Cross-posting to our friends out east. :)
-greg
Begin forwarded message:
> From: Gregory Varnum <gregory.varnum(a)gmail.com>
> Subject: New email list for Wikimedia Midwest US
> Date: 30 June, 2012 1:36:21 AM EDT
> To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
>
> Greetings,
>
> I am pleased to announce that the Midwest region of the United States now has our own email list!
>
> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-us-mw - wikimedia-us-mw(a)lists.wikimedia.org.
>
>
> This discussion list allows for individuals in the Midwest US to discuss Wikimedia related collaborations and events. It will also be used to discuss the possible formation of a Midwest US Wikimedia Chapter, already in discussion at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Midwest
>
> The list will also house information on the upcoming Midwest US Meetup at Wikimania 2012: https://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Midwest_US_Meetup
>
>
> I have volunteered to moderate the list at its start. Hopefully as leaders step up for the Midwest, they can be added and take that task on in the future.
>
> I look forward to engaging with folks in discussion there on the future of Wikimedia involvement in the great Midwest!
>
> -greg aka varnent
FYI for anyone techie (or not) or interested in GLAM. :)
Cheers,
Katie
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Dylan Kinnett <dylan(a)nocategories.net>
Date: Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 2:10 PM
Subject: I would like to invite you to attend a hackathon
To:
I would like to invite you to attend a hackathon at the Walters Art Museum.
Please, if you know anybody who likes hackathons, help spread the word?
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Baltimore will hold Art Bytes, a hackathon where technology and creative
communities work together to build programs and applications inspired by
art or to address specific challenges faced by museums. This will be
Baltimore’s, first art museum hackathon. ****
** **
This event will be at the Walters Art Museum from July 27–29. On Friday
evening, July 27, staff from Baltimore’s museum community will present
specific challenges or ideas that they would like solved—from how to use
technology to experience a collection to how to virtually access archives.
Over the course of the weekend, technologists, innovators, scholars and
artists will coalesce into teams in the Walters’ Sculpture Court to design
and develop their solution. Participants will be able to visit the museum’s
galleries for inspiration throughout the weekend. On Sunday afternoon, July
29, leaders of the technology and innovation communities will judge which
teams were the most successful. ****
** **
*Thanks to the generosity of the Abell Foundation $5,000 will be awarded in
prizes!*
* *
*Judges:*
- Mario Armstrong, Digital Lifestyle Expert, CNN, NPR, WYPR
- Greg Cangialosi, Managing Director, Nucleus Ventures, LLC
- *Sid Meier*, Director of Creative Development at Firaxis
- Sheri Parks, Associate Professor, University of Maryland
- Murray Taylor, President, Digital Steamworks
Where:****
- The Walters Art Museum. 600 N. Charles Street, Baltimore MD 21201
When:****
- Friday, July 27–Sunday, July 29
- Friday, July 27, 5–9 p.m.
- Saturday, July 28, 10 a.m.–midnight
- Sunday, July 29, 10 a.m.–5 p.m.
Price:****
- Free
*Registration:*
- *Advance registration is required at
**http://artbytes.eventbrite.com/*<http://artbytes.eventbrite.com/>
--
Board member, Wikimedia District of Columbia
http://wikimediadc.org
@wikimediadc / @wikimania2012
Hello everyone,
Wikimania 2012 is now only a month away! And we will need a lot of
volunteers to make sure everything runs swimmingly. Those who
volunteer for Wikimania will receive free registration *and* a
thank-you dinner on Saturday night. So what are you waiting for? Sign
up here: <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dDVtazR0ajJHdHRoTmR4VG…>
If you have any questions, email me at james.hare(a)wikidc.org.
Regards,
James Hare
Coordinator, Wikimania 2012
Dear All,
We are pleased to announce our next Embassy Outreach Initiative event, held
in cooperation with the Austrian Embassy. While our last EOI event was more
on the educational side, our event at the Austrian Embassy is a fun evening
of music, art, and culture. Please join us at the Austrian Embassy on the
evening of Friday, July 6, for "From Mozart to Michael Jackson," a concert
event featuring Austrian muscians Barbara Helfgott (violin) & Michael Kahr
(piano).
We hope you can join us for this fun evening. For more information, please
visit the Meetup page here:
http://www.meetup.com/Wikimedia-DC/events/69989262/
Sincerely,
Nicholas Michael Bashour
President
Wikimedia District of Columbia
Washington, DC, USA
*Wikimedia District of Columbia
&
Sunlight Labs*
invite you to
*WikiData & Global Open Data*
a roundtable discussion
Panel Discussion With
*Josh Tauberer*
Creator of GovTrack.us and author of Open Government Data: the Book
*
Andrew Pendleton*
Programmer at the Sunlight Foundation
*Katie Filbert*
WikiData programmer at Wikimedia Deutschland
Panel followed by
*WikiData Brainstorming Session*
June 21, 2012
6:00 PM
Click Here to RSVP <http://wikidataroundtable.eventbrite.com>
Sunlight Foundation Offices
1818 N Street NW
Washington, DC
Wikimedia Deutschland, the official regional chapter of the Wikimedia
Foundation in Germany, is currently developing the latest Wikimedia
project, WikiData, a revolutionary new free knowledge base about the world
that can be read and edited by humans and machines alike, which will
provide data in all 280+ languages of the Wikimedia projects, and which
will allow for central access to data. The WikiData development team will
be on hand during the international Wikimania 2012 conference at George
Washington University this July. In order to understand WikiData and its
potential role in the global open data movement, Wikimedia District of
Columbia and Sunlight Labs is holding this roundtable discussion event
featuring a panel discussion and brainstorming session to discuss global
open data and to understand what WikiData is and is not as it develops. Our
goal is to make relevant suggestions and recommendations from the Open Data
community to the WikiData development team that will help make this project
a success following launch and implementation.
