I will not be able to attend, unfortunately, for various reasons. But I * should* be able to hop onto IRC for at least a portion of the meeting.
Having brought up the idea of potentially contacting embassies and consulates to attempt outreach, I'd very much like to see it through. But I will need help in coming up with a.) who the best to start with are (ideally, I'd like to try and speak to *all* of them at some point) and b.) what's the best manner of approaching them.
I'm also mulling over another couple of suggestions, but I'll bring those up later.
On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 4:17 PM, James Hare messedrocker@gmail.com wrote:
Greetings!
This is a reminder that there will be a meeting of the Wikimania 2012 bid team at the Starbucks in Dupont Circle. Just take the red line to Dupont Circle and you will see the Starbucks right there. I will be there with my gigantic laptop. I understand a number of you won't be able to attend, so if there is anything you would like entered into the record (for instance, if you have contacted a potential venue or speaker), let me know.
So far I've recorded down that Gallaudet University and the Artisphere have been contacted, with the Artisphere being removed from consideration for being too small a venue. I've also delisted the National Harbor, since we don't appear to be very enthusiastic about it as a venue option. (Feel free to disagree.) No one appears to have been delegated to contact Catholic University or the Kennedy Center, so I also removed those.
I am still in the middle of drafting the meeting agenda, but I imagine this meeting to be part strategy and part delegation of responsibility. So far, I have only heard back from Racepacket and Kumioko about venues. I am not too concerned about this, since we still have time to pick a venue and we do not have a coordinated message. We will thus spend some time working on coordinating our message, and once we get that done, then I'll expect more. We will also be deciding who will be taking on what task. After this meeting, I am imagining we will have fewer meetings and more doing, with our work cut out for us. I'll continue to rally people as necessary.
If you would look to keep abreast of the meeting, I will also be on IRC in the #wikimedia-northeast channel. If you're not familiar with IRC, you can simply go to http://webchat.freenode.net and use that to get to #wikimedia-northeast.
I look forward to this meeting and an impressive bid for Wikimania 2012!
James Hare (harej)
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