2010/11/19 Alex Stinson stinsoad@dukes.jmu.edu
Thank you Katie, and I really regret not being able to be at the meeting,
Definitely understand that you are in school and can't be there (especially on a weeknight!)
We will try to do something while you are in DC for the holidays (around New Years), though it sounds like Dec 18th is better for some people and Jan 2 works for other folks. Would like to find a way to include everyone... not sure how.
Also keep in mind we are now talking about doing something for Wikipedia's 10th birthday, the following weekend ~Jan 22. (I know Alex can't make it :( but hope we get many people )
-Katie (@aude)
Alex
User:Sadads
2010/11/19 aude aude.wiki@gmail.com
Notes are posted for DC Meetup #13 on Wednesday:
http://bit.ly/dc13notes (sorry, they are lengthy, we have lots going on!)
In summary, we talked about:
- Social media outreach for the fundraiser, and beyond that for when we
reach the fundraising target. Let's use social media and outreach to engage with people and encourage more contributions (e.g. edits). Swatjester will follow-up with more info on this.
- Public policy initiative - how's it going, what's up for the Spring
semester?
- Smithsonian collaboration - it's continuing, working with Smithsonian
American Art Museum on article collaboration, strong possibility for us to work with Archives of American Art, we have more contacts elsewhere w/in the Smithsonian and can connect people
- Holocaust museum wants to work with Wikipedia, perhaps bring in an
intern to work on Wikipedia
- National Archives is another important collaboration possibility, via
the FedFlix project and has lots of potential, with people high up in NARA supporting FedFlix and have approached us to see how they can engage with us more directly in cool ways
- User:Econterms and a colleague from the Bureau of Labor Statistics
talked about how they might contribute data to Wikipedia, as "Economy of Virginia" or such state infoboxes.
- Wikipedia's 10th birthday is coming up in January. We are talking
about doing something special to celebrate, perhaps the following weekend!
Talked about next meetups and future events
Talked briefly about Wikimedia DC chapter stuff, trying to gauge where
consensus is (towards having a local group, but find ways to coordinate regionally and nationally where it makes sense, maybe a loose structure such as US Chapters Council)
- Ed Summers (user:edsu) was at the meetup, he works at the Library of
Congress, created the linkypedia tool (http://linkypedia.inkdroid.org/), etc. He (we agree) suggests the DC area might be ripe for holding a GLAM-Wiki type symposium to bring folks together. He also says he's willing to host us for meetups!
- We also have contacts in Baltimore, with historic preservation folks,
who are interested in doing a Wikipedia Takes Baltimore event (photographing historic sites)
Wow, that's a lot... that's why I think more regular meetups are a good idea. We might not be able to do all these things but if we get enough people involved, we can do a lot and much as possible.
Cheers, Katie (@aude)
-- Katie Filbert filbertk@gmail.com @filbertkm
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