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OKFN Boston meetup, June 12th 6-7+

Samuel Klein — 2013-06-12T21:51:41

There's an OKFN meetup happening shortly in Kendall Square at the
MeadHall:  great drinks, fine food, a bit noisy.  We may even get the
bartender to make some of the cocktails missing photos from Faolin's
list:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Sj#Cocktails_needing_pictures

http://www.meetup.com/OpenKnowledgeFoundation/Boston-MA/966012/

Warmly,
SJ

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Fwd: [Gendergap] Fwd: [OpenGLAM] Wikipediarelated job opportunity

Samuel Klein — 2013-06-07T04:39:29

This sounds like a totally amazing position.  You have to live in
College Park and cover your own relocation, but it pays well for a
pure free-culture and knowledge-liberation job :-)  And Dominic can
tell you about the great people you'd be working with.   (Hey, Dominic
- are you applying for this?!)

You have just under a week to apply.

Warmly,
SJ


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Subject: [Gendergap] Fwd: [OpenGLAM] Wikipedia related job opportunity
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See below. Rare open culture opportunity at the National Archives and
Records Administration. You have to be a US citizen to apply.

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Great opportunity! Please cross post. Note c

Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] State of the Map US,San Francisco June 7-10

Samuel Klein — 2013-05-30T04:16:45

In case any of you are considering heading to SF during the first two
weeks of June:

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Subject: [Wikimedia-l] State of the Map US, San Francisco June 7-10
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Of possible interest to WMF staff and others in San Francisco, State
of the Map US is happening in a few weeks.

http://stateofthemap.us/

Schedule: http://stateofthemap.us/schedule.html

They are discussing a wide variety of things which have crossover to
Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects including use of OSM in
secondary and higher education, technical matters including building
the new editor, vector maps, imports and operations, data analysis,
community and social issues. Looks like fun.

The main State of the Map conference this year is in Birmingham,
England in September. http://2013.stateofthemap.org/

In terms of governance stuff, the OSM Foundation is going through a
sim

Re: Fwd: [OKFN-Boston:38] Suggestion: Meetup Sunday 26th of May ~ Lunchtime / Afternoon

Sven Manguard — 2013-05-26T16:51:46

Wish I could be there but I am out of town. Please keep me in the loop on
the other event you mentioned

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Fwd: [OKFN-Boston:38] Suggestion: Meetup Sunday 26th of May ~ Lunchtime / Afternoon

Samuel Klein — 2013-05-26T16:02:36

Hello,

There's an OKFN meetup this afternoon, 1-4, for those interested
particularly in annotation and open data.

And another event being planned around annotating policy and government
docs this summer.

Regards,
SJ

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Equipment pool

Sven Manguard — 2013-05-20T01:15:37

I don't think that Wikimedia New England is at a stage right now, either
financially or organizationally, where having an equipment pool makes a
tremendous amount of sense, but if there ever was an argument for having
one I think it was made over the past few days by Albin Olsson
(user:Abbedabb at commons)[1], who covered this year's Eurovision contest
using a Nikon D600 from the equipment pool of Wikimedia Sverige, producing
just over 500 photographs and film clips from the event.[2]

Just something to keep in mind for the future, since it would be awesome to
have this kind of thing for events that take place in Boston/New England.

Sven


[1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Abbedabb
[2]
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3AListFiles&limit=500&user=Abbedabb
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Wiknic signup page

Sven Manguard — 2013-05-19T05:04:23

Although history has shown that a) most people that sign up for
Wikipedia-related events in Boston don't actually *show up* to those
events, and b) most people that show up to Wikipedia-related events in
Boston never actually signed up, I none the less feel that it might be a
good idea to pass along the link to the on-Wiki event sign up page. It also
has directions for where everyone is going to meet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Boston/Wiknic/2013

Kudos to Keven for setting everything up,

Sven
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Fwd: [Wikimedia-SF] LocalWiki is hiring aManaging Director

Samuel Klein — 2013-05-16T21:33:22

I don't know if this requires relocating, but Philip's pretty great
and they are working on excellent wikifrontiers.

