WALRUS/February 2017
< WALRUS
Date and time
[edit]Tuesday, February 28, at 9 PM EST / 6 PM PST, at 6:30 PM Pacific / 9:30 PM Eastern
Zoom videoconference information
[edit]Getting set up with Zoom
[edit]- We will use a meeting tool called Zoom instead of Google Hangouts. Please sign up for an account on www.zoom.us and then take a look at https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/201362033-Getting-Started-on-PC-and-Mac
- Note that Zoom provides a telephone interface and that the Zoom software applications are proprietary; use the telephone interface if you care about your freedom.
How to join the meeting
[edit]Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android https://zoom.us/j/434107126
Or iPhone one-tap (US Toll): +14086380968,434107126# or +16465588656,434107126#
Or Telephone:
- Dial: +1 408 638 0968 (US Toll) or +1 646 558 8656 (US Toll)
- Meeting ID: 434 107 126
- International numbers available: https://zoom.us/zoomconference?m=gs5iGVpTiPh0NcLdcj50O3ddFHDocjBy
Chair & secretary for this month
[edit]- Meeting host for Zoom: Kirill Lokshin
- Meeting chair: Chris Schilling (I JethroBT)
- Meeting secretary for minutes: ???
Agenda
[edit]- 0:00-0:15 - "One minute updates" from each chapter and user group.
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Possible agenda items suggested - add your own
[edit]- 0:00-0:15 - checkin / introductions
- 0:15-0:20 - @Shameran81: presents a project from en:OCLC
- 0:20-0:25 - Art+Feminism in March 2017
- 0:25-0:30 - New user group starting in Chicago (tentative name: Second City Wikimedians (led by Airplaneman, TonyTheTiger, and I JethroBT)
- 0:30-0:35 - Wikipedia Day LA and global plans for next year (maybe): Wikipedia Day Wormhole, January 14, 2018!
- 0:35-0:40 - Wikimania 2017 is in Montreal August 9–13, 2017. US wiki people have an opportunity to propose something. - Bluerasberry
- 0:40-0:45 - WikiConference North America 2017 - let's restate intentions - Bluerasberry
- 0:45-0:50 - Wikipedia:Bay Area WikiSalon - update by Wayne Calhoon (Checkingfax)
- 0:50-0:55 -
Tabled agenda items
[edit](If there is time at the end of the meeting, anyone can pick up one of these items for discussion)
- Website for Wikimedia US Coalition
- Health & Medicine programs
- Wiki Loves Earth and other photography competitions
- Art + Feminism
- Legal activism and civil liberties
- Privacy
- Copyright
- Freedom of panorama
- Orphaned works
- Technical developments
- QR codes
- Wikimedia mobile apps and mobile web
- Wikidata and referencing
- Government agencies and NGOs with mission alignment (ex. National Archives, state and local governments, history societies, Red Cross, Consumer Reports, UNESCO, NASA)
- Grants:IdeaLab/Cameras for Commons photographers
- GLAM-US coordination and/or "GLAM-Wiki Consortium", possibly an intern, contract, or part-time position
- Requesting the www.wikimedia.us domain from WMF
- Collaboration with public broadcasters such as PBS, NPR, and BBC America, and public-interest broadcasters such as C-SPAN
Meeting minutes
[edit]- etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/February_2017
- Shared meeting notes