WALRUS/July 2016

Time

Thursday, July 28 at 6 PM Pacific / 9 PM Eastern

Doodle poll for meeting scheduling

http://doodle.com/poll/r34gpzp8kbgcx9da

Zoom videoconference information

We will use a meeting tool called Zoom instead of Google Hangouts. The participant cap will be 50 people (: 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

• We'll use the Zoom time limit of 40 minutes to encourage ourselves to be efficient with time.

• Should we record this meeting and make the archive publicly available? Please comment on the talk page.

• Link for this month's meeting: to be determined

• 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.

Chair & secretary for this month

• Meeting host for Zoom: Kirill Lokshin
• Meeting chair: To be determined
• Meeting secretary for minutes: To be determined

Agenda

One minute updates

• "One minute updates" from each chapter and user group. (6:00-6:15)

Old business

• Wikiconference North America (in San Diego Oct 7-10, 2016) (6:15-6:30) - Rosiestep, FloNight, Fuzheado

• Web site is live: http://wikiconference.org/
  • Attendees: https://wikiconference.org/wiki/Attendees
• Please use Wikiconference as the name, or with North America qualifier - not WikiCon, and not USA
• Leadership structure
  • Conference organizers: Rosiestep, FloNight
  • Program committee leads: FloNight (program, academic), Fuzheado (GLAM, outings)
  • Logistics committee leads: DrMel, Phoebe
  • Communications committee lead: Gamaliel
• Submissions are open, please publicize, let networks know - Deadline August 31
• GLAM Wiki Museum Crawl Day - October 7, being organized for Friday, with Balboa Park museums. Day-long edit-a-thon across museums.
  • https://wikiconference.org/wiki/Wiki_Museum_Crawl
• Call for volunteers, especially in SoCal! Pharos
  • Registration and session management
  • Organize outings
  • GLAM interaction/liaisons
  • Indigenous People's Day program help
  • Add more
• Rosie and Andrew will be doing a site visit next week in San Diego
• Lessons from other conferences? State of the Map 2016 this month?

• "LearnWiki" video tutorial project (6:30-6:31) (Pine)
• Deciding on a formal name for ourselves. (6:31-6:34) (Pine)
• Requesting the www.wikimedia.us domain from WMF (6:34-6:35) (Pine)
• Your agenda item here

New business

• Your agenda item here

Tabled agenda items

(If there is time at the end of the meeting, anyone can pick up one of these items for discussion)

• 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
• Collaboration with public broadcasters such as PBS, NPR, and BBC America, and public-interest broadcasters such as C-SPAN

Meeting minutes

Meeting minutes will be placed here.