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By bluerasberry on 2018-10-28
I was happy to help organize and present WikiConference North America 2018 in Columbus Ohio Thursday 18 – Sunday 21 October 2018. This was the fifth iteration of this annual conference. I had been a core organizer for 2014 in NYC, 2015 in DC, and 2016 in San Diego, and have been happy to have […]
Posted in presentation, research, Wikipedia | Tagged WikiConference
By bluerasberry on 2017-05-10
When I first moved to New York in 2012 I lived in uptown Manhattan with a housemate whom I liked a lot. It was a great situation for me. She was a long time New Yorker, we both worked in publishing, she was a great conversationalist, we often ate together, and in general was whatever […]
Posted in gay stuff, New York City, presentation | Tagged library, politics, Snowden
By bluerasberry on 2015-06-28
I attended Aspen Ideas Festival Spotlight Health from Thursday 25 June – Sunday 28 June. It was educational, pleasant, and insightful for me. The most striking characteristic of this conference to me was the frequent talk of entrepreneurship and market forces. In most of the conferences which I attend there is a lot of community […]
Posted in Colorado, Consumer Reports, education, health, presentation | Tagged conference, journalism
By bluerasberry on 2015-04-14
Historically the Wikimedia Foundation has applied negative outsider branding to the Wikimedia community. By “negative outsider branding”, I mean that the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) prefers to describe the Wikimedia community as if they were social outcasts, and that when the WMF plans outreach, or engages with the media, or positions itself to interact with the […]
Posted in presentation, Wikipedia | Tagged branding, Wikimedia community
By bluerasberry on 2015-04-04
I have been talking with other Wikipedians about how the public can come to learn about Wikipedia’s community culture. In these discussions, we have discussed why anyone might want to examine or adopt Wikipedia culture, how people can do this if they seek to do so, and the commitments and costs of doing so. People […]
Posted in presentation, Wikipedia | Tagged videography
By bluerasberry on 2015-04-01
On Sunday and Monday 29-30 March there was a meeting of Wikipedians and representatives of members of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. That organization is best known as the consortium supporting public broadcast media in the United States, including PBS, NPR, and all of the affiliates they have in every city in the United States. […]
Posted in Consumer Reports, legal, New York City, non-profit, presentation, rights, Wikipedia | Tagged civil rights, copyright
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 2015-03-13
The AMSA conference in DC ended on Sunday 1 March. Wednesday 4 March in San Antonio the conference for the Association of Professors of Gynecology and Obstetrics was being held. Celeste Royce, the doctor in Boston with whom I had presented a workshop last summer, had taken initiative in inviting me to present Wikipedia to […]
Posted in education, health, presentation, Texas, Wikipedia | Tagged conference, Wikipedia education program
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 2014-07-20
On Saturday 19 July I met a physician at the HOPE conference (Hackers on Planet Earth) who does medical device research and policy. Here is his organizational website. We were talking about health records which patients keep for themselves. It seemed to me that his ideas were related to the open notes project, Consumer Reports […]
Posted in health, New York City, presentation, quantified self | Tagged conference, Hackers on Planet Earth