Wikipedia 15/Events/West Coast

2016-01-15

2016-01-15

This event will occur on Saturday, January 16 or Sunday, January 17

• I believe we have pinned this down to Saturday, January 16 with the Seattle part happening at at 126 Communications Building, University of Washington, Seattle, no? - Jmabel (talk) 01:40, 10 January 2016 (UTC)

• Absolutely. The details for the Seattle meeting are at cascadia.wiki but they basically are: Saturday, January 16, 2016 12-5pm at 126 Communications Building, University of Washington, Seattle, WA —mako๛ 03:45, 13 January 2016 (UTC)

Signup here. Please state your location so the organizers can estimate needs for room sizes

Vancouver, BC

1. --Mavaddat (talk) 05:57, 17 December 2015 (UTC)
2. Your username here

Seattle, WA

1. --Pine^✉
2. Jakub509 (talk)
3. SounderBruce
4. Jmabel (talk) 16:23, 4 January 2016 (UTC)
5. HGK745 (talk)
6. —mako๛ 03:47, 13 January 2016 (UTC)
7. Haruo (Leland) (talk) 05:08, 16 January 2016 (UTC)
8. Hackfish (talk) 21:18, 16 January 2016 (UTC)

Portland, OR

1. Ward Cunningham
2. -Another Believer (talk) 21:29, 5 January 2016 (UTC)
3. Tdslk (talk) 07:24, 10 January 2016 (UTC)
4. Tobi Lehman

San Francisco, CA

See: w:en:Wikipedia:Meetup/San Francisco/Wikipedia Day 2016 (Wikimedia Foundation collaboration space; capacity about 100)

1. Code200

Other

1. AviatorHen (talk)
2. Your username here

Organizers

Organizers

WMF and Cascadia Wikimedians User Group

Tentative schedule: 9:30 AM to 4:30PM, sessions to be selected from those listed below

12:15 PM to 1:00 PM: Potluck lunch for early arrivals; get settled; introductions

Lunch

1:05 PM to 2:00 PM, possibly synced with NYC

Lightning talks (2 to 5 minutes each) facilitated by Stephen LaPorte (Legal Counsel, WMF)

2:05 PM to 2:30 PM

Session W1

2:35 PM to 3:00 PM

Session W2

3:05 PM to 3:30 PM

Session W3

3:35 PM to 4:00 PM

Session W4

4:05 PM to 4:30 PM

Planning next steps for the US and Canada West Coast; Wrap-up led by Pine (Executive Director of Cascadia Wikimedians User Group)

4:30 PM to 5:00 PM

Video offline; local wrap-up and cleanup

Session proposals

25 minute session proposals: your topic, username, affiliation or location, and maximum 50-word overview of your presentation with link to slides or video if you will use them (:

1. "Wikipedia's content gender gap: the first 15 years, the next 15 years", Rosiestep (talk); Founder/Co-founder: WikiProject Women writers, WikiProject Women in Red, WikiProject Women, WikiWomen's User Group
2. Your signup here

Lightning talk proposals: your topic, username, and affiliation or location

1. Your signup here
2. Your signup here

Photos

• I put photos over at Commons. --Dennis Bratland (talk) 20:09, 17 January 2016 (UTC)