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From: Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 1:37 PM
Subject: Re: Scheduling for July's Wikimedia US online meeting
To: "Wikimedians Active in Local Regions of the United States (WALRUS)" <
wikimediaus-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hi all,
The meeting is now set for Thursday, July 28 at 6 PM Pacific / 9 PM Eastern.
We have time available in the agenda for a couple of additional items, so
feel free to add subjects for discussion.
Just a note that there was a weak consensus at our last meetings to (1)
refrain from recording these meetings for the time being but (2) have
detailed minutes. We may revisit this question again in the future.
I hope to see you at the meeting. The Zoom meeting link will be forthcoming.
Pine
On Wed, Jul 6, 2016 at 3:54 PM, Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Here is this month's Doodle poll for scheduling our July meeting:
>
> http://doodle.com/poll/r34gpzp8kbgcx9da
>
> Times are shown in Pacific by default, so please be sure to convert if
> you're in a different time zone. The earliest time slot shown is 5 PM
> Pacific which is 8 PM Eastern, and the latest time slot shown is 6:30 PM
> Pacific which is 9:30 PM Eastern. This seems to reflect the range in which
> we get the most participants.
>
> A tentative agenda is at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WALRUS/July_2016.
> You are welcome to add items to the agenda; please include your username if
> you do so.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Pine
>
Hi everyone, thanks to those who could attend. Meeting minutes are
available at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WALRUS/June_2016#Meeting_minutes. If you
need to make corrections or additions to the minutes, please do so both on
Meta and in the etherpad. Thanks!
Pine
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From: Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com>
Date: Sun, Jun 5, 2016 at 3:42 PM
Subject: Wikimedia US coalition meeting for June 2016
To: "Wikimedians Active in Local Regions of the United States (WALRUS)" <
wikimediaus-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, North American Cultural Partnerships <
glam-us(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hi everyone,
It's time again to participate in the poll for this month's meeting.
Some US Wikimedians will be at Wikimania, so I tried to offer some time
choices that might work for people who will participate from time zones in
the US and Europe. I also tried to offer choices on the days before and
after the busiest Wikimania days.
Possible dates are:
Monday, June 20
Tuesday, June 21
Wednesday, June 22
(break)
Tuesday, June 28
Wednesday, June 29
Thursday, June 30
Please go here to indicate your schedule preference:
http://doodle.com/poll/9y2x39kvg8qrz8tg
Here is our tentative agenda:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WALRUS/June_2016
Please discuss on the talk page whether you think we should try recording
this meeting and making it available for public playback:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:WALRUS/June_2016#Should_we_record_the_…
Thanks!
Pine
*Hi, y'all. We would like to invite/remind you to/of the 3rd in a series of
the Bay Area WikiSalon.*
We'll be reserving plenty of time before and after for informal
conversation and collaboration. Newcomers and experienced wiki users are
encouraged to attend.
As usual, the organizers will be donating to provide beverages and light
snacks, but feel free to bring food and drink for yourself or to share.
This event is part of a monthly series which will be at the Wikimedia
Foundation offices, the last Wednesday evening of every month in downtown
San Francisco.
We will also have:
* A brief report on the Pride edit-a-thon recently held at the San
Francisco Public Library, coordinated by Wiki editor Merrilee.
* A special announcement (secret for now but come and find out more!)
* Join in on an in person Wikidojo
* Announcements and impromptu topics are welcome, too!
Please register at:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1cjLRrSTlEkGOPTQ-h6A0WvSFI4ZmIUl6jEHp_RYas-…
and bring a photo ID that matches your registration name.
For further details, see:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bay_Area_WikiSalon,_June_2016
For remote access, to watch a remote stream, or to view later, go here:
* To join Hangout on Air:
https://hangouts.google.com/call/tgw2ofvj6ba7bnzjy4umkte7jae
* YouTube Stream: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IYcmCUJliQ
See you soon! Pete F, Ben C, Stephen L and Wayne (co-coordinators)
On 06/14/2016 12:56 PM, Stephen LaPorte wrote:
> I wanted to share a copy of a letter that we sent on AB
> 2880: https://policy.wikimedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/wikimedia-ab2880.pdf
>
> As well as a blog post on the
> topic: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/06/14/california-government-public-domain/https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/06/california-legislature-drops-proposal…
EFF warned the bill’s authors about these problems in early
May. Soon after, numerous other organizations joined in opposition
from library groups to open government advocates to newspapers,
Internet companies, and the California Chamber of Commerce. And
more than 360 Californians wrote to their state legislators through
EFF’s Action Center to sound the alarm.
Those efforts have paid off. This week, the bill was amended to
remove the new intellecutual property powers and the new exemptions
to CPRA. What remains are provisions for better tracking of state
patents, trademarks, and copyrights, and a new requirement that
state agencies “consider” the intellectual property rights of
all parties when they write contracts. These changes should help
avoid situations like the ongoing trademark dispute over hotels and
campgrounds in Yosemite National Park, without harming public access
to government records and data.
