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Wikipedia's 10th Anniversary: January 15, 2011
San Francisco, California
Theme -- Wikimedia: The Next 10 Years
Notes: If you have notes from a breakout session please post them on the Program page!
Details
- What is it: a regional unconference for the Wikimedia community, including editors, organizers and friends of the Wikimedia Foundation projects (Wikipedia, Commons, Wikinews, Wikibooks, Wiktionary, Wikiversity, Wikiquote, Wikispecies and Mediawiki).
- Who is it: Wikimedians in the Western US. The conference is being organized by members of the San Francisco Wikimedia community meetup group, which has been having occasional meetups since 2007.
- Where is it: The HUB, San Francisco. 925 Mission Street.
- When is it: January 15, 2011 (MLK Weekend / Wikipedia Day). January 15 is "Wikipedia Day", or the first day that Wikipedia went live, and January 15, 2011 will be Wikipedia's 10th birthday. This special tenth anniversary is being celebrated by parties and events around the world; see ten.wikipedia.org.
- Schedule: We'll begin at 9:00AM and end at 4:30PM; the party begins at 6:30PM. See Program for more.
- How much? A $25 ticket will cover our costs for food and the venue. Sold Out!
Register now at EventBrite!(see below for info about scholarships for contributors). - Party See below for details on the evening party
- how to get there the closest parking is at the Fifth & Mission garage, [1], and the closest BART stop is Powell St.
Photos
Gathering at the hub to listen to Ward Cunningham
Brion Vibber talks about non-textual media in Wikimedia, particularly video
Open space was used to "plan" sessions for the conference
Jack Herrick of WikiHow and James Forrester who came from the UK just for the conference
Sue Gardner, executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation, gives Ward Cunningham a puzzle sphere gift
Ward Cunningham with his new award
Program and schedule
Keynote speakers
We are very pleased to announce that
Ward Cunningham
&
Kevin Kelly
will be speaking at the WestCoast WikiConference! more...
- see program for the latest schedule, and to add your unconference session ideas!
About
West Coast WikiConference will be an unconference format where interested participants can propose talks and topics for the program on the wiki beforehand and in person at the conference, with some pre-planned talks and events. Please add your ideas for the program to the Program page. We also have two fabulous keynote speakers -- Ward Cunningham and Kevin Kelly. The conference will be followed by a special afterparty to celebrate Wikipedia's 10th birthday (starting at 6:30pm) hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation; all conference attendees are invited.
This is the first-ever regional Wikimedia-focused conference in the Western U.S., and is one of many celebrations happening around the world for Wikipedia's 10th anniversary. We hope that the whole West Coast will be represented, and community members from other locations are welcome as well :)
If you're attending, in addition to registering on EventBrite please consider adding your name to the attendees list.
Party
There will be a special after hours birthday party for Wikipedia, sponsored by the Wikimedia Foundation. It will be held at GAFFTA (Gray Area Foundation for the Arts), at 55 Taylor Street. The party starts at 6:30 and all conference attendees are invited; you will need your conference badge and arrive between 6:30 and 7:30 to gain entrance (after that it's first come, first served).
Sponsorships and scholarships
Our sponsors
Thank you to our sponsors:
Blue Oxen Associates
&
Wikimedia Foundation
&
WikiHow
&
William Pietri
If you are interested in sponsoring the West Coast Wiki Con, please contact Phoebe Ayers. Sponsorships in any amount are welcome.
Scholarships: we have received an anonymous donation to sponsor 10 current Wikimedians who might not otherwise be able to attend. If you are a current project contributor and you can't afford the ticket, please contact Phoebe Ayers.
Organization/Communication
See planning for the planning pages hub and to sign up to volunteer!
communication tools
- Wiki: Right here, Right now
- Mailing List: http://groups.google.com/group/wcwc11 -- planning discussions note, most discussions have been on Wikimedia-sf, below
- Announcements mailing list: there is also a general mailing list for Wikimedia-SF that can be subscribed to for meetup announcements: [2]
- IRC: freenode#wikimedia-sf
