On Tue, May 3, 2011 2:13 pm, aude wrote:
> Saturday is open house day at the European embassies in DC! Who all is
> interested in doing some pre-meetup touring of the embassies?
>
> Depending on the interest, we could:
>
> 1) meet at Dupont Circle in the morning (9:45-10am) and tour 15 embassies
> along and around Embassy Row, all together as a single group.
>
> 2) we could organize it into a Wikis Take the Embassies sort of thing,
> split
> up into groups and cover more embassies with us going around getting
> photos,
> including the interior of the embassies and the outside (some embassy
> articles can use better photos, some don't have any!). One group could
> cover Embassy Row and the other group cover the embassies in/around
> Georgetown (Spain, Sweden, France, Germany)
>
> 3) if time allows or we want a third group, we could hit some of the
> embassies (Slovakia, Austria, Hungary, Czech Republic) near Van
> Ness/Tenleytown in the afternoon before the meetup.
>
> Wiki Takes ___ events are sometimes competitive, and we could to that, but
> not necessary and I'm in favor of it being non-competitive.
>
> Here is more info:
>
>
http://europe-in-dc.com
>
>
http://www.eurunion.org/eu/images/stories/2011ophsebrochure-map.pdf
>
> I'm adding a signup place on our meetup page for these.
>
>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/DC_17
>
> (oh, and Wikis Take the Embassies Part II could be the following weekend,
> May 14, when the non-EU embassies do their open house. Any interest?)
>
> Cheers,
> Katie