Hi Wiki-Americans,
The Wikipedia Day 12th Birthday Bash is a celebration and
mini-conference to be held on Saturday February 23, 2013, hosted at
ITP at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, and also supported by Wikimedia
New York City, Free Culture @ NYU and other Free Culture Alliance NYC
partners.
The NYC celebration is one of a number of Wikipedia Day being held in
the United States and worldwide.
You can register for the Wiki-Conference here:
http://bit.ly/wikidaynyu
See full event details and schedule (and add your own lightning talk!) at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Wikipedia_Day
Thanks,
Richard
(User:Pharos)
Wikimedia NYC
Hi Wiki-Americans,
Our next monthly Wikimedia US / WALRUS meeting will be this week,
Wednesday December, 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/December_2012
Thanks,
Richard
(User:Pharos)
Apologies for the inevitable cross-posting but I just wanted to get this
out to those of us in the US, which currently has no members on the
Affiliations Committee despite being a major region for potential new
chapter development in the coming years. Please consider volunteering!
Dominic
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From: Bence Damokos <bdamokos(a)gmail.com>
Date: 12 December 2012 07:48
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] The Affiliations Committee needs you!
To: wikimediaannounce-l <WikimediaAnnounce-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>,
Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Dear all,
The Affiliations Committee [1], the committee that is responsible for
guiding volunteers in establishing Chapters, User Groups and Thematic
Organizations ("affiliates" in short) and approving them when they are
ready is looking for about 6 new members.
The main focus of AffCom is to guide groups of volunteers in forming
affiliates. We make sure that the group is large enough to be viable
(and advise them on how to get bigger), review bylaws for compliance
with the requirements and best practices, and advise the Board of the
Wikimedia Foundation on issues connected to Chapters, Thematic
Organizations and User Groups.
This requires communication with volunteers all over the World,
negotiating skills and cultural sensitivity and the ability to
understand legal texts. We try to get a healthy mix of different skill
sets in our members.
Key skills/experience that we are looking for in candidate members,
are typically:
* Excitement by the challenge of helping to empower groups of
volunteers worldwide
* Willingness to work in a sometimes bureaucratic, sometimes political
process
* 4 hours per week availability[2]
* International orientation
* Very good communication skills in English
* Ability to work and communicate with other cultures
* Strong understanding of the structure and work of affiliates and the WMF
* Communication skills in other languages are a major plus
* Experience with or in an active affiliate is a major plus
With the help of the Affiliations Committee, 2012 has been an exciting
year of transformation for the movement with the introduction of new
types of affiliation. This means that the workload of the Committee
has increased and diversified and help is wanted! Currently many
applications to become a Chapter, Thematic Organization or User Group
are in the pipeline and can use your attention and dedication!
You can send your applications with your name, contact data (e-mail,
wiki username), experience and motivation to join to the AffCom email
address, affcom AT lists DOT wikimedia DOT org by January 12, 2013.
You will get a confirmation that your application came through.
Members are usually selected every twelve months for staggered two
year terms. The applications will be considered by the current members
and outgoing members and Committee advisers, who are not seeking
re-selection.
Since I will be a candidate for re-selection myself, this process will
be managed by another committee member, Lodewijk Gelauff. I hope for
many suitable applications. If you have any questions, please don't
hesitate to email me or Lodewijk[3] privately. We are happy to chat or
have a phone call with anyone about our work, if this helps them
decide to apply.
Please distribute this call among your networks, and do apply if you
are interested.
Best regards,
Bence Damokos
Chair,
Affiliations Committee
[1]: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee (please
follow the links and familiarize yourself with our work)
[2]: Our member standards of participation are at:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/Resolutions/Standard_…
[3]: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:EmailUser/Effeietsanders
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Greetings Walri,
For those of you who are interested in the idea of GLAM, I am excited to
announce a new GLAM-related event we're planning in the US. Wikimedia DC,
in cooperation with the National Archives as host, is organizing GLAM Boot
Camp, a new model of event in which those of us with extensive backgrounds
in GLAM projects will be giving a workshop to share experiences and teach
skills relevant to the GLAM-Wiki project.
The concept for this event was developed at GLAMcamp London, and the idea
behind it is to give experienced Wikimedians the skillset and confidence
they need to engage in GLAM projects so that, ultimately, GLAM-Wiki will be
more representative of the regular Wikimedia editing community. At
GLAMcamp, the lack of broad community participation from different types of
contributors was identified as one of the effort's key problems. So this is
for all of you Wikimedians who like the concept of helping libraries,
museums and archives share their knowledge with Wikimedia, even if
(especially if) you aren't actually experienced in doing that yet. With
Wikimedia DC's help, we are planning to cover the travel costs of all
attendees, to ensure that money or geography are not a barrier to
participation.
I would like to invite anyone who is intrigued to please indicate your
interest by answering a few short questions on this Google form: <
http://goo.gl/TCiYx>. This is especially important so we can pin down the
ideal weekend to hold the event, and the sooner we get responses, the
sooner we can reserve the venue.
To learn more about the GLAM Boot Camp, please see the more detailed
description and proposed program at <
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/Boot_Camp>.
Thanks!
Dominic
--
Dominic McDevitt-Parks
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Dominic
Hi Wiki-Americans,
Our next monthly Wikimedia US / WALRUS meeting will be next week, Wednesday
October 10, 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/October_2012
Thanks,
Richard
(User:Pharos)
(also sent to fc-discuss; excuse any multiple receipt)
Jonathan Gray and I are starting local meetups for OKFN mavens, hackers,
enthusiasts in Cambridge and SF:
http://www.meetup.com/OpenKnowledgeFoundation/Boston-MAhttp://www.meetup.com/OpenKnowledgeFoundation/San-Francisco-CA
Please join if you are interested, and indicate when you're free to meet.
We are thinking about organizing a national event around free knowledge
and shared data in the spring.
Warmly,
SJ
--
Samuel Klein @metasj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266
--
Samuel Klein @metasj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266
Dear Wikimedians from the United States,
There is a proposal for an an umbrella organization for chapters and
other groups in the US called the Wikimedia United States Federation.
A draft of the bylaws is now up at meta.
<http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikimedia_United_States_Federat…>
There will be an open comment period on the bylaws 17 September, 2012
to 1 October, 2012. The comments received given will be incorporated
into the bylaws and they will be put up to a ratification vote from 8
October, 2012 to 15 October, 2012.
Thank you,
Tom
Guerillero
Our next monthly Wikimedia US / WALRUS meeting will be this week,
Wednesday September 12, 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/September_2012
Thanks,
Richard
(User:Pharos)
Hello everyone,
I'm pleased to announce that the new Wikimedia DC small grants program is
finally ready to accept applications. The program will provide small
grants (of up to $2,500) to individuals, groups, and organizations that
need funding for projects and activities which are aligned with Wikimedia
DC's charitable mission.
To apply for a grant, please visit http://wikimediadc.org/wiki/Grants and
fill out the short questionnaire. We are currently prioritizing requests
related to Wiki Loves Monuments and Wikipedia Loves Libraries, but all
applications will be given full consideration.
As always, any comments or questions are welcome!
Cheers,
Kirill
--
Kirill Lokshin
Secretary | Wikimedia District of Columbia
http://wikimediadc.org | @wikimediadc