Wikipedia:Meetup/San Francisco/Maker Faire 2013

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San Francisco Meetup @ Maker Faire
	Date: May 18 & 19th
	Time: 10am-8pm Sat, 10am-6pm Sun
	Place: San Mateo County Event Center
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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

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)
• — 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.)[reply]
• Zina
• Shreyas
• EugeneZelenko (talk)
• User:DavidMCEddy (Saturday all day)
• you...!

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)[reply]
• 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

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:

• "spot the fake"
• big printouts of maker faire related articles
• scavenger hunt
• Wikidata demonstrations: Reasonator, GeneaWiki.
• ...

https://www.gitorious.org/wikipedia-guesslang

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