Wikipedia:Meetup/Boston/3

Monday August 22
Time: 7:00pm Place: gather outside Au Bon Pain in Harvard Square, 1350ish Massachusetts Avenue, pick a different restaurant and go elsewhere Agenda: add to the list below Contact: Restaurant(617-497-9797) SJ (617x529/42/66)


 * Hey, I was just at Au Bon Pain from 7-7:10, and I didn't see anyone. Where are you?  &mdash;Steven G. Johnson 23:22, August 22, 2005 (UTC)

Agenda

 * Perhaps a WBGH guest will speak about usability (alack, couldn't come)
 * sj will report on Wikimania
 * Ignobel awards contingent?

Monday July 11
Time: 7:00pm Place: outside Au Bon Pain in Harvard Square, 1350ish Massachusetts Avenue Agenda: add to the list below Contact: Restaurant(617-497-9797) SJ (617x529/42/66) j printed a sign for the table!

Agenda

 * The FSF guy isn't coming tonight.23:19, 11 July 2005 (UTC)
 * There are about six of us sitting in front of Au Bon Pain figuring out where to eat...
 * We are going to Smile Thai, which is on Eliot Street across from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.23:21, 11 July 2005 (UTC)

Monday July 4

 * What about the reports of brunch on July 4th? Is it happening? If so, where? 3 July 2005 18:50 (UTC)
 * What about meeting where we can watch the USS Constitution do her annual sail?

Monday June 13
Time: 7:00pm Place: Pho Pasteur Agenda: add to the list below Contact: Restaurant(617-864-4100) SJ (617x529/42/66)

Agenda

 * Inviting people to join us next meetup
 * Wiki presentation two Thursdays from now : on spam and security
 * Library contacts : OCLC/Worldcat, LoC, etc; report from Toronto (j, sj)
 * How can people who don't know us find us at the meeting site? Should we get a sign or something to have on the table? A Wikimedia flag? 19:35, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Monday May 23
Time: TBA; around 7:15pm Place: TBA Agenda: add to the list below

Agenda

 * Let's rally at the Border Cafe at 7:15 pm unless sj magically comes through with an alternate location between now and then. j 21:58, 23 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Meetup site: thumbs up or down?
 * Thumbs down
 * Is the problem really with the site itself or with people not using the site effectively?
 * I'd like to have a list that allows me to easily contact other group members. I haven't figured out how to do that through Meetup yet.
 * Location suggestion: Border Cafe in Harvard Sq (brettstil)
 * The problem w/ Border Cafe is the noise level. I'm willing to give it a try this week just so we have a location for the meeting, but I know I will have a very difficult time hearing what anyone at the table says. 15:42, 23 May 2005 (UTC)
 * We can meet up there to start out with, and find somewhere else to go :-)
 * Future location rotation
 * dinner meetings? cafe meetings?
 * Local news stories and Pingswept's news corps
 * Pingswept won't be at the meeting ... 19:44, 23 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Media competition
 * Better notification about meetings and meeting locations 21:51, 23 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Excellent point. Printing all of these out... +sj  +
 * How can people who don't know us find us at the meeting site? Should we get a sign or something to have on the table? A Wikimedia flag? 16:02, 24 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Let's skip the meeting entirely and watch the Morris dancers in Harvard Square.
 * Great idea :) After we're done, though.  +sj  +

In attendance

 * see for more

Monday May 9
Time: 7pm Place: Shangri-la, above Shilla Attendance: j, Jeff, JT, +sj +, Bryce (visiting from Berkeley)...

Agenda
Cities and bus-routes; map-enhancement of wiki-content; p2p information passing, with occasional uploaders passing by to grab it and submit it to a central database of (bus times, encyclopedia articles, minor news, personal messages/voicemail). Relationship to third-world countries' needs. $20 dbas, FSF speakers.

Tuesday April 26
Speech by Jimbo Wales at Harvard Law school. Photos to come. After a long day of campaigning, Jimbo spoke to a mixed audience about Wikipedia and the Developing World in a Harvard Law School classroom. It was as much a discussion and long Q&A session as a presentation; he only spoke for about 15 minutes before fielding the first question.

In attendance
many of these are from memory; I'll update with better links
 * El Fundador
 * Cunctator
 * +sj +
 * j
 * Jeff from Permabit
 * JeremyT
 * jdb
 * brettstil
 * User:pingswept
 * Tony P.
 * Two fellows from Wolfram Research
 * James from Cambridge
 * 50 others

Normal meetup, with indian food, started at 8; while setting up reprise of the Cyberarts demonstration of rcbirds from the previous Thursday.

Monday April 11
Please add to the agenda below, and discuss alternative venues if Cambridge is hard to get tuo.

Agenda

 * Cyberarts festival
 * Boston Public Library presentation: publicity, etc.

Attendance
At V. Planet: brettstil, j, +sj +, Jeff... we moved on to a more sensible location before meeting up with others