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By bluerasberry on 2023-05-09
On Tuesday 2 May 2023 Shagwüf played a concert at Chinchilla Café which was special because it was recorded. We are all big fans of Shagwüf and were keen to make it happen. Here I describe what it means from an administrative perspective to operate a house venue. I live in a house where we […]
Posted in art, Charlottesville, gay stuff, non-profit | Tagged concert, party
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 2019-08-30
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 2017-02-18
I started following Wikipedia community organization from 2012. At that time a trend was beginning to talk about addressing online harassment, especially harassment of women by men, but at the time each instance of the problem was imagined as an independent anomaly rather than a systemic problem. By that I mean that big online communities […]
Posted in legal, non-profit, Wikipedia | Tagged harassment
By bluerasberry on 2016-11-13
Earlier in the year Ann Matsuuchi (wiki user:Mozucat) and Ximena Gallardo (wiki user:Doctorxgc) had done a pilot project in which several of their students developed the Wikipedia article HIV/AIDS in New York City based on source material and insights collected in the Ed Koch Archives. On Thursday 10 November I visited them at their school […]
Posted in education, gay stuff, HIV, New York City, non-profit, research, Wikipedia | Tagged library
By bluerasberry on 2016-10-15
I am happy to have been among the organizers for the October 2016 WikiConference North America. I had previously helped to organize the conference in New York and another in DC. It is nice that attendees of the previous conferences and the general Wikipedia community appreciated those conferences enough to give more support for continuing […]
Posted in DC, New York City, non-profit, San Diego, service industry, Wikipedia | Tagged conference, management
By bluerasberry on 2016-04-05
Should prison inmates be permitted to edit Wikipedia? I assisted a prison inmate in placing a request for Wikipedia edits, and my action was examined in a post at The Wikipedian, which is the blog of Wikipedia commentator William Beutler. I will explain what I did, what context this action has in Wikipedia culture, who […]
Posted in gay stuff, legal, non-profit, rights, Wikipedia | Tagged crime, gay rights, prison
By bluerasberry on 2016-03-07
Every nonprofit organization says that they have a mission, but actually there is always another concern which they do not publicly discuss. The public facing goal is always to advance the mission of the nonprofit movement with which it is aligned. For example, an educational nonprofit organization might say their mission is to promote education, […]
Posted in election, non-profit, rights, Wikipedia | Tagged government, Wikimedia Foundation board elections
By bluerasberry on 2016-02-25
Lila Tretikov (known as “Lila”), executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation, just resigned. The cause of her resignation was Doc James‘ request that she directly state the anticipated cost of the Knowledge Engine project and publish and discuss the 2015 Wikimedia Foundation employee satisfaction survey. She and the Wikimedia Foundation Establishment declined to provide this […]
Posted in non-profit, Wikipedia | Tagged James Heilman, money, protest