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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 2015-03-18
Some people at the National Institutes of Health have long had interest in partnering with Consumer Reports in contributing to Wikipedia. On Friday 13 March 2015 some of us met there to present an editing event and to meet the staff’s request for more collaboration. As background to this, WikiProject National Institutes of Health is […]
Posted in Consumer Reports, DC, health, presentation, Wikipedia | Tagged editathon, National Institutes of Health, women's rights
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 2015-03-01
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 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 2014-05-05
Wednesday 30 April to Friday 2 May I was in DC for a Choosing Wisely meetup. Part of it was hosted by ABIM Foundation and part was hosted by Consumer Reports. When I was there I met other people who work in health communications and we talked about how we get messages to people. One […]
Posted in Consumer Reports, DC, health, Wikipedia | Tagged advertising, Douglas Rushkoff, Kevin Kelly, social media, youth
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 2013-04-29
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 2013-03-19
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