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:
1) 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.
2) Public policy initiative - how's it going, what's up for the Spring semester?
3) 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
4) Holocaust museum wants to work with Wikipedia, perhaps bring in an intern to work on Wikipedia
5) 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
6) 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.
7) Wikipedia's 10th birthday is coming up in January. We are talking about doing something special to celebrate, perhaps the following weekend!
8) Talked about next meetups and future events
9) 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)
10) 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!
11) 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)
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Katie Filbert
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