charge) in Syria since March 2012. He was Creative > Commons lead in Syria and started the first hackerspace (Aiki Lab, > Damascus) in the Arabic-speaking world, in addition to numerous other open > source and free culture projects (including Wikipedia). This Saturday 15 > March marks the second anniversary of his arrest, as well as the third > anniversary of the Syrian uprising. In support of Bassel and in efforts to > raise the profile of his case, #FreeBassel day events are being held around > the world to mark this date. > > Read more about the event here: > http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/42267 > > > == Details == > * Date: Saturday, March 15 > * Time: 12-4 pm > * Location: Wikimedia Foundation offices (149 New Montgomery Street, 3rd > Floor, San Francisco, CA 94105), near Montgomery Bart > * Event: An edit-a-thon, pot luck, and more! Learn how to contribute to > Wikipedia and collaborate with others to show your support for Bassel. > * Hashtag: #freebassel > > Please email me if you have any questions or want to let me know that you > will come. > > Best, > Stephen > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-SF mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-sf > >
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