Wikipedia:Meetup/San Francisco/Maker Faire 2011

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San Francisco Meetup @ Maker Faire
	Date: May 21 & 22
	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 2011 San Mateo Maker Faire (Homepage), May 21 & 22

• Background: pics, 'post story
• Last Year: Wikipedia:Meetup/San Francisco/Maker Faire 2010

The Wikipedia® booth is # 280 in the "Expo Hall" (southern-most large building), which is just to the right of the main entrace. The booth is near the Legos display. (User:Lar would approve) and near the NASA booth in the building closest to the entrance. You can find this all via the 2010 event map and the Legos place is marked pretty-closed to where it is for the 2011 event. See also the WikiMapia entry

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) 14:55, 10 May 2011 (UTC)

• Stephen
• Alex
• James
• phoebe
• Jon
• Pete (talk) (note: my cell phone works as an Internet access point in case of problems)
• Eugene Zelenko
• Ben
• ...!

Schedule

We need at least a couple people for every shift.

Friday, May 20

• Interested in helping set up? circa 5-7pm
• phoebe / (talk to me) 04:02, 10 May 2011 (UTC)
• Stephen
• Jon
• Alex

Saturday, May 21

• 10am to 1pm
  • Stephen
  • ...
• 1pm to 4pm
  • ...
• 4pm to 7pm
  • ...

Sunday, May 22

• 10am to 1pm
  • Eugene Zelenko
  • Ben
  • ...
• 1pm to 4pm
  • James
  • Philippe
  • Alex
  • Eugene Zelenko (?)
  • ...
• 4pm to 6pm + Breakdown
• Jon
• Alex

Supplies list

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

• 1-2 extra folding tables -- I have one small one I'll bring phoebe / (talk to me) 03:48, 10 May 2011 (UTC)
• 2-3 extra folding chairs
• computers: multiple

• big monitors
• laptops to hook them too
• touchscreen monitors would be an extra bonus
• last year we brought a tv, someone could get ambitious and do this again

• powerstrips
• ethernet
• duct tape
• anything that might help in the shoddy ethernet department (Stephen, did you specify ethernet access?)
• projector, potentially? we don't yet know if we'll have a wall though. --ShakataGaNai ^{^_^} 03:15, 16 May 2011 (UTC)

• tablecloths/drapes -- I have some sheets from last year that I will bring -- phoebe / (talk to me) 03:48, 10 May 2011 (UTC)
• signs -- big signs that say who we are --ShakataGaNai ^{^_^} 03:15, 16 May 2011 (UTC)
• sample print-on-demand books
• any other signs or displays you can think of

• one of the posters from wiki10 -- people around the world? map of chapters? anything, really --ShakataGaNai ^{^_^} 03:15, 16 May 2011 (UTC)

• copies of the annual report? --ShakataGaNai ^{^_^} 03:15, 16 May 2011 (UTC)
• copies of the how-to-edit handouts
• swag

• water for volunteers

• someone to lead the process of set up -- to pick up our booth pass etc.

Game & viz list

• visualization code -- anything at all (pls provide links or pointers)
• ideas for making things awesome -- activities?

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/
• scrolling though commons pictures, commons script

Ideas:

• "spot the fake"
• ...

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

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