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Re: [Wikimediaus-l] US chapter discussions today/tomorrow
by gburling＠hevanet.com 12 Aug '06

12 Aug '06

> The board panel today is ending at 12:30. > > Today at lunch : a general "future of Wikimedia" discussion is planned > for Pound 200; starting at 1:00. > > We will have a short 15-min Wikimedia-US discussion at 12:35 in Pound > 201; if you care to join, please GET LUNCH EARLY -- leave the board > panel on time -- come to 201; then we will join the rest of the > wikimedia discussion afterwards. > > Tomorrow morning around 10:00 (time to be confirmed) we will have a > longer WM-US discussion for those who are still around (and also on > IRC). > So, for those of us who either found out about these meetings too late to attend -- or were unable to attend -- is there a transcript or summary of what was discussed? Geoff (aka llywrch)

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US chapter discussions today/tomorrow
by Samuel Klein 06 Aug '06

06 Aug '06

The board panel today is ending at 12:30. Today at lunch : a general "future of Wikimedia" discussion is planned for Pound 200; starting at 1:00. We will have a short 15-min Wikimedia-US discussion at 12:35 in Pound 201; if you care to join, please GET LUNCH EARLY -- leave the board panel on time -- come to 201; then we will join the rest of the wikimedia discussion afterwards. Tomorrow morning around 10:00 (time to be confirmed) we will have a longer WM-US discussion for those who are still around (and also on IRC). Cheers, SJ On 8/5/06, alex756(a)nyc.rr.com <alex756(a)nyc.rr.com> wrote: > Tomorrow noon time would be fine with me. > > Alex T Roshuk > > > Sent from my BlackBerry(r) wireless handheld > > -----Original Message----- > From: Samuel Klein <sjklein(a)hcs.harvard.edu> > Date: Sat, 05 Aug 2006 16:55:37 > To:alex756@nyc.rr.com > Cc:Samuel Klein <meta.sj(a)gmail.com>, Austin Hair <adhair(a)gmail.com>,Jimbo Wales <jwales(a)wikimedia.org> > Subject: Re: Discuss regional chapter > > > On Sat, 5 Aug 2006, alex756(a)nyc.rr.com wrote: > > > Sorry no one clued me in on that or I would have scheduled myself to be > > here Monday. Sorry if I did not know about your mailing list. If you > > guys need more volunteer legal assistance let me know. Thank you. > > I wrote back to your last email about the regional chapters cc:ing that > list and encouraging everyone to join it... that was also when I said > that we needed your help drafting some legal aspects of setting up a > chapter. Sorry if this got lost! > > Why don't we meet for a short time during lunch tomorrow? > > SJ > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Samuel Klein <sjklein(a)hcs.harvard.edu> > > Date: Sat, 05 Aug 2006 15:33:48 > > To:alex756@nyc.rr.com > > Cc:Samuel Klein <meta.sj(a)gmail.com>, Austin Hair <adhair(a)gmail.com>,Jimbo Wales <jwales(a)wikimedia.org> > > Subject: Re: Discuss regional chapter > > > > > > I think the wikimediaus-l list decided we'd talk about this Monday. > > > > Perhaps we can also gather briefly at 12:30 tomorrow during lunch > > for those who will be gone then? > > > > Cheers, > > SJ > > > > > > On Sat, 5 Aug 2006, alex756(a)nyc.rr.com wrote: > > > >> Sj - > >> > >> I know you are very busy but perhaps we can find a few minutes to discuss the regional chapter idea. > >> > >> My cell is. 646-552-1196 > >> > >> Alex T Roshuk alex756 > >> Sent from my BlackBerry(r) wireless handheld > > >

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Re: [Wikimediaus-l] Creating a Regional Wikimedia Chapter
by Samuel Klein 05 Aug '06

05 Aug '06

There have been a few disjoint discussions about US chapter formation recently. Austin mentioned this in a foundation-l thread last month; Alex756 yesterday mentioned the idea of a regional chapter, and I note he had started a page about "wikimedia new york", reminding me that there is a [dormant] mailing list for such discussions. Those who are interested, please sign up for the mailing list, and use Meta, so the discussions do not get too fragmented. Outstanding issues : Does it make sense to have regional chapters? How could a national chapter work in a large country with distributed clusters of users? What are the legal issues involved? (Alex can help here). What are possible projects to take on? http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaus-l http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_United_States_of_America http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_New_York Cheers, SJ [cc:ing others who have recently brought up related ideas but aren't yet on that list.]

