Wikipedia:Meetup/Philadelphia 6

Location: The Marathon Grill, 10th and Walnut streets, in Center City Philadelphia. Date: Saturday, April 5 Time: 5pm

The sixth Philly Wikipedia Meetup will be held April 5th, 5pm at the Marathon Grill (10th and Walnut) in Center City Philadelphia. It is hosted by WikiProject Philadelphia.

If you're interested in coming please RSVP below. You can also add your name to the invite list to be notified about future meetups. If you have any questions you can leave a message on my talk page: User talk:TexasDex. Reservations have been made under the name Wikipedia.

Post meeting
8 attendees. Things discussed included the need for a leader for the Wikimedia Pennsylvania chapter, and ideas for the next meetup that would include more than just dinner.

Likely attendees

 * Te xa sD ex  &#9733;
 * ImmortalGoddezz
 * ShoesssS Talk
 * ike9898 (talk)
 * Danntm
 * Hurricanehink (talk)
 * User:Newyorkbrad

Possible attendees

 * Pharos (talk) sorry
 * mblumber (talk)- I have somewhere to be in the AM, but I will try to make to make it.
 * Mitchazenia - may come tonight. Not sure.

Regrets

 * evrik Sorry, I got sick the day of. :-( --evrik (talk) 19:34, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
 * User:PYLrulz - This one is a no go. My brother and I are going to an Orioles game that day.  The only way I see myself going (and thats an if) is if the game were to be rained out


 * Spikebrennan (talk) 22:31, 18 March 2008 (UTC) Sorry for not being able to attend (but I noticed with approval that your invite features a photograph that I took).
 * Superm401 - Talk 00:13, 29 March 2008 (UTC) Can't make this one.
 * – Dream out loud (talk) 01:44, 29 March 2008 (UTC) I'd love to go but I'll be attending the ASCE Regional Conference at Lafayette College that weekend.
 * Ornith out of town that weekend, sorry all
 * Midnightdreary - I have company that weekend.
 * Granburguesa - I'll be out of town
 * Too far, how'd my LI base get a PA geo-notice!  MBisanz  talk 19:22, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
 * The freddinator (talk) 19:46, 31 March 2008 (UTC)- I've got crew.
 * JAF1970. I live in NYC. JAF1970 (talk) 03:20, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
 * MmmmJoel (talk)

Directions
View the restaurant's location on Google Maps

Public transit

 * Amtrak – From 30th Street Station, transfer to the Market–Frankford Line at 30th and Market Streets, then continue directions below.


 * Market–Frankford Line – Take the el to 11th Street Station. Walk one block east to 10th Street, then walk two blocks south to 10th and Walnut Streets.


 * Broad Street Line – Take the subway to Walnut–Locust Station. Use the Walnut Street exit, and walk four blocks east to 10th and Walnut Streets.


 * SEPTA Regional Rail – Take any SEPTA Regional Rail train to Market East Station. Use the 10th Street exit, then walk two blocks south to 10th and Walnut Streets.


 * PATCO Speedline  – Take the Speedline to 9–10th & Locust Station. Use the 10th Street exit and walk one block north to 10th and Walnut Streets.


 * SEPTA buses – SEPTA bus routes 9, 12, 21, 23, 38, 47, 47m, and 61 all have stops within two blocks of the restaurant. Take the bus to either Walnut Street or 10th Street, depending which way the bus is traveling.  For more information, view the schedules at SEPTA.org.

Car

 * From [[Image:I-676.svg|25px]] I-676 (eastbound or westbound) – Take the 8th Street exit, and follow 8th Street south (one-way). After traveling four blocks, make a right onto Walnut Street, and the restaurant is at 12th and Walnut.  Street parking is hard to find in this part of the city, but there are plenty of parking garages in the area.

Questions?
Please contact me by leaving me a message on my talk page and I will be able to assist you with any questions regarding transportation or directions to this event. – Dream out loud (talk) 21:48, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

Invite list
This is pretty much the invite list used for the last meetup. It was not compiled in any really systematic way and is certainly not a complete list of users from this region. It would probably be worthwhile to attempt to expand it. Can you take on this challenge?? Add my name to the list of invitees

If you don't want to receive future mailings about Philadelphia meetups, add your name below.

Add my name to the list of "no thanks"

To do

 * Fill out directions
 * Send out invites
 * Check this list against the participant list at WikiProject Philadelphia, find any that don't overlap and add them to this list.
 * Post a notice at Meetup, Meetup, Wikimedia Pennsylvania as well as on other Wikimedia projects.

