Wikipedia:Meetup/Bay Area WikiSalon August 2016

For our August Bay Area WikiSalon, we returned to the Wikimedia Foundation offices.

Marta Belcher, a recent graduate of Stanford Law School, former Electronic Frontier Foundation intern and current employee of Ropes & Gray, told us about crowdsourcing her Stanford Law School graduation speech using a wiki. More than half of her classmates contributed to writing and editing the 2015 commencement address. She took questions after her presentation.
 * Video of Marta's WikiSalon presentation
 * Video of Marta's commencement address at Stanford
 * Transcript of commencement address

Stephen LaPorte announced the upcoming Wiki Loves Monuments photo competition, which will run throughout September 2016, and encouraged those interested to follow up with him.

Photos from the event

News coverage of the speech: Forbes magazine, Stanford Daily and The Recorder

Sponsors
We received a Rapid Grant from the Wikimedia Foundation to help cover costs associated with hosting this WikiSalon and future monthly ones! This month, we had 55 RSVP and 30 attendees. We spent $130 on food, ice and beverages.