[Wikimedia-DC] Booth and meetup at Creating Change conference in Baltimore

[aude]

The world's largest gathering of of activists and community organizers
within the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community and their
allies, the 24th National Conference on LGBT Equality: Creating Change, is
coming to the Hilton Baltimore, January 25–29, 2012.

Gregory Varnum, a Wikimedian from Michigan, is planning to attend and would
like to setup a booth to represent Wikimedia (the chapters + WMF) at the
conference.  He has applied to the WMF for a grant to cover the costs of
this.

This is an exciting opportunity to recruit new volunteers, outreach to
potential sponsors for Wikimania and beyond, and for us to develop
relationships with organizations that have a combined volunteer base of
several million.

We are in need of volunteers to be present at the booth for questions and
general outreach on behalf of Wikimedia.  The booth will be open:

- Thursday, January 26 from 2:00pm to 10:00pm
- Friday, January 27 from 8:30am to 7:30pm
- Friday, January 28 from 8:30am to 7:30pm
- Sunday, January 29 from 8:00am to 3:00pm

If you can come for any part of the time, such as a morning or afternoon,
that would be awesome!  I am not yet sure when the meetup would be, but
stay tuned.

The conference is run by the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, and
attracts more than 2,500 people from all over the country every year.
Presenters and participants come from all walks of life and include members
of the business community, elected officials, students, faith leaders and
staff and volunteers of non-profit organizations.

Anyone interested in more information or to sign-up as a volunteer, please
email: gregory at aequalitasproject.org

Cheers,
Katie

-- 
President, Wikimedia District of Columbia
http://wikimediadc.org
@wikimediadc / @wikimania2012
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