<div dir="ltr">This sounds really cool! I'd love to learn more and contribute to the local history editing sometime in the future :)</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 7:20 PM, Vicky Knox <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:vknoxsironi@gmail.com" target="_blank">vknoxsironi@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:12.727272033691406px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Hey all! </div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:12.727272033691406px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:12.727272033691406px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Marina and I have decided to put on a regular local history edit-a-thon for the Oakland Wiki starting Sundays in 2013. I've copypasted the info below. Please forward the announcement to your contacts! </div>
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;], </div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:12.727272033691406px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Vicky</div><i style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:12.727272033691406px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><div>
<i><br></i></div><div><i><br></i></div>Did you know that West Oakland was once considered the “Harlem of the West”? After WWII, this bustling music scene attracted performances from such artists as </i><b style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:medium;font-family:Times;font-weight:normal"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-style:italic;font-size:13px;white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:Arial">Billie Holiday, Al Green, Aretha Franklin, Big Mama Thornton and T-Bone Walker. </span></b><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:12.727272033691406px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
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<b style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:12.727272033691406px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font size="4">[Oakland Wiki] Sunday History Edit-a-thons</font></b><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:12.727272033691406px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<b><i>Sundays, starting January 13th, 2013!</i></b></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:12.727272033691406px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br>Bring a computer or note-taking materials to the Oakland History Room and hang with your fellow local history nuts as we research and add historical content to the Oakland Wiki. The <a href="http://oaklandwiki.org/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">Oakland Wiki</a>, based on the wildly popular <a href="http://daviswiki.org/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">Davis Wiki</a>, is a community-created effort that aims to compile into one place everything and anything about our unique and fascinating city. Come be a part of this historic event and help write the story of Oakland!<br>
<br><b>12-1p:</b> <a href="https://maps.google.com/maps?q=brown+couch+cafe&ll=37.804461,-122.268562&spn=0.008731,0.016737&fb=1&gl=us&hq=brown+couch+cafe&hnear=0x80857d8b28aaed03:0x71b415d535759367,Oakland,+CA&cid=0,0,9455118117352290592&t=m&z=16&iwloc=A" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">Brown Couch Cafe</a> meet-n-greet and intro to editing (340 14th St.)<br>
<b>1-5p:</b> <a href="https://maps.google.com/maps?q=oakland+history+room&hl=en&sll=37.804461,-122.268562&sspn=0.008731,0.016737&gl=us&hq=oakland+history+room&t=m&z=14" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">Oakland History Room</a> (Oakland Public Library, 14th and Oak)<br>
<br>Updates can be found in the Oakland Wiki on the project page <a href="http://oaklandwiki.org/History_Editathon" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">here</a>. <br><br><b>Questions?</b> Contact Vicky:<br>vknoxsironi [at] gmail [dot] com<div>
<b><br>PLEASE FORWARD WILDLY!</b></div></div>
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