WALRUS/September 2016

Date and time

Monday, September 19, at 6 PM Pacific / 9 PM Eastern

Zoom videoconference information

Getting set up with Zoom

• 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.

Link to the meeting

• https://zoom.us/j/757177471
• Or iPhone one-tap (US Toll): +16465588656,757177471# or +14086380968,757177471#
• Or Telephone:

• Dial: +1 646 558 8656 (US Toll) or +1 408 638 0968 (US Toll)
• Meeting ID: 757 177 471
• International numbers available: https://zoom.us/zoomconference?m=bRrqmhI3yCngyDG-TT6RbBzd_wz8Dzq1

Chair & secretary for this month

• Meeting host for Zoom: Kirill Lokshin
• Meeting chair: BrillLyle
• Meeting secretary for minutes: Bluerasberry

Agenda

Join in keeping the shared notes

0:00-0:15 - "One minute updates" from each chapter and user group.

• Includes governance update from Cascadia Wikimedians - Pine and/or Peaceray

0:15-0:30 - Wikiconference North America (in San Diego Oct 7-10, 2016) - Rosiestep, FloNight, Fuzheado

• Submissions have been processed, and nearly everyone has responded. We have a full slate! Schedule published later this week
• We need more volunteers, to help with a number of aspects:
  • Friday help would be appreciated, GLAM Culture Crawl Day
  • Experienced trainers
  • Room minders (you get to see the sessions, just have to help with time keeping, checking in presenters, etc)
  • Videography
  • Hacking/Hangout Space
  • Registration
• We have a Slack group, you are encouraged to join. Ask Fuzheado, Richard or Kevin P for an invite.
• Join Slack and volunteers, or contact User:Fuzheado and/or Brenda Wahler
• Keynote from Katherine Maher
  • Suggestions on what we would like to address
  • Community strategy session Monday afternoon

0:30-0:31 - "LearnWiki" video tutorial project - Pine

0:31-0:40 - Wiki Loves Monuments - US Page - SuperHamster

• We have over 4,500 uploads! ~8% are being used in articles.
• Ways to help:

• We'd like a panel of judges from all around the United States. Know someone in your network who may be interested in helping judge part of the world's largest photography contest? A historian, photographer, etc.? Let me know!
• We have several guides to finding historic and cultural sites by state; feel free to make one for your state!
• Still have almost 2 weeks left; notify your network about the event, including our other ways to contribute.
• Find images in your state to clean up and categorize, and add to Wikipedia articles.

0:40-0:45 - updates to Wikimedia chapter system - see The Signpost "AffCom still grappling with WMF Board's criteria for new chapters" - bluerasberry

• 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
• 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

Meeting minutes will be placed here.