Welcome,
This list now has 30+ subscribers, which is a pretty good start!
I hope this can be a forum for more free-ranging and detailed discussions than are possible on-wiki, and also a place to send out timely notices about upcoming events.
This is an open mailing list, and the posts will be viewable to the public.
I think a good starting post should introduce our friends at the [[Students for Free Culture]] chapter at Columbia University. The Free Culture Columbia people are really enthusiastic about holding a big [[Wikipedia:Academy]] event this semester, and we'll need some volunteers for that. There will probably be speakers, an article-writing drive, and a scavenger hunt across the city by students snapping requested photographs. I've already had a couple of meetings with this group (they meet every Wednesday).
http://www.freeculturecolumbia.org/
If anyone wants to join me, I won't be there every Wednesday, but I do plan on attending semi-regularly; I think it would be good to consider the Free Culture Columbia meetings a "home away from home" for us (especially as we have been having our own meetings at Columbia University). I am going to be there this upcoming Wednesday (February 27).
And we're also lucky to have a couple of members of Columbia Free Culture on this mailing list, which should facilitate cooperation between our two groups. If anyone wants to bring up issues of mutual interest, this will be a great forum for that.
I've already put out some feelers on a possible writing focus for a Wikiopedia Academy:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(miscellaneous)#Neglecte... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Pharos#Wikipedia_Academy
I'm also working on a usable list of city articles which need photos, for the scavenger hunt.
Feel free to contribute to these discussions.
The (very) tentative date for the Wikipedia Academy we've been discussing is Friday March 28 or thereabouts.
The next chapter meeting of Wikimedia NYC is of course scheduled for Sunday March 16.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC
Tonight I'm going to be visiting for the first time with the Students for Free Culture chapter at NYU.
http://www.freeculturenyu.org/
Thanks, Pharos