WALRUS/May 2012

IRC meeting at #wikimedia-us^connect on May 9 at 9pm Eastern Time / 6pm Pacific Time.

Agenda

• Wikimedia New England Epic Meeting
• Setting up local events for Great American Wiknic in June (aim for at least 10!), notices start June 8
• Education Working Group for North America
• Wiki Loves Monuments USA grand poobah and regional coordinators for New England, NYC area, DC area, Midwest, Southeast, Northwest, Southwest, Gulf.
• GLAM-Wiki US updates; AAM success; call to action.
• Draft of agreement on US chapters for Wikimania
• Prospects for a SF Bay Area Free Culture Alliance in parrallel to the NYC alliance.
• Wikimedia Midwest US (just for fun)
• Grants:WALRUS/Wikimania 2012
  • Grants:WM LGBT Outreach/Wikimania 2012
• Possible WALRUS Fall 2012 Grant

Meeting

Things that came up

• Wikimedia New England Epic Meting
  • A batch of pro tempore vice presidents were elected with one head VP
  • The next NE meeting is on 14 May
  • No immediate plans for incorporation
  • WM-DC has offered to help New England when they decide to incorporate
  • They will meet again in Nov/Dec to evaluate their approach
• There was an agreement that proto-chapters should focus on events and numbers first before setting their sights on incorporation
  • Several cities remarked that it was difficult to get enough people for just a meet up
    • Free food was offered as a way to draw wikipedians
    • WM-DC can make grants

A logo was created during the meeting

• Wiknic 2012
  • Around 23 June
    • The date can fluctuate due to a local decision (Ex. NYC)
  • The site notice will go up on 8 June
  • Some City pages still need to be done
  • Goal of 10 cities in all
• Education Working Group for North America
  • Pharos wants to incorporate WALRUS into the education program
  • The end product will combine several proposals
• Wiki Loves Monuments
  • Smallbones (talk · contribs) was appointed and confirmed by those in attendance as the National Wiki Loves Monuments Coordinator
  • Area Coordinators
    • WM-DC's board - DC area
    • Emw (talk · contribs) - New England
  • We have a website http://wikilovesmonuments.us/
• SF Bay Area Free Culture Alliance
  • It may be important to link up all of the free culture groups in the bay area
    • Creative Commons
    • WMF
    • Internet Archive
    • EFF
    • Students for Free Culture groups at local universities
  • Mattsenate (talk · contribs) is looking into it
• GLAM
  • Wikipedians in residence were at the American Association of Museums meeting, Digital Public Library of America Meeting, and the Society of California Archivists meeting
• Agreement in Principle
  • The national "association" is deliberately undefined
  • There was some apprehension about the draft due to its weak nature
  • What statement are we trying to make with this agreement?
• There was some discussion about when to meet up around wikimania
  • Trying for an hour or two
  • Maybe sunday

Attendees

• BirgitteSB (talk · contribs)
• Brassratgirl (talk · contribs)
• Bluerasberry (talk · contribs)
• Blurpeace (talk · contribs)
• DGG (talk · contribs)
• Dmcdevit (talk · contribs)
• Emufarmers (talk · contribs)
• Emw (talk · contribs)
• Gaurav (talk · contribs)
• Harej (talk · contribs)
• Kirill Lokshin (talk · contribs)
• Lawrence Kelley (talk · contribs)
• Mattsenate (talk · contribs)
• Mblumber (talk · contribs)
• MuZemike (talk · contribs)
• Piotrus (talk · contribs)
• TonyTheTiger (talk · contribs)
• Varnent (talk · contribs)