By bluerasberry on 2015-08-08
Wikimania is the annual international Wikimedia conference. This is an annual international conference for Wikimedia contributors. About 1000 people convene for the three-day main conference, in which 5 conference tracks are ongoing for eight hours. Conference tracks cover such topics as presenting individuals’ projects, reviewing community organizing plans, promoting access to information sources, developing tutorial […]
Posted in Mexico City, non-profit, Wikipedia | Tagged conference, volunteer
By bluerasberry on 2015-08-04
The Wikimedia community has a problem with harassment. The situation is that a significantly large number of people say that they would participate in Wikimedia community activities, except that they perceive the Wikimedia community to be hostile, unfair, and sometimes that it explicitly targets them for harassment. I recognize that there should be some response […]
Posted in rights, Wikipedia | Tagged culture, harassment
By bluerasberry on 2015-08-02
Every organization which recruits volunteers values their volunteers. Sometimes they even calculate the financial value of their volunteers. This works by recording the cost of a set of volunteer recruitment campaigns, noting how many volunteers become engaged because of those campaigns, then dividing the total cost by the number of volunteers recruited. I am sure […]
Posted in Dhaka, India, non-profit, Wikipedia | Tagged crowdsourcing, grants
By bluerasberry on 2015-07-31
This is an archival copy of the following source: Oza, Nandini; Bhattacherjee, Kallol (22 April 2014). “THE FORGOTTEN HALF“. week.manoramaonline.com. Malayala Manorama. Archived from the original at http://week.manoramaonline.com/cgi-bin/MMOnline.dll/portal/ep/theWeekContent.do?contentId=16673695 on 23 June, 2015. EXCLUSIVE EYEWITNESS REPORT The year was 1968. The house of Damodardas and Hiraba Modi in Vadnagar in north Gujarat was bustling with activity. […]
Posted in India, love | Tagged censorship, Jashodaben, wedding
By bluerasberry on 2015-07-22
The Cochrane Collaboration is an international nonprofit organization which compiles the results of medical research and publishes summaries of the collected findings. Cochrane is widely trusted because they are able to take a long-term view to their reporting, which leads to their publications being conservative, broad, and acknowledging of all major perspectives. Additionally they do […]
Posted in Consumer Reports, health, Open access, research, Wikipedia | Tagged Cochrane, Wikipedian-in-residence
By bluerasberry on 2015-07-21
On Monday 20 July I went to the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe. Leading up to this visit I became aware of my ignorance as to the importance of this place. I knew it was important, but I failed to recognize that it was considered to be the holiest place in the Catholic tradition […]
Posted in Mexico City, religion | Tagged Catholicism, war
By bluerasberry on 2015-07-13
Puerta Vallarta is a resort town in Mexico. I am in Mexico for the 2015 Wikimania conference. Fabian is joining me for the travel. We left early for tourism and From Friday 10 July – Tuesday 14 we are in Puerta Vallarta. I knew some about the place before arriving but there was not much […]
Posted in gay stuff, Puerta Vallarta, service industry, tour | Tagged botanical garden, expatriate
By bluerasberry on 2015-07-05
As a paid professional who is employed to encourage volunteers to donate their labor so that Wikipedia can be developed with their crowdsourcing, I feel that I have expert insight into the relationship between staff and volunteers in online collaboration. This is a niche field and the relationships between staff and volunteers are broadly misunderstood, […]
Posted in rights | Tagged class struggle, protest, reddit, wealth
By bluerasberry on 2015-06-28
I attended Aspen Ideas Festival Spotlight Health from Thursday 25 June – Sunday 28 June. It was educational, pleasant, and insightful for me. The most striking characteristic of this conference to me was the frequent talk of entrepreneurship and market forces. In most of the conferences which I attend there is a lot of community […]
Posted in Colorado, Consumer Reports, education, health, presentation | Tagged conference, journalism
By bluerasberry on 2015-06-28
The “Aspen Ideas Festival Spotlight Health” conference is over. It is late Sunday afternoon and I am having tea at a restaurant listening into the conversation at a table nearby. A table of four people are talking about how their employees fake job injuries so that they can get payments from employers while enjoying time […]
Posted in encounter | Tagged class struggle, conference