Our second-ever monthly Wikimedia US / WALRUS meeting will be this
week, Wednesday April 11, at 9pm Eastern Time / 6pm Pacific Time.
The venue will be the #wikimedia-us channel on IRC, and if you're not
familiar with IRC, please just use this easy web client:
http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=wikimedia-us
This is a venue for all Wiki-Americans to share our many diverse
experiences in local outreach and coordination, so please add your
ideas to the agenda:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WALRUS/April_2012
Thanks,
Richard
(User:Pharos)
Hello everyone,
Looking at the various discussions surrounding the Berlin Agreement -- and
particularly in anticipation of the first meetings of the Wikimedia
Chapters Association, where future plans for chapters in the US might
become a point of contention -- I think it may be beneficial for us to more
formally adopt and promulgate a shared vision for the future of US-based
chapters at our in-person meeting at Wikimania.
Having said that, I think that trying to come up with something as detailed
as the Berlin Agreement -- establishing a formal organization, adopting a
detailed charter, and so forth -- would be premature for us; most of our
regional groups haven't gone down the path of formally incorporating and
becoming official chapters, and there's little value to creating a formal
infrastructure until that happens.
Instead, I'd like to propose that we put together an agreement in principle
to outline a shared vision for the development of US chapters. The
agreement would essentially outline three key goals:
(1) Creating a network of regional Wikimedia chapters across the United
States;
(2) Building collaboration among the regional Wikimedia chapters in the US;
and
(3) At some point in the future, forming an association of Wikimedia
chapters in the US.
By signing the agreement, the signatories would simply indicate their
support of these goals. The agreement could therefore be signed on an
individual basis -- i.e. each of the attendees at our July meeting could
sign on their own behalf -- rather than only by chapters or other regional
groups (which would sharply limit the number of potential signatures, and
significantly increase the complexity of the entire exercise).
Would something along these lines be of interest to the participants here?
Cheers,
Kirill
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Kirill Lokshin
Secretary | Wikimedia District of Columbia
http://wikimediadc.org | @wikimediadc
Hello everyone,
In case you haven't already heard, Wikimedia DC is looking to hire an
Outreach and Program Coordination Intern for the summer months. The
position would primarily entail assisting us with our outreach towards
local cultural and educational institutions, as well as helping out with
some of the related work for Wikimania 2012.
More details about the position can be found at
http://wikimediadc.org/wiki/Job_openings#Outreach_and_Program_Coordination_….
If you or anyone you know is interested, please contact us by April 30.
Cheers,
Kirill
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Kirill Lokshin
Secretary | Wikimedia District of Columbia
http://wikimediadc.org | @wikimediadc