SJ

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Date: Tue, May 7, 2013 at 8:23 PM
Subject: [Wikimedia-SF] LocalWiki is hiring a Managing Director
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Hey folks!

We're hiring a Managing Director here at LocalWiki
(http://localwiki.org) to help us scale up our effort to collect,
share and open the world's local knowledge.  If you or someone you
know may be interested, please apply or forward along!

http://localwiki.org/jobs/2013_managing_director/

Best,
Philip

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Re: Wiknic approaches!

Samuel Klein — 2013-05-16T20:13:43

I am so there.  We might try moving our early-June meetup outdoors too...
This is the best kind of wiki party.  You can even have a decent
editathon if everyone gets a sunlight-readable screen.  (I can provide
a dozen if we want to try that one day...)

I wish I could have seen some of you on Monday; I hope everyone is well.

SJ

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Re: Wiknic approaches!

Kevin Rutherford — 2013-05-07T04:24:23

I actually created the Wikipedia page for this on Wikipedia, per Pharos' request on my page.

Kevin Rutherford

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Wiknic approaches!

Sven Manguard — 2013-05-07T03:12:53

Compatriots! The Great American Wiknic [1] approaches. Some questions:

1) Is anyone interested in attending?
2) Is the Boston Commons (where it took place last year) still a good idea
for a location?
3) If enough people express an interest in having a Wiknic in Boston, what
other mailing lists should we let know about the event?

Cheers,
Sven

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wiknic
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Fwd: [cultural-partners] Fwd: [OpenGLAM] OpenData Fellowship

Samuel Klein — 2013-04-24T23:28:38

From new york's METRO library council.

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Hi all,

We're hosting an Open Data Fellowship for GLAMs in NYC. I look forward
to making this happen and would love to talk to any folks on this list
that have hosted something similar or are considering it.

Cheers,
Jefferson

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Open Data Fellowship

Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO), in partnership with the
OpenGLAM initiative, Open Knowledge Foundation, and Wikimedia NYC, is
now accepting applications for an Open Data Fellowship for Summer
2013. This paid, 8-week fellowship will serve two roles:


•    Wikipedian-in-Residence for member institutions in the METRO consortium
•    Facilitator for institutions interested in pursuing broader open
data initiatives

METRO is a non-profit consortium of over 250 libraries, archives,
museums, cultural heritage institutions, and non-profits in New York
City. The fellowship position will also collaborate with OpenGLAM,
OKF, and Wikimedia NYC as part of their work.

Position Details:

Wikipedian-in-Resid

Fwd: [dpla-tech] New DPLA API released

Samuel Klein — 2013-04-11T15:35:23

Dear Wikipedians and open library enthusiasts,

The API to access and play with the DPLA metadata stores has been
released.  You can get an API key and test it out (see below, and
https://github.com/dpla ).

If you're interested you can follow the technical discussion on the
mailing list:
https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/lists/info/dpla-tech

SJ

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Subject: Re: [dpla-tech] New DPLA API released
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On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 7:03 PM, Jeffrey Licht <jeff< at >podconsulting.com> wrote:


Probably simple enough to repeat here:

  curl -v -XPOST http://api.dp.la/v2/api_key/you< at >your_email.com

If you use Gmail, check your spam folder.  The key is sent immediately.

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Kevin Rutherford — 2013-03-20T02:48:17

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Women's History Edit-a-thon < at > Harvard,March 29th!

Maia Weinstock — 2013-03-19T14:35:15

Hey everyone,

Just announcing another Boston-area edit-a-thon that will be taking place
on Friday, March 29th at Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet
and Society... As it is Women's History Month, we will be focusing our
efforts on editing and adding to articles on notable women. The event is
one of a bunch being held around the world in conjunction with WikiWomen's
History Month<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiWomen%27s_History_Month>,
a project to increase female participation and representation on Wikipedia.
As such, we strongly encourage female editors to attend! All experience
levels welcome.

