Hi Kirill,
Cascadia had a good turnout last night for our regular Seattle meeting,
with more than 10 people in attendance, some of whom were first time
attendees.
Attendees suggested that we have more signage indicating that they were in
the right venue. Previously we have discussed name badges, and a third
person suggested previously that we could have a fund for travel
reimbursement for costs like bus fares. Are these reasonable requests to
combine with a grant request from WMDC for service-of-process and nonprofit
legal registration costs? We could itemize the costs in the grant request
if you wish, although if WMDC is willing to provide an all-inclusive grant
for about $400 to be used at our discretion and read about how that money
was used in a combined post-action grant report, that might be easier for
us and for WMDC. Please advise on what funds WMDC would consider and
whether we would need to wait for Affcom and WMF Legal to finalize the
affiliation agreement before applying for startup funding from WMDC.
Thanks,
Pine
Folks,
First, let me thank Pine for his efforts in trying to nail things down with
WMF Affcom & Legal.
While we wait for the Quarterly goals for WMF Legal to play out, there
surely should be _something_ on which we can move ahead beyond our monthly
meetup. Perhaps we can a least organize an edit-a-thon. I'd like to say
let's do a GLAM event, but I don't think that there is anyone in Seattle
working with GLAM. According to Wikipedia:GLAM/US/Connect#Information by
state
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/US/Connect#Information_by_state>,
there is Another Believer in Oregon, & Wikipedia:GLAM/Canada
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/Canada> lists The Interior &
Nikkimaria as contacts.
So I invite members of this list who cannot make it to the Seattle, Tuesday
10/14 meetup to share their ideas here, & for people who can make it to the
meetup, please bring your ideas. I don't know if it would be worth it to do
a Google Hangout or Skype at the meetup, but I could bring my Nexus 7 &
test to see if it works over the Café Allegro's WiFi (my laptop is
currently blind).
On another matter, last week Seattle OpenStreetMap submitted its bid for
the the Spring 2015 State of The Map U.S. conference. Based on past
performance, OpenStreetMap could decide between the bids in about two
weeks. Out of the last five State of The Map U.S. conferences, two have
been on the West Coast (S.F. & Portland) & that may work against Seattle,
but I think the Seattle group has put in a pretty strong bid.
Yours,
Peaceray
Dear Geoff,
In light of the above discussion about quarterly reviews on Wikimedia-l,
can we find a set of quarterly goals for Legal somewhere?
In particular I personally feel that the following would be helpful as
goals for Legal this quarter:
* Establishing timeline commitments for Affcom to respond to requests for
approvals or for Affcom to ask new questions about a requested approval.
Having approval requests stay open for weeks with no communication from
Affcom creates challenges for thematic orgs which are working on our own
timelines that may have dependencies on Affcom action. I have experienced
this myself and have heard about similar issues happening with other
requests. I suggest that Affcom have a commitment that all inquiries will
recieve substantive responses within 14 days of the date of the inquiry, or
otherwise Legal will take over the handling of the inquiry so that progress
of thorgs can continue in a timely manner.
* Similarly, establishing timeline commitments for Legal to respond to
community and thematic org inquiries. I have experiened lengthy delays on
more than one occasion about what I feel are simple questions. I feel that
a commitment that Legal will respond substantively to inquiries within 14
days would be helpful, and would appreciated by the community and thematic
orgs.
Thanks very much.
Regards,
Pine
Hi,
FYI, on October 26th, LibreOffice is doing their first hackfest
in Seattle, see below email.
Please attend if you can help, they need writers, translators,
localizers, developers, testers, etc.
Note, free t-shirt! :-)
Thanks,
Lee
PS: I hope everyone also knows about SeaGL.org, too. This hackathon is
the Sunday after SeaGL.
-----Original Message-----
Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2014 00:07:43 -0400
From: Robinson Tryon <bishop.robinson(a)gmail.com>
To: libreplanet-us-wa(a)libreplanet.org
Subject: [Libreplanet-us-wa] Join LibreOffice at our first Seattle
LibreFest -- and help us invite more people!
Hi all,
I've already chatted with a number of you about our LibreOffice
community event on Sunday Oct 26th, but I figured that I'd ping the
LibrePlanet list and see if you had suggestions about individuals or
groups that we should invite to our Bug-Triaging-Bee and Hackfest.
Greater diversity is always appreciated at our events, and although we
don't have a huge community in the US yet, I'm very interested in your
input about the best ways for us to include all types of LibreOffice
users in the LibreFests that we run.
Here's my invite list so far:
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Events/2014/Seattle_LibreFest#People_to…
Haven't heard about the LibreOffice LibreFest yet? Please continue
reading below! :-)
Thanks,
--R
-------------------------
The Sunday after SeaGL (Oct 26th) we'll be holding a LibreOffice
'LibreFest' Bug Triaging Bee and Hackfest at the University of
Washington in Seattle, and we want YOU to join us!
We'll be teaching people how to test, confirm, and find new bugs in
LibreOffice, and how to build LibreOffice from source code and make
their first commit.
To thank you for your hard work, we'll have plenty of Free Food & a
T-shirt for each participant.
SIGN UP:
Just email me with
- Your T-shirt size
- If you're interested in the Bug Bee, the Hackfest, or both!
For more event details, see the event website:
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Events/2014/Seattle_LibreFest
Cheers,
--R
P.S. Carpooling to Seattle is encouraged. Let me know if I can help
facilitate :-)
For even more information:
http://colonelqubit.wordpress.com/2014/10/01/join-libreoffice-in-seattle-fo…
If you're all about social media, read on:
(suggestions re: Freedom-respecting social media platforms greatly
appreciated)
Google plus event page for the LibreFest:
https://plus.google.com/events/c0t94hkc4retbq13jr5bc193tno
Connect with the LibreOffice US community on social media:
https://plus.google.com/communities/111758039218283143648https://twitter.com/LibreOfficeUShttps://www.facebook.com/pages/LibreOffice/195162020499866
--
Robinson Tryon
QA Engineer - The Document Foundation
LibreOffice Community Outreach Herald
qubit(a)libreoffice.org
Stephen, can we get an update on the Cascadia Wikimedians application?
There is a Code for Seattle project demo night on October 23rd and I would
like to be able to give a brief presentation about Cascadia Wikimedians. It
would be great to have the affiliation paperwork finalized ASAP.
Thanks,
Pine