I think we should do a national geonotice to notify people about this mailing list and the planning page for the Great American Wiknic! That would only need to be up for a couple weeks now, and then we can do another one at the beginning of June asking people to participate in their local events,
Alex Stinson
On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 5:21 PM, Pharos pharosofalexandria@gmail.comwrote:
Hi Pete and fellow USians,
I think we're tending to settle on Sat June 25 as the date for The Great American Wiknic (1st Annual).
It's not 100% yet, but we definitely encourage developing more local conversations and planning for events across the USA.
So by all means, start raising the conversation in SF! And elsewhere!
Thanks, Richard (User:Pharos) Wikimedias NYC
On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 1:30 PM, Pete Forsyth peteforsyth@gmail.com wrote:
I'd be happy to try to get something together in SF. There's a local Wikimedia list here; should I forward the suggestion,or wait until the
date
is a little more settled? Pete
On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 10:18 AM, Pharos pharosofalexandria@gmail.com wrote:
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
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