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Re: [Wikimedia-US-CO] Wikipedia Takes Boulder/Denver/somewhere

2013-09-24 Thread Isarra Yos


On 25/09/13 02:35, Gaurav Vaidya wrote:

Hi everybody,

On 24 Sep, 2013, at 9:50 AM, Todd Allen toddmal...@gmail.com wrote:

Boulder would be fine with me. What would you have in mind for it?

I've put up some ideas at 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Takes_America/2013/Denver and 
might be able to borrow a friend's car if we need wheels in the area.

Let me know what you think! I notice that Kimon just signed up for Denver, and 
if Todd's still in, that's four of us! So if there's enough people who are more 
interested in Denver, we could switch back there.

cheers,
Gaurav
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If you can get a car, I'd come. Problem is I'm in the middle of nowhere 
and buses don't really go from here to denver.


Blargh.

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Re: [Wikimedia-US-CO] Wikipedia Takes Boulder/Denver/somewhere

2013-09-24 Thread Isarra Yos


Lafayette? Would that be doable? *kitty eyes*

I'd kind of just written this entire thing as impossible, hence my 
complete lack of response until now. Not that I even have a camera or 
anything to contribute but comaraderie anyhow...


On 25/09/13 03:42, Todd Allen wrote:


I was already planning to take my car. Where would you need a ride from?

On Sep 24, 2013 8:33 PM, Isarra Yos zhoris...@gmail.com 
mailto:zhoris...@gmail.com wrote:


On 25/09/13 02:35, Gaurav Vaidya wrote:

Hi everybody,

On 24 Sep, 2013, at 9:50 AM, Todd Allen toddmal...@gmail.com
mailto:toddmal...@gmail.com wrote:

Boulder would be fine with me. What would you have in mind
for it?

I've put up some ideas at

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Takes_America/2013/Denver
and might be able to borrow a friend's car if we need wheels
in the area.

Let me know what you think! I notice that Kimon just signed up
for Denver, and if Todd's still in, that's four of us! So if
there's enough people who are more interested in Denver, we
could switch back there.

cheers,
Gaurav
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If you can get a car, I'd come. Problem is I'm in the middle of
nowhere and buses don't really go from here to denver.

Blargh.

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Re: [Wikimedia-US-CO] Photos from trip

2013-10-05 Thread Isarra Yos

The lot.

On 05/10/13 06:02, Kimon Berlin wrote:

Hi everyone,

I just uploaded my own set at:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kimon/sets/72157636202187846/

Is there anything that's worth transferring to commons?

Kimon

On 10/4/2013 12:46 AM, Isarra Yos wrote:
Ah, nice, very shiny. It can be nice to have original versions in the
upload history sometimes in case someone, or you, can do better with
them later, but I doubt that'll actually be an issue here.

Pictures I took are all up to Gaurav to upload. I am absolved of
responsibility. Hopefully this will be an improvement over were I
not, as for example I only got around to uploading one the last time.
Although maaybe I should finish that.

On 02/10/13 04:34, Spencer Williams wrote:
Ah yes, an excellent start. I may not be able to give very much
useful advice regarding what would improve the images most, but you
should check out my contributions from that trip and feel free to
provide whatever augmentations you see fit. I'm glad this all worked
out so well. Anyone else got their pictures up yet?

https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3AListFileslimit=50user=Enderandpeterilshowall=1
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On 9/30/2013 11:36 PM, Todd Allen wrote:
I'm starting to get some of the photos from Saturday's trip
uploaded to Commons. Any feedback as to either what processing
might make them better or where they might be useful would be quite
welcome, I still have the originals so can do whatever processing
is needed. I'll be uploading more over this next week.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:ListFiles/Seraphimbladeilshowall=1

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Re: [Wikimedia-US-CO] The Great Colorado Wiknic 2014

2014-07-05 Thread Isarra Yos

Reminder that the Colorado Wiknic will be held from 1:00-4:00 this 
Sunday (tomorrow) at Buaidh's place in Arvada, CO.


If you still need directions, please contact Buaidh via 
http://enwp.org/Special:EmailUser/Buaidh


I feel like there should be something here.

-I

On 06/06/14 22:14, Gaurav Vaidya wrote:

Hi everybody,

In case you missed it, the Great Colorado Wiknic 2014 will be held in Arvada CO 
on either June 21 or July 6: details are available at 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Colorado/Wiknic/2014 — please do 
let Buaidh know if one of those dates work for you and the other doesn’t!

cheers,
Gaurav
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Re: [Wikimedia-US-CO] Colorado Wiknic Rescheduled

2016-06-24 Thread Isarra Yos


Awesome, I can go! Thanks so much!

On 23/06/16 22:16, Stephen Clif Brown wrote:
The Colorado Wiknic has been rescheduled from June 26 to August 7 due 
to a conflict with Wikimania 2016. Our sincere apologies for the 
inconvenience.  For details, please see 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Colorado/Wiknic/2016.


We hope you can join us on August 7,
Buaidh & BikeSally
(AKA Steve Brown and Sally Berriman)


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Re: [Wikimedia-US-CO] Delegate to Wikimedia Conference 2017 (Mar/Apr in Berlin)

2016-12-30 Thread Isarra Yos

I could do it, but I really don't know if I'd be the best person. 
Perhaps someone who's more active in organising actual events and 
whatnot? Or who even knows who that would be...


-I

On 23/12/16 22:30, Gaurav Vaidya wrote:

Hullo!

Wikimedia Conference 2017 [1] will take place in Berlin, Germany, from
March 31 to April 2, 2017; it's a chance for Wikimedia organizations
(such as us!) to meet and discuss plans for pushing the Wikimedia
movement forward around the word. According to the Eligibility List
[2], it looks like the Wikimedians of Colorado User Group [3] (such as
us!) can send ONE person to Berlin to represent us. I think
accommodation and airfare are paid for either by the Wikimedia
Foundation or WMDE [4].

Anybody interested in going? Check out the questions on the
application form [5] and send an e-mail to the group letting us know
your interest. If more than one person is interested, we can vote on
it or something, but let's see who's interested to begin with. The
hard deadline for registering for the conference is January 8, so I'd
like to have a final decision on who we want to send by January 6 at
the latest. If there's a lack of response we might decide earlier than
that, so if you're AT ALL interested, please let all of us know ASAP!

Happy holidays, everybody!

cheers,
Gaurav

[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2017
[2] 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2017/Eligibility_Criteria#Wikimedia_User_Groups
[3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_of_Colorado_User_Group
[4] 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2017/Travel_and_Hotel_Booking_Information#Group_2
[5] 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2017/Program_Design_Process#Prepare_for_the_registration

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Re: [Wikimedia-US-CO] Wikimedia-US-CO Digest, Vol 30, Issue 2

2017-01-03 Thread Isarra Yos

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> >>> Perhaps someone who's more active in organising actual
events and
> >>> whatnot? Or who even knows who that would be...
> >>>
> >>> -I
> >>>
> >>> On 23/12/16 22:30, Gaurav Vaidya wrote:
> >>>> Hullo!
> >>>>
> >>>> Wikimedia Conference 2017 [1] will take place in Berlin,
Germany, from
> >>>> March 31 to April 2, 2017; it's a chance for Wikimedia
organizations
> >>>> (such as us!) to meet and discuss plans for pushing the
Wikimedia
> >>>> movement forward around the word. According to the
Eligibility List
> >>>> [2], it looks like the Wikimedians of Colorado User Group
[3] (such as
> >>>> us!) can send ONE person to Berlin to represent us. I think
> >>>> accommodation and airfare are paid for either by the Wikimedia
> >>>> Foundation or WMDE [4].
> >>>>
> >>>> Anybody interested in going? Check out the questions on the
> >>>> application form [5] and send an e-mail to the group
letting us know
> >>>> your interest. If more than one person is interested, we
can vote on
> >>>> it or something, but let's see who's interested to begin
with. The
> >>>> hard deadline for registering for the conference is
January 8, so I'd
> >>>> like to have a final decision on who we want to send by
January 6 at
> >>>> the latest. If there's a lack of response we might decide
earlier than
> >>>> that, so if you're AT ALL interested, please let all of us
know ASAP!
> >>>>
> >>>> Happy holidays, everybody!
> >>>>
> >>>> cheers,
> >>>> Gaurav
> >>>>
> >>>> [1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2017
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2017>
> >>>> [2]

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2017/Eligibility_Criteria#Wikimedia_User_Groups

<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2017/Eligibility_Criteria#Wikimedia_User_Groups>
> >>>> [3]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_of_Colorado_User_Group
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_of_Colorado_User_Group>
> >>>> [4]

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2017/Travel_and_Hotel_Booking_Information#Group_2

<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2017/Travel_and_Hotel_Booking_Information#Group_2>
> >>>> [5]

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2017/Program_Design_Process#Prepare_for_the_registration

<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2017/Program_Design_Process#Prepare_for_the_registration>
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Re: [Wikimedia-US-CO] Thank you for your encouragement and confidence

2017-01-08 Thread Isarra Yos

Great, thanks, man. Go represent, and bring things back. Maybe we can 
turn this into an entire chapter and drown in bureaucracy.


-I

On 09/01/17 04:19, Abhay Natu wrote:

Hello All,

Thank you all for this opportunity. A special thanks to Gaurav for 
setting this up and seeing it through.
I have applied at the official page. Hopefully, the application gets 
approved.


I hope to bring back lots of useful information that we can apply 
here. I also hope to be more active in Wikimedia-US-CO.


Thanks again and Happy New Year!

Abhay

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Re: [Wikimedia-US-CO] Fwd: Your User Group's movement strategy conversations

2017-04-20 Thread Isarra Yos

Thank you for the kind words (and link), but I am just totally lost at 
this point, and Abhay went ahead and did it all on his own regardless.


Was there something wrong with the previous approach of just figuring 
out what the movement role is as we go, letting it evolve as the world 
itself does?


-I

On 20/04/17 05:57, James Salsman wrote:
Isarra, why don't you do it? You are by far the most prominent 
Colorado Wikimedian, and have been for years. I think you are supposed 
to ask other Colorado WIkimedians these questions, in person if 
possible, or on this list:


https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2017/Participate

And then add a summary of whatever the answers are at one of the 
designated places.


I'm headed from Fort Lupton to Beijing next week and will be there 
until Wikimania in August, and might not be back in Colorado until 
December, but you can get a pretty good idea of what I hope to achieve 
in the next 15 years (which is, coincidentally, what the strategy 
discussion topic is) from meta:User:James_Salsman and the 
corresponding talk page, where I was recently unblocked to make a free 
open source alternative to Rosetta Stone and the like (did you know 
Rosetta Stone's speech team is in Boulder?) I got blocked earlier in 
the decade for surveying the inactive enwiki admins (after being 
blocked on enwiki in 2007 for suggesting to a Department of Defense 
employee who purported to be a medical doctor that it would have been 
wiser to recommend against breathing uranium fumes, which was taken as 
a legal threat. So I began a ten year sockpuppetry breaching 
experiment in accordance with WP:IAR, but I have ceased and denounced 
that behavior.)


