2:15 P.M. (This is a few minutes before our tour for everyone to get organized)- Meet for tour of the Smithsonian
National Air and Space Museum.
Welcome center at the Independence Avenue Entrance of the National Mall Air and Space Museum Building located in downtown Washington, DC. (Entrance near "C" at
[1])
Cookies and lemonade will be provided. We will meet three members of the NMAI staff, including Jane Sledge, Associate Director - Museum Assets and Operations, Cheryl Wilson, Web Manager, and Holly Stewart, Editor, as well as two members of the Smithsonian outreach crew.
After Smithsonian tour and discussions - Meet together, social time, and travel towards dinner
For the tour, we will have a guided look at the museum and opportunities for discussion between Wikipedians and Smithsonian people.
For dinner, the current plan is to have a salad, pizza and dessert buffet dinner for $15.50 per person. We will give them a guaranteed count on June 19, so if at all possible, please sign up by that date. We will collect from attendees as they get their name tags at our reception desk.
Official menu:
Pizza Buffet
Cheese & Tomato Deep Dish Pizza
Prima Pepperoni Deep Dish Pizza
Garden Veggie Deep Dish Pizza
House Salad w/ Choice of Ranch, Italian or Vinagrette
Chocolate Brownies
Soda and Water
All Taxes and Gratuities are included
If at all possible, please Although RSVPs by June 19 were requested, updating your status below will continue to be helpful.
Agenda
We are looking at devoting time to several different topics during the meetup.
Currently, probable topics include
Collaboration with the
Smithsonian Institution - We have recently been put in contact with several people at the SI interested in giving us a tour earlier in the day (details are forthcoming).
Launch of new wikimedia theme 'Vector' + usability enhancements launched on Wikimedia Commons, and other Wikimedia sites coming soon. Hats off to all of to designers and beta testers alike.
Wikipedia and Higher Education; discussion with
GWU media relations representative who's contacted
me and may be in attendance.
Other possible activities
Discussing Wikimedia DC events (specifically, thinking outside the box on activities)
Note: Discussion that was previously here has been moved to the
talk page.
Attendance
People probably attending a 2:30 Air-Space Museum pre-dinner tour
People interested in a meeting with the American-Indian museum staff at starting ~3:30-4:30
Per interest expressed by the American Indian museum staff, there will be a meeting and discussion about future collaboration with the museum and possibly the SI in general. Please put your name below if you are interested in a meeting and helping plan future SI collaboration. Please add full real name to facilitate entrance through security.
Kumioko (
talk)
11:22, 18 June 2010 (UTC) - Reese Langlois Definately interested but I wonder if we will be somewhat rushed going from the A&S museum to this one.reply
Well, we won't be able to get contact with the A&S museum staff because its the Weekend, so the tour will be by a docent. The American Indian staff looks forward to some form of collaboration, so we really ought to go. Right now we are running on our 2 SI contacts' coordination for these. We are letting the two of them figure it out.
Sadads (
talk)
11:39, 18 June 2010 (UTC)reply
FeanorStar7 Peter Goodman; will try to come; depends on heat/weather; I know the Museum is not far from Library of Congress; does anyone know how far?; I may only come for the dinner. 23 June 2010
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Kumioko - I am moving myself to the confirmed list cause it looks like Ill finally be able to make this one and introduce myself as the one guilty of causing so much drama in the WP community. Long live the King (Jimbo Wales). I would also like to do the Museum tour. --
Kumioko (
talk)
12:56, 17 June 2010 (UTC)reply
If you list your name here in this section, then please (prettyPLEASE!) vote your preference(s)
here even if you do elect not to attend. Thank you (in advance) for your consideration.(decision made
—NBahn)<br. />
—NBahn (
talk)
17:49, 12 May 2010 (UTC)reply
Completely dependent on the date. Will move my response to the appropriate section once the date has been nailed down. --
Cyde Weys20:36, 12 May 2010 (UTC)reply
User:Econterms (
talk) Ooh! I would have loved to come. Next time! Let me know! Also I am seeking federal govt employees at statistical & economics related agencies to snowball a fed-govt hosted wiki to be called Statipedia (for more, see
https://statipedia.org)
User:edsu I work at the Library of Congress and would like to be informed of DC area wikipedia meetings. I wonder if we could use a discussion list?
People not wishing to be informed about future meetups