Let's invite the local Ambassadors to join us next meeting. We can invite some of the profs involved as well. The Tufts profs outside of public policy who were interested may also want to come.
I think we're leaning towards Sunday April 10 -- Mr. Lees, correct me if I'm wrong. We could reserve a classroom and bring food there, for easier discussion.
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 4:40 PM, Baruch Stone baruchstone@gmail.com wrote:
As for me, I have been editing Wikipedia for *several* years. I have two Good Articles to my credit and have experience in new page patrolling, anti-vandalism, copy editing and other areas.
I would like to create a formal Boston/New England Wikimedia Chapter and would be happy to do a bit of the legwork in getting it off the ground. Who is interested?
This sounds like a good idea to me. I am happy to support the process and can offer general feedback, as I am currently an observer on the Chapters Committee. You might take a look at the bylaws and focus of other chapters and pending chapters (NYC and Canada come to mind; Brasil and Australia discussions may also be of interest) for reference.
Active meetup groups and chapters around the US have been talking recently of forming a national council -- to help regional chapters grow, and to address questions of whether to form a national group and how to support work in sparser regions of the country without a thriving metro or big universities to make organizing events easy. We should discuss who's interested in participating at our next meeting.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_United_States_Chapters_Council#WALR...
Sam.