Wikipedia:Meetup/Boston/Wikipedia 15 Anniversary

2016-01-15 2016-01-15

Boston

 * Organizers: New England Wikimedians
 * Info: Celebrating a Wikipedia Day unconference in New England, and globally with a network of linked events, starting off a year-long campaign marking 15 years of Wikipedia!

Event details
The Wikipedia Day 15th Birthday Bash is a celebration and mini-unconference to be held on Saturday January 16, 2016, hosted by the New England Wikimedians and supported by the Harvard University Language and Literacy Department and fellow Free Culture Alliance New England partners.




 * Date: Saturday, January 16, 2016
 * Time: 04:00PM to 08:00PM
 * Location: Room 403, 4th Floor, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University, Cambridge.
 * Subway: Red Line - Harvard Stop.
 * Bus:
 * Twitter: @Wikipedia_15
 * Hashtag: #Wikipedia15
 * Meetup link:
 * Meetup link:

Event format
Participation (and pizza and cake!) will be free, with room for ~30 participants. All are welcome, and we are especially interested in seeing newcomers to join the experienced Wikipedians/Wikimedians. In addition to the party, the event will be a modified unconference, with experience sharing sessions (organized on this wiki), lighting talks to the whole assembly, and of course  open space sessions. The Lightning Talks and Open Space will be determined during the event itself, so it will be good to bring your ideas with you.

There is wifi access, and we will give you the log in details on-site.

Lightning talks

 * Add your 5-minute lightning talk topic you can personally present, about wiki topics or anything Free Culture-related. (actual schedule for lightning talks will be determined the day of). Last-minute entries always accepted!


 * For micro-lightning talks later in the afternoon, see Hello Wikipedia! - My Proudest Article Global Teleconference Session
 * Wikipedia in rural communitites AbhiSuryawanshi (talk) 05:44, 22 December 2015 (UTC)

Likely attendees

 * 1) AbhiSuryawanshi (talk) 23:31, 21 December 2015 (UTC)
 * 2) Girona7 (talk) 03:45, 22 December 2015 (UTC)