Hi Aude and wiknicers all,
On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 12:22 AM, aude aude.wiki@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 12:12 AM, Pharos pharosofalexandria@gmail.com wrote:
HI fellow USians,
I'd like to propose The Great American Wiknic, a Wiki-Picnic to be held in cities across the United States on the same day (maybe Saturday June 18?) in Summer 2011.
What a wonderful idea! I think DC folks would definitely be interested.
For a date, I'd propose the following weekend, maybe Sunday, June 26. (we tentatively have a NARA - National Archives meetup on June 11)
The weekend of June 25-26 is great too; I was just trying to schedule something around the mid-summer solstice. On any particular weekend, though, maybe it's better to plan on Saturday for the Wiknic, and reserve Sunday as the raindate :)
I think this could be a great way of building up some of the grassroots activist energy we'll need to really cement Wikipedia/Wikimedia as a strong on-the-ground movement throughout the varied regions of the US.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wiknic
PS Welcome to everyone who's a member of or interested in the 'Wikimedians Active in Local Regions of the United States' (WALRUS) committee:
+1 please join!
Yes, we'd love to have more US local regions represented in the WALRUS committee!
Thanks, Richard (User:Pharos) Wikimedias NYC