Based on the new amendments, EFF is dropping its opposition to
A.B. 2880. Thank you to everyone who weighed in on this issue for
sending a strong message that the abuse of intellectual property
laws can harm many different sectors of society, and that preventing
those abuses needs to be a top priority for our lawmakers. Thanks
also to Assemblymember Mark Stone for listening and responding to
Californians’ concerns with this bill.
Well done!
Mike
Please join us for the third Bay Area WikiSalon in downtown San Francisco,
where we will be hearing from Merrilee Proffitt of OCLC Research, who will
report on a recent San Francisco Public Library edit-a-thon. She'll fill us
in on resources your public library provides to help with editing (hint,
it’s more than just books!). She'll also be making a super secret
announcement: join us to hear it!
We'll also be reserving plenty of time before and after for informal
conversation and collaboration. Newcomers and experienced wiki users are
encouraged to attend.
As usual, the organizers will be donating to provide beverages and light
snacks, but feel free to bring food and drink for yourself or to share.
This event is part of a monthly series which will be at the Wikimedia
Foundation offices, the last Wednesday evening of every month, to provide
an opportunity to collaborate, mingle, and learn about new wiki-related
projects and ideas.
Please note: You must register in advance. Bring a photo ID that matches
your registration name. The building policy is strict on this point. For
further details and to register, see here:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bay_Area_WikiSalon,_June_2016
Thanks, and we hope to see you there!
-Ben, Stephen, Pete, and Wayne
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From: Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com>
Date: Sat, Jun 11, 2016 at 2:00 PM
Subject: Re: [GLAM-US] Wikimedia US coalition meeting for June 2016
To: North American Cultural Partnerships <glam-us(a)lists.wikimedia.org>,
"Wikimedians Active in Local Regions of the United States (WALRUS)" <
wikimediaus-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
By popular demand, the meeting is set for Thursday, June 30 at 6:30 Pacific
/ 9:30 Eastern. (:
Pine
On Thu, Jun 9, 2016 at 12:59 PM, Andrew Lih <andrew.lih(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks Pine. I voted on that page that I hope we can opt for recording
> these, in order to engage more folks. Cheers.
>
> -Andrew
>
>
> On Sun, Jun 5, 2016 at 6:42 PM, Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> It's time again to participate in the poll for this month's meeting.
>>
>> Some US Wikimedians will be at Wikimania, so I tried to offer some time
>> choices that might work for people who will participate from time zones in
>> the US and Europe. I also tried to offer choices on the days before and
>> after the busiest Wikimania days.
>>
>> Possible dates are:
>>
>> Monday, June 20
>> Tuesday, June 21
>> Wednesday, June 22
>> (break)
>> Tuesday, June 28
>> Wednesday, June 29
>> Thursday, June 30
>>
>> Please go here to indicate your schedule preference:
>> http://doodle.com/poll/9y2x39kvg8qrz8tg
>>
>> Here is our tentative agenda:
>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WALRUS/June_2016
>>
>> Please discuss on the talk page whether you think we should try recording
>> this meeting and making it available for public playback:
>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:WALRUS/June_2016#Should_we_record_the_…
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Pine
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> GLAM-US mailing list
>> GLAM-US(a)lists.wikimedia.org
>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/glam-us
>>
>>
>
> _______________________________________________
> GLAM-US mailing list
> GLAM-US(a)lists.wikimedia.org
> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/glam-us
>
>
Hi all! Just a reminder about this editathon which will be next Saturday. We have lots of suggestions for content to be improved. Come along and bring your friends.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/SFPL-LGBT/2016
Merrilee
From: Proffitt,Merrilee
Sent: Monday, May 09, 2016 6:32 PM
To: San Francisco Bay Area Wikimedians <wikimedia-sf(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Subject: San Francisco Public Library Pride Editathon, June 11, 1-5
Hi,
I've been working with colleagues at the San Francisco public library on a Pride editathon. June 11, 1-5 at the main branch. I've done my usual lame job of creating the meetup page, but for now put this on your calendars and please plan to come and help support! The library staff are super excited about library resources being used to improve Wikipedia and giving you all the low down on their collections. They also forward to developing a partnership with the local Wiki community and hope that this can be the first in a series.
We'll be adding articles that need improvement and creation that relate to SF LGBTQI etc people, places, events and organizations but please add your own!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/SFPL-LGBT/2016
Thank you!
Merrilee
On 05/15/2016 08:07 PM, John P. Sadowski wrote:
> That is quite troubling, given that the committee approvals were
> near-unanimous. Is it possible that the bill could be interpreted
> to apply retroactively, meaning we'd have to remove those 1048 items?
I don't see anything retroactive in the text, but I also don't see
anything that would strictly prohibit state agencies and local
governments from treating previous publications as subject to copyright.
I see that User:Gazebo has posted at
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump/Copyright#Proposed_…
to no discussion yet.
> Any idea when the bill comes up with a vote? Wikimedia DC could
> possibly draft and send a letter giving Wikimedia-specific examples,
> or we could work with the Foundation legal team to do so.