Best regards,
Jim Salsman

On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 8:42 PM Isarra Yos <zhoris...@gmail.com 
<mailto:zhoris...@gmail.com>> wrote:


Technically I think this might be you, from our history thus far.
Which makes you a bit like most of the wikimedia dc board - most
of them aren't actually in DC anymore, either.

Or something. Do they ever define anywhere exactly what a
discussion coordinator actually is/does?


-I


On 19/04/17 01:59, Gaurav Vaidya wrote:

Any volunteers?

Cheers,
Gaurav

Typed on a tiny keyboard.

Begin forwarded message:


*From:* Nicole Ebber <nicole.eb...@wikimedia.de
<mailto:nicole.eb...@wikimedia.de>>
*Date:* April 18, 2017 at 9:57:30 PM EDT
*To:* Nicole Ebber <nicole.eb...@wikimedia.de
<mailto:nicole.eb...@wikimedia.de>>
*Subject:* *Your User Group's movement strategy conversations*

Greetings,

I hope this email finds you well. As we are ending cycle 1 of the
movement strategy process conversation today, I am currently looking
into the list of organized groups on Meta and reaching out to groups
we haven’t heard back from.[1]

I have noticed that your User Group has not designated a discussion
coordinator yet, and wanted to see if there is any information that
you are missing right now, or any support you need. Of course, I
would
also like to hear from you if you decide not to participate
right now.
Every feedback will help us to improve and iterate on the ongoing
process.

Looking forward to hearing from you,
Nicole

[1]

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2017/Outreach/List


-- 
Nicole Ebber

Adviser International Relations
Movement Strategy Track Lead: Organized Groups

Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.
V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts
Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig
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Re: [Wikimedia-US-CO] Wikimedia-US-CO Digest, Vol 34, Issue 10

2017-04-20 Thread Isarra Yos

And all this 'movement strategy' stuff is what we're supposed to be 
having discussions about? About what's supposed to happen in the next 
fifteen years?


Why? How?! How are any of us within Wikimedia even remotely qualified to 
say what Wikimedia's role should be in a future world when we have no 
idea what that future world is going to look like even in five years, 
let alone fifteen?


-I

On 21/04/17 02:02, Abhay Natu wrote:
Yes, certainly. That will be part of "setting the stage". If I had to 
state that in a single (long) sentence -- we (each chapter/user 
group/stakeholder) are trying to think about how we want the Wikimedia 
foundation to look like in 15 years, based on what is most important 
to us among the themes developed over the last few months..


I was about to expand on that part in my OP when I figured I should 
probably wait for the official material so I don't misstate anything.


Coming soon

Abhay




Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2017 01:44:10 +
From: Isarra Yos <zhoris...@gmail.com <mailto:zhoris...@gmail.com>>

Something I'm still a bit unclear on: what exactly is the purpose
of all
this? Can you perhaps clarify that for me?

-I



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Re: [Wikimedia-US-CO] Wikimedia-US-CO Digest, Vol 34, Issue 8

2017-04-20 Thread Isarra Yos

Something I'm still a bit unclear on: what exactly is the purpose of all 
this? Can you perhaps clarify that for me?

-I

On 21/04/17 00:38, Abhay Natu wrote:
tl;dr - I signed up to be discussion coordinator. I'll set up 
on/off-line discussions shortly. Get more people to join our mailing list.

Hello,

I have signed up to be the discussion coordinator for Wikimedians of 
Colorado. Once my sign-up is processed, I will receive links to DC 
(Discussion Coordinator) training materials. Shortly thereafter, I 
will formally set up a (possibly series of) discussion(s) among 
Wikimedians of Colorado (that includes *you*). In the meanwhile, I 
urge you to get your volunteer/editor/contributor friends and 
acquaintances to join Wikimedians of Colorado User Group mailing list. 
The more voices we have, the richer our outcome will be.

The main question we'll ponder is - *What do we want to build or 
achieve together over the next 15 years?*

**
According to the process timeline 
(https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2017/Process), 
there are three 'cycles'. The first one finished about a week ago, in 
which a set of themes was created, leading upto and including WMCon in 
Berlin. The next cycle kicks off in another week, where we, as a 
group, will identify top 5 thematic clusters (I presume as they apply 
to us, WMoCO.) The third cycle will being on June 1st, to refine top 
3-5 clusters into a cohesive direction. I will share more details as 
they become clear(er) to me.

In the meanwhile, we should decide if this mailing list is the best 
way to communicate or if we want to set up another channel for this 
discussion. We can also meet in person, on a conf call or a 
combination thereof.

Looking forward to insights from all of you.

Cheers,

Abhay

On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 7:24 AM, Abhay Natu <asn...@gmail.com 
<mailto:asn...@gmail.com>> wrote:

I can do it. I will review the demands/requirements of this task
today and take the next steps.

I will respond to this group if it looks like more than I van
handle or if I don'tpass the qualification criteria, if any.

Abhay

Abhay

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Technically I think this might be you, from our history thus
far. Which
makes you a bit like most of the wikimedia dc board - most of them
aren't actually in DC anymore, either.

Or something. Do they ever define anywhere exactly what a
discussion
coordinator actually is/does?

-I

On 19/04/17 01:59, Gaurav Vaidya wrote:
> Any volunteers?
>
> Cheers,
> Gaurav
>
> Typed on a tiny keyboard.
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
>> *From:* Nicole Ebber <nicole.eb...@wikimedia.de
<mailto:nicole.eb...@wikimedia.de>
>> <mailto:nicole.eb...@wikimedia.de
<mailto:nicole.eb..

Re: [Wikimedia-US-CO] Fwd: Your User Group's movement strategy conversations

2017-04-20 Thread Isarra Yos


Yeah, I think I'm just going to stay out of this.

2016's results, mundane though they may be, were at least actionable, 
even regardless of whether or not they were the right things to focus 
on. This, though, from looking at the guides, doesn't even seem like 
it's going to establish a consensus what movement and WMF priorities 
should be in general now, let alone in the future... because at no point 
does anyone actually ask that, even though that would be a very 
important question to answer. It's all themes and vision and random 
examples of what people want to see happen.


That's just me, though. I'll leave all this up to you lot. Thank you 
Abhay for taking the initiative to sort it out, or stuff.


-I

On 21/04/17 04:43, James Salsman wrote:
As far as I can tell, the 15 year projection is supposed to be far 
enough further than the discernible horizon that a wider variety of 
opinions will be considered valid, and thus may allow more 
constructive engagement. Think of brainstorming sessions, where people 
aren't allowed to criticize others, only proposed improved or 
different ideas.


I agree we should finish implementing the ideas from previous 
strategies before starting new ones, but I gather that they have been 
too mundane. I thing these are very good:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_Foundation/2016/Recommendations 


https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Strategy/Wikimedia_Foundation/2016/Recommendations

Perhaps "finish implementing previous strategy ideas" can be something 
we all can agree on?


On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 10:01 PM Isarra Yos <zhoris...@gmail.com 
<mailto:zhoris...@gmail.com>> wrote:


Thank you for the kind words (and link), but I am just totally
lost at this point, and Abhay went ahead and did it all on his own
regardless.

Was there something wrong with the previous approach of just
figuring out what the movement role is as we go, letting it evolve
as the world itself does?


-I


On 20/04/17 05:57, James Salsman wrote:

Isarra, why don't you do it? You are by far the most prominent
Colorado Wikimedian, and have been for years. I think you are
supposed to ask other Colorado WIkimedians these questions, in
person if possible, or on this list:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2017/Participate

And then add a summary of whatever the answers are at one of the
designated places.

I'm headed from Fort Lupton to Beijing next week and will be
there until Wikimania in August, and might not be back in
Colorado until December, but you can get a pretty good idea of
what I hope to achieve in the next 15 years (which is,
coincidentally, what the strategy discussion topic is) from
meta:User:James_Salsman and the corresponding talk page, where I
was recently unblocked to make a free open source alternative to
Rosetta Stone and the like (did you know Rosetta Stone's speech
team is in Boulder?) I got blocked earlier in the decade for
surveying the inactive enwiki admins (after being blocked on
enwiki in 2007 for suggesting to a Department of Defense employee
who purported to be a medical doctor that it would have been
wiser to recommend against breathing uranium fumes, which was
taken as a legal threat. So I began a ten year sockpuppetry
breaching experiment in accordance with WP:IAR, but I have ceased
and denounced that behavior.)

Best regards,
Jim Salsman

On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 8:42 PM Isarra Yos <zhoris...@gmail.com
<mailto:zhoris...@gmail.com>> wrote:

Technically I think this might be you, from our history thus
far. Which makes you a bit like most of the wikimedia dc
board - most of them aren't actually in DC anymore, either.

Or something. Do they ever define anywhere exactly what a
discussion coordinator actually is/does?


-I


On 19/04/17 01:59, Gaurav Vaidya wrote:

Any volunteers?

Cheers,
Gaurav

Typed on a tiny keyboard.

Begin forwarded message:


*From:* Nicole Ebber <nicole.eb...@wikimedia.de
<mailto:nicole.eb...@wikimedia.de>>
*Date:* April 18, 2017 at 9:57:30 PM EDT
*To:* Nicole Ebber <nicole.eb...@wikimedia.de
<mailto:nicole.eb...@wikimedia.de>>
*Subject:* *Your User Group's movement strategy conversations*

Greetings,

I hope this email finds you well. As we are ending cycle 1
of the
movement strategy process conversation today, I am
currently looking
into the list of organized groups on Meta and reaching out
to groups
we haven’t heard back from.[1]

I have noticed that your User Group has not designated a
discussion
coordinator yet, and wanted to see if there is any
information that

Re: [Wikimedia-US-CO] Wikimedia-US-CO Digest, Vol 34, Issue 8

2017-04-20 Thread Isarra Yos

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WALRUS/April_2017 has the links, though 
hopefully you've already found them, since this is a bit late.


On 21/04/17 01:04, Neal McBurnett wrote:

I have an event on my calendar right now, "April 2017 US Wikimedians' Online 
Meeting"
But I see I've received no details on how to participate
Does anyone else know?

-Neal

On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 07:24:55AM -0600, Abhay Natu wrote:

I can do it. I will review the demands/requirements of this task today and take 
the next steps.

I will respond to this group if it looks like more than I van handle or if I 
don'tpass the qualification criteria, if any.

Abhay

Abhay

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 Technically I think this might be you, from our history thus far. Which
 makes you a bit like most of the wikimedia dc board - most of them
 aren't actually in DC anymore, either.

 Or something. Do they ever define anywhere exactly what a discussion
 coordinator actually is/does?

