Wikipedia:Meetup/Boston
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This is a list of recent and future Wikipedian gatherings in the Boston area. Please add or update events listed with details, links to pictures, and mugshots of attendees who got nabbed. Pictures, I say!!
[edit] Upcoming
Monthly meetups are planned and can be rsvp'ed for on <sigh> meetup.com.
[edit] July 14 2009
A monthly meetup at Qdoba on Mass Ave.
[edit] Earlier
[edit] July 9 2009
A quick meetup on the occasion of Brion Vibber's visit to Boston for the OER Discovery 2009 workshop.
[edit] June 14 2009
See Wikipedia:Meetup/Boston/FC+ for the first of a series of Free Culture+ meetups. Note: this meetup was cancelled due to scheduling conflicts.
[edit] March 28 2009
BLP at the BPL
(Lunch beforehand at Chilli Duck at 11:30 AM for Thai food and pre-research wiki talk at the Chilli Duck, 829 Boylston Street (between Fairfield St & Gloucester St).)
1PM in the Elliott Room (located in between Bates hall and the Hub computer area) of the Boston Public Library. From there, we'll get reference materials and find a place to work. Organized by User:sj
We will have a Wikipedia sign. Bring your referencing problems if you like and we can all work on them. I can also give short Wikipedia referencing and/or library research tutorials if anyone wants. Bring your BPL card if you have one!
A reference day at the BPL, focused on BLPs and [other] disputed topics.
In particular, I would like to see List of people from Boston improved and expanded to include modern people, so that it look more like lists from other major cities (e.g., List of people from Chicago and List of Austinites).
Modern writers, musicians, and educators might be a place to start. A Reference Challenge with a list of 100 peeps to begin with would be interesting. (does someone want to start putting this together?)
I would start with
- Category:People from Boston, Massachusetts
- Older unref'ed BLPs from Category:Unreferenced_BLPs
- Topic searches of the BLP noticeboard's archives
And at the end of the day we could have a new and improved list of Bostonians (with a special marker for BLPs? for those who have been through BLP review?) and wrap up with comments on the en:wp policies... Wikipedia talk:Biographies of living persons
Sign-up:
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| Upcoming | |
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| Ohio | July 18, 2009 |
| Wiki-Conference New York | July 25, 2009 - July 26, 2009 |
| Bangalore 4 | August 16, 2009 |
| London 24 | August 9, 2009 |
| Nashville | September 5, 2009 - September 6, 2009 |
| Recent | |
| London 23 | July 12, 2009 |
| Bangalore 3 | July 5, 2009 |
| Philadelphia 8 | June 14, 2009 |
| DC 7 | June 6, 2009 |
| Past meetups | |
[edit] Mailing list
We are moving our mailing list to one hosted on the wikimedia servers, for better long-term archiving. Please join to connect directly with other group members. There is more support for Wikipedia at universities near Boston than ever, and lots of interesting work we can do this year!
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-boston
[edit] Old Yahoo! Group and Meetup Site
[edit] 24 January 2009
7pm at Asmara in Central Sq., organized by User:Sj.
- Where
- Asmara, 700 Mass Ave Cambridge, MA 02138. (617) xxx-xxxx
- When
- 1900 EST (there is wifi there, so we may be on IRC as well in #wikipedia)
Agenda:
- ongoing projects people have suggested we start
- support from local companies and unis. offers of space for regularly hosted events.
- speakers for a monthly speaker series,
- chat about recent wikimedia goings-on: more formal organization of the meetup group, chapters, library collaborations.
- updates on wikipedia references in the MIT Mystery Hunt and elsewhere (forum warz, anyone?)
Come join us on Saturday 7pm at Asmara for all of this and more. Friends and family are welcome. BYOS.
Attendees:
[edit] 12 January 2009, 1900 EST
7pm at Wagamama in Harvard Sq.. Organized by User:Sj. (57 JFK St, Cambridge, MA 02138, (617) 499-0930.)
Agenda : good food and conversation! wikis to use at work. hyperlocal wikis.
Attendees: (15) for dinner and boba tea afterwards...
[edit] 8 December 2008
7pm at Wagamama in Harvard Sq., organized by User:Sj.
- We're moving to dinner from ice cream, and into Harvard Square this week. Come to Wagamama, on JFK street just south of the T station. We will also be meeting two weeks from now, for dinner somewhere else... recommendations welcome. Since some people can't make Monday, we may try for that Tuesday.
