By bluerasberry on 2012-11-05
The 2012 Seattle HVTN conference was from Monday 29 – Wednesday 31 October. I went to Seattle for that and to see friends. I flew to Portland on Friday 26 October to attend the Wiki Loves Libraries event organized by Jason Moore, user:Another Believer, on Saturday 27 October. We went out for breakfast, did the […]
Posted in clinical research, HIV, legal, non-profit, Open access, research, rights, Seattle, Wikipedia, work | Tagged Adbusters, Brian Glanz, Christopher Sheats, coffee, conference, HVTN, Jacob Caggiano, Lisa White, Open Knowledge Foundation, Patrick, Patrick Earley, Victoria Chinnell
By bluerasberry on 2012-07-25
I attended Wikimania 2012 in Washington DC. It was a very productive experience and I made a lot of friends there. On Thursday 12 July I gave my presentation, “Research institution collaboration”, as part of a panel. I was in the conference track sponsored by the Office of e-Diplomacy in the Department of State. Both […]
Posted in DC, education, Wikipedia, work | Tagged conference, Wikimania
By bluerasberry on 2012-05-13
Richard Knipel ([[user:Pharos]]) took me to the Museum of Modern Art the night of Friday 11th May. On Wednesday 9 May I was at a conference at Consumer Reports for the Choosing Wisely program, and at this conference I met collaborators in the program and came to understand what the program would mean to them. […]
Posted in art, health, museum, New York City, research, Wikipedia, work | Tagged Brooklyn Bridge, Choosing Wisely, coffee, Consumer Reports, Museum of Modern Art
By bluerasberry on 2012-04-22
I soon move to New York City to work as Wikipedian in Residence for Consumer Reports. A Wikipedian in Residence is a Wikipedia ambassador to an organization. In my case, I will work at Consumer Reports and help the organization establish relationships with Wikipedia. Consumer Reports is a famous United-States based consumer advocacy group. It […]
Posted in biobanks, clinical research, Seattle, Wikipedia, work | Tagged bioethics, blood, campus ambassador, malaria
By bluerasberry on 2011-06-05
Matt Mullenweg is the founding developer of WordPress and he still seems to be a frontman for whatever WordPress does. I was at an event he arranged on June 3. Matt looked like a typical America who, as Nandan would say, gave very little attention to his personal appearance other than hygiene. About 40 people […]
Posted in computer, presentation, research, Seattle, work | Tagged hero
By bluerasberry on 2011-05-19
On Wednesday May 11 we hosted a conference about HIV vaccination in Varanasi. The below is a video from the event, but I have it set to start at a theater and music portion of the event as most of the presentation is in Hindi. I got a notice about an HIV vaccine conference funding […]
Posted in HIV, presentation, research, work | Tagged vaccine
By bluerasberry on 2011-05-15
I met Father Anand for the first time on April 16, Palm Sunday. Ravi and I went to the Catholic church to talk to him and watch this play they were organizing to teach the story of Easter. There were strange things about the service as compared to other Catholic services and I wondered what […]
Posted in India, work | Tagged videography
By bluerasberry on 2011-03-21
Pradeep left on March 18. I had a lot of fun with him and I told him he would be welcome back anytime. I did not want him to go but he was concerned about returning to Mumbai to get a job on salary. Salary jobs are easier to get in Mumbai than Varanasi, definitely. […]
Posted in India, work | Tagged money
By bluerasberry on 2008-10-20
I have been at my new job for three months now, full-time. I think that possibly I have put in more hours of non-self-employed work at this job than from every other job I have had put together. I talked to my dear Aunt Vicki a few weeks ago and somehow she had gotten word […]
Posted in education, health, Seattle, work | Tagged grades, insurance, public health, social status
By bluerasberry on 2008-10-02
Since I started my job as a clinical researcher a few months ago I have not done any data collection. I and Danielle, the other researcher, have been preparing paperwork so that we can begin paperwork. Right now the independent reviewers from DC are here looking at what we have done and then they will […]
Posted in education, HIV, India, legal, presentation, Seattle, work | Tagged Ballard, fundraiser, government, hampster, Hindi, library, license, sport