http://www.sos.wa.gov/_assets/charities/QuickGuideHandbook.pdf
Pine
*This is an Encyclopedia* <https://www.wikipedia.org/>
*One gateway to the wide garden of knowledge, where lies The deep rock of
our past, in which we must delve The well of our future,The clear water we
must leave untainted for those who come after us,The fertile earth, in
which truth may grow in bright places, tended by many hands,And the broad
fall of sunshine, warming our first steps toward knowing how much we do not
know.*
*—Catherine Munro*
Dear Cascadians,
You are invited to circulate and share three exciting events taking place
at the University of Washington on Friday, Feb. 13 and Saturday, Feb. 14:
*-- Editing Workshop: Learn to Contribute to Wikipedia!** Friday, Feb. 13,
2-4pm, Research Commons
*-- Wikipedia Editing Facilitation Training Workshop*, Friday, 6-8pm, Mary
Gates Hall 430
*-- 'I Love To You: A Critical Wikipedia Edit-a-thon**, Saturday, Feb. 14,
9:30am - 1:30pm, Research Commons * (Link to RSVP below!)*
*Recommended pre-session for I Love To You
Details for each event are pasted below,and will circulate in separate
emails as well
Best,
Monika Sengul-Jones
Co-Host, I Love To You, Critical Wikipedia Edit-a-thon
<http://www.ilovetoyou.wordpress.com>
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*Editing Workshop: Learn to Contribute to Wikipedia!*
Friday, Feb. 13, 2pm-4pm at the University of Washington Research Commons
<http://commons.lib.washington.edu/about/location-1>, Green Room A
<http://commons.lib.washington.edu/resources/green-a>
Hosted by Wikimedia DC and Wikimedia Cascadia User Group
Learn to be an editor on Wikipedia! Wikipedia is a free online
encyclopedia. Anyone can learn to contribute. Get signed up, learn the
markup language, and how to avoid common pitfalls. Whether you're
completely new, or you've written or edited in the past, the workshop will
cover the basic skill set. Experienced Wikipedia editors will be on hand to
answer questions. This workshop is open to anyone who wishes to attend. Bring
your own laptops & power cords. (Guest access to UW WiFi will be available.)
The Wikipedia Editing Workshop is recommended as a pre-session for
participants in 'I Love To You': Critical Wikipedia Edit-a-thon
<http://www.ilovetoyou.wordpress.com/>, Saturday, Feb. 14, 2013.
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*Wikipedia Facilitator Training Workshop*
Friday, Feb. 13, 6-8pm
Mary Gates Hall <http://www.css.washington.edu/MGH_Directions>430
Led by James Hare, from Wikimedia DC, this workshop covers best practices
on teaching new Wikipedia editors. In his words: "Knowing these best
practices allows you to translate your expertise in Wikipedia into
something an audience with a modest amount of technical literacy can
understand." This workshop is open to anyone interested in learning how to
host an edit-a-thons or other Wikipedia editing event or activity for
newcomers.
Bring your own laptops & power cords. (Guest access to UW WiFi will be
available.)
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*'I Love To You': Critical Wikipedia Edit-a-thon *
Valentine's Day, Saturday, Feb. 14, 9:30am - 1:30pm
UW Research Commons <http://commons.lib.washington.edu/>
'I Love To You' will bring dialogues in feminist theory to a hands-on
editing workshop to build community and critically engage with Wikipedia.
Cost: Free! Anyone who wishes to attend this event is welcome. Bring your
own laptops & power cords. (Guest access to UW WiFi will be available.)
Bring your own coffee mugs and water bottles to enjoy delicious
refreshments sustainably.
'I Love To You' would like offer free childcare to participants who RSVP
and indicate their childcare needs by 5pm on Friday, January 23, 2015.
RSVP here
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1GAwZP22RTC0MDMgLtgzcuYeO6QO_t4yQvvcny7wc_0…>
!
https://ilovetoyouedit.wordpress.com/
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/386485468200575
Twitter: #ilovetoyouedit
Affiliated Sponsors: UW Department of Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies;
UW Research Commons; UW Simpson Center for Humanities; Wikimedia Washington
DC; UW iSchool; UW Human Centered Design and Engineering; UW Comparative
History of Ideas; UW Department of Communication; UW Pipeline Project;
Cascadia Wikimedia User Group
Hosted by Monika Sengul-Jones <http://monikasengul.com/> and Amanda Menking
<http://www.amandamenking.com/>.
