Quick London meet with Sue Gardner - Wed 5th Dec

[David Gerard-2]

Sue's in town next week. Wednesday 5th, anyone? What was the pub we
went to (near Holborn I think) that didn't suck? (After going to the
one that did suck.)

Wed 5th afternoon is my works' Christmas party, so expect me to be
mostly trashed and sipping Coke and Red Bull.


- d.




---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Sue Gardner <[hidden email]>
Date: 29 Nov 2007 00:22
Subject: Re: I'm coming to London :-)
To: David Gerard <[hidden email]>
Cc: James Forrester <[hidden email]>, Alison Wheeler
<[hidden email]>, Arkady Rose <[hidden email]>


David Gerard wrote:

>
>
> I think a London wikimeet would be quite feasible! Shall I suggest it
> to wikimediauk-l? Do we know any pubs that definitely don't suck and
> will be open Wednesday evening? We've had a bad record at picking
> these so far ...
>
> (I have my works Christmas party that afternoon. I expect to be half
> trashed and sipping Coke.)
>
>
> - d.
>

Lovely - fun! I am in, just tell me where to be & when :-)

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[Katie Chan]

On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 16:42 +0000, David Gerard wrote:
> Wed 5th afternoon is my works' Christmas party, so expect me to be
> mostly trashed and sipping Coke and Red Bull.
>

Shouldn't that be "mostly trashed and getting more trashed"? ;-)

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[Abigail Brady-2]

On Nov 29, 2007 4:42 PM, David Gerard <[hidden email]> wrote:

Sue's in town next week. Wednesday 5th, anyone? What was the pub we
went to (near Holborn I think) that didn't suck? (After going to the
one that did suck.)

The Shakespeare's Head.  Just south on Kingsway from Holborn tube station.
 

Wed 5th afternoon is my works' Christmas party, so expect me to be
mostly trashed and sipping Coke and Red Bull.

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[David Gerard-2]

On 29/11/2007, Abigail Brady <[hidden email]> wrote:
> On Nov 29, 2007 4:42 PM, David Gerard <[hidden email]> wrote:

> > Sue's in town next week. Wednesday 5th, anyone? What was the pub we
> > went to (near Holborn I think) that didn't suck? (After going to the
> > one that did suck.)

> The Shakespeare's Head.  Just south on Kingsway from Holborn tube station.


Signup page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/London#Informal_socials

7pm, Wed 5th Dec. See some of you there!


[cc'd to wikien-l - those of you on wikien-l who are in the UK really
should be on wikimediauk-l. Low traffic, high signal.]


- d.

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[Andrew Gray]

On 01/12/2007, David Gerard <[hidden email]> wrote:

> On 29/11/2007, Abigail Brady <[hidden email]> wrote:
> > On Nov 29, 2007 4:42 PM, David Gerard <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
> > > Sue's in town next week. Wednesday 5th, anyone? What was the pub we
> > > went to (near Holborn I think) that didn't suck? (After going to the
> > > one that did suck.)
>
> > The Shakespeare's Head.  Just south on Kingsway from Holborn tube station.
>
>
> Signup page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/London#Informal_socials
>
> 7pm, Wed 5th Dec. See some of you there!

7pm? Should be able to make that, or a little later...

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[Jimmy Wales]

There's a wiki-wednesday thing too, right?  I think I may turn up at that...

David Gerard wrote:

> On 29/11/2007, Abigail Brady <[hidden email]> wrote:
>> On Nov 29, 2007 4:42 PM, David Gerard <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
>>> Sue's in town next week. Wednesday 5th, anyone? What was the pub we
>>> went to (near Holborn I think) that didn't suck? (After going to the
>>> one that did suck.)
>
>> The Shakespeare's Head.  Just south on Kingsway from Holborn tube station.
>
>
> Signup page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/London#Informal_socials
>
> 7pm, Wed 5th Dec. See some of you there!
>
>
> [cc'd to wikien-l - those of you on wikien-l who are in the UK really
> should be on wikimediauk-l. Low traffic, high signal.]
>
>
> - d.
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[David Gerard-2]

On 01/12/2007, Jimmy Wales <[hidden email]> wrote:

> There's a wiki-wednesday thing too, right?  I think I may turn up at that...


Er what? ARGH. You're in town too? So it appears.

ARGH ETC. I expect we should put both of you in the same place then.
Shall we cancel the pub and go to WikiWednesday?


- d.

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[Andrew Gray]

On 01/12/2007, David Gerard <[hidden email]> wrote:
> On 01/12/2007, Jimmy Wales <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
> > There's a wiki-wednesday thing too, right?  I think I may turn up at that...
>
>
> Er what? ARGH. You're in town too? So it appears.
>
> ARGH ETC. I expect we should put both of you in the same place then.
> Shall we cancel the pub and go to WikiWednesday?

There doesn't seem to be a defined location or the like yet:

http://www.eu.socialtext.net/wikiwed/index.cgi?london

http://londonwikiwed.ning.com/

I wouldn't cancel until we know quite what's going to replace it! Now
to see if I need to persuade my boss to let me out early...