[edit] 10 November 2008
- Wagamama restaurant, Harvard Square, 7pm.
- Organized by sj, "I'll be in black and a fake Peruvian fedora at the large table in the back."
Meetup Description: We're moving to dinner from ice cream, and into Harvard Square this week. Come to Wagamama, on JFK street just south of the T station.
We will also be meeting two weeks from now, for dinner somewhere else... recommendations welcome. I'd like to go somewhere in Boston or Allston/Brighton. And as some people can't make Monday, we may try for another day that week... share your prefs.
Potential topics of discussion:
- Wikipedia and truth (and Garfinkels)
- Wikipedia editing in Latin America (updates from Peru and Chile)
- Wikimedia chapters in the western hemisphere; and forming US Wikipedia groups
- Organizing Wiki-intros at local universities and libraries
- Winter wiki-day with speakers from around the country
- Other free knowledge projects underway : CK12, Derechos Digitales, resource.org
- The million-book open library and wikibooks
- Travel scholarships to Wikimania 2008 in Buenos Aires
[edit] 22 September 2008
A Meetup in someone's home. If noone volunteers, it will be at my place on Oxford St in Cambridge, but I'd love to hold a meetup in Boston proper for people who hate coming out to Cambridge :) +sj + 23:42, 8 September 2008 (UTC)
[edit] 8 September 2008
Tosci's again -- but a very small turnout. Everyone was probably at PA's, celebrating his recent freedom from arbitrariness ;-) +sj +
[edit] 26 August 2008?
I've been thinking about this, and think it would be a very good idea. Please post ideas here:
[edit] Ideas
[edit] Place?
- Boston Common?
- Toscanini's (previous meetings here)
[edit] Time?
- Around 7:00 maybe? Earlier for a Boston Common one.
[edit] Topics?
- RFA Review, etc.
- FritzPoll Bot
- Wikimania '08?
[edit] Attendees
[edit] Likely
[edit] Maybe
--Vhoscythechatter-sign 19:28, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Past meetings
[edit] 4 August 2008
- Come find out more about free culture peru, offline Spanish Wikipedia and One Laptop per Child, and upcoming FOSS and free knowledge events in latin america. Learn what sort of sea creature this is. And maybe even come dancing with us afterwards.
- 7pm, Toscanini's, 899 Main Street (see meetup.com site here).
Organized by sj, who writes "I'll be wearing my Egyptian sailor's hat and Wikipedia shirt".
- Meetup report: sj forgot to wear a Wikipedia shirt, but we all seemed to find one another anyway. Attendance was pretty high - more than 10 people, I think. After getting ice cream, we soon decided that it was too noisy to talk in Tosci's, and moved outside to the small plaza across the street for a lively discussion. —Steven G. Johnson (talk) 01:07, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Monday, 25 February 2008, 7:30 pm EST, Berkman Center
Come by the Berkman Center at Harvard Law school for a meetup this coming Monday. Getting back to posting the biweekly meetings here, as Wik intended... Ice cream provided by Tosci's. +sj + 20:51, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
Agenda
- Dealing with Meetup : get it for all cities, or drop it?
- Ice cream : how cold is just right?
- Tosci's grassroots mobility : right on! how can we support them?
- City wikis : Arlington and Cambridge; history and possible projects
- Other projects
- Open chat
Attendees
[edit] Wikipedia Meetup, Monday, 13 August 2007, 7:00 pm EST
At Toscanini's, 899 Main Street (east of Central Square), Cambridge, MA 02139, (617) 491-5877.
[edit] Wikipedia Meetup, Monday, 12 February 2007, 7:00 pm EST
At Toscanini's, 899 Main Street (east of Central Square), Cambridge, MA 02139, (617) 491-5877.
[edit] Wikipedia Meetup, Monday, 8/14, 7:00 pm EST
At Toscanini's, 899 Main Street, near Central Square, 617-491-5877.
Agenda
- Ice Cream
- We survived Wikimania! Yay!
- Calendar : events, speakers over dinner, bbq
- Promotion : material, tables
- local uni registration days
- library events
- Library outing? (postponed to next mtg)
Attendees
[edit] Wikipedia Meetup, Monday, 7/10, 7:00 pm EST
At Boloco, 71 Mt. Auburn Street, Harvard Square, 617-354-5838.
