It's less than a week away, folks.
Come one, come all!
Our next meeting for Wikimedia NYC is this Sunday November 16 at
Columbia University.
This is a meeting for volunteers to the projects of the non-profit
Wikimedia Foundation, and everyone else too, who has ever looked at
Wikipedia and wondered what's going on behind it.
One big topic of discussion, out of many, will be a look back at our
October 'Wikis Take Manhattan' event:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Takes_Manhattan
See the cool video here:
http://www.streetfilms.org/archives/wikis-take-manhattan/
The agenda will also include the formation of the Wikimedia New York
City chapter.
And our new project with the Brooklyn Museum and possibly the Met
Museum as well, scheduled for February:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Loves_Art
As well as discussion of issues important to the Wikipedia and
Wikimedia community, including an adminship discussion, and a GFDL 1.3
discussion with guests from the Software Freedom Law Center and
Creative Commons.
We welcome all guests. If you support open education and free
culture, we are your people. If you have a project you want to work
on with us, this is a great opportunity to get acquainted. If you want
someone to give a talk or teach a class with an inside view of
Wikipedia, meet your volunteers. And if you just have any questions,
we'd be glad to try to answer them.
Remember, the agenda here is up to you! I encourage anyone who is
interested to sign up to give a presentation or suggest a topic for
general discussion at our wikimeetup page (given below).
---Meeting details---
2:30 PM - 5:00PM:
Room 1402 Pupin Hall, Columbia University. Take the elevator to the
13th floor and then walk up one flight of stairs. Meeting to be held
in the library at the east end of the hall.
5:00 PM onwards:
Meetup at Pupin Hall, and then walk together to The Symposium, a local
Greek restaurant with an oddly appropriate name..
Page on Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC
You can officially 'sign up' at that page, and please add your ideas
to the agenda!
Thanks,
Pharos
We're having an uploading party at TOPP at 7:30 PM tonight for anyone
who still has Wikis Take Manhattan photos on hand (we've still only
got about half of the photos online as of yet). So, bring your
laptops (if you have) and your files, and be ready to tag!
The event will be mostly Free Culture Columbia students; who are
canceling their regular meeting tonight to come downtown for the
uploading fun; there will be pizza and everything also, like at Wikis
Take Manhattan.
TOPP is located at 349 West 12th Street, Floor 3.
Sorry, folks, for the late notice on this (we just confirmed it last night).
Thanks,
Pharos