On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 4:49 PM, Pharos <pharosofalexandria(a)gmail.com> wrote:
My fellow Wiki-Americans,
We're scheduling a special meeting at Wikimania to bring together
Wikimedians Active in Local Regions of the United States (WALRUS), to
form a strong family of local chapters throughout the country:
http://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/WALRUS_Congress
We'll be very glad to have you join in, and represent your bit of the old
USA!
This sounds like an excellent idea, particularly given the various
discussions regarding the potential role such regional families might play
in the Chapters Council concept; thanks to Richard for setting it up!
(I do think, however, that we need to start thinking of a better name than
"WALRUS" for our group as we move into a role with greater national and
international visibility. While a contrived acronym of this sort is
entertaining in certain informal contexts, I don't think it's particularly
well-suited for more formal ones, or for use in a community where the
majority of a participants are not native English speakers.)
Cheers,
Kirill
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Kirill Lokshin
Secretary | Wikimedia District of Columbia
http://wikimediadc.org | @wikimediadc