Might want to forward this to wikimedia-dc(a)lists.wikimedia.org.
Alex
On 30 July 2010 17:33, Dan Rosenthal <swatjester(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Please CC in anyone that I forgot, I'm missing several email addresses.
>
> We're trying to rapidly plan a Wikimeetup #11, which would coincide with a
> WMF public policy initiative meeting, some time around August 10th. Pete
> Forsyth is CC'd in on this, and can correct me on the time/date/venue, but
> basically the gist of it is that the initiative will be having a dinner with
> some academic types, and we would host the meetup at the same location
> immediately afterwards. This, of course, cuts down on a lot of the planning
> we would have to do involving setting the time/date/location -- the biggest
> thing for us would simply be notifying people and getting them all out
> there.
>
> Also, and I'll let Pete elaborate further on this, a certain number of
> attendees would be welcome to attend the dinner before the meetup and enjoy
> the free dinner while also getting to mingle with some academics and WMF
> staff.
>
> So, what are our first steps that we need to do to get this started? Here's
> what I see (in no particular order)
>
> *Create the meetup page.
> *Get BrownBot to notify people
> *Figure out attendees to the dinner
> *Figure out an agenda for the meetup
>
> -Dan