Thursday Meetings at Berkman Blog

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Attendees:

• SJ: SJ Klein, Wikimedian extraordinaire
• someone new
• RF: Randy Fenstermacher
• MF: Michael Feldman
• j: j Baumgart
• BS: Brett Stilwell
• EG: Erica George
• AW: Amanda Watlington
• MW: Mal Watlington
• CS: Chris Schmmidt
• JPA: Jessica P Allan
• new person
• new person
• new person
• BK: Beth Kanter
• ES: Elizabeth Stark – new Harvard free culture group
• MK: Matt Klein
• JT: Jeremy Tobacman
• someone new
• someone new
• someone new named Schuyler
• someone new named Manan from U of Chicago
• Ronaldo, a law student, also new. works on blogging/1st amendment issues

Agenda:

• Introductions
• 10/27: Something wiki this way comes!
  • Joint meeting with the Wikipedia Meetup folks. Facilitated by SJ Klein.
  • Boston’s bid won – we’ll be hosting Wikimania 2006 in Boston this summer!
  • What can we as individuals and as a blog group do to help?
    • SJ: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2006 is now the main page for all planning
    • lots of stuff to be done is on that page, linked from that page. Basically this is going to be a huge event, there’s tons of planning to do, many niches for many types of interests and skills
    • poss: art installation!
    • totally ready for ppl to contribute ideas
    • some complain that so many of the ppl interested in helping aren’t active Wikimedians. But heck… we may become so!
    • (aside: issue of logo for the event and treading on trademarks for odd reasons)
    • way to win trust of the existing Wikimedians is to get a little more involved, do more edits, help let them get to know us
    • the core program committee should be made of longtime Wikimedians though – much of the help the rest of us want to give is both logistical and at the direction of much more highly involved wikimedians. So this should really be fine.
    • SJ explains lots of stuff re the program
    • lots lots lots of volunteer help on the ground needed for recording, transcription. need for english language transcript of every session. audio and video too.
    • what was the conference last year look like, cont’d:
    • lots ofm places to sign up as potential helper in various aspects, sign up on each of the relevant subpages
    • [EG is distracted by IRC and not taking as comprehensive notes. But CS is, in IRC, so I’ll try to glean from those later]
• What else?
• Eat:
  • Last week: Cambridge Common