Agenda
- Wikimania plans
- Early discount registration ends after July 15
- ABCD Meeting on Wednesday the 12th
- Wikimania volunteers meeting on Saturday, July 15, at 3:00 pm at Toscanini's on Main Street in Central Square, Cambridge, and the following Saturdays until Wikimania
- Apple Crisp at Club Passim at 8 pm
[edit] Wikimania Meetup notes 20060710
- Identifying groups who should get publicity
Just local groups? No--but groups that are likely to have people who'll want to come.
- Local groups
- Cambridge Chamber of Commerce: Deborah Finn/Eve Sullivan
- Boston Non-profit mail list might have some members willing to volunteer
- Harvard Summer School
- Any other local conferences around that time?
- Other local Meetups related to geeky or academic or idealistic topics
- Libraries
- The IgNobel people
- Non-local groups
- Identifying possible sponsors
- Coupons/discounts/swag
- Ask for discount coupons from tour bus companies that take off from Harvard Square
- Ask for discount coupons from local restaurants, which might make them more eager to put our notices in their window...
betsythedevine 01:06, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Wikimania Volunteers Meetup, Saturday, 7/15, 3:00 pm EST
At Toscanini's, 899 Main Street, Central Square, Cambridge
Agenda
[edit] Wikimania Volunteers Meetup, Saturday, 7/8, 3:00 pm EST
At Toscanini's, 899 Main Street, Central Square, Cambridge
Agenda
- volunteers
- Tasks
- been doing what?
- Who will do what?
- How can we recruit more volunteers?
[edit] Wikipedia Meetup, Monday, 6/12, 7:00 pm EST
Agenda
- wonder how j's intro to wikis presentation this morning to librarians went
- stuff
- some more stuff
- Wikimania stuff
- more Wikimania stuff
[edit] Wikipedia Meetup, Monday, 5/8, 7:00 pm EST
At Boloco, 71 Mt. Auburn Street, Harvard Square, 617-354-5838.
Agenda
- OneWebDay brainstorming, Tuesday, 5/9, 7 pm, John Harvard's, Harvard Square, Cambridge
- Wrapping up wikiesque events of the last month
- What about all those conferences sj's been going to?
- Wikimania plans
- Registration for the community is open
- Save the dates: Conferences in May
- Disappear before j arrives
- Please don't spill Tobasco sauce on my machine.
- Sammy asked me to take notes, but I can't hear anyone in here because the music is way too loud.
- This place doesn't serve ice cream. What was sj thinking?!? ; )
- sj wants to know where people want to meet at MIT
[edit] Wikipedia Meetup, Friday, 4/28, 7:00 pm EST
At Toscanini's, 899 Main Street, near Central Square, 617-491-5877.
Agenda
- Ice Cream
- Library night
- Weekend outings
- Save the dates: Conferences in May
[edit] Wikimania Meeting, Thursday, 4/27, 7:00 pm EST
In conjunction with the blog group that meets at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard Law School, 1587 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA
Agenda
- Ice Cream?
- Wikimania Stuff
- More Wikimania stuff
- Even more Wikimania stuff
- Buttons and T-shirts for, you guessed it, Wikimania
- Several people are going to an art show after the meeting
[edit] Wikipedia Meetup, Friday, 4/14, 7:00 pm EST
At Toscanini's, 899 Main Street, near Central Square, 617-491-5877.
Agenda
- Ice Cream!!!!!!!
- Organization
- First Wiki Wednesday, Dues
- Wikimania
- Sign up for the planning meeting on IRC (freenode.net/wikimania) this weekend to express your time and date preference.
- Save the dates: face-to-face Wikimania meeting next week
[edit] Wiki Wednesday, 4/5, 6:30 pm EST
At Grafton Street in Harvard Square. Informal meetup following Linuxworld Attendees:
- Matthew Mahoney, Socialtext
- Erik Langner
- Jonas Luster
You guys gotta announce these in advance! I wanted to come, if I'd known! —Steve Summit (talk) 23:33, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
Hear hear. Also: "first or second" Wednesday buh? Which is it? jmac 23:48, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Wikipedia Meetup, Monday, 3/13, 6:30 pm EST
At Club Passim, 47 Palmer Street in Harvard Square, 617-492-5300.
