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Monthly meeting December 2014

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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:
  1. Overview of Surf Incubator
  2. Firmware manifesto to OEMs
  3. Privacy and Wikipedia Zero
  4. Ricochet instant messaging software
  5. Lightning photography with free software
  6. 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

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Community Data Science Workshops

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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

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At Café Allegro (see Directions above)

Agenda

Probably attending

Maybe attending


Probably not attending

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

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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

regrets

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

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Probably will attend

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]

May attend

Probably will not attend

Agenda

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

Wiknik! Sunday, July 6

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Archived at Wikipedia:Meetup/Seattle/Wiknic/2014

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

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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

Agenda

  • Meet and greet
  • Discussion of IEG research projects by Mssemantics and Libcub
  • Discussion of Wikimedia Cascadia
  • Invitations to TA3M and other groups
  • Location and timing

Monday, May 19, 2014 meeting

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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

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--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]

Community Data Science Workshops

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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

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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

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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

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No meetings

January 11, 2014

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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.