Wikipedia:Meetup/Boston/2007-2006

2007-2006 Boston-area meetups & wikimania planning meetings.

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.

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.

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
 * j, bcorr, randy.f, Aaron Sw., Eshear, cxu, Adam H, ice cream gophers

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

Wikimania Meetup notes 20060710
Just local groups? No--but groups that are likely to have people who'll want to come.
 * Identifying groups who should get publicity


 * 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)

Wikimania Volunteers Meetup, Saturday, 7/15, 3:00 pm EST
At Toscanini's, 899 Main Street, Central Square, Cambridge

Agenda


 * |Wikimania volunteers
 * ArtBeat

Wikimania Volunteers Meetup, Saturday, 7/8, 3:00 pm EST
At Toscanini's, 899 Main Street, Central Square, Cambridge

Agenda


 * |Wikimania volunteers
 * Tasks
 * |Who's been doing what?
 * Who will do what?
 * How can we recruit more volunteers?

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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

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

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.

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

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

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.