Hi Wiki-Americans,

Our next monthly Wikimedia US / WALRUS meeting will be Wednesday May 8, 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/May_2013

Some items on our expandable agenda for next Wednesday evening:

*WALRUS Wikimedia User Groups, as informal interim step to future regional chapters
*Emerging North American thematic orgs: GLAM-Wiki US Consortium and Wiki Education Foundation
*Great American Wiknic 2013: Third Annual! - add your city (Saturday June 22 and nearby dates)
*Wikimania 2013 in Hong Kong for August
*Wiki Loves Monuments 2013 for September
*Developing partner chapters and thematics orgs for WikiConference USA in Spring 2014
*Social media outreach and peer review

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wiknic
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_USA

Thanks,
Richard
(User:Pharos)