Wikipedia:Meetup/San Francisco 7

Date, Time & Place

 * Date: September 6th, 2008
 * Time: 3PM
 * Location: Freebase HQ, San Francisco.
 * Metaweb Technologies, Inc.
 * 631 Howard St., Suite 400
 * San Francisco, CA 94105

A few logistical notes from the hosts:

1) Enter through 55 Hawthorne St, around the corner.

2) I'll have someone stationed there to escort you upstairs, as we need a pass to make the elevators work. Someone will be around from 2:45pm to 3:15pm.

3) Outside that timeslot, phone me (Skud) on 415 992 2547 if you need to be let in.

Planning/Notes

 * I am creating this in advance in the hope that we can manage to organize one meetup every 2 months. Maybe even have a date struck in advance.  -- Shakata Ga Nai  Talk 04:50, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Ok. We have a date and location! With more than a month to spare.
 * Geonotice filed -- Shakata Ga Nai ^_^ 00:36, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Invite's Delivered. -- Shakata Ga Nai ^_^ 06:07, 29 July 2008 (UTC)

Suggestions
PLEASE. If you have a suggestion for a possible location (even if it isn't in San Francisco city), please leave them here.


 * Metaweb, who run Freebase (which uses Wikipedia heavily), may be able to offer space. It's near BART/MUNI/Caltrain and is probably available on a Saturday.  I'm looking into it with the folks at the office.  There was some discussion about this on the Wikimedia-SF mailing list and people seemed positive overall. --Skud (talk) 17:58, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

Attendees

 * Add your name to the Invite list if you want to be invited on your talk page to future meetups.. thanks!
 * -- Shakata Ga Nai ^_^ 16:35, 24 July 2008 (UTC)
 * -- w L &lt;speak&middot;check&gt; 02:50, 27 July 2008 (UTC)
 * -- Prove It (talk) 20:24, 28 July 2008 (UTC)
 * -- brion (talk) (i was sick :
 * --Dvortygirl (talk) 23:40, 28 July 2008 (UTC) Messages here please.
 * -- &#x2611; Sam uelWantman 20:40, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
 * --Rosiestep (talk) 21:29, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
 * --Malpern
 * Bastique demandez
 * Mike Linksvayer (talk) 06:45, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Eyalmc (talk) 18:44, 15 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Bungopolis (talk) 02:20, 29 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Skud (talk) 02:35, 29 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Girl2k (talk) 02:23, 4 September 2008 (UTC)
 * ArielGlenn (talk) 05:45, 5 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Eloquence* 18:28, 5 September 2008 (UTC)
 * tjmayerinsf
 * User:Hank chapot

Not sure yet

 * will try, not sure yet phoebe / (talk to me) 14:47, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

Results

 * Finally! A meetup!! A good time was had by all (I hope). The Freebase crew was very nice and accommodating.  They gave us a short presentation about What Freebase is and a longer presentation about some of the details.  It went on for a good while because people kept asking questions.  Personally I enjoyed it as we do Wiki(m|p)edia stuff every day, and it is nice to see what others in the community are up to.  We've already got a date and a location for Meetup #8.  Hopefully we can keep the ball rolling and have a meetup every 2 months.  Oh - and pictures are on Commons: Commons:Category:SF Meetup 7 -- Shakata Ga Nai  ^_^ 05:24, 7 September 2008 (UTC)


 * Well I had a good time. Thanks, ShakataGaNai for taking photos so I didn't have to. --Dvortygirl (talk) 05:46, 7 September 2008 (UTC)