Wikipedia:Meetup/San Francisco/Maker Faire 2013



This is a page for planning for the Wikimedia Foundation booth at the 2013 San Mateo Maker Faire (Homepage), May 18 & 19
 * Background: pics, 'post story
 * Other years: 2010, 2011, 2012

Volunteers
If you are interested in volunteering, please email me with the day(s), your full name, and email address, so I can add you to the list of for the faire. Stephen (talk)


 * Stephen
 * phoebe
 * Ben
 * MahmoudHashemi (talk)
 * &mdash; iFaqeer (talk to or email me) 20:26, 12 May 2013 (UTC) (Need to look at schedules and such, but I love talking to people about Wikis.)
 * Zina
 * Shreyas
 * EugeneZelenko (talk)
 * User:DavidMCEddy (Saturday all day)
 * you...!

Schedule
We need at least a couple people for every shift.

Friday, May 17
 * Interested in helping set up? circa 5-7pm
 * Stephen
 * Ben

Saturday, May 18
 * User:DavidMCEddy (I plan to arrive at the Caltrain station at 8:51 AM and stay the day. The next [northbound] train is scheduled to arrive at 9:51.  I could take that if the value of arriving earlier is negligible.)
 * morning (10am- through lunch)
 * Ben (I'll arrive a little after 10:00 a.m., when Caltrain arrives)
 * Shreyas (also on Caltrain)
 * midday (12p-3pm or so)
 * --MahmoudHashemi (talk)
 * Zina (12-2 pm; talk)
 * evening (3-7:30p)
 * Merrilee
 * Kat Walsh (spill your mind?) (I may be slightly later than 3)

Sunday, May 19
 * all day
 * phoebe / (talk to me) 22:46, 11 May 2013 (UTC)
 * 10am to 1pm
 * Ben (I'll arrive a little after 10:00 a.m., when Caltrain arrives)
 * EugeneZelenko (talk)
 * 1pm to 4pm
 * EugeneZelenko (talk)
 * 4pm to 6pm + Breakdown
 * Ben
 * Merrilee will get there as early as I can, but can't get there by 1 pm
 * Merrilee will get there as early as I can, but can't get there by 1 pm

Supplies list
Please put your name down if you can bring any of these items.


 * Swag of any kind
 * computers, multiple
 * big monitors & laptops
 * touchscreen are a bonus
 * powerstrips
 * duct tape
 * ethernet supplies
 * tablecloths/drapes for the table
 * sample: print on demand books, wikireaders, anything like this
 * signs & banners!
 * blank sign for people to tell us....
 * what they hope the next ten years will be?
 * something else?


 * markers for above


 * list to sign up for the wikisf mailing list
 * water for volunteers


 * ANY ideas for the booth -- games, activities, etc.
 * big print articles about the things happening at Maker Faire?? Big printout of the Maker Faire article itself?

Past games:
 * guess-the-language! https://www.gitorious.org/wikipedia-guesslang; http://leuksman.com/guesslang/
 * x degrees of Wikipedia http://thewikigame.com/

Past visualizations:
 * wikipedia vision: http://www.lkozma.net/wpv/
 * Hatnote Recent Changes Map: http://rcmap.hatnote.com
 * scrolling though commons pictures, commons script

Ideas: https://www.gitorious.org/wikipedia-guesslang
 * "spot the fake"
 * big printouts of maker faire related articles
 * scavenger hunt
 * Wikidata demonstrations: Reasonator, GeneaWiki.

And looks like I've still got a copy on my site: http://leuksman.com/guesslang/