WHYY
I don't know if anybody else has, but I received an email from a reporter at WHYY, would like to come to this next meetup and do a story on us. What do people think about that? --Whiteknight (talk) (books) 04:54, 8 January 2008 (UTC)
 * For the second Philly meetup we had a reporter from Citypaper come and I don't think anybody had a problem with it. I for one welcome the publicity for the wikipedia project.  I'll get done with the planning tonight. -- Te xa sD ex   &#9733;  05:25, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

Did anyone see on WHYY-TV-12, "The Truth According to Wikipedia"? It was on last night Tue., 27 Jan., 10:00 PM, and will air again Fri, 6 Feb., 10:00 PM. Tech Crunch on Dutch filmmaker, IJsbrand van Veelen's documentary, The Truth About Wikipedia. 

Njbob (talk) 19:34, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

Neighborly advice from NYC on how to plan a rescheduled meetup

 * Attract attendees
 * Place a request for geonotice
 * Don't be afraid to spam people: Make a big list like Meetup/NYC/Invite list from all people who have ever expressed interest in attending a meetup, as well as all people in categories like Category:Wikipedians in Philadelphia, the Philadelphia usebox and other regional categories.
 * Place notices at places like Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Philadelphia and even Talk:Philadelphia.
 * Make it easier to sign up
 * Use simple subsections like Likely attendees, Possible attendees and Regrets for signup lists, as at Meetup/NYC. Requiring people to come up with some decimal fraction of their likelihood of attending will only make signing up more complicated, and fewer people will commit to it.
 * You don't have to vote on everything. If someone is just bold and picks a date and place, people will know about the date a few weeks in advance (instead of a couple of days), which will make planning easier for individuals.
 * Make it interesting
 * If you had some activities in addition to the meal at a restaurant (such as a sit-down chapter organizational meeting, or a museum activity), it would be more likely to attract some people. Well, it would be more likely to attract me, actually.--Pharos (talk) 05:58, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

Archived discussions

 * The following discussion is an archived discussion of the . Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section. 


 * Comments

Date
Voting is finished, the winning date is Saturday, Jan 26th. Like the previous meetup, which also happened on the weekend, it will be dinner at 5pm. Thank you all who voted; notices will be sent out to invitees at least a week in advance of the date.-- Te xa sD ex  &#9733;  05:30, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

Location suggestions
Voting will close on January 18th. Please vote for a restaurant, if consensus is not reached (like last time) then it'll be up to the organizer to choose one.

Ron's Ribs!
Suggested by ike9898 (talk)
 * menu --ImmortalGoddezz

Irish Pub in the 1100 block of Walnut
mainly b/c the place can handle large groups; the food's better at Moriarty's across the street Marketstel (talk)
 * website --ImmortalGoddezz

Marathon Grill/Bar
10th and Walnut. Suggested by Marketstel (talk)
 * website --ImmortalGoddezz

La Scala's
(same owners and recipe as Apollo Pizza in Media) Suggested by Marketstel (talk)
 * website this one? --ImmortalGoddezz

The Rose Tattoo Cafe
Suggested by ImmortalGoddezz
 * website

Dock Street
Suggested by evrik (talk) 21:21, 29 November 2007 (UTC)
 * website

Old RSVP
Please put your name, likelihood of attending (from 0-10), and the number of people (including yourself) you'll be bringing.
 * Te xa sD ex  &#9733; : 10.  I'll be there.
 * ImmortalGoddezz: 10
 * Shoessss | Chat  7 If I cannot find ike9898 (talk) in Mexico I’ll be there late around 7:00 .  A solid 7 on likelihood of attending
 * Midnightdreary - I'd give it a 7. Hoping for a good turnout!

Regrets

 * PYLrulz:  5 0 Thought this day could work out well, but we will see, my friend has gotten tickets to a Hershey Bears game, and Angie (my fiancee) will not be able to come along this time, unlike the last time. Will defently have an answer by this Thursday or Friday.  Not this time, my friend got the tickets, and since nobody else he knows is able to go along that day, I am coming along.  Maybe next time, sorry.
 * ike9898 (talk) 0 I'm going to be naked in Mexico that day.
 * Superm401 - Talk. I can't make this one. 0.
 * Pearrari - Regrets. 0.
 * Danntm - Regrets, as that day has filled up w/ commitments. 0
 * The first I will have missed. --evrik (talk) 16:38, 24 January 2008 (UTC)