 -I

 On 19/04/17 01:59, Gaurav Vaidya wrote:
 > Any volunteers?
 >
 > Cheers,
 > Gaurav
 >
 > Typed on a tiny keyboard.
 >
 > Begin forwarded message:
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 >> *From:* Nicole Ebber <nicole.eb...@wikimedia.de
 >> <mailto:nicole.eb...@wikimedia.de>>
 >> *Date:* April 18, 2017 at 9:57:30 PM EDT
 >> *To:* Nicole Ebber <nicole.eb...@wikimedia.de
 >> <mailto:nicole.eb...@wikimedia.de>>
 >> *Subject:* *Your User Group's movement strategy conversations*
 >>
 >> Greetings,
 >>
 >> I hope this email finds you well. As we are ending cycle 1 of the
 >> movement strategy process conversation today, I am currently looking
 >> into the list of organized groups on Meta and reaching out to groups
 >> we haven’t heard back from.[1]
 >>
 >> I have noticed that your User Group has not designated a discussion
 >> coordinator yet, and wanted to see if there is any information that
 >> you are missing right now, or any support you need. Of course, I would
 >> also like to hear from you if you decide not to participate right now.
 >> Every feedback will help us to improve and iterate on the ongoing
 >> process.
 >>
 >> Looking forward to hearing from you,
 >> Nicole
 >>
 >> [1]
 >> 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2017/Outreach/List
 >>
 >>
 >> --
 >> Nicole Ebber
 >> Adviser International Relations
 >> Movement Strategy Track Lead: Organized Groups
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Re: [Wikimedia-US-CO] A couple of things

2017-03-13 Thread Isarra Yos


On 13/03/17 18:19, Todd Allen wrote:
Unrelated, but also relevant to WMCO, we live in a pretty massive 
state. :) Given that, I've discussed the possibility of getting small 
grants for expenses like mileage and meals on the road to photograph 
things like smaller towns, abandoned mines, ghost towns, etc., for 
articles on Colorado towns and landmarks where free photos currently 
aren't available yet. It seems that's an idea they're interested in 
moving forward with. If anyone would have interest in that, let me 
know as well.


If I had a car, I'd be all for this. I mean, I am all for this, there 
just isn't much I can do about it, but it sounds awesome, and we could 
probably make some pretty fun events out of it. Mini photography road trips!


-I

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Re: [Wikimedia-US-CO] Wikimedians of Colorado User Group Annual Report 2016

2017-06-05 Thread Isarra Yos


Thank you Gaurav for taking care of this!

I was going to change the thing to reflect the 'upcoming' women 
editathon events now being over, and that there were two of them, and 
that they were also quite successful (I mean, we didn't organise or run 
them, but we did facilitate them!), but then my computer crashed and I 
forgot. In fact it really seems to be dying, which is not good. Already 
lost some data and... er.


If someone wants to update that bit, though, that'd be great.

-I

On 03/06/17 19:34, Gaurav Vaidya wrote:

Hi everybody,

Last chance to update this before I send it in, especially if you have 
any photographs from any local Wikimedia events involving one of us in 
2016! Otherwise, I'll send this in tomorrow.


cheers,
Gaurav


On 29-May-17 05:59:00 PM, Gaurav Vaidya  wrote:

Hi everybody,

Sorry for forgetting about this: the Wikimedians of Colorado User Group
Annual Report 2016 was due back in March! On the principle that it's
never too late etc., I've written a brief report up at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_of_Colorado_User_Group/Annual_Report_2016.
Please have a look, add any events I've forgotten about, any outcomes of
those meetups you think it'd be useful to mention, and anything else we
did group-wise last year. I'd particularly like any photographs anybody
took of group events that would look good on that page!

Have at it!

cheers,
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Re: [Wikimedia-US-CO] Wikimedia-US-CO Digest, Vol 38, Issue 3

2018-01-15 Thread Isarra Yos

If nobody objects/puts in votes toward anything else by noon, I suggest 
Neal and Todd go ahead and register. Bear in mind the deadline is 4pm 
localtime, so this would be during work hours if you don't have the holiday.


Thanks, all.

-I

On 15/01/18 04:29, Isarra Yos wrote:

So shall we just send Neal and Todd, perhaps?

And man, you mean from last year? If you have something to forward, 
then forward it! Activity happens when people send things. That's 
really it.


-!

On 15/01/18 03:15, Abhay Natu wrote:
Minor change...I put my name at the bottom. I would prefer different 
folks go this time so we have wider exposure.


* Neal McBurnett
* Todd Allen (may be able to self-fund)
* Isarra Yos
* Spencer
* Gaurav(?)
* ...
* Abhay Natu

As far as bringing back stuff, we have a Movement Strategy to endorse 
(or not) that was developed in the months following the conference. 
Now that we have some activity on the list, I'll send out the 
details. I'll wait until we sort out the participation list for this 
year.


Abhay


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Are we allowed to send extra people, outside the sponsored
delegates? I
was under the impression it was as much about numbers in general
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[Wikimedia-US-CO] Todd Allen and Neal McBurnett as Colorado delegates for Wikimedia Conference - register now

2018-01-15 Thread Isarra Yos

Todd, Neal, I'm calling it - you have two hours. Make sure you two
register if you haven't already.

Please note that it will be up to you to ensure you get proper
demonstration of support for things like learning days, so look into
that and sort it out if you're interested.

Registration form here for quick access:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeaBv3PfB-OK5DktOtvAu7PcnHStIlCS8wDvVHHtAYfoonDLg/viewform

-I

On 15/01/18 18:30, Isarra Yos wrote:
As much as I'd like to, as was you two had most all the actual
endorsements. And that did make things a lot simpler. Quick, we need
to decide!

-I

On 15/01/18 17:39, Neal McBurnett wrote:

I'm happy to do that, but I note that:

To increase diversity and have more diverse points of view present
at the Wikimedia Conference, we advise affiliates to send at least
one non-male participant per organization/group.

Don't you want to go, Isarra?

-Neal

On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 05:19:11PM +, Isarra Yos wrote:
If nobody objects/puts in votes toward anything else by noon, I
suggest Neal and Todd go ahead and register. Bear in mind the
deadline is 4pm localtime, so this would be during work hours if you
don't have the holiday.

Thanks, all.

-I

On 15/01/18 04:29, Isarra Yos wrote:

So shall we just send Neal and Todd, perhaps?

And man, you mean from last year? If you have something to
forward, then forward it! Activity happens when people send things.

That's really it.

On 15/01/18 03:15, Abhay Natu wrote:

Minor change...I put my name at the bottom. I would prefer
different folks go this time so we have wider exposure.

* Neal McBurnett
* Todd Allen (may be able to self-fund)
* Isarra Yos
* Spencer
* Gaurav(?)
* ...
* Abhay Natu
As far as bringing back stuff, we have a Movement
Strategy to endorse (or not) that was developed in the months following
the conference. Now that we have some activity on the list,
I'll send out the details. I'll wait until we sort out the

participation list for this year.

Abhay

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Re: [Wikimedia-US-CO] Todd Allen and Neal McBurnett as Colorado delegates for Wikimedia Conference - register now

2018-01-15 Thread Isarra Yos

Excellent. I called Todd and he's registering now. So we're good.

-I

On 15/01/18 21:28, Neal McBurnett wrote:

I am now registered.

-Neal

On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 02:13:53PM -0700, Neal McBurnett wrote:

You're very kind, Isarra. I will do so.

Someone should make sure Todd is doing so.

But some day you have to stop short-changing your own perspective, skills, and
value to the movement, and our support for you. Leadership being an impressive
asset right now!

I'm leaving out Learning Days.

-Neal

On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 08:55:06PM +, Isarra Yos wrote:

Todd, Neal, I'm calling it - you have two hours. Make sure you two
register if you haven't already.

Please note that it will be up to you to ensure you get proper
demonstration of support for things like learning days, so look into
that and sort it out if you're interested.

Registration form here for quick access:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeaBv3PfB-OK5DktOtvAu7PcnHStIlCS8wDvVHHtAYfoonDLg/viewform

-I

On 15/01/18 18:30, Isarra Yos wrote:

As much as I'd like to, as was you two had most all the actual
endorsements. And that did make things a lot simpler. Quick, we
need to decide!

-I

On 15/01/18 17:39, Neal McBurnett wrote:

I'm happy to do that, but I note that:

To increase diversity and have more diverse points of view
present at the Wikimedia Conference, we advise affiliates to
send at least one non-male participant per organization/group.

Don't you want to go, Isarra?

-Neal

On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 05:19:11PM +, Isarra Yos wrote:

If nobody objects/puts in votes toward anything else by noon,
I suggest Neal and Todd go ahead and register. Bear in mind
the
deadline is 4pm localtime, so this would be during work hours
if you don't have the holiday.

Thanks, all.

-I

On 15/01/18 04:29, Isarra Yos wrote:

So shall we just send Neal and Todd, perhaps?

And man, you mean from last year? If you have something
to forward, then forward it! Activity happens when people send
things.
That's really it.

On 15/01/18 03:15, Abhay Natu wrote:

Minor change...I put my name at the bottom. I would
prefer different folks go this time so we have wider exposure.

* Neal McBurnett
* Todd Allen (may be able to self-fund)
* Isarra Yos
* Spencer
* Gaurav(?)
* ...
* Abhay Natu
As far as bringing back stuff, we have a
Movement Strategy to endorse (or not) that was developed in
the months following
the conference. Now that we have some activity on the
list, I'll send out the details. I'll wait until we sort out
the
participation list for this year.

Abhay

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[Wikimedia-US-CO] Colorado user group representatives needed for Wikimedia Conference in Berlin in April; deadline in 25 hours

2018-01-14 Thread Isarra Yos


Hey, all:

Apparently Wikimedians of Colorado User Group can send two people to the 
Berlin Wikimedia Conference this year, and the deadline for registration 
is tomorrow (15 January) at 16:00 localtime! Because we totally suck at 
this, we need to figure out who to send probably... tonight? If anyone 
is interested in actually sorting out what's needed that quickly, you 
can likely just go, but we do need to coordinate that now.


So who all is interested? Again, this needs to happen with as much 
immediacy as possible.


* We indeed are eligible, per 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2018/Eligibility_Criteria 
and as a group two thing they're still paying for it out of conference 
budget, so that's not a concern for us
* Registration itself: 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2018/Registration_Information
* I think if you're up for sorting this out as last minute as this, it's 
probably good enough for 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2018/Program_Design_Process#How_to_select_the_delegates


-I


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Re: [Wikimedia-US-CO] Todd Allen and Neal McBurnett as Colorado delegates for Wikimedia Conference - register now

2018-01-16 Thread Isarra Yos

And with that, we made it. Thank you guys for putting in the effort to
represent, and thank you everyone for getting involved to make it happen
even on such short notice!

-I

On 15/01/18 23:35, Todd Allen wrote:
I just finished filling out the registration. There were a lot of
parts I had to put some "dummy" thing in given that I'll be booking my
own travel and accommodation.

On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 3:12 PM, Isarra Yos <zhoris...@gmail.com
<mailto:zhoris...@gmail.com>> wrote:

Excellent. I called Todd and he's registering now. So we're good.

-I

On 15/01/18 21:28, Neal McBurnett wrote:

I am now registered.

-Neal

On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 02:13:53PM -0700, Neal McBurnett wrote:

You're very kind, Isarra. I will do so.

Someone should make sure Todd is doing so.