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Subchapters
by Kelly Martin 10 Jul '06

10 Jul '06

One of the problems we have is that the US is much larger than most other countries with national chapters, and we are probably going to need to consider establishing regional subchapters. I do not believe that having 50 state subchapters is worth doing, at least not until we get really big. Initially we probably should have somewhere between 3 and 15 chapters, depending on interest levels, and be prepared to split chapters as need be. It would be highly useful for us to get demographics on where our "interested editors" are so as to better plan the structure of a US chapter. Even if we don't initially create subchapters (and we might not) we should write into our bylaws the ability to create, split, merge, and dissolve them, because it will come up. Kelly

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Wikimania
by Austin Hair 10 Jul '06

10 Jul '06

Hopefully everyone interested is subscribed by now; I'm not personally keeping a list of names. Averse as I am to organizing "big stuff" in real-life meetings, where valuable input is lost just because certain people aren't able to free up their schedule and travel, I'd like to have a (brief) session—or series of sessions—to discuss the formation of an American chapter (or multiple chapters). As everyone knows, much more can be accomplished with even brief in-person interaction, despite the drawbacks. It would be nice to gear up the discussion on this list, then report as things develop so people are kept in the loop as much as possible. So, with less than a month left, let's start talking. Everyone should begin by reviewing the pages linked from <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Chapters>; they're not quite as informative as I'd like, but they cover the basics accurately. Second, everyone attending Wikimania and interested in participating in such a discussion should e-mail me with your names, so I can check you against the attendee list and help make this happen. My uncharacteristically long signature should clue anyone in to who I am and why I'd be doing such a thing. -- Austin Hair <ahair(a)wikimedia.org> Vice Chairman, Chapters Committee Wikimania 2006 Registration and Technical Manager Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.

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Second Post..
by Walter Schmidt 06 Oct '05

06 Oct '05

Folks - Looked around a bit, left tracks where I thought tracks should be left, and seeing how this list has not been too active, I'll next ask... So, what is going on? -- Walt Schmidt - TOBay's VSD http://tobaysvets.blogspot.com/ "To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty." - Lao-Tzu 71:1

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New Member...
by Walter Schmidt 26 Sep '05

26 Sep '05

Folks - New here - need to read the archives - more after they have been read... Walt Schmidt - TOBay's VSD http://tobaysvets.blogspot.com/ "To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty." - Lao-Tzu 71:1

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First orders of business
by Tim McCormack 07 Jul '05

07 Jul '05

Welcome to the Wikimedia US chapter mailing list. I'd like to first summarize some points from the original informal list: - This project started at the DC05 East Coast Wikipedians meetup: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/DC1 - Our workspace is at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/United_States_Wikimedia_Chapter - We'll want to talk with other chapters to find out what's been good, what's been bad Recommended reading: - http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Local_chapter_FAQ - http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMF_and_local_chapters - http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Membership_FAQ Points to consider: - How do we get other wikipedians involved? (not just from the East Coast) - Do we need membership fees? - Who can advise us on legal issues? -Tim McCormack [[w:User:Phyzome]]

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Repost of the last msg to the old list
by SJ 03 Jul '05

03 Jul '05

On Sat, 2 Jul 2005, Tim McCormack wrote: > Does anybody here know someone in one of those other chapters? I'd like to > start a discussion to see what has worked, what hasn't, and why, in other > countries. Try visiting the chapter pages on meta: and leaving notes for chapter members on their user pages. Ryo and Kurt and Frieda, from France and Germany and Italy, should be glad to answer questions. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chapters Oscar (from the Netherlands) and Fantasy (from Italy) are also a lot of fun to talk to, and would appreciate your interest. > Also, any progress towards getting our own Wikimedia mailing list? Done. You should be the list-admin. Everyone else can sign up with their preferred email address here: http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaus-l --SJ

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