By bluerasberry on 2015-03-16
On Saturday 14 March I and some others met in DC to plan WikiConference 2015. I was an organizer for the event last year. It was covered a bit in external media. We organizers had met perhaps 10 times in person and done more organizing online to run a three-day conference in Manhattan for 250 […]
Posted in Consumer Reports, DC, non-profit, Wikipedia | Tagged conference, safety
By bluerasberry on 2015-03-13
The AMSA conference in DC ended on Sunday 1 March. Wednesday 4 March in San Antonio the conference for the Association of Professors of Gynecology and Obstetrics was being held. Celeste Royce, the doctor in Boston with whom I had presented a workshop last summer, had taken initiative in inviting me to present Wikipedia to […]
Posted in education, health, presentation, Texas, Wikipedia | Tagged conference, Wikipedia education program
By bluerasberry on 2015-03-01
I attended the American Medical Student Association (discussed as an acronym “AMSA”) conference in DC Friday and Saturday February 27-28. I had been wavering about going. I wanted to meet some medical student organizations to seek partnerships for contributing health information on Wikipedia, but as the organization is governed by medical students, the turnover of […]
Posted in DC, health, research, Wikipedia | Tagged conference, medical school, Wikipedia education program
By bluerasberry on 2015-02-13
In the past I have talked about police in India, as has Nandan on his blog. I want to share a story about police in America and Indian people and give some thoughts. A police car in a small city in Alabama videotaped American police attacking an Indian man around 11 February 2015. The story […]
Posted in rights | Tagged culture, police, violence
By bluerasberry on 2015-01-03
I had a peaceful holiday staying in New York. I miss my Seattle friends but the time to visit there is summer, not now, and I had fun with Fabian. On Wednesday 31 December Fabian took me to a party in Bushwick. It was in an abandoned building in a dirty part of one of […]
Posted in museum, New York City | Tagged holiday
By bluerasberry on 2014-11-26
The Berkman Center for Internet and Society offers a free online class called “Copyright X”, which invites the interested public to learn about copyright. To join the class one must submit a 2000 word essay describing one’s interest. This is my essay, a bit longer than what I actually submitted with the 3000 character limit. […]
Posted in education, health, HIV, rights, Texas | Tagged copyright, prevention education, public education
By bluerasberry on 2014-11-21
Earlier this year the National Museum of American History took in some artifacts related to LGBT history. I saw the news when it was reported, and was glad for that, but also surprised that this needed announcing or that the idea was new. On Tuesday 18 November I visited the museum with Dorothy and we […]
Posted in DC, gay stuff, museum, research, rights, Wikipedia | Tagged Dorothy Howard, Smithsonian
By bluerasberry on 2014-11-19
Siân Evans, Dorothy Howard, Richard Knipel, Jacqueline Mabey, Michael Mandiberg, Laurel Ptak and won an award from Foreign Policy Magazine. Their award ceremony was Monday 17 November and co-hosted by the US Department of State. Richard was unable to attend due to his participating in a board meeting of the Wiki Ed Foundation. I attended […]
Posted in DC, presentation | Tagged conference, Department of State, foreign policy
By bluerasberry on 2014-11-13
Saturday 8 November Fabian and I went to see a dance show called the Radio City Christmas Spectacular at the Radio City Music Hall. I understand that the show is a New York City tradition and that it has been presented since the 1930s. I had heard it mentioned since coming to New York, with […]
Posted in art, New York City, rights, service industry, work | Tagged theatre
By bluerasberry on 2014-09-30
Today, Sunday 28 September 2014, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited New York City to give a speech to the general public at Madison Square Garden. I did not attend the speech, but I was outside protesting Modi’s behavior. I will explain my complaint, the response that I got, and share some details of the […]
Posted in India, legal, religion, Varanasi | Tagged Jashodaben, marriage, money, Narendra Modi
