Wikimedia-Cascadia January 2015

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Suggested reading for Board members
by Pine W 26 Feb '15

26 Feb '15

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*

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[Invitation] three upcoming Wikipedia events, please circulate!
by Monika Sengul-Jones 29 Jan '15

29 Jan '15

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> ------ *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. ----- *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.) ----- *'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

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CWUG Annual Plan grant request has been posted
by Pine W 29 Jan '15

29 Jan '15

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*

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Announcement: Cascadia Wikimedians User Group board and officers
by Raymond Leonard 28 Jan '15

28 Jan '15

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

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Getting set up for the meeting
by Pine W 28 Jan '15

28 Jan '15

I'm at the library. I'll send out a Hangouts link in a few minutes. It is a dark and stormy night in Seattle so people may arrive a little late. Pine

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Travel Policy
by Pine W 28 Jan '15

28 Jan '15

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*

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Edits to bylaw document
by Pine W 27 Jan '15

27 Jan '15

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*

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Your Wikimedia DC grant application
by Kirill Lokshin 27 Jan '15

27 Jan '15

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… -- Kirill Lokshin Secretary, Wikimedia District of Columbia http://wikimediadc.org

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Reminder: meeting at Mercer Island Library on Tuesday
by Pine W 27 Jan '15

27 Jan '15

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*

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Editing Workshop: Learn to Contribute to Wikipedia!
by Monika Sengul-Jones 24 Jan '15

24 Jan '15

*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. -- Please circulate!

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