I would very much enjoy to attend a Sunday meeting. In fact Sunday is the only day I have free. I will forward this to the BU professor whom I am CAing for.
What would be involved in formalizing a Wikimedia New England chapter? Baruch On 3/22/11 7:16 PM, Samuel Klein wrote: > Let's invite the local Ambassadors to join us next meeting. We can > invite some of the profs involved as well. The Tufts profs outside of > public policy who were interested may also want to come. > > I think we're leaning towards Sunday April 10 -- Mr. Lees, correct me > if I'm wrong. We could reserve a classroom and bring food there, for > easier discussion. > > > On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 4:40 PM, Baruch Stone<[email protected]> wrote: > >> As for me, I have been editing Wikipedia for *several* years. I have two >> Good Articles to my credit and have experience in new page patrolling, >> anti-vandalism, copy editing and other areas. >> >> I would like to create a formal Boston/New England Wikimedia Chapter and >> would be happy to do a bit of the legwork in getting it off the ground. Who >> is interested? > This sounds like a good idea to me. I am happy to support the process > and can offer general feedback, as I am currently an observer on the > Chapters Committee. You might take a look at the bylaws and focus of > other chapters and pending chapters (NYC and Canada come to mind; > Brasil and Australia discussions may also be of interest) for > reference. > > Active meetup groups and chapters around the US have been talking > recently of forming a national council -- to help regional chapters > grow, and to address questions of whether to form a national group and > how to support work in sparser regions of the country without a > thriving metro or big universities to make organizing events easy. > We should discuss who's interested in participating at our next > meeting. > > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_United_States_Chapters_Council#WALRUS_committee > > Sam. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-boston mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-boston