~~~~~
“I love to you means I maintain a relation of indirection to you. I do not
subjugate you or consume you. I respect you (as irreducible). I hail you:
in you I hail. I praise you: in you I praise. I give you thanks: to you I
give thanks for … I bless you.
[…]
"The 'to' is the guarantor of indirection. The "to" prevents the relation
of transitivity, bereft of the other's irreducibility and potential
reciprocity. The "to" maintains intransitivity between persons, between the
interpersonal question, speech or gift: I speak to you, I ask of you, I
give to you (and not: I give you to another).
The "to" is the sign of non-immediacy, of mediation between us.”
~ Luce Irigaray. *I Love To You: Sketch of a Possible Felicity in History*.
Translated by Alison Martin. Routledge: New York, NY. 1996. pp. 109-110
Cascadia Wikimedians User Group's 2015 Annual Plan funding proposal is now
live with the Grants Advisory Committee.
Please note:
* After our officer selection (5) plus our proposed two temporary part-time
outreach workers, that brings the number of people who get the higher level
of background check to 7, so I moved 2 budgeted background checks from
standard to enhanced.
* Dependent care costs: budgeted at $600 with an estimate of 4 events, at
$150 each for 4 hours each. More detail may be forthcoming if I get a
return phone call from a childcare agency.
* Some calendared events are moved from February to March due to GAC
estimated review of 6 weeks. Some February activities are contingent on
approval from WMDC and/or other donations, otherwise they will wait until
March.
* Scholarship, travel, and award policy development added as Board action
items for March.
Link: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/UG_US-CWUG/2015_Annual_Plan.
Questions, comments and endorsements would be appreciated.
Pine
*This is an Encyclopedia* <https://www.wikipedia.org/>
*One gateway to the wide garden of knowledge, where lies The deep rock of
our past, in which we must delve The well of our future,The clear water we
must leave untainted for those who come after us,The fertile earth, in
which truth may grow in bright places, tended by many hands,And the broad
fall of sunshine, warming our first steps toward knowing how much we do not
know.*
*—Catherine Munro*
Dear Wikimedians,
Cascadia Wikimedians User Group, which focuses on the U.S. states of Oregon
and Washington and the Canadian province of British Columbia, had our first
two board meetings this month. Our initial board members are:
Another Believer
Brianhe
Mako
Peaceray
Pine
Ragesoss
The following appointments have been made:
President: Peaceray
Vice President: Mako
Secretary: Another Believer
Treasurer: Brianhe
Executive Director: Pine
Thanks to everyone for their efforts at organizing the Cascadia Wikimedians
User Group, with a special shout out to Pine!
Yours,
Peaceray
President of Cascadia Wikimedians User Group
Another Believer
Secretary of Cascadia Wikimedians User Group
Note for board members, the Awards Policy was getting scope creep into
travel policy, so I moved Travel Policy to a separate document and made
modifications. The draft policy is based on WMF's travel policy. It's OK if
we don't have time to discuss travel policy tonight, since it is a lower
priority than other items that we have on the agenda.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1iM-PxtYwElZ2NCLD5zVODBwXDXq_K-mko03bvoy…
Thanks,
Pine
*This is an Encyclopedia* <https://www.wikipedia.org/>
*One gateway to the wide garden of knowledge, where lies The deep rock of
our past, in which we must delve The well of our future,The clear water we
must leave untainted for those who come after us,The fertile earth, in
which truth may grow in bright places, tended by many hands,And the broad
fall of sunshine, warming our first steps toward knowing how much we do not
know.*
*—Catherine Munro*
Hi all,
With thanks to Kirill for thoroughly reading the proposed bylaws, I have
made the following modifications which we will discuss during our Tuesday
meeting:
*Article III, section 1 broken up into 2 sections. Section 2 concerns
lobbying. Consistent with discussion with Steven LaPorte about
interpretation of our user group agreement, the restriction about
influencing legislation is modified to restrict only lobbying or
influencing legislation that is inconsistent with the Wikimedia mission.
*Article V, section 3 "Notice of Member Meetings" modified to allow for
electronic meeting notice provided that RCW 24.03.009 is fulfilled.
*Article V "Membership meetings" sections 4 and 5 modified to more
explicitly discuss virtual presence and allow for voting by mail in some
circumstances. Artivle V "Quorum" section modified to allow for a lower
threshold quorum than 50% of the membership once the total number of
members is sixteen or more.
