Wikipedia:Meetup/San Francisco/Planning

See here for several ideas to coordinate in planning events!

Planning

• So far the best plans are somewhere reasonably easy access to mass transit (ex: BART)
• When plans are set, get a Geonotice requested and sent out.
• Need to set hard dates farther out, so people can actually make plans to be at the meetups.

Special events

Besides regular casual meetups we are involved in a few special events:

• The Wikimedia-SF group hosts a booth at the annual Maker Faire in San Mateo (generally in May)
• Many Wikimedians in SF attend Wikimania

Possible Field trip locations

• Locations for future meetups/field trips:
  • Alcatraz Island [1]
  • Biking
  • Eugene O'Neill National Historic Site
  • Fort Mason
  • Golden Gate Park
  • Internet Archive
  • Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Mare Island Historic Park Foundation, historic ships moored nearby? Also, contains the Rosie the Riveter WWII Home Front National Historical Park (Rosie the Riveter Visitor Education Center) (510) 232-5050
    • I live near Mare Island. Could my local knowledge be of any use?Georgejdorner (talk) 20:05, 14 May 2011 (UTC)
  • Mount Diablo
  • Participating in one of the Wikipedia:Wikipedia Loves Art events?
  • Picnic in the park (any park)
  • Prelinger Library [2]
  • Presidio of San Francisco
  • Scavenger hunt (In the style of the NYC group)
  • United States Immigration Station, Angel Island has been open[3] for almost a year, so I imagine the curators have some interesting items from the fire debris by now
  • USS Hornet Museum [4]
  • USS Pampanito (SS-383) [5]

Possible meetup locations

• We are always looking for people to host/organize meetups (in all parts of the Bay Area) and ideas for good, central places for people to meet – please make suggestions on this page!
  • Citizen Space once offered to host us
  • Noisebridge, on Mission Street in San Francisco
  • Sudo Room in downtown Oakland has offered its space for possible meet-ups. Please contact Sudo Room member Eekiv for details.
  • Tech Liminal in downtown Oakland loves hosting technology meet-ups. Past meetups include the women's Wikipedia edit-a-thon #3 with the League of Women Voters in December of 2012.

Related groups

• Free culture groups:
  • Consider doing something with Creative Commons.
  • Wikia, wikiHow and Freebase are both in the area and have been involved in meetups in the past.
• Local history:
  • Oakland Wiki: They host Thursday 7pm general meetings at the Sudo Room, and will be having Sunday history edit-a-thons at the Oakland History Room starting January 13th. This could be a great way to simultaneously upload good historical content onto both wikis. Please find more info here.
  • Architectural heritage societies:
    • Oakland Heritage Alliance: They do local Oakland history tours. Very cool.
    • Berkeley Architectural Heritage Alliance (BAHA): They do local Berkeley history tours and identify and plaque historic landmarks.
  • Consider organizing local history-related outings with other local non-profit projects such as foundsf
• Wiki Wednesdays don't seem to be going on any more … or are they?