It's this weekend, folks! Our next meeting for Wikimedia NYC (and BTW, we're an official chapter now :) ) is -this Sunday- January 18 at Columbia University.
This is the meeting where we discuss "Wikipedia Loves Art" with our friends from the Brooklyn Museum and Metropolitan Museum of Art, as well as a number of other subjects. See below earlier invite below for full meeting details. So please sign up here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC Thanks, Pharos On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 12:40 AM, Pharos <pharosofalexand...@gmail.com> wrote: > Come one, come all! > > Our next meeting for Wikimedia NYC is Sunday January 18 at Columbia > University. > > This is a meeting for volunteers to the projects of the non-profit > Wikimedia Foundation, and everyone else too, who has ever looked at > Wikipedia and wondered what's going on behind it. > > One big topic of discussion, out of many, will be a special planning > session for our February 'Wikipedia Loves Art' event with Shelley from > the Brooklyn Museum and Alex from the Metropolitan Museum of Art: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Loves_Art > > We're also on Flickr: > http://www.flickr.com/groups/wikipedia_loves_art/ > > And Facebook: > http://en-gb.facebook.com/group.php?gid=43008300207 > > So spread those links around :) > > Other topics will be the next stage of our progress as a chapter and > projects we might pursue such as classes at the New York Public > Library (we may be officially approved as a chapter by meeting time), > and discussing issues like Biographies of Living Persons articles. > > We'll also be collecting folks to join our little 'Wikipedia Takes the > Subway' adventure which will be held the day after the meeting. > > We welcome all guests. If you support open education and free > culture, we are your people. If you have a project you want to work > on with us, this is a great opportunity to get acquainted. If you want > someone to give a talk or teach a class with an inside view of > Wikipedia, meet your volunteers. And if you just have any questions, > we'd be glad to try to answer them. > > Remember, the agenda here is up to you! I encourage anyone who is > interested to sign up to give a presentation or suggest a topic for > general discussion at our wikimeetup page (given below). > > ---Meeting details--- > > 2:30 PM - 5:00PM: > Room 1402 Pupin Hall, Columbia University. Take the elevator to the > 13th floor and then walk up one flight of stairs. Meeting to be held > in the library at the east end of the hall. > > 5:00 PM onwards: > Meetup at Pupin Hall, and then walk together to The Symposium, a local > Greek restaurant with an oddly appropriate name.. > > Page on Wikipedia: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC > > You can officially 'sign up' at that page, and please add your ideas > to the agenda! > > Thanks, > Pharos > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia_NYC mailing list Wikimedia_NYC@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia_nyc
