I've been thinking (irregardless of our Wikimania bid) that it's important we make some outreach effort in the local area to teach people about Wikipedia, aim to bring in new editors and increase our diversity, such as more African Americans & women. It would also be great to reach out to populations like Ethiopians.
One way for us to do this would be to organize periodic workshops or classes at the local libraries in DC. We could start out with something at the MLK library in downtown DC.
Here's our local outreach page ( http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_DC/Local_outreach) which needs to be filled out to make it more than just ideas and include concrete plans to do something.
Good idea? Who wants to help out? I do have some contacts at DC Library so could see about arranging something once we have enough of us interested in doing this.
Cheers, Katie