But some day you have to stop short-changing your own
perspective, skills, and value to the movement, and our
support for you. Leadership being an impressive asset
right now!

I'm leaving out Learning Days.

-Neal

On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 08:55:06PM +, Isarra Yos wrote:

Todd, Neal, I'm calling it - you have two hours. Make
sure you two
register if you haven't already.

Please note that it will be up to you to ensure you
get proper
demonstration of support for things like learning
days, so look into
that and sort it out if you're interested.

Registration form here for quick access:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeaBv3PfB-OK5DktOtvAu7PcnHStIlCS8wDvVHHtAYfoonDLg/viewform

<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeaBv3PfB-OK5DktOtvAu7PcnHStIlCS8wDvVHHtAYfoonDLg/viewform>

-I

On 15/01/18 18:30, Isarra Yos wrote:

As much as I'd like to, as was you two had most
all the actual
endorsements. And that did make things a lot
simpler. Quick, we
need to decide!

-I

On 15/01/18 17:39, Neal McBurnett wrote:

I'm happy to do that, but I note that:

To increase diversity and have more diverse
points of view
present at the Wikimedia Conference, we advise
affiliates to
send at least one non-male participant per
organization/group.

Don't you want to go, Isarra?

-Neal

On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 05:19:11PM +0000,
Isarra Yos wrote:

If nobody objects/puts in votes toward
anything else by noon,
I suggest Neal and Todd go ahead and
register. Bear in mind
the
deadline is 4pm localtime, so this would
be during work hours
if you don't have the holiday.

Thanks, all.

-I

On 15/01/18 04:29, Isarra Yos wrote:

So shall we just send Neal and Todd,
perhaps?

And man, you mean from last year? If
you have something
to forward, then forward it! Activity
happens when people send
things.
That's really it.

On 15/01/18 03:15, Abhay Natu wrote:

Minor change...I put my name at
the bottom. I would
prefer different folks go this time so we
have wider exposure.

Re: [Wikimedia-US-CO] Colorado user group representatives needed for Wikimedia Conference in Berlin in April; deadline in 25 hours

2018-01-14 Thread Isarra Yos

Yeah, without pharos, I think we all would have missed this, so props to
him for the constant reminders and forwards and all the help keeping
this group actually going.

And awesome, Neal. I'm interested as well, but if we can get someone
else (Todd? Other organisers?), I'd be happy to defer.

-I

On 14/01/18 23:33, Neal McBurnett wrote:

Thanks, Isarra (and Pharos!!).

I'm once again interested!

Neal McBurnett http://neal.mcburnett.org/

On Sun, Jan 14, 2018 at 10:06:30PM +, Isarra Yos wrote:

Hey, all:

Apparently Wikimedians of Colorado User Group can send two people to
the Berlin Wikimedia Conference this year, and the deadline for
registration is tomorrow (15 January) at 16:00 localtime! Because we
totally suck at this, we need to figure out who to send probably...
tonight? If anyone is interested in actually sorting out what's
needed that quickly, you can likely just go, but we do need to
coordinate that now.

So who all is interested? Again, this needs to happen with as much
immediacy as possible.

* We indeed are eligible, per
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2018/Eligibility_Criteria
and as a group two thing they're still paying for it out of
conference budget, so that's not a concern for us
* Registration itself:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2018/Registration_Information
* I think if you're up for sorting this out as last minute as this,
it's probably good enough for
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2018/Program_Design_Process#How_to_select_the_delegates

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2018-01-14 Thread Isarra Yos


So shall we just send Neal and Todd, perhaps?

And man, you mean from last year? If you have something to forward, then 
forward it! Activity happens when people send things. That's really it.


-!

On 15/01/18 03:15, Abhay Natu wrote:
Minor change...I put my name at the bottom. I would prefer different 
folks go this time so we have wider exposure.


* Neal McBurnett
* Todd Allen (may be able to self-fund)
* Isarra Yos
* Spencer
* Gaurav(?)
* ...
* Abhay Natu

As far as bringing back stuff, we have a Movement Strategy to endorse 
(or not) that was developed in the months following the conference. 
Now that we have some activity on the list, I'll send out the details. 
I'll wait until we sort out the participation list for this year.


Abhay


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Are we allowed to send extra people, outside the sponsored
delegates? I
was under the impression it was as much about numbers in general
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Re: [Wikimedia-US-CO] Colorado user group representatives needed for Wikimedia Conference in Berlin in April; deadline in 25 hours

2018-01-14 Thread Isarra Yos

Are we allowed to send extra people, outside the sponsored delegates? I 
was under the impression it was as much about numbers in general as costs.


-I

On 15/01/18 00:36, Todd Allen wrote:
Though to be clear, I can pay my own way well enough. I do not want to 
use up one of the sponsored slots, I don't need it. So if anyone else 
does need a sponsored one, please do apply for it.


Todd

On Sun, Jan 14, 2018 at 5:32 PM, Todd Allen <toddmal...@gmail.com 
<mailto:toddmal...@gmail.com>> wrote:


I would really like to go this time. My wife got very sick last
time so I couldn't do it, but well, I certainly would hope that
doesn't happen again!

Todd

On Sun, Jan 14, 2018 at 4:45 PM, Isarra Yos <zhoris...@gmail.com
<mailto:zhoris...@gmail.com>> wrote:

Yeah, without pharos, I think we all would have missed this,
so props to him for the constant reminders and forwards and
all the help keeping this group actually going.

And awesome, Neal. I'm interested as well, but if we can get
someone else (Todd? Other organisers?), I'd be happy to defer.

-I


On 14/01/18 23:33, Neal McBurnett wrote:

Thanks, Isarra (and Pharos!!).

I'm once again interested!

Neal McBurnett http://neal.mcburnett.org/

On Sun, Jan 14, 2018 at 10:06:30PM +, Isarra Yos wrote:

Hey, all:

Apparently Wikimedians of Colorado User Group can send
two people to
the Berlin Wikimedia Conference this year, and the
deadline for
registration is tomorrow (15 January) at 16:00
localtime! Because we
totally suck at this, we need to figure out who to
send probably...
tonight? If anyone is interested in actually sorting
out what's
needed that quickly, you can likely just go, but we do
need to
coordinate that now.

So who all is interested? Again, this needs to happen
with as much
immediacy as possible.

* We indeed are eligible, per

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2018/Eligibility_Criteria

<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2018/Eligibility_Criteria>
and as a group two thing they're still paying for it
out of
conference budget, so that's not a concern for us
* Registration itself:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2018/Registration_Information

<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2018/Registration_Information>
* I think if you're up for sorting this out as last
minute as this,
it's probably good enough for

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2018/Program_Design_Process#How_to_select_the_delegates

<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2018/Program_Design_Process#How_to_select_the_delegates>

-I


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Re: [Wikimedia-US-CO] Colorado user group representatives needed for Wikimedia Conference in Berlin in April; deadline in 25 hours

2018-01-14 Thread Isarra Yos

All right, so it looks like we've got these nominations:

* Neal McBurnett
* Todd Allen
* Abhay Natu
* Isarra Yos

Going off memory, Neal was instrumental in helping set up and running
training at at least two of the three editathons last year, and I think
Abhay and Todd were also there to help out for at least one of them.
Abhay was our delegate last year, so he knows well what the process is
and could follow up on anything from the last time, though I'm not
really sure what was brought back in practice. I think Todd was planning
to follow up on the road trip grant possibility, but dunno if that ever
went anywhere. I try to help coordinate things in general as well and
make sure stuff actually goes to the mailing list.

As cool as it'd be to include Stephen (annual wiknic host), as Spencer
suggested, or Gaurav (who, in particular, wrote the annual report that
kept us even eligible, as well as generally helping coordinate
everything even from florida), or one of the edithathon organisers,
lacking their direct involvement here it's kind of too late to try
coordinating that.

Thoughts? Spencer's put in a vote already, so I suppose everyone else
on-list might as well just go ahead and do that too?

-I

On 15/01/18 02:28, Isarra Yos wrote:
Are we allowed to send extra people, outside the sponsored delegates?
I was under the impression it was as much about numbers in general as
costs.

-I

On 15/01/18 00:36, Todd Allen wrote:
Though to be clear, I can pay my own way well enough. I do not want
to use up one of the sponsored slots, I don't need it. So if anyone
else does need a sponsored one, please do apply for it.

Todd

On Sun, Jan 14, 2018 at 5:32 PM, Todd Allen <toddmal...@gmail.com
<mailto:toddmal...@gmail.com>> wrote:

I would really like to go this time. My wife got very sick last
time so I couldn't do it, but well, I certainly would hope that
doesn't happen again!

Todd

On Sun, Jan 14, 2018 at 4:45 PM, Isarra Yos <zhoris...@gmail.com
<mailto:zhoris...@gmail.com>> wrote:

Yeah, without pharos, I think we all would have missed this,
so props to him for the constant reminders and forwards and
all the help keeping this group actually going.

And awesome, Neal. I'm interested as well, but if we can get
someone else (Todd? Other organisers?), I'd be happy to defer.

-I

On 14/01/18 23:33, Neal McBurnett wrote:

Thanks, Isarra (and Pharos!!).

I'm once again interested!

Neal McBurnett http://neal.mcburnett.org/

On Sun, Jan 14, 2018 at 10:06:30PM +, Isarra Yos wrote:

Hey, all:

Apparently Wikimedians of Colorado User Group can
send two people to
the Berlin Wikimedia Conference this year, and the
deadline for
registration is tomorrow (15 January) at 16:00
localtime! Because we
totally suck at this, we need to figure out who to
send probably...
tonight? If anyone is interested in actually sorting
out what's
needed that quickly, you can likely just go, but we
do need to
coordinate that now.

So who all is interested? Again, this needs to happen
with as much
immediacy as possible.

* We indeed are eligible, per

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2018/Eligibility_Criteria

<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2018/Eligibility_Criteria>
and as a group two thing they're still paying for it
out of
conference budget, so that's not a concern for us
* Registration itself:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2018/Registration_Information

<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2018/Registration_Information>
* I think if you're up for sorting this out as last
minute as this,
it's probably good enough for

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2018/Program_Design_Process#How_to_select_the_delegates

<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2018/Program_Design_Process#How_to_select_the_delegates>

-I

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[Wikimedia-US-CO] WikiConference North America submissions and scholarships due tomorrow (15 august)

2018-08-14 Thread Isarra Yos

Hey all, for anyone who's interested and hasn't necessarily gotten 
around to it, general reminder that submissions and scholarship 
applications are due tomorrow. So if you're like me and haven't 
submitted anything yet and/or applied for a scholarship and want to, do 
these now!


If you haven't done this before, proposal submissions are 
talks/panels/workshops for basically anything we might see at any other 
Wikimedia event, but also especially stuff applicable to local groups 
and whatnot. Like what have we even been doing as a group?


And if you're wondering if you should apply for a scholarship, the 
answer is yes. They're very straight forward, you just get 500$ to 
figure out your own trip and that should cover most of it, and if you do 
anything at all, you're probably in the running for getting one. If 
you're subscribed to this list, you probably do something. If you're an 
academic, you also have a more academia-style option to look into.


