Wikipedia:Meetup/San Francisco/Maker Faire 2014

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San Francisco Meetup @ Maker Faire 2014

	Date: May 17 & 18
	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 2014 San Mateo Maker Faire (Homepage), May 17 & 18

Background: pics, 'post story
Other years: 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013

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
Chip Deubner
you...!

Schedule

We need at least a couple people for every shift. If you need a ticket to Maker Faire, please email me so that I can add you to our list of volunteers!

Friday, May 16 Interested in helping set up? circa 6-7pm

Stephen
Merrilee (talk) 15:59, 8 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
--Saehrimnir (talk) 06:24, 10 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Saturday, May 17

Stephen
From noon - 1 Merrilee (talk) 15:59, 8 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
From 9-1 Legoktm (talk) 01:09, 9 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
All Day --Saehrimnir (talk) 06:24, 10 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Sunday, May 19

User:BenKovitz (any time)
EugeneZelenko (talk) 15:07, 13 May 2014 (UTC) (morning - noon)[reply]
Atavel (talk) 19:46, 14 May 2014 (UTC) (3pm-end)[reply]
... please sign up!

Supplies list

Please put your name down if you can bring any of these items. I can arrange for all of the other items (posters, stickers, etc) for the booth.

snacks
water (4 Gallons) --Saehrimnir (talk) 15:48, 16 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Booth ideas

If you have any ideas, games, or activities for the booth, please let me know!

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.
...

Debrief

Very many and good discussions with Users/Teachers/Librarians/Editors. If you bring your ~~Umbrella~~ UMTS router the Internet will work. Our Stand was the most boring in the whole Exibition Hall. Nothing like on the above Foto. I know that a big part of it was that Wikipedia is less than half the fun without Internet. But I would have liked to have a Raffle or activity game with a few Prizes for the best of the Day. Sponsored, discounted (or if there is absolutely no money for this loaned) Wikipedia T-shirts for the Volunteers to show of ~~Corporate~~ Community Identity. All that said thanks to Stephen (and his Dad) for making (pun intended) the appearance of wikipedia at this Makerfair possible. I would have liked if the Communications Team would show more logistical support for this Important Outreach on WMFs Doorstep.--Saehrimnir (talk) 18:43, 19 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]