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 2023-02-10
Chinchilla Café is a concert venue, community center, and animal coffeehouse in Charlottesville, Virginia. Robin Brown, Gabriela Toledo, Eli Draizen, Fabian Garcia, and I Lane Rasberry established it last year in 2022. I want to describe what it is, the shows we have presented, and what we are trying to accomplish by hosting it. See […]
Posted in art, Charlottesville, festival | Tagged chinchilla, coffee, music, party
By bluerasberry on 2023-01-03
For New Year’s Eve we went to the Southern concert venue in Charlottesville for Shagwüf and the Falsies. When I first moved to Charlottesville Fabian and I went there on 16 March 2018 to see Southern Culture on the Skids. Fabian had not been back since but I had gone there for concerts sometimes. Robin […]
Posted in art, Charlottesville, festival, gay stuff | Tagged holiday, music, party
By bluerasberry on 2019-10-23
Fabian and I went to the Charlottesville Saturday 19 October 2019 morning farmer’s market. We met Andy there, a CHUVA former resident and regular, and bought some of his dried peppers. He had grown 50 different types and was still producing peppers, and he had given some to us for Thursday night pizza. Dried ones […]
Posted in Charlottesville, service industry | Tagged crime, ecotourism
By bluerasberry on 2019-10-22
Fabian came to visit me in Charlottesville for the first time in a while on Thursday 17 October. He came to me at school then we joined Eli and Daniel at the Newcomb cafeteria for lunch. On Friday Fabian and I did a couples photo shoot with Gabriela. We talked about her photography hobby, and […]
Posted in Charlottesville, data | Tagged coffee, crime
By bluerasberry on 2019-10-17
I live in CHUVA, a cooperative housing organization for 20 people in Charlottesville, Virginia. I enjoy group housing. In the case of our organization, we share meals, have tea together, divide some costs, celebrate holidays, and do social outings. Each of us has a bedroom, then we share the several kitchens, bathrooms, and the other […]
Posted in Charlottesville | Tagged homeless
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 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
By bluerasberry on 2018-09-16
I have been Wikimedian in Residence at the Data Science Institute at the University of Virginia since March 2018. 6 Months into this role I wanted to share an update summarizing what I do. Graduate student research with Wikimedia projects The Data Science Institute’s primary activity till now is running a masters degree program in […]
Posted in Charlottesville, education, Wikipedia | Tagged Wikipedia education program, Wikipedian-in-residence