Hear ye hear ye,
On 25 January 2016 at 15:16, Gaurav Vaidya <gaurav(a)ggvaidya.com> wrote:
On 25 Jan
2016, at 12:22 PM, Neal McBurnett <neal(a)bcn.boulder.co.us> wrote:
I think these all would work according to the guidelines. The first one is already the
name of our group at
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo
and it seems to have the easiest name to deal with, including a fine acronym.
WIC: Wikimedians in Colorado
WCUGC: Wikimedia Community User Group Colorado
WCUG: Wikimedians of Colorado User Group
CUW: Colorado Users of Wikimedia
CEW: Colorado Editors of Wikimedia
CUGW: Colorado Users Group for Wikimedia
WOCCUG: Wikimedians of Colorado Community User Group
WITFR: Wikimedians in the Front Range
WOTFR: Wikimedians of the Front Range
FRUGW: Front Range User Group for Wikimedians
But let's keep brainstorming for a bit more….
Nice ideas! I like
"Wikimedians of the Front Range”, "Wikimedians in Colorado”, "Wikimedians
of Colorado User Group” and "Colorado Users Group for Wikimedia”, in that in order.
Thanks for volunteering, Isarra! I don’t know if we can just enter four names into the
form. I’ll see!
cheers,
Gaurav
) under
"Wikimedians in Colorado", since we currently have two votes for that
(Neal + me) and it's already our mailing list name. The three names on
the application form will be me, Neal and Todd, and I'll also add
Isarra if I can. If you object to any of this or think of a better
name, please let the list know in the next twenty-four hours, or
forever hold your peace.
cheers,
Gaurav
> Neal McBurnett
http://neal.mcburnett.org/
>
> On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 11:46:41PM -0700, Gaurav Vaidya wrote:
>>> On 23 Jan 2016, at 5:55 PM, Todd Allen <toddmallen(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Gaurav,
>>>
>>> Who told you that you were allowed to move out of here? :) We'll most
certainly have to get together before you do, in any case.
>> My PhD advisor did, that’s his job! :) I’m not leaving until September, so
there’s tons of time to do that — and I’ll definitely organise myself a Wikipedia meetup
before I go!
>>
>>> I suppose I'm an active enough Wikimedian, and I'd love to have a
group here, so I'd be willing to help out leading it.
>> Yay! Could you please add your name to
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Community_User_Group_Colorado? It’d be nice to
have as many people listed on there as possible!
>>
>> Also: should we be “Wikimedia Community User Group Colorado” or "Wikimedians
of Colorado User Group”? Other suggestions for names welcome — the guidelines are up at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_user_groups/Name_guidelines#examp…!
>>
>> cheers,
>> Gaurav
>>
>>> Todd
>>>
>>> On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 4:45 PM, Neal McBurnett
<neal(a)bcn.boulder.co.us> wrote:
>>> Thanks, Gaurav! I'd be happy to be a group leader.
>>>
>>> Neal McBurnett
http://neal.mcburnett.org/
>>>
>>> On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 04:29:26PM -0700, Gaurav Vaidya wrote:
>>>> Hi everybody!
>>>>
>>>> I’ve set up a user group page at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Community_User_Group_Colorado, which I think of
as a first step to setting up an official "Wikimedia Community User Group Colorado”.
I pretty much only need two more things to fill out the application form at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Contact/affcomusergroup —
>>>>
>>>> (1) An official description of the group: I’m going to go with the
description at the top of the user group page, so please edit and improve it!
>>>> (2) Three active Wikimedians as group leaders: please reply to the
mailing list if you’re interested!
>>>>
>>>> I’m happy to be a group leader during the setup phase, but it looks
likely that I’m going to move out of Colorado this fall, so we’re going to need active
leaders to keep the group going and to continue to organise events into the next year. You
need to have at least 300 contributions on any Wikimedia project and have an account
that’s older than six months old to be a group leader.
>>>>
>>>> The main advantages of becoming an official user group are: (1)
recognition by Wikimedia, so maybe increasing our profile with organization interested
with working with Wikipedia in the area, (2) free Wikimedia merchandise for use in
activities and outreach activities, and (3) one scholarship to attend the Wikimedia
Conference in Berlin (
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_user_groups#why). I know
Buaidh has been thinking about setting up an official organization for our area for a
while now, and I think this might be the best way to go about it!
>>>>
>>>> cheers,
>>>> Gaurav
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