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March 14 LAUNCH EVENT
Purpose of event:
- Celebrate milestone of 1000 pages / public launch
- Introduce wiki to new audiences
LOCATION
- Buku
- Time: 7pm - 9pm
PROMOTION of event
Partner with like-minded organizations to help promote the wiki to their membership now that it is OPEN:
- City Museum (reid)
- DRA (hilary)
- Innovate Raleigh (done since we're presenting to them that night, right?)
- DLA (Work with Jim Belt - MM)
- City staff (Town of Cary - LH)
- City Of Raleigh Counselor sphere - (reid)
- Chamber- James Sauls (reid)
- Open source community - (Jason)
- CAC Raleigh Leaders - (Jason)
- Architects (hilary)
- Live Work Play - (reid)
- Art groups (AIGA Raleigh - LH)
- SouthWest Raleigh (Jason)
- DurhamCares (Andrew)
- OpenDurham.org (Andrew)
- CarpeDurham.com (Andrew)
- SCMoms (Andrew)
Public Launch Goals
- Schedule Public Launch for March 14th, 2012
- Encourage a mass of editing. Develop a goal to reach 1000 pages by March 14th, 2012
- Develop a press release
- Develop a list of media resources for a press release
- Create stickers for the 14th
- Document some specific area with lots of inner links. The "walk around with a digital camera / phone and take pictures of everything in a 5 block area" plan would work well here. (still pending!!)
- Contact local high schools to have students created wiki pages as a civics project. (Reid and Laura working on this. Others, please help if you have contacts.)
- Cary TriWiki group meeting on Saturday to create game plan to build pages. (Laura, Hal, Lori, etc.)
Soft-Launch Goals/To Do's
- SOFT LAUNCH: February 25, 2012. Remove the splash page, update the trianglewiki.org domain to point directly to the wiki, remove the triangle/research username-password. (Completed)
- Raleigh City Camp Event and Edit party on February 25, 2012 (Completed)
Pre Soft-Launch TriangleWiki Goals/To do's
- 300 pages by end of January. (Completed!)
- 600 pages by February 24 (Completed!!)
- Add inner links - you should be able to easily surf around the site or help start a new page.
- Add the most interesting pages to the home page, so it make these pages easy to find for a first-time visitor. (completed!)
- Some core, inter-linked content about some specific area. The "walk around with a digital camera / phone and take pictures of everything in a 5 block area" plan would work well here. (still pending!!)
- Format the Front Page for new visitors. Briefly explain what's going on for those that are new to the local wiki concept.
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Agree which pages should be locked down before the launch. (example, Front Page) - Establish simple community guidelines. (completed!)
- Change FB Planning Group to a general discussion group. (completed!)
- Develop a creative campaign theme to more easily explain the wiki and why a regular person would want to attend the one day Raleigh City Camp forum on the 25th. (completed!)
Dec’s TriWiki Meet-up Notes:
