Hi all, Following my request for a mini-update, I'm happy to be able to offer one myself, having just noticed the recent changes on the official wiki :-) ( http://www.wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Special:RecentChanges in case you didn't know)
Our most excellent treasurer has posted a financial report here; http://www.wikimedia.org.au/wiki/2010-2011_AGM/Financial_Report which contains much detail about the shape we're in in that regard - the tl;dr version from my perspective is; Good news (great news, actually!); 'Finally I report that we have now obtained approval to fund raise in all States and Territories where this is required, so we are well prepared to take part in the annual WMF fund raising drive at the end of this year' Bad news; 'Membership is down after the first flush when we were incorporated' On the Sydney front, we had a meetup last Thursday night, attended by several long term wiki types - few of whom were aware of exactly what the chapter was / is / does! - Some nice food, good beer, and wide ranging conversation - amongst many other things; - Werdna was surprised to hear that liquid threads, on which he is the lead developer, may be introduced to 'commons' soon(ish) - see http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump#Experimentally_enable_LiquidThreads_on_some_test_pagesfor details, if you haven't already, Werd ;-) - Ian ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ian_Rose ) chatted about the effectiveness of the Military History project, and whether or not its successes might be scalable or replicable - 99of9 (or 'Toby' over a beer) - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:99of9 - discussed whether or not wikimedia is a social movement, and what kind of movement wiki would be if it was (see Sue Gardner, boss of WMF, for context here; http://suegardner.org/2010/08/02/how-to-help-wikipedia-and-how-to-hurt-it/) - Mike showed off his camera, and discussed the very important area of the wiki that is Category:Tenterfield Post Office ( http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Tenterfield_Post_Office ) - I was just annoyed that he's clearly a far superior photographer! - Ariconte chatted Mil Hist with Ian briefly before making a stylish exit to go and watch some people pretend to be other people ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August:_Osage_County I think) - Liam's name got taken in vain a little ahead of his upcoming anglicisation - I mainly thought of the childre, and tried to remember how strong those Belgians brew their beer ;-) Next meetup seems likely to be October, and probably in the Inner West - unless there's interest in a Sydney AGM meetup? Any Sydney members (or slightly futher afield folk interested in making a trip?) up for physical attendance at an AGM meetup? - I'm happy to join / help with an effort to find us somewhere appropriate, and an idea of numbers would be useful - please reply on this list if you're interested and available :-) cheers, Peter, PM.
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