*About the Panelists:*
*Josh Tauberer (@JoshData, @govtrack)* is a civic hacker, entrepreneur, and
writer based in Washington, DC. Josh is the proprietor of Civic Impulse,
LLC out of which he runs GovTrack.us, an open government project. Josh is
also the author of Open Government Data: The Book (2012) and a developer
“At Large” for LARSA, Inc., a structural engineering software company that
makes sure bridges don’t collapse.
*Andrew Pendleton (@sunlightlabs)* is a programmer at the Sunlight
Foundation, where he works on making government data more accessible.
Hailing from Alaska, Andrew has spent several years in DC, and did contract
web development for a variety of nonprofit organizations prior to coming to
Sunlight. When not writing code, Andrew likes to bake, and dabbles with the
cello and piano.
*Katie Filbert (@filbertkm)* is part of the WikiData development team at
Wikimedia Deutschland and a Board of Directors member at Wikimedia DC. She
has been involved with Wikipedia since 2004 and has contributed to
OpenStreetMap since 2008.
Even more reason to keep expanding the Wikipedia Campus Ambassadors program:
*Top US universities put their reputations online*
This autumn more than a million students are going to take part in an
experiment that could re-invent the landscape of higher education.
Some of the biggest powerhouses in US higher education are offering online
courses - testing how their expertise and scholarship can be brought to a
global audience.
Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have formed a $60m
(£38m) alliance to launch edX, a platform to deliver courses online - with
the modest ambition of "revolutionising education around the world".
Sounding like a piece of secret military hardware, edX will provide online
interactive courses which can be studied by anyone, anywhere, with no
admission requirements and, at least at present, without charge.
The rest can be found here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-18191589
Sincerely,
Nicholas Michael Bashour
President
Wikimedia District of Columbia
Washington, DC, USA
Hello everyone!
We have created a new meetup.com page to post meetup events to (such as
edit-a-thons, monthly meetups, happy hours, or just random get-togethers)
so that we can meet new people who may not even be Wikimedians yet! Join
the meetup group and be on the lookout for various events. Events on
meetup.com will also be posted on-wiki, but meetup.com will be another way
for us to reach out to people who love knowledge but have not yet started
contributing to Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects.
You can find the site here: http://www.meetup.com/Wikimedia-DC/
In case you haven't yet seen them, we also have a blog (blog.wikimediadc.org),
a facebook page (https://facebook.com/wikimediadc) and an Eventbrite page (
http://wikimediadc.eventbrite.com/), and, of course, our Twitter page
(@WikimediaDC).
Hope to see you all at the Wiknic events posted on our Meetup.com page!
Sincerely,
Nicholas Michael Bashour
President
Wikimedia District of Columbia
Washington, DC, USA
Hello everyone,
The draft minutes of the Wikimedia DC Board of Directors meeting held on
June 2 are attached. As always, comments and suggestions are very welcome!
Cheers,
Kirill
--
Kirill Lokshin
Secretary | Wikimedia District of Columbia
http://wikimediadc.org | @wikimediadc
Hello everyone,
Many of you know Kevin Chen, who has served as Vice President of Wikimedia
DC over the past six months. For those of you who have not had the
pleasure of working with him, I will say that Kevin has been a major force
in the development and professionalization of Wikimedia DC over the course
of the last year, first as a member of our Legal Committee, and then as a
Director and as Vice President.
Unfortunately, Kevin will be moving out of the DC area in the near future.
As he will consequently be unable to devote a signifiant amount of time to
Wikimedia DC activities, Kevin is stepping down from his positions as
Director and Vice President. The Board of Directors has accepted Kevin's
resignation with great regret; we are all deeply grateful for Kevin's many
insightful contributions to the development of our chapter, and are looking
forward to working closely with him again at some point in the future.
To fill Kevin's seat until the next regular election this October, the
Board of Directors has appointed Tom Risen as a Director and to the
position of Vice President. Tom is a professional journalist who has
recently been assisting with some of our outreach initiatives; we are
certain that he will prove a valuable asset to our organization.
Please join me in welcoming Tom to the Wikimedia DC family!
Cheers,
Kirill
--
Kirill Lokshin
Secretary | Wikimedia District of Columbia
http://wikimediadc.org | @wikimediadc