As a side note, in the past I may have mentioned how we should maybe try 
combining the photo road trip idea with getting people to this 
conference, but this was before I realised just how far away Ohio really 
is. I thought it was close to Colorado! It's not! This one's further 
away than San Diego! But even if that's not necessarily feasible for 
this, we should still totally look into doing that sort of road trip at 
some point, hint hint. Maybe if some of us meet up at the conference, we 
could plan something then? I dunno.


-I


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Re: [Wikimedia-US-CO] Wikimedians of Colorado User Group annual report

2018-08-14 Thread Isarra Yos


On 14/08/18 16:34, Isarra Yos wrote:
Hey all, does anyone know if we've submitted/started an annual report 
for 2017? Mostly I'm just asking if anyone has actually done this and 
I just didn't notice - I was planning to do this myself several months 
ago, but my health kind of took a downturn and I sort of lost track of 
things. If not, I'll see what all we need to do to get on that, but 
let me know.


Thanks!

-I


Last years was here: 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_of_Colorado_User_Group/Annual_Report_2016


So based on that I added a red link to where we'd expect 2017 on the 
main group page. Please correct if that's wrong! 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_of_Colorado_User_Group



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Re: [Wikimedia-US-CO] WikiConference North America submissions and scholarships due tomorrow (15 august)

2018-08-14 Thread Isarra Yos

How many pictures can you get on the way? Because you should totally 
still do that if you can.


Sadly even if we decided it was worth the distance, it's probably too 
late to actually organise something bigger at this point. But what do 
you think?


-I

On 14/08/18 18:26, Todd Allen wrote:
Columbus isn't a terrible drive, looks like about 1200 miles. I'd 
probably stop somewhere in Missouri for one night.


Todd

On Tue, Aug 14, 2018, 10:31 AM Isarra Yos <mailto:zhoris...@gmail.com>> wrote:


Hey all, for anyone who's interested and hasn't necessarily gotten
around to it, general reminder that submissions and scholarship
applications are due tomorrow. So if you're like me and haven't
submitted anything yet and/or applied for a scholarship and want
to, do
these now!

If you haven't done this before, proposal submissions are
talks/panels/workshops for basically anything we might see at any
other
Wikimedia event, but also especially stuff applicable to local groups
and whatnot. Like what have we even been doing as a group?

And if you're wondering if you should apply for a scholarship, the
answer is yes. They're very straight forward, you just get 500$ to
figure out your own trip and that should cover most of it, and if
you do
anything at all, you're probably in the running for getting one. If
you're subscribed to this list, you probably do something. If
you're an
academic, you also have a more academia-style option to look into.

As a side note, in the past I may have mentioned how we should
maybe try
combining the photo road trip idea with getting people to this
conference, but this was before I realised just how far away Ohio
really
is. I thought it was close to Colorado! It's not! This one's further
away than San Diego! But even if that's not necessarily feasible for
this, we should still totally look into doing that sort of road
trip at
some point, hint hint. Maybe if some of us meet up at the
conference, we
could plan something then? I dunno.

-I


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[Wikimedia-US-CO] Fwd: [Wikimediaus-l] Aug 22: WikiCon extended deadline

2018-08-20 Thread Isarra Yos


Update.


 Forwarded Message 
Subject:[Wikimediaus-l] Aug 22: WikiCon extended deadline
Date:   Mon, 20 Aug 2018 15:35:19 -0400
From:   Pharos 
Reply-To: 	Wikimedians Active in Local Regions of the United States 
(WALRUS) 

To: Wikimedia U.S. Chapter 



The deadline for submissions and scholarships for WikiConference North 
America has been extended to August 22, i.e. Wednesday.

To submit your presentation:

https://wikiconference.org/wiki/2018/Submissions

To apply for a scholarship:

https://wikiconference.org/wiki/2018/Scholarships

Remember, Wednesday is the final final deadline :)

Thanks,
Richard
(User:Pharos)
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Re: [Wikimedia-US-CO] Wikimedians of Colorado User Group annual report

2018-08-21 Thread Isarra Yos

Okay, we have just received an official warning for a lack of an annual 
report, so I made a page and just copied the 2017 stuff off the main 
group page. 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_of_Colorado_User_Group/Annual_Report_2017


Folks, if anything is missing, please, please add it, as I have no idea 
what (else) any of us may or may not have done because I've personally 
spent the bulk of the past year ill and have not really been able to 
keep up with anything at all as a result.


If that's it, please also let me know, and I'll remove the 'anything 
else?' line and try to figure out how to, er, submit it. (Is it just 
adding a link to the reports page? Maybe that is it...)


-I

On 14/08/18 16:38, Isarra Yos wrote:

On 14/08/18 16:34, Isarra Yos wrote:
Hey all, does anyone know if we've submitted/started an annual report 
for 2017? Mostly I'm just asking if anyone has actually done this and 
I just didn't notice - I was planning to do this myself several 
months ago, but my health kind of took a downturn and I sort of lost 
track of things. If not, I'll see what all we need to do to get on 
that, but let me know.


Thanks!

-I


Last years was here: 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_of_Colorado_User_Group/Annual_Report_2016


So based on that I added a red link to where we'd expect 2017 on the 
main group page. Please correct if that's wrong! 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_of_Colorado_User_Group





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Re: [Wikimedia-US-CO] Wikimedians of Colorado User Group annual report

2018-08-29 Thread Isarra Yos

All right, nobody else seems to have had anything to add, so I went
ahead and sent the link to wikimedia-l. Unless we're missing something
else, we should be good now for the next... while!

Thanks!

-I

On 21/08/2018 21:16, Neal McBurnett wrote:

Thanks, Isarra!!

I added a bit of detail and clarified the reporting period.
As the recent official notice clarified, Wikimedia User Groups are required to submit an annual
activity report covering the entirety of the 12-month agreement period in order to prompt review
for a renewal. So this covers our "agreement period", from 2017-03-04 (the anniversary of
our "agreement date", when we were recognized on 2016-03-04) to 2018-03-04.

I removed "anything else" but please go ahead and add more.
I added this to the Reports page at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Reports

After a day or two we should finalize this and post it to meta.

-Neal

On Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 08:30:43PM +, Isarra Yos wrote:

Okay, we have just received an official warning for a lack of an annual
report, so I made a page and just copied the 2017 stuff off the main group
page.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_of_Colorado_User_Group/Annual_Report_2017

Folks, if anything is missing, please, please add it, as I have no idea what
(else) any of us may or may not have done because I've personally spent the
bulk of the past year ill and have not really been able to keep up with
anything at all as a result.

If that's it, please also let me know, and I'll remove the 'anything else?'
line and try to figure out how to, er, submit it. (Is it just adding a link
to the reports page? Maybe that is it...)

-I

On 14/08/18 16:38, Isarra Yos wrote:

On 14/08/18 16:34, Isarra Yos wrote:

Hey all, does anyone know if we've submitted/started an annual
report for 2017? Mostly I'm just asking if anyone has actually done
this and I just didn't notice - I was planning to do this myself
several months ago, but my health kind of took a downturn and I sort
of lost track of things. If not, I'll see what all we need to do to
get on that, but let me know.

Thanks!

-I

Last years was here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_of_Colorado_User_Group/Annual_Report_2016

So based on that I added a red link to where we'd expect 2017 on the
main group page. Please correct if that's wrong!
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_of_Colorado_User_Group

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Re: [Wikimedia-US-CO] Wikiconference North America

2018-04-22 Thread Isarra Yos

We may also be able to combine this with the photography road trip thing 
and basically get a separate rapid grant to roadtrip a bunch of us 
there/back and take a bunch of photos of things on the way, if folks are 
available.


-I

On 22/04/18 07:52, Neal McBurnett wrote:


Plans are underway for *WikiConference North America/2018*. More info 
soon!


*SAVE THE DATES*: October 18-21, 2018

  * Thu, Oct 18: WikidataCon/Hackathon
  * Fri, Oct 19: Culture Crawl
  * Sat/Sun, Oct 20-21: Main Program with Tracks

*VENUES*:

  * Main: Ohio State University
  * Reception: Columbus Metropolitan Library

*CITY*: Columbus, Ohio, US

Grants to support attendance might be available.
Stay tuned!

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Re: [Wikimedia-US-CO] Plan for Wikimedia Summit 2019

2018-12-15 Thread Isarra Yos

Thanks! Since nobody else volunteered, are we in agreement I should go, 
then?

The following two questions are from the registration form, intended to 
help the organisers determine the summit program:

1. How does your affiliate work support the Strategic Direction? How
   does the Strategic Direction support your affiliate work?
2. What movement structures need to change to support you do your work
   better? What structures help you? What structures hinder you?

Given that they are about the user group as a whole, the answers should 
likewise probably reflect the user group as a whole, not just my own 
take on them (especially as my own take is largely just 'I don't really 
know'). Does anyone have any thoughts on these?

-I

On 14/12/2018 16:10, Lee Pennebaker wrote:
My vote is with Isarra! I have considered putting my name in for the 
running, but I think Isarra would be a much better option.

Happy Friday, all!

Best wishes,

Lee

On Fri, Dec 14, 2018 at 8:48 AM Isarra Yos <mailto:zhoris...@gmail.com>> wrote:

Hey, all, this weekend is the last before the deadline (17th
midnight, CET). So far I'm still the only one who's added myself
as a potential delegate on the page, so if you're interested in
going, please add yourself today and we can have a vote/argument
tomorrow (saturday), or something. As long as you put in something
better than my filler text, you're probably good. (Yes, I do
intend to fix that today as well, but hopefully you've all already
seen how bad it is by now.)

Thanks!

-I

On 28/11/2018 17:57, Isarra Yos wrote:

All right, I've created

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_of_Colorado_User_Group/wmsummit-2019/candidates

Please add yourself! I just put in a very basic filler text
example for myself, but that should... help kick things off, or
stuff. I'll add more later when I'm not rushing out the door.

-I

On 27/11/2018 23:07, Lee Pennebaker wrote:

Hey all,

Relatively new member here. I've been reading these emails for a
while now - I'm pretty excited to be a part of this group.

I'd love to throw my hat in the ring for consideration of the
summit. Please don't get me wrong - I don't mean to disrespect
the traditions here in terms of preferring the seniority of
delegates. This just seems like an unbelievable opportunity, and
I would be honored to be considered in representing this group.
I'm more than willing to learn more about this organization and
complete the application process y'all decide on! And I
completely understand if I am coming too far out of left field
to be considered!