Full details, including RSVP information, can be found on our event page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Womens_History_Edit-a-thon_-_Harvard

cheers,
maia weinstock

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Hackathon/Editathon on April 6th in Boston

Adam Hyland — 2013-03-19T13:09:38

Details here: http://www.meetup.com/wikipedia-5/events/109596252/

Bocoup is hosting a Wikipedia editathon/hackathon from 10AM to 5PM on the 6th of April. On the edit side of things we'd love to focus on improving wikipedia's coverage of open web technologies (notable libraries, languages, design patterns, etc.) but we're happy to have anyone come and contribute on an article they're interested in improving. 

The hackathon side is completely open. We people to get excited about contributing to Wikimedia projects technically but we're also looking forward to see cool things get done to user scripts/styles, the API and data derived from Wikipedia. 

I'm going to add a page on Wikipedia proper soon enough. The details there should basically mirror those on Meetup.com. Please email me (or leave a note on my talk page) with any questions. 

Thanks,
-Adam

Re: meet in Boston next month?

Sven — 2013-03-14T21:32:22

So do we hold the big meeting the week before the Wikimedia Conference so that if we move towards incorporation at the annual meeting, Pharos can bring news of our desire to Milan, or do we hold it the week afterward and have Pharos read us in about what happened in Milan? :)

In all seriousness, I worry that students might be too close to finals by April 27th, which would dent the attendee numbers.

I therefore vote for April 13th.

Also, once we do decide on a date, we should invite James (user:harej) from the DC chapter, and let WALRUS and our event partners from the last year's GLAM stuff know.

Sven

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Re: meet in Boston next month?

Pharos — 2013-03-14T19:54:52

I'd be glad to join Ye Olde Wiki-Pilgrims any weekend in April except
the 20th, when I'll be here:

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2013

Let's bring up Wikimedia New England so that your group is also
sending representatives there next year!

Thanks,
Richard
(User:Pharos)

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Re: meet in Boston next month?

Kevin Rutherford — 2013-03-13T20:28:42

Sure, but we should also plan our yearly meeting. I can swing the beginning of the month, but I’m busy towards the end. May also works for me, although I’m booked Mother’s Day weekend.

From: Gabriel Fishman 
Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2013 12:53 PM
To: Boston Wikipedians 
Subject: [Wikimedia-boston] meet in Boston next month?

Hi wikimedians, 

We've had good turnout at the last few monthly meetups, but we've been missing some of the folks who live on the Boston side of the Charles. We've talked periodically about alternating between Boston and Cambridge. I'd like to propose that we meet in Boston next month. Please chime in and let us know if this would make you more or less likely to come.

One possibility is encuentro5, which is right near Park Street Station/Downtown Crossing. However, please let us know if you have an alternative idea. Perhaps someplace close to Northeastern?

Best,
Gabe

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meet in Boston next month?

Gabriel Fishman — 2013-03-13T16:53:11

Hi wikimedians,

We've had good turnout at the last few monthly meetups, but we've been
missing some of the folks who live on the Boston side of the Charles. We've
talked periodically about alternating between Boston and Cambridge. I'd
like to propose that we meet in Boston next month. Please chime in and let
us know if this would make you more or less likely to come.

One possibility is encuentro5, which is right near Park Street
Station/Downtown Crossing. However, please let us know if you have an
alternative idea. Perhaps someplace close to Northeastern?

Best,
Gabe
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Boston City Archives

Participation Support — 2013-03-11T23:54:44

Hello, Wikimedians in Boston!

This Participation Support request from a User who works with the Boston
City Archives is to attend the upcoming Open GLAM Launch in Berkeley:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Participation:BostonCityArchives/US_OpenGLAM_Launch_Weekend
.

Before making a decision about whether or not to fund the request, we
wanted to gauge the interest of some local Wikimedians in working with the
Boston City Archives. Does anyone have experience working with the
archives, or is anyone interested in getting involved with their work
releasing their digitized images on commons, or does anyone have other
information that might be useful to us as we're considering the request?

By the way, for those of you who may not have heard much about the
Participation Support Program, it is a reimbursement program that funds the
travel costs of contributors who are participating in events such as
meetings and conferences. It doesn't fund participation in
Wikimedia-movement-organized events such as Wikimania or