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.

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