Wikipedia:Meetup/Portland/November 2006

Wednesday, November 1, 2006, 6:00pm at Ray King's house, founder and president of aboutus.com.

What's the occasion? Well, we can't let the folks up in Seattle have all of the fun. Oh yes, Jimbo "Don't call me God-king" Wales will be in town.

Details, directions are at the Pint2 Webpage. Please contact llywrch first if you plan on coming (we need a headcount).

And if you can't make it Wednesday night, some folks from Wikia will be having a get-together the next day. Contact Chad Lupkes for more details.

Report

Five Wikipedians managed to make the scene -- six if we count Mark Dilley (he didn't RSVP) -- out of 29 local people who came to meet Jimbo, who arrived with his sister. Eclecticology drove down from Richmond to join us. Other non-Wikipedians attending included Ward Cunningham.

This was more of a social gathering than a meeting to discuss policy, seeing how few of us had ever met before. There was even a brief discussion of the rivalry between Lewis & Clark College and Reed College. We're hoping that this helps to build a base on which we could have future meetups.

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  Ward Cunningham and Jair at first Portland meetup
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  From left to right: Ray King (back to camera), Dmcdevit, Bunch of Grapes, Ingoolemo and Eclecticology (Llywrch holding camera)
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  Wikipedians at the first Portland meetup