Best wishes and much respect,

Lee Pennebaker

On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 1:44 PM Neal McBurnett
mailto:n...@bcn.boulder.co.us>> wrote:

Well, Isarra hasn't gone yet

Though we may want to follow our pretty-good tradition of
asking people to volunteer by posting a pitch
like we did at

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_of_Colorado_User_Group/wmcon-2017/candidates

-Neal

On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 03:17:56PM -0500, Gaurav Vaidya wrote:
>
>
> On Nov 26 2018, at 6:38 pm, Isarra Yos
mailto:zhoris...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>
>
>     The summit, as it is now called, is apparently in
March again, and according to the eligibility page, we can
send a person! (Is
>     this why we submit our reports? It is, isn't it.)
>
>     Do we have a plan? Who do we want to send this time?
What do we want to do with it? Do we have any sort of stance
on anything
>     about the movement strategy in general, as that seems
to be the main focus? Deadline for the who to send decision
and whatnot
>     is 17 december, though, so maybe we can break
tradition and figure this out before the week of this time.
>
>
> You can't just reject tradition like that. These things
are such important parts of who we are.
>
> Seriously, though, are we at the point where all major
WM-US-CO contributors have been sent to Berlin? If there's a
contributor who
> hasn't had a chance to go, maybe we just send them?
>
>
>     Some relevant links:
>
>      1. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Summit_2019
>      2.

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Summit_2019/Eligibility_Criteria
>      3.

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Summit_2019/Registration_Information
>     -I
>
>
> Also: please do organize something for Wikipedia Day on
January 15, 2019! Details at h

Re: [Wikimedia-US-CO] Plan for Wikimedia Summit 2019

2018-11-28 Thread Isarra Yos

All right, I've created 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_of_Colorado_User_Group/wmsummit-2019/candidates


Please add yourself! I just put in a very basic filler text example for 
myself, but that should... help kick things off, or stuff. I'll add more 
later when I'm not rushing out the door.


-I

On 27/11/2018 23:07, Lee Pennebaker wrote:

Hey all,

Relatively new member here. I've been reading these emails for a while 
now - I'm pretty excited to be a part of this group.


I'd love to throw my hat in the ring for consideration of the summit. 
Please don't get me wrong - I don't mean to disrespect the traditions 
here in terms of preferring the seniority of delegates. This just 
seems like an unbelievable opportunity, and I would be honored to be 
considered in representing this group. I'm more than willing to learn 
more about this organization and complete the application 
process y'all decide on! And I completely understand if I am coming 
too far out of left field to be considered!


Best wishes and much respect,

Lee Pennebaker

On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 1:44 PM Neal McBurnett <mailto:n...@bcn.boulder.co.us>> wrote:


Well, Isarra hasn't gone yet

Though we may want to follow our pretty-good tradition of asking
people to volunteer by posting a pitch
like we did at


https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_of_Colorado_User_Group/wmcon-2017/candidates

-Neal

On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 03:17:56PM -0500, Gaurav Vaidya wrote:
>
>
> On Nov 26 2018, at 6:38 pm, Isarra Yos mailto:zhoris...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>
>
>     The summit, as it is now called, is apparently in March
again, and according to the eligibility page, we can send a
person! (Is
>     this why we submit our reports? It is, isn't it.)
>
>     Do we have a plan? Who do we want to send this time? What do
we want to do with it? Do we have any sort of stance on anything
>     about the movement strategy in general, as that seems to be
the main focus? Deadline for the who to send decision and whatnot
>     is 17 december, though, so maybe we can break tradition and
figure this out before the week of this time.
>
>
> You can't just reject tradition like that. These things are such
important parts of who we are.
>
> Seriously, though, are we at the point where all major WM-US-CO
contributors have been sent to Berlin? If there's a contributor who
> hasn't had a chance to go, maybe we just send them?
>
>
>     Some relevant links:
>
>      1. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Summit_2019
>      2.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Summit_2019/Eligibility_Criteria
>      3.

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Summit_2019/Registration_Information
>     -I
>
>
> Also: please do organize something for Wikipedia Day on January
15, 2019! Details at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
> Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Day -- I'm going to try and do something in
Gainesville FL as well.

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Re: [Wikimedia-US-CO] Requesting some mentoring and guidance on implementing a Wikimedia feature

2019-01-07 Thread Isarra Yos


Some thoughts, then -

For (1), I'm a bit uncertain if it would actually work for Wikimedia 
projects - many take very strong stances regarding anything involving 
money, and the like, but on the other hand I really think your best bet 
would be to ask the projects themselves directly at some point. It might 
depend on how it actually works, what the tip means - is it directly 
money, or something like reddit gold or something, or... I'm not sure.


Whatever the case, though, I think you're probably spot on with (3). 
Third-party projects would probably have a lot of uses for this sort of 
thing in general, and perhaps not even the same uses on different 
projects, so they would not just make good test cases, but actually make 
it a thing in general and establish different uses that anyone might 
adopt. And yeah, based on that, I would definitely recommend for (2) to 
use these as your examples when you make whatever proposals/queries to 
Wikimedia projects later. Just 'these are some things that work for 
other projects and how, would you be interested in adopting one of these 
models or anything like them?' sort of thing, because then you could 
also probably address actual questions and concerns with real data.


You might also want to make similar queries as this on certain project 
lists in the meantime, if you haven't already, since they might be able 
to tell you more about specific needs/concerns to look into as you go.


-I

On 05/01/2019 09:00, Craig Talbert wrote:

Hello Colorado Wikipedians!

My apologies that I haven't met many of you before or been very active 
on this list. I've been editing Wikipedia for 12 years, and living in 
Colorado for 38. I'm hoping maybe Coloradan to Coloradan you can help 
me out with some advice.


I've been trying to think of novel micropayment applications, and was 
thinking it would be really cool if in addition to the "thank" link on 
diffs there was also a "tip" link to send a small tip to the editor 
making the tip-worthy edit.


Along these lines, I have three questions/requests.

(1) Can any one envision, or do you have objections to something like 
this? If I stretch me imagination a bit, I can see some of the 
objections Wikipedias have raised regarding CoI or other paid-editing 
scenarios applying here (e.g. it would be a round-about way for 
entities to pay for editors). I think the incentive of encouraging 
good edits would out-weigh the risks, and the diffs are the right 
place to do it (e.g. not on a user page or something like that). What 
do you think?


(2) What would be the right way to propose such a feature to Wikimeda? 
If there's no obvious right way, would what be the wrong ways to avoid?


(3) Building on (2) what would be your suggestions on how to develop 
this with an eye for adoption on Wikipedia? Does it make the most 
sense to build it on a small independent Mediawiki and then have it 
ready for adoption on Wikimedia? (what I'm planning to do) or is there 
something else that makes more sense?


Thanks,

- Craig

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Re: [Wikimedia-US-CO] Wikimedia Affiliates Summit, affiliate stuff in general?

2019-04-02 Thread Isarra Yos

That is awesome! Also possibly slightly concerning, because that means 
we have even fewer people likely to properly take part in this. I'm 
seriously all for the bobcat, personally.


I did link the annual report on a giant table just now, but then yelled 
at the table instead of providing an edit summary, so I'll, uh, send it 
wikimedia-l tomorrow, unless you want to do it now. (Also it turns out 
we're late again, because they expect annual reports for the year by 
exactly the end of the year period. Which given that the year period 
isn't over until that exact day I guess means we should be submitting 
them on that exact day? Is that what that means? Or should we just 
submit next year in the middle of february and not worry about it? 
Because apparently our specific recognition date, and thus due date for 
these, is 4 march.)


-I

On 01/04/2019 21:59, Neal McBurnett wrote:

Thank you, Isarra!  Quite a lot to digest.

FYI, I have just signed up for and become a "facilitator" for the election.

Note that therefore I may neither endorse any candidate, nor participate in any 
public discussions of candidates' merits,
nor participate in any decision about how an affiliate organization's vote is 
cast.

  (as noted in 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliate-selected_Board_seats/Resolution_2019)

Has our annual report been linked in to the appropriate official places?

-Neal

On Sat, Mar 30, 2019 at 05:34:10PM +0000, Isarra Yos wrote:

Apparently the affiliate-selected board seat change is this: 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliate-selected_Board_seats/
Resolution_2019

So actual thing: 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliate-selected_Board_seats/2019

It looks like they somehow mistook me for the point of contact for the user 
group (possibly because we don't have one? is that even
possible? or am I, in which case, is that wise?) and that's why I got the 
emails. Anyway, here's the sum of what seems to be the
case:

   • We, as a user group, get a vote on the two affiliate-selected board seats! 
Probably. All the user groups in good standing now
 get a vote, along with all other affiliates. (Unless you have two really 
redundant groups or something, but that doesn't really
 apply to us.)
   • We may or may not need to actually specify a membership list to do this. 
Technically the list on meta seems to count, though,
 even if it's not necessarily accurate.
   • We do need to get our annual report in (and we will! Yay! We're on top of 
things!)
   • To vote, we will designate a delegate to actually cast the vote. How they 
vote is up to us as a pile, or them, or whatever we
 all decide in general. Maybe we sign up a bobcat someone trapped in their 
kitchen and it does... something totally random?
 Probably not, but that'd be a proper local, at any rate.
   • Voting works by ranking candidates. More information will happen on this 
once candidates nominate themselves.
   • Any of you can nominate yourselves as a candidate, unless you're a bobcat 
or something. For the WMF board. Yes. But you
 probably can't be our delegate if you do?
   • Okay, so we probably can't nominate a bobcat as our delegate either.
   • Also they need more facilitators for the actual vote, if anyone's 
interested, but the deadline is apparently today.

If any of this is totally unclear (or possibly downright incoherent), I 
sincerely apologise, but I'm not dealing with the bobcat.

-I

On 29/03/2019 08:56, Isarra Yos wrote:

 Hi, all.

 So I made it to the summit, and so far I have this to report: help I want 
to go back to bed. Also h we're apparently an
 affiliate and have some say in affiliate-selected board seats?!

 But seriously, the focus of this thing seems a lot more specific than 
previous years, not that I'm particularly familiar with
 previous years either: it's all about Strategy. Movement process. 2030 
stuff. That... discussion I maybe kind of sort of
 derailed a year or two ago on this same list (sorry about that). As such, 
I'm wondering if anyone does have any particular
 thoughts on this, or ideas as to stuff I ought to be looking into in 
particular that might affect us as a group/loosely
 affiliated lump of people in theoretical proximity to each other who 
occasionally organise things in theoretically relevant
 geological locations?

 Or if you actually want to read up it, it's probably this: 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20

 As for the affiliate-selected board seats thing, I'm... honestly not 
really sure what the deal with that is - I've been signed
 up for a mailing list about it (possibly as the selected person for this 
conference? Not sure - was anyone else added to that?)
 but haven't been able to find out a whole lot about what's the deal with 
that onwiki, either, partly on account of being a bit
 distracted travelling all over and being ill.

 So, yeah

Re: [Wikimedia-US-CO] Wikimedia Affiliates Summit, affiliate stuff in general?

2019-04-03 Thread Isarra Yos


Okay, sent. Should I have crosslisted here? Oops.

On 03/04/2019 04:48, Isarra Yos wrote:
That is awesome! Also possibly slightly concerning, because that means 
we have even fewer people likely to properly take part in this. I'm 
seriously all for the bobcat, personally.