*Article VI "Board of directors" section 9 on Director vacancies changed
from "Board shall appoint" to "Board may appoint". I highlighted for Board
to discuss this section in particular at our meeting.
*"Consequences of failing a background check; privacy disqualification"
changed to limit prohibition on becoming a Board member or officer until
"the appropriate length of time has passed since the incident in question
per Article VI section 3 subsection C, "Qualifications"."
*Article VI, Section 4.a on executive sessions: clarified that Board
members and officers in attendance must not be recused.
*Article VII, section 1 list of officers made consistent with Article VII,
Section 5.
*Article VII, section 2 changed to require that the board chair and
vice-chair be board members.
*Moved the 2nd portion of the Treasurer's job description, which discussed
authority to allow variances from budgets. This section is now in Article
X, "Fiscal Controls".
* Modified the documentation requirement to allow that some expenses of $10
or less where there may be no receipt offered, such as parking fees that
are paid with cash, may still be eligible for disbursements at the
discretion of the Treasurer and subject to later review by the Finance
Committee.
*Article X - "Fiscal controls" section 1-c clarified.
Thanks very much for your feedback, Kirill.
Pine
*This is an Encyclopedia* <https://www.wikipedia.org/>
*One gateway to the wide garden of knowledge, where lies The deep rock of
our past, in which we must delve The well of our future,The clear water we
must leave untainted for those who come after us,The fertile earth, in
which truth may grow in bright places, tended by many hands,And the broad
fall of sunshine, warming our first steps toward knowing how much we do not
know.*
*—Catherine Munro*
Hi Pine,
Thank you for submitting a grant application on behalf of the Cascadia
Wikimedians User Group [1]. Wikimedia DC is committed to supporting
Wikimedian groups around the country, and we look forward to seeing how we
can assist you and your group.
We have begun our review of your application, and we have a few questions
regarding the budget items you listed:
(1) In line item 1, what is the rationale for selecting Xero as an
accounting tool?
(2) In line item 1, what is the rationale for selecting the Standard
package on Xero?
(3) In line item 4, why is a trade name fee required?
(4) In line items 6 and 7, why is local registration occurring in multiple
jurisdictions?
(5) In line item 9, what is the nature of the high-security checkbook, and
why is it required?
To expedite further review of your application, please provide your
responses to these questions at your earliest convenience.
Regards,
Kirill
[1]
http://wikimediadc.org/wiki/Grant:Cascadia_Wikimedians_User_Group_Quick_Sta…
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Kirill Lokshin
Secretary, Wikimedia District of Columbia
http://wikimediadc.org
Reminder: Cascadia Wikimedians User Group board meeting at Mercer Island
Library on Tuesday!
Agenda here. Please sign to indicate your attendance plans. Please add any
items to the agenda that you think should be added.
We're going to try to finish Cascadia's setup at Tuesday's meeting, so that
we can move forward with sending our substantive grant request to GAC and
doing major preparation work for programs later this year.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Seattle
Thanks!
Pine
*This is an Encyclopedia* <https://www.wikipedia.org/>
*One gateway to the wide garden of knowledge, where lies The deep rock of
our past, in which we must delve The well of our future,The clear water we
must leave untainted for those who come after us,The fertile earth, in
which truth may grow in bright places, tended by many hands,And the broad
fall of sunshine, warming our first steps toward knowing how much we do not
know.*
*—Catherine Munro*
*Editing Workshop: Learn to Contribute to Wikipedia!*
Friday, Feb. 13, 2pm-4pm at the University of Washington Research Commons
<http://commons.lib.washington.edu/about/location-1>, Green Room A
<http://commons.lib.washington.edu/resources/green-a>
Hosted by Wikimedia DC and Wikimedia Cascadia User Group
Learn to be an editor on Wikipedia! Wikipedia is a free online
encyclopedia. Anyone can learn to contribute. Get signed up, learn the
markup language, and how to avoid common pitfalls. Whether you're
completely new, or you've written or edited in the past, the workshop will
cover the basic skill set. Experienced Wikipedia editors will be on hand to
answer questions. This workshop is open to anyone who wishes to attend. Bring
your own laptops & power cords. (Guest access to UW WiFi will be available.)
The Wikipedia Editing Workshop is recommended as a pre-session for
participants in 'I Love To You': Critical Wikipedia Edit-a-thon
<http://www.ilovetoyou.wordpress.com/>, Saturday, Feb. 14, 2013.
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Please circulate!