sj's Longest Now [v.1]

Come to the Berkman Center tonight at 8pm to support and plan a local Wikimania bid for next summer.  The initial congress last summer in Frankfurt brought together 350 students, academics, entrepreneurs and other community members for 3 days of energetic collaboration.  It was a joyful and productive event.

Next summer, Berkman hopes to host the sequel.  Wikipedians in
town are meeting tonight to discuss what a conference in  Boston —
home to over 55 colleges and 150,000 students — would be
like.   Help us brainstorm about how the congress could take
advantage of what our city has to offer, how we could make this a great
experience for people from all over the world, and how it could enrich
local programs already in
progress. 

Boston is putting out a bid
to host the second Wikimania congress this coming summer (soon we won’t
be able to help calling it an annual event).  If you have
suggestions about what to do in or around Boston, or groups that you’d
like to see involved with such an event (particularly in-kind sponsors,
people who would like to organize wiki events before or during the week
of Wikimania, or artists/researchers who would like to present there),
let me know. 

Other ways you can get involved : suggest people who would enjoy the Hacking Days session for current and would-be MediaWiki hackers; or help plan other parts of the conference