- Friends of sj and j are performing in New England Fiddles at 8 pm. They may play close to 8:30 p. Admission to the event is $5 for club members and $10 for nonmembers. This event is separate from our meetup.
Agenda
- Organization
- Dues
- First Wiki Wednesday
- What's new with Wikipedia?
- 1,000,000 articles!
- Wikimania?
- David Weinberger on Wikipedia and authority on wiki Wednesday at the Berkman Center at 6 pm
- free pizza and drinks!
- Wikipedia stuff at Simmons College's GSLIS vendor fair
[edit] Wiki Wednesday, 3/8, 6pm EST
At Grafton Street in Harvard Square.
Attendees: (please list what you'd like to talk about, if a specific project)
- +sj + (r/w ebook platforms)
- jt, as available
- stark fist (wikis in the classroom and in academic settings)
- erik garrison (p2p hosting of Wikimedia content)
- Dustin will show around 7ish (whatever)
- Sorry, guys. I love you dearly & everything, but Gary Price is in town. j 16:36, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
Agenda
- Current and upcoming wiki development projects: as book readers, in classrooms, for universities and departments
- Internships this season and next : Wiki development and research
- upcoming ABCD meeting, Penn State wiki
[edit] Global Wiki'ing, Monday, 2/27, 7 pm EST
Christopher's, Porter Square: so close to Concord (see last agenda item)
Location
- Christopher's, Porter Square, 1920 Massachusetts Ave
Agenda
- Global Voices updates : Wiki issues, collaboration changes
- Free culture projects : WoW in China, call for volunteers
- Global participation in Wikimedia & other wiki sites
- Museum of Science! venue, collaboration
- Wikimania updates -- global attendees at Wikimania
- GV panel, more focused than last year : bridging culture, expanding beyond blogs
- Translation panel, techniques
- Parallel event calendar
- Contradancing in Concord/Yankee Ingenuity -- come up with something ingenious.
[edit] Simmons College, Monday, 2/13, 7 pm EST
- Wikipedia Meetup and presentation
- UPDATE: Simmons GSLIS Alum blog post with MP3 of talk
- Location: Special Functions Room, first floor of the Main College Building, Simmons College
- Special meeeting where we present Wikipedia to and discuss it with the community, librarian groups, and other interested parties. sj will be the main presenter. Others are encouraged to attend, help field questions, demonstrate their knowledge, bring laptops, etc.
- Free registration is required because we might run into space problems. RSVP: http://www.alumnet.simmons.edu/olc/pub/SNS/ events/event_order.cgi?tmpl=events&event=2027510.0
- Limited parking. We can car pool from Cambridge
- Thornton's Fenway Grille, 100 Peterborough St, 617-421-0104
[edit] Grendel's, Mon 1/23, 5 pm EST
- Location: Grendel's Den 89 Winthrop Street, Cambridge, MA
- (617)491-1160
- The Simmons College event
- Wikimania misc
- Where to find decent chow in the snow
- How to deal w/ grumpy waitresses
[edit] Mon 1/9, 7 pm EST
- Location: Mary Chung Restaurant, Central Square, 460 Massachusetts Avenue, 617-864-1991
- Rumored to have excellent Chinese food
- An MIT group (SIPB) meets there on Mondays; this could be a joint meeting
- Meeting/talk at Simmons College for library school alumni and others
- Wikimania misc
- Wikimania's identity crisis
- we've got the go-ahead to make some Wikimania logos
- the date of the conference is public: August 4-6, 2006
Notes:
- We talked about plans for the talk at Simmons. j is still waiting to hear from Millie about a venue on campus and a date. Parking is possible for us. Because parking is limited, let's car pool if we can.
- We talked a lot about the Mystery Hunt
- The food at Mary Chung's is great. When Jeff says something is spicy, believe him.
[edit] Wikimania
Our group did a lot to plan for and host Wikimania 2006. (For more on Wikimania see the public site, Wikimania 2006 wiki, planning info, the at-large discussion list, and the local list.)
Registration is now open for Wikimedia community members.
[edit] Past Meetups
- April — December 2005 gatherings
- November 2004 to March 2005 gatherings
- July 31, 2004 with Jimbo Wales
Archives: 1 (first meetup) | 2 (9/2004 - 3/2005) | 3 (4/2005 - 8/2005) | (9/2005 - 1/2006)
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