By bluerasberry on 2019-09-17
I want to regain my habit of posting to my blog. Over the past few years I have taken on an unfortunate habit of neglecting to post my blog drafts. I am always writing. I have too many partly finished drafts, maybe 90% complete, which I mostly drafted then put aside for review after sleeping. […]
Posted in personal | Tagged journalism
By bluerasberry on 2019-09-08
On Saturday 7 September 2019 I attended the 18th Annual Youth Film Festival in Charlottesville. A nonprofit organization called Light House Studio presents this. I like that there is an organization which provides a channel for youth to produce and publish films locally. Because I am a media access advocate, I liked less that all […]
Posted in art, Charlottesville, festival, non-profit | Tagged movie, youth
By bluerasberry on 2019-08-31
Consider all of the people who engage in activities in the Wikimedia platforms. The Wikimedia community values some activities more than others. I want to share my own view of what I think are the community assessments for most valuable engagement. The most valuable contribution, according to community esteem, is sharing mainspace general encyclopedic content, […]
Posted in New York City, Wikipedia | Tagged social status
By bluerasberry on 2019-08-30
I came back from Wikimania 2019 and worked on various grant applications till now, 30 August 2019. I have been writing grant proposals and doing documentation for grant reporting. I have communication commitments in several active or proposed projects right now – the Wikimedia Foundation, Sloan, National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, Wellcome Trust, […]
Posted in Charlottesville, non-profit, research | Tagged grants, non-profit organization
By bluerasberry on 2019-08-30
The 2019 Wikimania reception was Sunday 18 August in the Nordic Museum. The theme was Nordic Culture and the conference organizers had prepared for us to have a traditional blot, or animal sacrifice, in the lobby of the museum. The organizers announced none of this in advance. I only came to realize what was happening […]
Posted in animal, festival, museum, religion, Stockholm | Tagged blood, vegan, Wikimania
By bluerasberry on 2019-08-14
A “parliament diagram” is a data visualization which communicates the composition of a parliament including details such as the party affiliation of members and the relative power of coalitions. David Richfield, user:Slashme, is the champion of this visualization, its primary developer, and an enthusiastic thinker on the concept and its applications. I talked with him […]
Posted in data, election, Stockholm, Wikipedia | Tagged election
By bluerasberry on 2019-08-14
On Wednesday 14 August 2019 I talked with Lodewijk about Wiki Loves Monuments. He asked me to avoid saying anything firm about the project before talking to others, and to ask Multichill in particular. What follows are messy notes! Avoid quoting, and assume that there are errors here! A tenth anniversary is special. A ninth […]
Posted in art, tour, Wikipedia | Tagged contest, monument, Wikimania
By bluerasberry on 2019-08-14
Arrival at university Talked with Abhinav, Indrajit, and ?? from Bhopal, Kolkata, and Delhi. Lane committed to join the South Asian Meetup. Talked with Mike Peel and Joseph Seddon re GLAM and Wikibase. Both of them want federated Wikibase instances to completely catalog the collections of all museums. Lane asked about the “limits of wikidata” […]
Posted in Stockholm, Wikipedia | Tagged Wikimania
By bluerasberry on 2019-08-13
Wikimania Sweden was Thursday 14 – Sunday 18 August 2019. I often type to take notes. Some notes are more organized and some are less so. I frequently take notes about the ideas which people and communities have. I wish that I could communicate more, as of course if I see the notes, then I […]
Posted in Stockholm, Wikipedia | Tagged Wikimania
By bluerasberry on 2019-05-04
On Wednesday 1 May I attended a vote of the University of Virginia Faculty Senate to approve the second phase of plans to establish the School of Data Science at the University of Virginia. At this midpoint I will review the process and circumstances for founding a school. The university in the United States typically […]
Posted in Charlottesville, data | Tagged data school, education
