In the interest of getting the ball rolling, I have gone
ahead and created a meetup page and selected Saturday, April
22 as our target date. Please see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/New_England
The idea here is that we haven't a well-attended event (like
NYC's Wikipedia Day mini-conference) in Boston in a long
time. It would be good to get as many people together as we
can, and try to create momentum for the future. For example,
do we want to hold a Wiknic in two months' time (from the
meetup date)? What can we do to make sure New England is
active in this year's US Wiki Loves Monuments campaign? And
we want to raise awareness among the community about ongoing
initiatives like the education program and GLAM, and about
the upcoming Wikimania in DC this summer.
We'll need a venue. It sounds like the kind of event where
we want a conference room at a college or library, and I
would suggest somewhere in Boston proper is probably better
than Cambridge. I can work on this, but if anyone else has a
good idea, please chime in.
Dominic
On 3/16/12 11:07 AM, Tim Pierce wrote:
> I've been pretty dormant for the last few months, and
lord knows I've never had a great track record of attending
these meetings, but I'll try hard to make it as long as it's
not during the first week of April, when I'll be in
California for work :-)
>
> --t.
>
> On 3/16/12 9:34 AM, Pharos wrote:
>> Hi Wiki-Pilgrims,
>>
>> I was talking with Dominic, and how about we pull
together a Wikimedia
>> New England founding meeting sometime in April?
>>
>>
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_New_England
>>
>> We could also send a bit of a delegation from
Wikimedia NYC chapter,
>> and perhaps Wikimedia DC too, to share our
experiences.
>>
>> Also, the next WALRUS online meeting on irc will be
on April 11:
>>
>>
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WALRUS/April_2012
>>
>> And of course all New Englanders are invited to
join their fellow
>> Wiki-Americans at this special event at Wikimania
in DC:
>>
>>
http://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/WALRUS_Congress
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Richard
>> (User:Pharos)
>> Wikimedia NYC
>>
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