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)