Wikipedia:Meetup/Philadelphia 3

Proposed Date

This poll was open until February 13.

Please list your name below your preferred date. If you want to help find one date that works for almost everyone, please list all the dates you could attend.

• With one day to go it looks like March 4. --evrik ^(talk) 20:29, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

Proposed location

Proposed Venue and Time

Suggestions?

• What about the Nodding Head or McGillins in the afternoon/evening? --evrik ^(talk) 06:02, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
• evening would be better for me (and TexasDex). I took a look at Nodding Head menu, that looks interesting and would have my vote (though slight protest, food at a pub 10 days before I turn 21?) I'd also be interested in Marathon Grill or the Rose Tattoo Cafe (though the latter is a bit more expensive). --ImmortalGoddezz 06:20, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
  • We won't tell. --evrik ^(talk) 19:10, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
• I prefer late afternoon or early evening. I like some mellow time at home on Sunday night. Regarding venue, I think the place should be quiet enough to talk easily.ike9898 15:22, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
• Independence Brew Pub at the Reading Terminal? --evrik ^(talk) 22:57, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
  • That sounds good to me. Is it safe to assume that on Sunday evening business there will be slow? (I rarely go out on Sunday night) ike9898 15:08, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
• Going once ... twice ... --evrik ^(talk) 22:52, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
  • I'm fine on the place. What's the time/date? - CobaltBlueTony 04:34, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
• What about 4, 5 or 6 pm? --evrik ^(talk) 05:32, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
  • 5 pm. --South Philly 19:06, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
• Since not many people have put their opinion on time or place, and it's not obvious to me what one has majority, venue and time now have voting enabled! --ImmortalGoddezz 03:07, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
• This is coming up fast. We should finalize plans and put out invitations ASAP. I won't be able to give this much time, until possibly this evening. Does anyone know of an efficient way to put out an invite to the long list of invitees below (without editing each talk page one by one?) ike9898 14:54, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

Proposed agenda or topics

• Do we have an idea of what we want to do? Another restaurant trip like last time? Or something different, maybe somewhere where we can bring our laptops?  ;-) --CComMack (t–c) 07:34, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
• I like the idea of bringing laptops. Sometimes restaurants/coffeeshops will let you reserve a backroom for something like this if you know we'll have a certain number of people, and if it's on an off night (like Sunday). Also, one of the Free Library locations might be interested in hosting this. Might even get some new people invovled as a result. Waarmstr 16:28, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
• Call me old fashioned, but I find web-surfing while meeting up with people equivalent to talking on your cell phone at the dinner table. Isn't the point of a meetup to have real world interaction with people you normally only interact with over the computer? ike9898 18:18, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
• I don't care if we have a computer or two, but I think that the reason we meet is so we can talk and socialize. --evrik ^(talk) 15:38, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
• I was hoping for some notes to come out of the last Meetup regarding directions to focus our work, or collaboration requests, etc. The one thing mentioned in the article was the topic of having contributors be approved before allowing edits. I'd like to see more creative ideas for how we can continue to build Wikipedia (e.g. image requests). Just when I think there is an article about everything I learn something new; British University of Dubai, and The Gospel of Food. Waarmstr 16:47, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
• As far as collaborating on a particular project, I think that will be difficult. The only thing that all the people at the meetup will have in common is an interest in Wikipedia. Evrik tried to rally support for the Philadelphia portal at the last meeting, but I don't think much came of that, partly because each user has his own interests. The last meetup had no agenda that was apparent to me and that was fine. ike9898 18:24, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
• What about talking about a coordinator? --evrik ^(talk) 17:09, 11 February 2007 (UTC)