I did link the annual report on a giant table just now, but then 
yelled at the table instead of providing an edit summary, so I'll, uh, 
send it wikimedia-l tomorrow, unless you want to do it now. (Also it 
turns out we're late again, because they expect annual reports for the 
year by exactly the end of the year period. Which given that the year 
period isn't over until that exact day I guess means we should be 
submitting them on that exact day? Is that what that means? Or should 
we just submit next year in the middle of february and not worry about 
it? Because apparently our specific recognition date, and thus due 
date for these, is 4 march.)


-I

On 01/04/2019 21:59, Neal McBurnett wrote:

Thank you, Isarra!  Quite a lot to digest.

FYI, I have just signed up for and become a "facilitator" for the 
election.


Note that therefore I may neither endorse any candidate, nor 
participate in any public discussions of candidates' merits,
nor participate in any decision about how an affiliate organization's 
vote is cast.


  (as noted in 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliate-selected_Board_seats/Resolution_2019)


Has our annual report been linked in to the appropriate official places?

-Neal

On Sat, Mar 30, 2019 at 05:34:10PM +0000, Isarra Yos wrote:
Apparently the affiliate-selected board seat change is this: 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliate-selected_Board_seats/

Resolution_2019

So actual thing: 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliate-selected_Board_seats/2019


It looks like they somehow mistook me for the point of contact for 
the user group (possibly because we don't have one? is that even
possible? or am I, in which case, is that wise?) and that's why I 
got the emails. Anyway, here's the sum of what seems to be the

case:

   • We, as a user group, get a vote on the two affiliate-selected 
board seats! Probably. All the user groups in good standing now
 get a vote, along with all other affiliates. (Unless you have 
two really redundant groups or something, but that doesn't really

 apply to us.)
   • We may or may not need to actually specify a membership list to 
do this. Technically the list on meta seems to count, though,

 even if it's not necessarily accurate.
   • We do need to get our annual report in (and we will! Yay! We're 
on top of things!)
   • To vote, we will designate a delegate to actually cast the 
vote. How they vote is up to us as a pile, or them, or whatever we
 all decide in general. Maybe we sign up a bobcat someone 
trapped in their kitchen and it does... something totally random?

 Probably not, but that'd be a proper local, at any rate.
   • Voting works by ranking candidates. More information will 
happen on this once candidates nominate themselves.
   • Any of you can nominate yourselves as a candidate, unless 
you're a bobcat or something. For the WMF board. Yes. But you

 probably can't be our delegate if you do?
   • Okay, so we probably can't nominate a bobcat as our delegate 
either.
   • Also they need more facilitators for the actual vote, if 
anyone's interested, but the deadline is apparently today.


If any of this is totally unclear (or possibly downright 
incoherent), I sincerely apologise, but I'm not dealing with the 
bobcat.


-I

On 29/03/2019 08:56, Isarra Yos wrote:

 Hi, all.

 So I made it to the summit, and so far I have this to report: 
help I want to go back to bed. Also h we're apparently an

 affiliate and have some say in affiliate-selected board seats?!

 But seriously, the focus of this thing seems a lot more 
specific than previous years, not that I'm particularly familiar with
 previous years either: it's all about Strategy. Movement 
process. 2030 stuff. That... discussion I maybe kind of sort of
 derailed a year or two ago on this same list (sorry about 
that). As such, I'm wondering if anyone does have any particular
 thoughts on this, or ideas as to stuff I ought to be looking 
into in particular that might affect us as a group/loosely
 affiliated lump of people in theoretical proximity to each 
other who occasionally organise things in theoretically relevant

 geological locations?

 Or if you actually want to read up it, it's probably this: 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20


 As for the affiliate-selected board seats thing, I'm... 
honestly not really sure what the deal with that is - I've been signed
 up for a mailing list about it (possibly as the selected person 
for this conference? Not sure - was anyone else added to that?)
 but haven't been able to find out a whole lot about what's the 
deal with that onwi

[Wikimedia-US-CO] Wikimedia Affiliates Summit, affiliate stuff in general?

2019-03-29 Thread Isarra Yos


Hi, all.

So I made it to the summit, and so far I have this to report: help I 
want to go back to bed. Also h we're apparently an affiliate and 
have some say in affiliate-selected board seats?!


But seriously, the focus of this thing seems a lot more specific than 
previous years, not that I'm particularly familiar with previous years 
either: it's all about Strategy. Movement process. 2030 stuff. That... 
discussion I maybe kind of sort of derailed a year or two ago on this 
same list (sorry about that). As such, I'm wondering if anyone does have 
any particular thoughts on this, or ideas as to stuff I ought to be 
looking into in particular that might affect us as a group/loosely 
affiliated lump of people in theoretical proximity to each other who 
occasionally organise things in theoretically relevant geological locations?


Or if you actually want to read up it, it's probably this: 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20


As for the affiliate-selected board seats thing, I'm... honestly not 
really sure what the deal with that is - I've been signed up for a 
mailing list about it (possibly as the selected person for this 
conference? Not sure - was anyone else added to that?) but haven't been 
able to find out a whole lot about what's the deal with that onwiki, 
either, partly on account of being a bit distracted travelling all over 
and being ill.


So, yeah, should I be representing us on that, too, does anyone know any 
more about that one, and what do we make of that?!


-I


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Re: [Wikimedia-US-CO] Annual report reminder

2019-03-18 Thread Isarra Yos

I have begun a template report: 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_of_Colorado_User_Group/Annual_Report_2018


I recommend adding anything we've already listed on the other pages, 
plus anything else we're missing to this and those, and sort of hope 
someone who is less zonked out on cold medication can also make sense of 
anything else we should be adding as well. (If not, I'll come back to it 
later, but it would be nce...)


Anyway, we're practically on time this time, so let's try to get this in 
soon!


-I

On 18/03/2019 19:26, Gaurav Vaidya wrote:

Hi everybody,

Just wanted to remind you all that the annual report for 
Wikimedia-US-CO was due back on March 4 (I think)? In any case, it’d 
be nice to get one in before we get reminders this time!


Annual reportingly yours,
Gaurav

---
Typed on a tiny phone.

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Re: [Wikimedia-US-CO] Fwd: [All-affiliates] 100 hours left and links

2019-05-25 Thread Isarra Yos

How willy nilly can we... weigh in on this, and still seem reasonable? 
Does anyone want, for instance, me to not just be very silly in my 
weighing in? We're a serious group, right?


-I

On 23/05/2019 19:56, Gaurav Vaidya wrote:

Hi everybody!

Just a reminder that votes for the Affiliate-selected Board Seats are 
due on May 31. Please add your votes to the Wikimedians of Colorado 
voting board [1] as soon as possible! I'll move our group deadline to 
Tuesday, May 28 so everybody has a bit more time to cast their votes. 
If you have any questions about voting, do let me know!


cheers,
Gaurav

[1] 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_of_Colorado_User_Group/ASBS_Elections_2019


On May 9 2019, at 11:08 pm, Gaurav Vaidya  wrote:

Hi everybody,

The nominations are in [1]! I've set up a page on Meta for us to
vote on the candidates we like best for a three-year term to the
Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees [2]. I propose that each of
us give a score (from +2 to -2) to each nominee, and then we'll
rank our votes for each nominee in order from highest score to
lowest score.

The deadline for voting is May 31. I think we should try to get
our votes in by May 24, and then I'll send out an e-mail with the
proposed order of votes for our group. Note that I'll be voting on
behalf of our entire group -- there are no individual votes in
this election!

Please let me know if you have any questions. Otherwise: let the
voting begin!

cheers,
Gaurav

[1]

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliate-selected_Board_seats/2016/Nominations
[2]

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_of_Colorado_User_Group/ASBS_Elections_2019

On Apr 26 2019, at 4:41 pm, Gaurav Vaidya  wrote:

Just a reminder that if you'd like to be on the Wikimedia
Board, you've got about 98 hours left!

cheers,
Gaurav

 Forwarded Message 
Subject:[All-affiliates] 100 hours left and links
Date:   Fri, 26 Apr 2019 20:02:00 +0200
From:   Ad Huikeshoven 
Reply-To:   Wikimedia Affiliates

To: all-affilia...@lists.wikimedia.org



Dear All,

Please post your nominations at

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliate-selected_Board_seats/2019/Nominations
within the next 100 hours. Limit your text to 500 words.

Please pay attention to

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliate-selected_Board_seats/2019/Questions.

Best wishes,

Ad Huikeshoven
Election Facilitator
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Re: [Wikimedia-US-CO] Fwd: [All-affiliates] 100 hours left and links

2019-05-27 Thread Isarra Yos


Well, I have now participated. You should too!

-I

On 25/05/2019 07:46, Spencer Williams IV wrote:


I totally trust your judgement. Speak from the heart.

It looks like Guarav can avoid Colorado all he wants, but he's our 
defacto group leader :-) That person voting against him doesn't stand 
a chance.


--Spencer

On 5/25/19 1:23 AM, Isarra Yos wrote:
How willy nilly can we... weigh in on this, and still seem 
reasonable? Does anyone want, for instance, me to not just be very 
silly in my weighing in? We're a serious group, right?


-I

On 23/05/2019 19:56, Gaurav Vaidya wrote:

Hi everybody!

Just a reminder that votes for the Affiliate-selected Board Seats 
are due on May 31. Please add your votes to the Wikimedians of 
Colorado voting board [1] as soon as possible! I'll move our group 
deadline to Tuesday, May 28 so everybody has a bit more time to cast 
their votes. If you have any questions about voting, do let me know!


cheers,
Gaurav

[1] 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_of_Colorado_User_Group/ASBS_Elections_2019


On May 9 2019, at 11:08 pm, Gaurav Vaidya  wrote:

Hi everybody,

The nominations are in [1]! I've set up a page on Meta for us to
vote on the candidates we like best for a three-year term to the
Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees [2]. I propose that each
of us give a score (from +2 to -2) to each nominee, and then
we'll rank our votes for each nominee in order from highest
score to lowest score.

The deadline for voting is May 31. I think we should try to get
our votes in by May 24, and then I'll send out an e-mail with
the proposed order of votes for our group. Note that I'll be
voting on behalf of our entire group -- there are no individual
votes in this election!

Please let me know if you have any questions. Otherwise: let the
voting begin!

cheers,
Gaurav

[1]

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliate-selected_Board_seats/2016/Nominations
[2]

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_of_Colorado_User_Group/ASBS_Elections_2019

On Apr 26 2019, at 4:41 pm, Gaurav Vaidya 
wrote:

Just a reminder that if you'd like to be on the Wikimedia
Board, you've got about 98 hours left!

cheers,
Gaurav

 Forwarded Message 
Subject:[All-affiliates] 100 hours left and links
Date:   Fri, 26 Apr 2019 20:02:00 +0200
From:   Ad Huikeshoven 
Reply-To:   Wikimedia Affiliates

To: all-affilia...@lists.wikimedia.org



Dear All,

Please post your nominations at

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliate-selected_Board_seats/2019/Nominations
within the next 100 hours. Limit your text to 500 words.

Please pay attention to

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliate-selected_Board_seats/2019/Questions.

