Hi all,<div><br></div><div>It was terrific to meet all of you at the general meeting on Sunday. I&#39;m very excited about taking our local efforts to the next level.</div><div><br></div><div>I wanted to follow up on the idea of hosting a meeting where we invite a local professor who has conducted research on Wikipedia and free culture to be our guest speaker. SJ suggested Yochai Benkler at the Berkman Center (<a href="http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/people/ybenkler">http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/people/ybenkler</a>). Our preliminary plan was for SJ to make the initial contact and for me to handle the follow-up and the logistics.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I&#39;d like to get started as soon as possible since we&#39;re so close to the end of the semester. I have a couple of questions for the group:</div><div><br></div><div>1. Do we want to potentially combine this with the regular meetup we&#39;ve scheduled for May 14th?</div>
<div>2. Do we want to allocate some money for pizza (there may be a way to get a student group at Harvard to cover this)?</div><div>3. Should we consider postponing the event until the Fall, given that many schools are in the midst of finals?</div>
<div><br></div><div>Best wishes,</div><div>Gabe (GabrielF)</div>