Hi Jimbo,
I am very enthusiastic about Kurt's suggestion here, and I propose that we set this date as well for the founding of a German organization of some sort, as determined after our inquiry into the finer points of German law and a consideration of the possibilities open to us.
I am personally planning to spend some vacation time in Berlin and Munich, and if I can find suitable arrangements, I would like to stay in Europe for much longer, possibly as much as a month or two, with the primary purpose of working with Europeans on Wikimedia stuff.
I was asked to do a presentation of Wikipedia to the World Free Software Meeting in Bordeaux, south-west of France, in July. Could you come? cf. http://lsm2004.abul.org/rubrique2.html (the site is not active at this time). I was thinking to invite Brion...
Yann