Best wishes,

Ad Huikeshoven
Election Facilitator
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Re: [Wikimedia-US-CO] Meetup in Boulder?

2019-08-15 Thread Isarra Yos


Ditto.

On 15/08/2019 14:07, Craig Talbert wrote:

8/26 will work better for me. - Craig

Sent from my iPhone


On Aug 15, 2019, at 7:38 AM, Abhay Natu  wrote:

Hello Wikimedians of Colorado,

How about getting together to take stock of our activities and plan a few small 
things over the next few months?

We can plan to meet in Boulder or somewhere on the Turnpike one of the evenings 
during the week of 8/26 (week after next) or week of 9/2 (Labor Day week.) Let 
us know what works for you.

Thanks,

Abhay

--
Keep it simple.
As simple as possible.
But no simpler. --- A. Einstein
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Re: [Wikimedia-US-CO] Meetup in Boulder?

2019-08-24 Thread Isarra Yos

If everyone who could do the 26th can do the 27th, should we just 
declare that the day? Does that not work for anyone (else)? Alternately 
it could well be worth putting this off a bit more just so we can plan 
it better, and perhaps that way Oleksiy could also make it...


Is doodle still a thing? Could someone maybe set up a poll for this to 
really sort it out, name a place, etc? (Sorry, my internet is crapping 
out too much for me to even really try right now.)


-I

On 21/08/2019 20:49, Neal McBurnett wrote:

Monday nights, and the 26th in particular, are good for me. Tuesday the 27th 
would also work, and perhaps Thu the 29th.
Boulder would be most convenient for me.

The local 500 Women Scientists group has also been thinking about another event,
so I've BCC'd them.

Cheers,

Neal McBurnett http://neal.mcburnett.org/

On Wed, Aug 21, 2019 at 10:29:28PM +0300, oleksiy golubov wrote:

Have a nice meeting! Hope to see you all another time!

On Wed, Aug 21, 2019 at 9:30 PM Todd Allen  wrote:

 Afraid I can't, I'm taking an evening class on Mondays. Hope everyone 
enjoys the meetup though!

 Todd

 On Wed, Aug 21, 2019 at 12:07 PM Abhay Natu  wrote:

 Sounds like Monday, 26th works for most of us.

 Suggestions for a place?

 Abhay

 On Thu, Aug 15, 2019, 9:38 AM Abhay Natu  wrote:

 Hello Wikimedians of Colorado,

 How about getting together to take stock of our activities and 
plan a few small things over the next few months?

 We can plan to meet in Boulder or somewhere on the Turnpike one of 
the evenings during the week of 8/26 (week after
 next) or week of 9/2 (Labor Day week.) Let us know what works for 
you.

 Thanks,

 Abhay

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[Wikimedia-US-CO] Meetups in Boulder

2019-09-11 Thread Isarra Yos

Hey all - as a followup to the informal meetup we had at the end of 
august, this seems like something we could probably benefit a lot from 
doing more regularly. Some things that came up or stuff:


 * When planning events, no matter how small/informal, we should
   probably be starting a few weeks in advance, where there's at least
   a week or two to discuss/finalise what we're doing, and another week
   between then and the thing itself to ensure the plan has time to,
   well, actually reach everyone.
 o This went reasonably well for the first part, the second less
   so, but bear in mind too that something actually happening at
   all is still a major success regardless so we shouldn't be
   getting too tripped up on small parts that don't work as well.
 * We'll never find a time everyone's going to make it, but that's
   probably fine, because:
 * This is likely something we should be doing on a monthly or
   bi-monthly basis, or quarterly, or whatever, depending on interest.

So basic proposal:

We should do these regularly, just a general dinner/drinks/awkward 
loitering/whatever floats your goat (the point is the /options/ are 
there for all of us) meetup where we talk and catch up on things and 
maybe hatch diabolical plans for other things. We should set a 
particular time for them, say, 6pm on the third wednesday of every other 
month, and stick to whatever schedule we come up with unless we really 
need to change it for some reason, so that it's predictable and can be 
planned around. We should have a general area for them (such as sticking 
to pearl street, if that works for people) and move the venue we 
actually use around there unless/until we find something that's just 
perfect. We should make a thing for it on Meetup, and anyone using 
social media etc should advertise it there so we can reach a potentially 
wider audience and bring in users from the wider editing, reading, and 
GLAM/whatever communities.


Thoughts, issues, recommendations?

-I

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Re: [Wikimedia-US-CO] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] WCNA 2019: Nov 8-11 in Boston / Submissions + Scholarships open!

2019-09-20 Thread Isarra Yos

Just a reminder to everyone, the deadline for scholarships and 
non-academic submissions is today.


On 17/09/2019 19:43, Pharos wrote:



-- Forwarded message -
From: *Kevin Payravi* >

Date: Fri, Sep 6, 2019 at 10:19 AM
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] WCNA 2019: Nov 8-11 in Boston / Submissions + 
Scholarships open!
To: Wikimedia Mailing List >



 Hello,

For those interested, WikiConference North America 2019 will be taking
place in Boston, Massachusetts on Friday, November 8 through Monday,
November 11!

https://wikiconference.org/wiki/2019/Main_Page

Plans are under way for our annual Culture Crawl, hackathon and 
programming

days. We're also teaming up with and are thrilled to have the support of
the Credibility Coalition to put on a great event with reliability as a
central theme.

Session proposals are open: We are pleased to announce that we are
accepting submissions for WCNA lectures, panels, workshops, etc. Visit our
submissions page on the conference wiki to learn more and start your
submission. Submissions are due by September 20th (or September 27th for
academic proposals).

https://wikiconference.org/wiki/2019/Submissions

Scholarship applications are also open: You can apply for a scholarship
through September 20th. Everything you need to know about the scholarship
-the criteria, application timeline, evaluation process, a FAQ section, as
well as a link to the application form- are available on our scholarship
page.

https://wikiconference.org/wiki/2019/Scholarships

If you'd like to stay tuned on social media, you can follow us on Facebook
or Twitter.
https://www.facebook.com/wikiconferencena/
https://twitter.com/WikiConNA

On behalf of WikiConference North America,
Kevin Payravi
SuperHamster on-wiki
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Re: [Wikimedia-US-CO] Sunday 16:00 (4 PM) Re: Fwd: [Wikimediaus-l] Deadline this weekend: Register for Wikimedia Summit in Berlin

2019-12-15 Thread Isarra Yos

Thanks Gaurav and Neil! You guys are basically why we still have a group
- I was planning to send out an email or something earlier but then got
swamped in travel, and went offline for a few days in the Oregon hills,
so... yeah. You made it actually happen, which is kind of really important.

I notice nobody's added themselves yet. I recommend Neil or anyone who
actually likes weird meta conferences, discussing strategy, and being a
bit baffled by all the overly process-y process. Process for the sake of
process, if anything. Quite entertaining if you either take it seriously
and enjoy that sort of thing, or don't take it at all seriously and
enjoy that sort of thing.

As the latter, I had a lot of fun with it last time (I think), but I
probably shouldn't go two years in a row because that would be a bit
weird and I wasn't even in-state most of the year this year anyway and
missed most of the events (or at least one of them) and I'm not sure
they'd want me there anyway after what I might have done last time on
account of all the cold medicine. I don't actually know what I did. I
basically got like four hours of sleep the entire week up to it, spent
the whole thing completely zonked out still unable to sleep because my
stupid cold just Would Not Let Me, and then... I don't know! Good times.
I think.

So yeah. We gotta get on this! Deadline might be in just a few hours.

Go go go! Or we can just decide over email, but we gotta do something.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_of_Colorado_User_Group/wmsummit-2020/candidates

-I

On 14/12/2019 01:58, Neal McBurnett wrote:

Step up folks! This could be your chance to really dive deep into the Wikimedia
movement, and hang out with some of the coolest people on the planet!

Though I'm disappointed that despite my feedback in the past, they are still using the
somewhat ambiguous designation "Dec 16 Midnight CET", since our own Wikipedia
notes the lack of clear definition:

Though there is no global unanimity on the issue, most often midnight is
considered the start of a new day and is associated with the hour 00:00

Thus the worst case (and most likely) scanario is that that means
2019-12-15T23:00 (23:00 or 11 PM on the 15th, UTC, which is 16:00 MST on Sunday
the 15th.

Let me know if I once again have made a miscalculation

Of course it could mean midnight as the end of the day, which has always seemed
more natural to me, but I doubt it.

As for who goes, here are a few helpful links re our process in previous years:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_of_Colorado_User_Group/wmsummit-2019/candidates

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_of_Colorado_User_Group/wmcon-2017/candidates

And we need to leave some time to register, which does take time, and requires
answering some thought-provoking questions.

So as in the past, I hope people who put themselves forward can provide at
least initial answers to the registration questions on that web page when they
put themselves forward.

I've set up a candidate page here with a template for candidates to fill out:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_of_Colorado_User_Group/wmsummit-2020/candidates

Please fill it out by the end of the day AoE on Saturday
(https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zones/aoe)
so we can evaluate and make a selection on Sunday.

Don't be shy!

-Neal

On Fri, Dec 13, 2019 at 11:46:07AM -0800, Gaurav Vaidya wrote:

We are eligible! Who wants to go?

Cheers,
Gaurav

Begin forwarded message:

From: Pharos
Subject: [Wikimediaus-l] Deadline this weekend: Register for Wikimedia
Summit in Berlin
Date: Friday, December 13, 2019 at 11:43:37 AM PST
To: "Wikimedia U.S. Chapter"
Reply-To: "Wikimedians Active in Local Regions of the United States \(WALRUS\)"

If your usergroup is eligible, please apply, deadline is this weekend, and they will not accept late registrations:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Summit_2020/Eligibility_Criteria

Information on how to register for the Wikimedia Summit in Berlin on April
3-5:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Summit_2020/Registration_Information

You have to do it this weekend!

Thanks,
Richard
(User:Pharos)
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Re: [Wikimedia-US-CO] Sunday 16:00 (4 PM) Re: Fwd: [Wikimediaus-l] Deadline this weekend: Register for Wikimedia Summit in Berlin

2019-12-15 Thread Isarra Yos

Also, best of luck!

If the deadline truly is tonight, please bear in mind Gaurav and I have
a three hour drive to the airport ahead of us, so will likely be offline
for the next few hours, so whatever you all decide, we won't be able to
help move things along any and will only be able to weigh in later, but
we fully support whatever you guys come up with!

-I

On 15/12/2019 19:17, Isarra Yos wrote:
Thanks Gaurav and Neil! You guys are basically why we still have a
group - I was planning to send out an email or something earlier but
then got swamped in travel, and went offline for a few days in the
Oregon hills, so... yeah. You made it actually happen, which is kind
of really important.

I notice nobody's added themselves yet. I recommend Neil or anyone who
actually likes weird meta conferences, discussing strategy, and being
a bit baffled by all the overly process-y process. Process for the
sake of process, if anything. Quite entertaining if you either take it
seriously and enjoy that sort of thing, or don't take it at all
seriously and enjoy that sort of thing.