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On 4th March 2013 TechHub at Campus London is hosting a media event where journalists can meet Jimmy Wales and some of the Wikimedia volunteers to learn more about some of the awesome projects being worked on, such as Wikimania (the annual international conference of wikipeida), the visual editor, Wikivoyage, Wiki Loves Monuments and more. | |||
We'll be inviting journalists from the mainstream media and tech media to come along. The event will be informal and friendly, a chance to meet and greet journalists. The event will be open to TechHub members and a great chance for you (out members) to meet some of the key journalists in our field (as well as Wikimedians) and a chance for the journalists to see the kind of things people are working on within TechHub and Tech City. | We'll be inviting journalists from the mainstream media and tech media to come along. The event will be informal and friendly, a chance to meet and greet journalists. The event will be open to TechHub members and a great chance for you (out members) to meet some of the key journalists in our field (as well as Wikimedians) and a chance for the journalists to see the kind of things people are working on within TechHub and Tech City. | ||
Revision as of 17:15, 4 March 2013
On 4th March 2013 TechHub at Campus London is hosting a media event where journalists can meet Jimmy Wales and some of the Wikimedia volunteers to learn more about some of the awesome projects being worked on, such as Wikimania (the annual international conference of wikipeida), the visual editor, Wikivoyage, Wiki Loves Monuments and more.
We'll be inviting journalists from the mainstream media and tech media to come along. The event will be informal and friendly, a chance to meet and greet journalists. The event will be open to TechHub members and a great chance for you (out members) to meet some of the key journalists in our field (as well as Wikimedians) and a chance for the journalists to see the kind of things people are working on within TechHub and Tech City.
Techhub members can register here, check your newsletter / Yammer for event password.
Venue
TechHub at Campus London. The address is:
- 4-5 Bonhill Street
- London
- EC2A 4BX
TechHub is a short walk from Old Street tube station. Details of how to find the venue can be found here.
When
The event starts at 18:30 and finished around 20:30
Attendees
Journalists
Niki MayYoung – Civil Society
Dave Lee – BBC
Murad Ahmed – The Times
Cassie Vinograd – Associated Press
Raphael Satter – Associated Press
Kate Solomon (tentative) – Tech Radar
Stuart Miles – Pocket Lint
Nate Laxton – Wired
Olivia Solon – Wired
Lee Price – The Sun
Volunteers and interests
Fabian Tompsett – education / Wikiversity
James Knight – Wikimania
Ed Saperia – Wikimania
David Gerard – Wikipedia / key media volunteer
Chris Keating – Chair
Gemma Griffiths – PR / WP
Andrew Gray – Commons and WIR
Katie Chan – VSO
Tom Morris – Wikivoyage
Richard S + Panyd – photography / video
Staff
Stevie Benton – Communications Organiser
Richard Nevell – Office Support
Jon Davies – Chief Executive