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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