Wikipedia:Meetup/Computer History Museum

Bay Area Wikipedia Meetup: Computer History Museum Tour and Brainstorming

The Wikipedia-Computer History Museum Meetup will be hosted by the Computer History Museum staff and User:Fuzheado, [1] on December 12, 2012. It will be held at the museum itself, and includes a tour of the facility and a brainstorming session on an exhibit about Wikipedia to be unveiled in 2013. Wikipedians of all experience levels are welcome to join us, or anyone with an interest in Wikipedia. Wednesday, December 12, 2012 Tour starts at 4:00pm Meetup/brainstorming at 5:30pm Bring your camera, take photos of the exhibits, and upgrade Wikipedia articles in the process. MORE INFO

• Date: Wednesday, December 12, 2012
• Time: 4:00pm-8:00pm
  • Tour starts at 4:00pm
  • Brainstorming at 5:30pm
• Location: Computer History Museum, 1401 North Shoreline Boulevard Mountain View, California
• Hashtag: The Twitter an
• Social hashtag is #chmwikipedia
• RSVP BELOW

Meet Wikipedians and help edit a museum exhibit about Wikipedia!

Food and drinks will be provided. Don't know how to edit Wikipedia? That's ok, we're looking for your ideas.

Can't make it, or want to get started with ideas? Start editing the wiki page: Wikipedia:Computer History Museum exhibit

Everyone is welcome to come with us at this event - newbies, experts, editors, non-editors. The brainstorming session will be to come up with ideas for an exhibit about Wikipedia.

Bring your camera, take photos of the exhibits, and make it an Edit-a-thon!

QUESTIONS? CONTACT: Andrew Lih (User:Fuzheado) andrew -at- andrewlih [dot] com

• Laptop, or Internet-access device (optional)
• Bring your camera, take photos of the exhibits, and make it an Edit-a-thon
• A friend, or anyone who's interested in computer history, or might be a potential Wikipedia editor
• Any memorabilia or Wikipedia-related historical artifacts of note

• TBD

Photos of the event:

• Fuzheado's flickr set [2]
• Pete Forsyth's flickr set [3]

Gallery of photos from the first session

Will be there

• Andrew Lih
• Eekiv a.k.a. Vicky. UPDATE: My ride may have fallen through. Does anyone have room to pick up 1-2 people from the East Bay (Oakland)? Eekiv 08:17, 12 December 2012 (UTC)reply
• Jack Park and guest
• most likely --Saehrimnir (talk) 17:47, 11 December 2012 (UTC)reply
• Kat Walsh (spill your mind?) (probably)
• Oliver Zhu, will probably attend, plus 1 other guest
• User:Jdforrester
• Would be nice if someone offered a ride from East Bay (Berkeley/Oakland). If not, could team up with other East Bay people and take BART/Caltrain. SPat ^talk 16:27, 12 December 2012 (UTC)reply
• Tbayer (HaeB)

Staff of Computer History Museum

• Kirsten Tashev, VP of Collections and Exhibitions, Responsible for the overall Software exhibit
• Marc Weber, Internet History Program Founding Curator, Responsible for creating the content of the Wikipedia and Texting sections of the Software exhibit
• Emily Routman, Contract Exhibit Planner, Responsible for helping develop the Software exhibit's design and interactives
• Jon Plutte, Director of Media, Responsible for creating mini-movies and any other video content for the Software exhibit

Interested, keep informed

• Daniel Mietchen - WiR/OS (talk) 11:24, 2 May 2013 (UTC)reply
• Iopensa (talk) 17:49, 9 May 2013 (UTC)reply
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Unable to attend

• User:NativeForeigner Alas finals didn't finish in time for me to be back for this. 08:31, 12 December 2012 (UTC)reply