I don't know when it can be expected to come up for a vote. I should
know more about California lawmaking than I do, which is almost nothing.
I've copied wikimedia-sf; maybe some local California government maven
lurks there and could say.
Mike
>> On May 15, 2016, at 9:47 PM, Mike Linksvayer <ml(a)gondwanaland.com> wrote:
>>
>> https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/04/ab-2880 "California's Legislature
>> Wants to Copyright All Government Works"
>>
>> More background at
>> https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160417/09213934197/california-assembly-…
>>
>> According to http://copyright.lib.harvard.edu/states/ California is one
>> of the three most "open" regarding government works. Presumably it won't
>> be anymore if AB 2880 becomes law.
>>
>> California is one of only two U.S. states with a category under
>> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Public_domain_by_government
>> -- https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:PD_California (1048 items).
>>
>> I haven't investigated whether and how many of those items would be
>> subject to copyright had AB 2880 been California law at the times of
>> their publication.
>>
>> Skimming the bill's changes to present law at
>> https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billCompareClient.xhtml?bill_id=20…
>> it seems the one or two maybe dangerous additions are these:
>>
>>> A public entity may own, license, and, if it deems it appropriate,
>>> formally register intellectual property it creates or otherwise
>>> acquires.
>>
>> The assembly's analysis views this as a clarification, but it could open
>> the door to widespread use (or copyright apologists would say, abuse) of
>> copyright by local government, as the EFF says, "to chill speech, stifle
>> open government, and harm the public domain."
>>
>>> (A) A state agency shall not enter into a contract under this
>>> article that waives the state’s intellectual property rights unless
>>> the state agency, prior to execution of the contract, obtains the
>>> consent of the department to the waiver.
>>>
>>> (B) An attempted waiver of the state’s intellectual property rights
>>> by a state agency that violates subparagraph (A) shall be deemed
>>> void as against public policy.
>>
>> It is not clear to me whether this addition might serve as a barrier to
>> agencies deciding to publish material under open licenses. In the
>> meantime, I assume it will foster such barriers in practice.
>>
>> https://twitter.com/mitchstoltz/status/731282363674562560 says "[EFF]'ll
>> probably issue an action alert, but meantime, call your state assembly
>> member's office & ask them to oppose."
>>
>> If this is indeed a threat, I wonder if there's anything Wikimedians can
>> do to oppose it, in addition to those of us in California calling our
>> state assembly members?
>>
>> Mike
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Publicpolicy mailing list
>> Publicpolicy(a)lists.wikimedia.org
>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/publicpolicy
>
> _______________________________________________
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> Publicpolicy(a)lists.wikimedia.org
> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/publicpolicy
>
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From: Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com>
Date: Sat, May 21, 2016 at 1:50 PM
Subject: Re: [Wikimediaus-l] May online meeting of US Wikimedians
To: "Wikimedians Active in Local Regions of the United States (WALRUS)" <
wikimediaus-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hello US Wikimedians,
Here's a reminder that our public meeting will be on Tuesday.
Kirill <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Kirill_Lokshin> will chair the
meeting this month.
The current version of the agenda is below, with Pacific times shown:
- "One minute updates" from each chapter and user group. (6:00-6:15)
- Wiknic 2016 (6:15-6:20) (Pharos
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pharos>)
- Main page
- Announcements to mailing lists
- Geonotices and/or site banners
- WikiCon USA/SoCal (in San Diego Oct 7-10, 2016) (6:20-6:28) (DrMel
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:DrMel>)
- Wiki Loves Pride 2016
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Pride_2016> (6:28-6:32) (
Bluerasberry <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Bluerasberry>)
- WikiSalons <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiSalon> (6:33-6:36) (
Checkingfax <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Checkingfax>)
- OpenStreetMap SOTM USA conference in Seattle (6:37-6:40) (Peaceray
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Peaceray>)
Please plan your chapter or user group's one minute update in advance of
the meeting so
that everyone has a chance to share and the meeting can proceed in a timely
manner.
Thanks!
Pine
On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 8:06 AM, Kirill Lokshin <
kirill.lokshin(a)wikimediadc.org> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Here is the dial-in information for the meeting:
>
> Topic: United States Wikipedians Online Meetup
> Time: May 24, 2016 9:00 PM (GMT-4:00) Eastern Time (US and Canada)
>
> Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android: https://zoom.us/j/431598981
>
> Or iPhone one-tap: 16465588656,431598981# or 14086380968,431598981#
>
> Or Telephone:
> Dial: +1 646 558 8656 (US Toll) or +1 408 638 0968 (US Toll)
> Meeting ID: 431 598 981
> International numbers available: https://zoom
> .us/zoomconference?m=ec_F7wkJAYy5sN9_1z-uvJJY84d8IBfK
>
> Thanks,
> Kirill
>
> --
> Kirill Lokshin
> President
> Wikimedia District of Columbia
> kirill.lokshin(a)wikimediadc.org
> https://wikimediadc.org
>