By bluerasberry on 2013-09-03
Sunday 1 September I visited the New York Botanical Garden to study and relax. There was an exhibit there called “Wild Medicine” which I wanted to see. I walked as much of the garden as I could because I was eager to see it but then also I had some reading to do, and I […]
Posted in Geneva, museum, New York City, tour, Wikipedia | Tagged botanical garden, medicine, translation
By bluerasberry on 2013-06-26
On 22 June, our last day together Audrea, Daniel, Matt and I talked about meeting up and chilling. Before meeting up as a group Aubrey had suggested we visit the grave of Jorge Luis Borges, and I was keen on doing this as well. He was at the Cemetery Rois so we agreed to find […]
Posted in Geneva, Open access | Tagged Andrea Zanni, cemetery, Daniel Mietchen, hiking, Matt Senate, mountain
By bluerasberry on 2013-06-23
On 17 July I toured the United Nations Office at Geneva and the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum. They are across the street from each other in a district which also hosts the Musée Ariana, the Botanical Garden of Geneva, and seemingly many international organizations set up by people from all countries. The […]
Posted in Geneva, museum, rights | Tagged museum, United Nations
By bluerasberry on 2013-06-20
CERN was a sponsor of OAI8 and they hosted a meetup at the center for science. They arranged for us all to tour some part of CERN on 19 June. My tour was of the facility in which they test the tunnels which comprise the 27km circular track in which the experiments are conducted. I […]
Posted in Geneva, tour | Tagged CERN
By bluerasberry on 2013-06-18
On the night of Saturday 14 June I met with Brian, my Wikipedian friend who just got a job at the WHO. He had been living in Geneva for a while but had not yet come to know all about his job. He was to do something at the WHO like a Wikipedian in Residence, […]
Posted in Geneva, Wikipedia, work | Tagged World Health Organization
By bluerasberry on 2013-06-15
On Thursday 13 June I left for an open access conference in Geneva, OAI8, which was to happen 19-21 June at the University of Geneva. I planned to return Sunday 23 June. I wrote to Wikimedia Switzerland to see if I could meet Wikipedians there. Gabriel (User:GastelEtzwane) responded and I met with him within hours […]
Posted in Geneva, tour, Wikipedia | Tagged Gabriel Thullen