The date's not set in stone. In fact, it happens to be the same weekend
as the Free Culture Summit in SF, too, but I'm not sure if that really
affects many people.
Any later, though, and I'm afraid we're getting into finals time and
then summer for students (and, on a personal note, I'll be traveling);
make it earlier and we're giving people that much less notice. (Also,
not to seem indifferent to your situation, I imagine almost everyone
else traveling from outside New England is coming from relatively nearby
on the East Coast.) So, that's why I originally picked it, at least.
Dominic
On 3/21/12 11:08 PM, James Alexander wrote:
This of course appears to be the most expensive weekend in all of
April to fly out :P (by like double) :)
On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 7:57 PM, Dominic <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Oops, minor detail! I meant Saturday, April 21. Thanks, now fixed.
Dominic
On 3/21/12 9:56 PM, David Lawrence wrote:
April 22nd is not a Saturday.
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*From:* Dominic <[email protected]> <mailto:[email protected]>
*To:* Tim Pierce <[email protected]> <mailto:[email protected]>; Boston
Wikipedians <[email protected]>
<mailto:[email protected]>
*Sent:* Wednesday, March 21, 2012 6:34 PM
*Subject:* Re: [Wikimedia-boston] Wikimedia New England founding
meeting in April?
In the interest of getting the ball rolling, I have gone ahead
and created a meetup page and selected Saturday, April 22 as our
target date. Please see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/New_England
The idea here is that we haven't a well-attended event (like
NYC's Wikipedia Day mini-conference) in Boston in a long time. It
would be good to get as many people together as we can, and try
to create momentum for the future. For example, do we want to
hold a Wiknic in two months' time (from the meetup date)? What
can we do to make sure New England is active in this year's US
Wiki Loves Monuments campaign? And we want to raise awareness
among the community about ongoing initiatives like the education
program and GLAM, and about the upcoming Wikimania in DC this summer.
We'll need a venue. It sounds like the kind of event where we
want a conference room at a college or library, and I would
suggest somewhere in Boston proper is probably better than
Cambridge. I can work on this, but if anyone else has a good
idea, please chime in.
Dominic
On 3/16/12 11:07 AM, Tim Pierce wrote:
> I've been pretty dormant for the last few months, and lord
knows I've never had a great track record of attending these
meetings, but I'll try hard to make it as long as it's not during
the first week of April, when I'll be in California for work :-)
>
> --t.
>
> On 3/16/12 9:34 AM, Pharos wrote:
>> Hi Wiki-Pilgrims,
>>
>> I was talking with Dominic, and how about we pull together a
Wikimedia
>> New England founding meeting sometime in April?
>>
>> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_New_England
>>
>> We could also send a bit of a delegation from Wikimedia NYC
chapter,
>> and perhaps Wikimedia DC too, to share our experiences.
>>
>> Also, the next WALRUS online meeting on irc will be on April 11:
>>
>> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WALRUS/April_2012
>>
>> And of course all New Englanders are invited to join their fellow
>> Wiki-Americans at this special event at Wikimania in DC:
>>
>> http://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/WALRUS_Congress
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Richard
>> (User:Pharos)
>> Wikimedia NYC
>>
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