Thanks, Peaceray. I, too, want to thank Pine for his efforts and patience.
Just a thought: The Wiki Loves Libraries campaign is held during
October/November. That is a good opportunity to reach out to local
libraries or institutions associated with libraries for a GLAM-related
edit-a-thon. For example, in Portland we had one at the Art Museum's
library. We have also had WLL events at Multnomah County's Central Library
and the Vancouver (WA) Community Library. I can't remember if it came to
fruition or not, but I seem to recall the Fyre Museum in Seattle wanting to
collaborate with Wikipedia somehow. I think a collaboration with the
Seattle Art Museum would also be great. (I, myself, still haven't finished
creating entries for all of the sculptures at Olympic Sculpture Park, and
surely the collection has many notable works deserving of Wikipedia
entries.)
Also, I plan to create a page for Washington meetups, much like the page
for Portland/Oregon:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Portland/Participants
It takes some time to create, but then it becomes very easy to send
invitations to meetups or to participate in online campaigns, send
collaboration of the week notices, etc. Would it be better to create the
page under the WikiProject Washington umbrella, or the Meetup/Seattle
umbrella? There is kind of a single list for Portland/Oregon meetups and
WikiProject Oregon, but maybe this would not work as well for
Seattle/Washington?
Jason
On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 10:54 AM, Raymond Leonard <
raymond.f.leonard.jr(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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
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