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[David Gerard-2]

On 01/12/2007, Andrew Gray <[hidden email]> wrote:
> On 01/12/2007, David Gerard <[hidden email]> wrote:
> > On 01/12/2007, Jimmy Wales <[hidden email]> wrote:

> > > There's a wiki-wednesday thing too, right?  I think I may turn up at that...

> > Er what? ARGH. You're in town too? So it appears.
> > ARGH ETC. I expect we should put both of you in the same place then.
> > Shall we cancel the pub and go to WikiWednesday?

> There doesn't seem to be a defined location or the like yet:
> http://www.eu.socialtext.net/wikiwed/index.cgi?london
> http://londonwikiwed.ning.com/
> I wouldn't cancel until we know quite what's going to replace it! Now
> to see if I need to persuade my boss to let me out early...


Let's see if we can't get them to come down the pub ;-)

Gordon - you're on the WikiWednesday Facebook - do you know if this
Wednesday's got a venue yet?


- d.

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[Gordon Joly]

At 23:14 +0000 1/12/07, Andrew Gray wrote:

>On 01/12/2007, David Gerard <[hidden email]> wrote:
>>  On 01/12/2007, Jimmy Wales <[hidden email]> wrote:
>>
>>  > There's a wiki-wednesday thing too, right?  I think I may turn
>>up at that...
>>
>>
>>  Er what? ARGH. You're in town too? So it appears.
>>
>>  ARGH ETC. I expect we should put both of you in the same place then.
>>  Shall we cancel the pub and go to WikiWednesday?
>
>There doesn't seem to be a defined location or the like yet:
>
>http://www.eu.socialtext.net/wikiwed/index.cgi?london
>
>http://londonwikiwed.ning.com/
>
>I wouldn't cancel until we know quite what's going to replace it! Now
>to see if I need to persuade my boss to let me out early...
>
>--
>- Andrew Gray
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>

Jimmy Wales, at a location near Moorgate - details to be confirmed!!

Yes David, the venue is confirmed and agreed. I am just waiting for
David Terrar to re-confirm.

I have already suggested that Sue is invited along, perhaps as a speaker?



Gordon

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[Gordon Joly]

>
>
>There doesn't seem to be a defined location or the like yet:
>
>http://www.eu.socialtext.net/wikiwed/index.cgi?london
>
>http://londonwikiwed.ning.com/


Did I mention free beer and free pizza?


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[Gordon Joly]

>
>
>There doesn't seem to be a defined location or the like yet:
>
>http://www.eu.socialtext.net/wikiwed/index.cgi?london



Venue confirmed: NYK Shipping.

Sign up required on the webpage (linked from above URI).

Gordon

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[Jimmy Wales]

I fell ill with the flu and just could not pull myself together to make
it to wikiwednesday, and on top of that I really didn't end up meeting
with any wikipedians at all while I was in town.  This is tragic.

I will be back!

http://www.tot2008.com/

1st April 2008.

I intend to spend about a week in London at that time.

Maybe more, I dunno.

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[David Gerard-2]

On 08/12/2007, Jimmy Wales <[hidden email]> wrote:

> I fell ill with the flu and just could not pull myself together to make
> it to wikiwednesday, and on top of that I really didn't end up meeting
> with any wikipedians at all while I was in town.  This is tragic.


For the WikiWednesday, Alison did a covering talk then Sue showed up
right at the end of her bit to do a talk herself. It was pretty good
:-) Talking about how Wikipedia/Wikimedia works, what a tiny and
underresourced organisation WMF is and to give us money. I said "and
please give us money" enough times, I think.

(Magnus Manske came down from Cambridge and I found out why
MediaWiki's written in PHP. See, Nupedia was written in PHP, Magnus
learnt PHP to patch the code, UseMod was getting limiting so Magnus
wrote a new wiki script to learn PHP in ... *shudder* Like building a
skyscraper from Lego and gaffer tape. And now we live in it.)


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[Gordon Joly]

At 09:39 +0000 9/12/07, David Gerard wrote:
>
>(Magnus Manske came down from Cambridge and I found out why
>MediaWiki's written in PHP. See, Nupedia was written in PHP, Magnus
>learnt PHP to patch the code, UseMod was getting limiting so Magnus
>wrote a new wiki script to learn PHP in ... *shudder* Like building a
>skyscraper from Lego and gaffer tape. And now we live in it.)
>


And then somebody said - we can use this for Wikimedia Commons!

Gordo

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[Magnus Manske-2]

On Dec 9, 2007 7:34 PM, Gordon Joly <[hidden email]> wrote:
> At 09:39 +0000 9/12/07, David Gerard wrote:
> >
> >(Magnus Manske came down from Cambridge and I found out why
> >MediaWiki's written in PHP. See, Nupedia was written in PHP, Magnus
> >learnt PHP to patch the code, UseMod was getting limiting so Magnus
> >wrote a new wiki script to learn PHP in ... *shudder* Like building a
> >skyscraper from Lego and gaffer tape. And now we live in it.)

Aahhhh... good ol' times...

> And then somebody said - we can use this for Wikimedia Commons!

Well, now you're just pulling my leg.

Oh wait...


Magnus

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[Gordon Joly]

>
>>  And then somebody said - we can use this for Wikimedia Commons!
>
>Well, now you're just pulling my leg.
>
>Oh wait...
>
>Magnus


Pull the other one?

Gordo

:-)

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