Hi Wiki-Americans,
Our next monthly Wikimedia US / WALRUS meeting will be Wednesday March
13, 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/March_2013
One topic of discussion, possibly planning for a WikiConference USA
for next year:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_USA
Thanks,
Richard
(User:Pharos)
Hello everyone,
Wikimedia DC is looking for volunteers to serve as Events Coordinator and
Social Media Coordinator.
The Events Coordinator will be responsible for:
(1) Coordinating the scheduling and organization of Wikimedia DC
educational, outreach, and social events.
(2) Connecting event planners and program staff with volunteers to assist
with event setup and logistics.
(3) Recruiting and maintaining a pool of volunteers that can be called upon
to help with specific events as necessary.
The Social Media Coordinator will be responsible for:
(1) Maintaining Wikimedia DC's presence on social media sites, including
Facebook and Twitter.
(2) Recruiting volunteers to write author guest posts on the Wikimedia DC
blog.
Both of these positions are unpaid, volunteer staff positions, although
expense reimbursement will be available. More details regarding each
position is available at http://wikimediadc.org/wiki/Job_openings.
If you'd like to volunteer for either position, please send an email with a
resume/CV and a description of your participation in the Wikimedia movement
(if any) to board(a)wikimediadc.org.
If you have any questions or comments, please don't hesitate to contact me
directly.
Cheers,
Kirill
--
Kirill Lokshin
Secretary | Wikimedia District of Columbia
http://wikimediadc.org | @wikimediadc
Hello everyone,
Wikimedia DC has just published its annual financial report for the 2011-12
fiscal year (which covers the period from October 2011 to September 2012).
The report is available on our chapter wiki at
http://wikimediadc.org/wiki/Annual_financial_report_(2011–2012), and a copy
will be uploaded to meta shortly.
As always, any questions or comments are very welcome!
Cheers,
Kirill
--
Kirill Lokshin
Secretary | Wikimedia District of Columbia
http://wikimediadc.org | @wikimediadc
Hello everyone,
I'm pleased to announce that Wikimedia DC will be holding an election of
our Board of Directors over the course of the next five weeks.
Full details regarding the election, including instructions for candidates
and voters, are available on our website at
http://wikimediadc.org/wiki/Internal:Board_election_(February_2013). A
summary of some key points:
(1) Candidates and voters must be members of Wikimedia DC to participate in
the election. If you haven't renewed your membership from last year, you
will need to do so by February 15.
(2) Candidates must submit their nomination package, including
certifications of eligibility, mandatory disclosures, and candidate
statements, to the Election Committee by February 15.
(3) Ballots will be distributed on February 16. Voters who wish to request
electronic ballots must do so by February 15; the same deadline applies to
voters who will be receiving paper ballots and wish to update their mailing
address.
(4) All completed ballots -- whether paper or electronic -- must be
received by March 8 in order to be counted.
Please send any questions regarding the election to the Election Committee
at election(a)wikimediadc.org.
On behalf of the Election Committee,
Kirill
--
Kirill Lokshin
Secretary | Wikimedia District of Columbia
http://wikimediadc.org | @wikimediadc
Hi Mike,
This is great! I see also that you created a Kansas page on the list of
Information by State on the GLAM:Connect page [1] Thanks so much! Adrianne
Russell is going to be your main contact in Kansas (though she's at Kansas
State University.) She's on our GLAM-Wiki US Consortium advisory committee
and has been moving forward with GLAM outreach at the Marianna Kistler
Beach Museum of Art. She's also helped with some Edit-a-Thons and the like.
Please keep us posted on your progress, and if you have a tweet or Facebook
post crafted that you'd like put on the @glamwiki or GLAM US facebook, let
me know.
Lori
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/US/Connect
On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 9:14 AM, Mike Dupont
<jamesmikedupont(a)googlemail.com>wrote:
> created a GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums) group for kansas,
> mailing list for topeka and a facebook page linked from here
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Topeka would like to
> organize some more meetups at different historic sites in topeka (and even
> other places if we can find someone with a car), go there and take photos,
> collect information and work on the articles. It could be a great group
> event. please let me know what you think, and sign up on the mailing list
> if you like. Also if you know of GLAM sites anywhere in kansas, please add
> them to the list.
> Also I would like to organize a photo contest for Kansas.
>
> --
> James Michael DuPont
> Member of Free Libre Open Source Software Kosova http://flossk.org
> Saving wikipedia(tm) articles from deletion
> http://SpeedyDeletion.wikia.com
> Contributor FOSM, the CC-BY-SA map of the world http://fosm.org
> Mozilla Rep https://reps.mozilla.org/u/h4ck3rm1k3
> Free Software Foundation Europe Fellow http://fsfe.org/support/?h4ck3rm1k3
>
> _______________________________________________
> GLAM-US mailing list
> GLAM-US(a)lists.wikimedia.org
> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/glam-us
>
>
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Lori Byrd Phillips
Digital Marketing Content Coordinator
The Children's Museum of Indianapolis
703.489.6036 | http://loribyrdphillips.com/
Hi Wiki-Americans,
Our next monthly Wikimedia US / WALRUS meeting will be Wednesday,
February 13, 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/February_2013
Thanks,
Richard
(User:Pharos)
Hello everyone,
Wikimedia DC has just published its annual report for the 2011-12 fiscal
year (which covers the period from October 2011 to September 2012).
The report is available on our chapter wiki at
http://wikimediadc.org/wiki/Annual_report_(2011-2012). We will also be
uploading a copy to meta shortly.
As always, any questions or comments are very welcome!
Cheers,
Kirill
--
Kirill Lokshin
Secretary | Wikimedia District of Columbia
http://wikimediadc.org | @wikimediadc
created a GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums) group for kansas,
mailing list for topeka and a facebook page linked from here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Topeka would like to
organize some more meetups at different historic sites in topeka (and even
other places if we can find someone with a car), go there and take photos,
collect information and work on the articles. It could be a great group
event. please let me know what you think, and sign up on the mailing list
if you like. Also if you know of GLAM sites anywhere in kansas, please add
them to the list.
Also I would like to organize a photo contest for Kansas.