Wikipedia:Meetup/Boston/Wikipedia 22th Anniversary Celebration

When: January 17, 2023, 5-8pm

When: Ray & Maria Stata Center, 32 Vassar St, Cambridge, MA 02139, MIT Room 32-144 (MIT-Plan, Open-Steet-Map, Google, Bing, Room-Image)

Bring your own laptop & your own food & your own drinks.

Schedule

5pm-6pm: Lecture about Wikipedia/Commons (addressing MIT-affiliated people who are not already Wikimedians) by User:JoKalliauer
6pm onwards: informal meet-and-greet gathering where attendees (Wikipedian&MIT) will be mingling and MIT-People can meet Wikipedians in real life.

The MIT building entrance is open till 7pm to the public. If not many people come, the event will end earlier.

— Johannes Kalliauer - contrib. 16:21, 11 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Johannes, Thank you for your kind invitation, but I am on the West coast in Claremont, CA. I hope you event is well attended, but I wanted to acknowledge that I have always admired MIT, even though I am in the humanities and part of the Women in Religion (Red) project. I am a part-time editor as I am completing my dissertation this semester which keeps me pretty busy! Good luck at MIT and maybe and hopefully meet up int he future! Happy Wiki-geeking!

Janice Janice Leah Poss (talk) 21:04, 17 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Reify-tech (talk) 21:16, 16 January 2023 (UTC) This is very last-minute, but I will endeavor to be there. Johannes, welcome to MIT and to Boston, from a longtime Wikimedian and even longer-term MIT alumnus! I hope you publicized this more widely on campus![reply]
I will try to be there. Ofcurisity: is the MIT Campus open again? I recall during COVID one had to have a school ID to to scan in order to enter the infinite corridor at 77 Massachusetts Ave. etc? The school was trying to keep a sterile bubble. CaribDigita (talk) 09:51, 17 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
- Certain buildings, including stata, are again open during the weekdays, til 5. You need a tim ticket the rest of the time. -- phoebe / (talk to me) 14:56, 17 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
- phoebe The building should be open till 7pm on weekdays. — Johannes Kalliauer - contrib. 17:37, 17 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I wasn't planning to be on campus today, unfortunately. However, anyone interested is welcome to sign up for my editathon at the end of the month on campus, details here -- phoebe / (talk to me) 14:58, 17 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]