For those interested in cross-regional group discussions in the US:
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From: Pharos <pharosofalexandria(a)gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 3:57 PM
Subject: [Wikimediaus-l] Wiki-Americans September 12 IRC Meeting
To: "Wikimedia U.S. Chapter" <wikimediaus-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Our next monthly Wikimedia US / WALRUS meeting will be this week,
Wednesday September 12, at 9pm Eastern Time / 6pm Pacific Time.
The venue will be the #wikimedia-us channel on IRC, and if you're not
familiar with IRC, please just use this easy web client:
http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=wikimedia-us
This is a venue for all Wiki-Americans to share our many diverse
experiences in local outreach and coordination, so please add your
ideas to the agenda:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WALRUS/September_2012
Thanks,
Richard
(User:Pharos)
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Samuel Klein @metasj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266
Dear Boston-area Wikipedians,
Happy late summer! Welcome back to town and campus for those who were
away. I'm looking forward to seeing some of you tonight.
In the spring we talked about having a Boston-area meetup this week, but in
the thrum and squall of termstart, a good place hasn't yet materialized.
Let's have our scheduled meetup at Clover in Cambridge today, and plan for
a Boston meetup in 2 weeks.
GorillaWarfare: could you suggest a place for us to face off on the 24th?
NuclearWarfare: don't abandon us; come say hello at least for the intro
meeting :-)
NuclearGorilla: we need you to complete the trifecta! It's ok if you don't
edit much.
Warmly,
SJ
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Samuel Klein @metasj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266
Hi there. I just wanted to get confirmation that there is in fact a meeting
tonight (at Clover Food Lab), so that I don't drag my sleep deprived shell
all the way out to Cambridge for no reason.
Just as a heads up, assuming that there is a meetup, we really need a
strong showing. We have two guests that are very much worth courting, the
president of the Friends of the Cambridge Public Library and the Archivist
at the Cambridge Public Library, and they're interested in WLL. See
previous emails to this list for further information, but long story short
GorillaWarfare (via email with the archivist) and I (via messaging Arend at
the meetup page) have already been talking with these people, so I don't
want to drop the ball tonight.
In other words, it'd be great to have a quorum of sorts so that we can give
them actual decisions at the meeting. So please show up if you can.
-Sven
A good conversation to take part in! S
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From: Pharos <pharosofalexandria(a)gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 10:36 PM
Subject: [Wikimania-l] The Varieties of Wikimania Experience
To: "Wikimania general list (open subscription)" <
wikimania-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 3:46 PM, Lodewijk <lodewijk(a)effeietsanders.org>wrote:
> Maybe the question should first be: what kind of Wikimania do we want.
> Personally, I would be totally happy with down scaling the conference a
> bit. Less visitors (500-600), less events and less professional. Let it be
> more volunteer focused, and yes, perhaps also a bit more chaotic. That also
> means we can change the nature of bids: more back to basic and more focus
> on location, venue and accomodation. If we can bring the budget down, we
> also need to focus less on sponsorships etc, which should make the bidding
> easier and more open to more groups of dedicated volunteers.
>
> I know other people have a different opinion about it, and would rather
> make the conference more professional, less risky, more fancy etc. I prefer
> it to be a lower key community event.
>
> Lodewijk
>
On a general note, I agree with Lodewijk and some of the other sentiment
that it may be wise to take Wikimania back in the direction of a somewhat
more informal, community-centric social experience.
However, I very much disagree that this has to mean a *smaller* Wikimania,
I would rather see Wikimania growing, year by year, as a global social hub
for volunteers and fans in the wide world of the emerging free knowledge
movement.
And look forward to our Wiki-Woodstock bid for NY, coming 2019 or so! ;)
Thanks,
Richard
(User:Pharos)
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