 You guys are all very orderly So Byron, are we are we recording shall I go? So we wanted to welcome you to the first Bay Area wiki salon and the wiki salon is a concept that I think people in New York and DC have have kind of formalized recently where there's just a monthly Regular get-together of people who are interested in wiki and and it's it's an idea that you can really attach just about anything you want to And I used to do something similar to that up in Portland before we had a name for it You know lots of people get together and talk about wiki. Sometimes we have presentations Sometimes we might Have shared editing events where we work on articles together Sometimes we might just have spontaneous discussions So we want for this first one we wanted to bring in some interesting speakers to kind of get us started So we can engage with some ideas and sort of some conversation starters and get us thinking about some stuff But in general We'll also try to have a bunch that are that are more open and freeform than that so as a thanks for coming and helping us get it started anything you guys want to say before I Keep going My name is Wayne and I'd just like to invite you to come back May 25th for the next one and to spread the word Yeah, and I would say it as far as the dates. It's always gonna be the last Wednesday of the month is what we're planning and Bear with us if it seems a little, you know freeform disorganized We're hoping that one of the things that when I go to meetups I always like hanging out with people and so sometimes the meetups don't give you enough time to hang out with people This is gonna be a meetup Which is gotta hopefully some time to hang out get on your laptops and look at some articles understand what Wikipedia editing is and all about and So yeah, I'm excited to see everybody here And I think I think I may be neglected to say my name So this Wayne Calhoun over here Ben Creasy, and my name is Pete Forsythe and also the three of us have have Brought the food and drink for you tonight. I appreciate some of you also bringing some to supplement We got a few more people here. So it's nice to know we have plenty to share with with some reinforcements In general, I I think we actually didn't put one out yet, but we were we were thinking might be nice to put out a Jar where you can optionally contribute some money and that way will have sort of a rolling fund to be able to have beer and snacks And also we could do if you want to contribute some through PayPal My PayPal account is available for that. I'll put something up on a sign Before we're done so that we will be able to kind of you know always at least have something to share And you're always of course welcome to just bring food if if that's preferable and There's oh very important no obligation at all to me to all of us I think the important thing is is that you come and that you have a good time So if means are tight, please don't in any way feel obliged I Want to thank a number of people that have helped Make this possible first and foremost the the Wikimedia foundation itself for offering us this incredible space As I think you're gonna see the AV setup here is Very cool for this for the kind of thing that we're trying to do and obviously just a pleasant space to hang out in In particular Byron in the back is running our AV. He's doing it on short notice Just got roped into that this afternoon. So thank you very much for that Rob Lanfeer and Steven Laporte Steven where'd you go? In the back there are two of our steadfast staff hosts Sandra Mikulski sitting next to Rob over here has has stepped up Not once but twice for a similar event for their 15th birthday to help us get everything set up By my good friend Reverend Phil also lost track of Showed up literally on my doorstep last night and kind of helped me get prepared for all this today So I really appreciate that. I usually am helping him organize events. So it's nice to do a little role reversal And of course our panelists who you're gonna meet when we get started So I'll leave the names until we can actually put a face with the names a Few logistic points if you want to get on the Wi-Fi there is I don't remember the information It was it's on the so the the network is WMF guest and the password is The number one and then everything is lowercase edit can make a difference one edit can make a difference We also have a hashtag for social media is BAWS right Bay Area wiki salon. So hashtag BAWS if you're on Twitter or other social media The bathrooms are near where you came in just past the just go left on the way out here And I believe there's actually given our topic tonight I believe Craig no new mark contributed to have a gender-free a gender neutral Bathroom here in the office a while ago. So that's kind of a nice topical option. Don't don't worry too much about where you go if you got to go and I think that's oh and and and also we very much want we very much want your ideas about What to do with these events? So if you have always wanted to get people together to work on an article about Model railroads or if you have a speaker that you think would be really interesting Please speak up We probably won't do a lot of planning in the events because we want to leave space to just kick back and relax Most of our planning is going on on meta wiki and you'll find it if you go to the event page and click on the talk tab You'll find links to where we're where we're doing our planning for future events. I think that's about all I've got for for intro Any questions any comments before we get started with our panel, okay? The sides will be so Byron if we I guess Maybe we do want to leave some space to see the sides a little better if we're off to the sides like this Are we on camera or okay? Okay