By bluerasberry on 2013-05-14
The 2013 conference for the HIV Vaccination Trials Network (HVTN) was from May 7-9 in Washington DC. I attended. My friends from the Seattle CAB Victoria Chinnel and Lisa White came to the event. The big news was that only one week before HVTN 505, a major phase II vaccination trial, had just ended all […]
Posted in clinical research, DC, HIV, research, Wikipedia | Tagged conference, HIV vaccine, HVTN
By bluerasberry on 2013-04-30
I have been working at Consumer Reports for one year as of today. Our director Jim Guest sent me a a thank you letter today. What a great experience this has been. I feel like I am on the edge of accomplishing so much and that I am only waiting for an appropriate time to […]
Posted in Consumer Reports, New York City, work
By bluerasberry on 2013-04-29
From April 26-28 Lori and Dominic, staff Wikipedians for a Children’s Museum and the National Archives, hosted a “GLAM Boot Camp” in DC. GLAM is an acronym for galleries, libraries, archives, and museums. They announced it months in advance and I reserved my room and booked my travel as soon as dates were posted, but […]
Posted in DC, Open access, presentation, Wikipedia | Tagged meetup
By bluerasberry on 2013-04-22
Saturday and Sunday April 20-21 I attended the annual conference of Students for Free Culture held at the New York Law School. At the end of the conference there was an organizational meeting in which the board proposed and got approval to change the name of the organization from “Students for Free Culture” to “Free […]
Posted in computer, legal, New York City, non-profit, Open access, research, rights, Wikipedia | Tagged conference
By bluerasberry on 2013-03-19
From March 14-15 the Cato Institute hosted a Wikipedia meetup. The major outcome of this event was the creation of a WikiProject to develop Wikipedia articles on US Federal Government legislation. At the same time I was attending the conference of the Consumer Federation of America, so I was only able to attend this after […]
Posted in DC, education, legal, non-profit, Open access, rights | Tagged Jake Orlowitz, meetup, Pete Forsyth
By bluerasberry on 2013-03-18
I attended Consumer Assembly, which is the Consumer Federation of America annual conference. Their program gives the agenda of what happened over March 14-15. Elizabeth Warren, friend of the Consumer Movement, was opening speaker and encouraging of all the work we did. I went to sessions on mobile privacy and warning labels and attended the […]
Posted in Consumer Reports, DC, non-profit, presentation, rights, work | Tagged conference, consumer rights
By bluerasberry on 2013-03-07
The NYSHealth Foundation (New York State) today hosted Alan Weil of the National Academy for State Health Policy to talk about health care reform strategies in the United States. I attended in the place of Chuck Bell, my colleague at Consumer Reports, because he was otherwise busy today. I hardly knew what to expect. I […]
Posted in Consumer Reports, health, New York City, presentation | Tagged reform
By bluerasberry on 2013-03-03
Marcus was upset with me when I was in India. I did not feel that he was justified in his original complaint, but in the end, we decided not to talk anymore. It was a bad breakup but I am not sure what could have made it better. While I was in India, I did […]
Posted in gay stuff, love, New York City | Tagged drama, Marcus
By bluerasberry on 2013-02-28
On his blog, statistician for the Wikimedia Analytics team Erik Zachte asked, “Which single Wikimedia metric would inspire you most?” Here is my response to his blog post. I want page views for specific sets of articles, and I want this data presented in such a way to call for people to respond to it. […]
Posted in research, Wikipedia | Tagged metrics, statistics
By bluerasberry on 2013-02-25
Wikipedia Day 2013 in New York City was held on Saturday 23 February at the Tisch School of the Performing Arts. So many people I wanted to see were there, including most of Wikimedia NYC, Mike Christie and Jami Mathewson from the Wikipedia education program, Adam Hyland user:Protonk who has helped me in the education […]
Posted in New York City, non-profit, presentation, rights, Wikipedia | Tagged conference, Eric Hellman, Jake Orlowitz, Jami Mathewson, Jennifer Baek, Mike Christie, Tom Sulcer, videography
