At least four Wiki Wednesday events are coming up this week, in San Francisco, Montreal, Portland, and London.
In the San Francisco Bay Area, Citizen Space is co-hosting an evening to talk about wikis and nonprofits. Our featured speakers will be a team of IT folks from local public television station KQED. They're a non-profit organization that uses wikis heavily, and they've got insight to spare -- especially for other non-profit organizations or internet media gurus.
Speakers will be Lauren Somer, Content Coordinator; AJ Alfieri-Crispin, Interactive Systems Engineer; and Craig Rosa, Interactive Producer, all from Quest at KQED. Quest is a web site that explores science, environment and nature in Northern California. It uses wikis, Google Maps, and other tools to set up "Quest" explorations for each TV segment and radio show, inviting people to go to a park, follow along with printed guides, gps, photos, and to upload their own photos and observations. I'm very interested to see how they use wikis to manage all this multimedia content.
In London, there will be an open discussion, as well as their usual line-up of lightning talks. ?WhatIf! Innovation is hosting the event along with David Terrar, and speakers who have signed up so far include Anne-Fay Townsend, Gordon Joly, Alan Wood, Julie Callick (a WhatIf-er and Wiki Chick), Paul Youlten, and workflow geek David Wynn, who promises to explain how to "instantly automate meeting action lists". They tend to take great notes at the London Wiki Wednesdays, and someone, probably David, posts them diligently on the wiki, so maybe we'll all learn the instant automation of meeting action lists. I'm crossing my fingers.
The Portland Wiki Wednesday will be held at the new AboutUs.org office. The meeting is being held as an "Open Space" type meeting -- please feel free to bring ideas and projects to help them create the itinerary during the event. Space will be made for an "introduction to wiki" discussion as well as some group barnraising projects. Last month's meeting notes are up on the wiki. So far it's mostly AboutUs and Wikipedia folks showing up to kick back with pizza and beer, with Ray King, Ward Cunningham, Tak Kendrick, Ted Kabusa, Pete Forsyth, Steven Walling, Jessie, Bob Lehman, Ian Osgood, and Geoff Burling.
Last but not least, the Montreal meeting will be at Caféo, corner of rue Rachel and rue St.-Denis, also on October 3rd.
This month I'll also be going to the She's Geeky conference in Mountain View at the Computer History Museum, Oct. 22-23rd. I plan on doing one-on-one knowledge exchange sessions; it seems like a great idea to pair up with another person and teach each other at least one useful thing. I'm happy to teach lots of blog and wiki tricks, as well as setting up for learning basic programming. What I'd like to learn is more great blogging workflow tips and tools.
I'll also be in Beijing in mid-October, meeting up with bloggers, BarCampers, and wiki geeks who I met through WikiChix. Let me know by email or on Dopplr or Facebook if you're in Beijing and want to connect!
