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== Location and timing ==
  
== Location and timing ==
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* The MLK library is convenient for hosts Peter and Justin. Peter will need to confirm: (1) that we can have good net access there; (2) that we can have refreshments there; (3) that we could give little talks there in a way that didn't bother people elsewhere in the library.
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* The downtown DC main public library, the MLK library is convenient for hosts Peter and Justin. There are several rooms downstairs that are big enough and quiet/private enough -- A5, A9, A10, and perhaps others. This is our intended location.
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* Someone needs to confirm: (1) that we can have good net access there; (2) that we can have refreshments there; (3) that for presentations we can arrange to have tables, a data projector, and a screen
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:* * Contact to Patrick Timony at DC MLK public library: http://www.dclibrary.org/node/32825
  
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* Peter to contact likely partner WSS (Washington Statistical Society, the local chapter of the American Statistical Association). Justin is president of Statistics Without Borders which is a cosponsor too but may not have many locals.
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* There are other possible locations: Tenleytown library; wiki-DC conference room; a room at a coffee shop/restaurant. Would want to have room for 20+ people. Peter will gather advice from the wiki-dc board.
  
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* Or at WSS in Alexandria?
  
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* Would like to have short presentations on (a) WikiData ; (b) Justin's trip to North Korea to teach at Pyongyang Summer Institute (?!)
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* On a Saturday afternoon, we think. (Alternative: evening.) Possibly as soon as late March, more likely April.
  
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* Contact to Patrick Timony at DC MLK public library: http://www.dclibrary.org/node/32825
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* There are other possible locations: Tenleytown library; wiki-DC conference room; a room at a coffee shop/restaurant. Or at WSS or ASA in Alexandria. Let's put these alternatives on ice the MLK library is looking good.
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* We need a date that Peter and Justin and Gerald and hopefully several identified others. It really should be in calendar 2013 because 2013 is an internationally designated Year of Statistics.
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* Timing: A Saturday afternoon? Monday or Wednesday evening?
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* How easy is it to reserve these spaces?
   
 
== Other background and issues ==
  
== Other background and issues ==

Revision as of 15:36, 14 May 2013

Can collaborate with some mix of Statistics Without Borders, Statistics2013, the International Year of Statistics, ASA (American Statistical Assocation), and [http://washstat.org/ WSS (Washington Statistical Society). Peter Meyer and Justin Fisher can run it.

Agenda

  • training for newbies
  • tour or talk? some activity. Description of WikiData would be good. Anything User:Ram-Man can tell us about how he uploaded Census data for 2000 would be good. Perhaps Justin can describe his experience teaching survey stats in North Korea. (No kidding.)
  • Adding/updating particular pages

Location and timing

  • The downtown DC main public library, the MLK library is convenient for hosts Peter and Justin. There are several rooms downstairs that are big enough and quiet/private enough -- A5, A9, A10, and perhaps others. This is our intended location.
  • Someone needs to confirm: (1) that we can have good net access there; (2) that we can have refreshments there; (3) that for presentations we can arrange to have tables, a data projector, and a screen
  • Peter to contact likely partner WSS (Washington Statistical Society, the local chapter of the American Statistical Association). Justin is president of Statistics Without Borders which is a cosponsor too but may not have many locals.
  • Would like to have short presentations on (a) WikiData ; (b) Justin's trip to North Korea to teach at Pyongyang Summer Institute (?!)
  • Contact to Patrick Timony at DC MLK public library: http://www.dclibrary.org/node/32825
  • There are other possible locations: Tenleytown library; wiki-DC conference room; a room at a coffee shop/restaurant. Or at WSS or ASA in Alexandria. Let's put these alternatives on ice the MLK library is looking good.
  • We need a date that Peter and Justin and Gerald and hopefully several identified others. It really should be in calendar 2013 because 2013 is an internationally designated Year of Statistics.
  • Timing: A Saturday afternoon? Monday or Wednesday evening?
  • How easy is it to reserve these spaces?

Other background and issues

Possible icon for advertising this event: Histogram of sepal widths for Iris versicolor from Fisher's flower data set, with superimposed best-fitting normal distribution.
  • Background: Ah! Some people wrote: How to run an edit-a-thon
  • we anticipate that wiki-DC can sponsor some refreshments and materials.
  • how do we get the wireless equipment and make it work?

Publicity

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