In terms of the draft, I&#39;d like to leave it open for further comments and refinement over the next month or so, with a goal of having a final text ready by mid-June -- which will hopefully give everyone time to review (and promote) it before Wikimania.<div>
<br></div><div>As far as the Wikimania logistics are concerned, it seems increasingly likely that scheduling conflicts will prevent us from holding a large US-oriented meeting until very late in the conference schedule.  Instead of putting everything off until the last day -- which, in my opinion, would not be ideal -- I&#39;d like to propose a two-part strategy for adopting the agreement:</div>
<div><br></div><div>(1) Hold a small formal signing ceremony sometime during the pre-conference days.  The idea would be to gather a few representatives of the key US-based Wikimedian groups (e.g. someone from WM-NYC, someone from WM-DC, someone from GLAM-US, etc.) and have a nice photo-op of them signing the agreement.</div>
<div><br></div><div>(2) Leave copies of the agreement in the main Wikimania public areas for the duration of the conference, and invite people to sign them when they have the opportunity.</div><div><br></div><div>How does this approach sound?</div>
<div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Kirill</div><div><br clear="all"><div><span style="border-collapse:collapse;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font color="#666666">--</font></span></div><div><font color="#666666" face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse:collapse">Kirill Lokshin</span></font></div>
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On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 10:25 AM, Lori Phillips <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:lori.byrd.phillips@gmail.com" target="_blank">lori.byrd.phillips@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Thanks so much for putting this together Kirill. It looks great! What are the next steps?<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 7:22 AM,  <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:Birgitte_sb@yahoo.com" target="_blank">Birgitte_sb@yahoo.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>I like this draft.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>BirgitteSB<br><br><br></div><div>

<div><div><br>On May 9, 2012, at 11:03 PM, Kirill Lokshin &lt;<a href="mailto:kirill.lokshin@wikimediadc.org" target="_blank">kirill.lokshin@wikimediadc.org</a>&gt; wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite">

<div>Hello everyone,<div><br></div><div>As I mentioned a few weeks ago, I&#39;ve been working on a draft for an &quot;agreement in principle&quot; regarding an overall strategy for Wikimedia chapters/groups in the US, with the intent to have a document that individual Wikimedians can sign at Wikimania this summer.</div>


<div><br></div><div>My working draft of the agreement is located at <a href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Kirill_Lokshin/Sandbox" target="_blank">http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Kirill_Lokshin/Sandbox</a>.  The current text has recently been revised based on a number of suggestions I received yesterday at the US Wikimedians&#39; IRC meeting.</div>


<div><br></div><div>As always, any comments or suggestions would be very appreciated!</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Kirill</div><div><br clear="all"><div><span style="border-collapse:collapse;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font color="#666666">--</font></span></div>


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