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The 11th New York City Meetup event was held on Sunday, January 18, 2009 in the
Columbia University area. This was the sixth of the meetups with a session dedicated to discussing
meta:Wikimedia New York City issues.
There was be one public meeting in the afternoon at Columbia University in
Pupin Hall.
Main public meeting (to discuss Wikipedia issues and chapter formation):
1402
Pupin Hall,
Columbia University. Take the elevator to the 13th floor and then walk up one flight of stairs. If we use this location, meeting to be held in the library at the east end of the hall. 2:30 PM - 5:00PM
Optional post-meeting meetup
A post-meeting walk to
The Symposium, a
Greek restaurant. After the restaurant, we can return to Pupin Hall for an observing session with the telescopes on the roof weather permitting. 5:00 PM onwards.
Alternative dinner location for
kosher wikimedians,
Café Nana Dairy Mediterranean cuisine under the
hashgacha of Rabbi David Almog
[1]
Late arrival info and transportation
If you plan on arriving late, and are concerned about not finding your way to the group, you can drop your mobile phone number ahead of time at
Special:Emailuser/Pharos (e-mail will not be able to be checked during the actual meetup time, leave requests ahead of time).
Possibility of "Wiki-Conference New York": A one-day
regional scale Wikimedia conference for 100-200 people, to be planned for the summer
Offers of videoconferencing with meetups in London and Belgrade.
The WMF Chapters meeting this April in Berlin
Wikipedia Loves Art event at the Brooklyn Museum will be evening of February 7, where we'll be joined by Frank Schulenburg (Head of Public Outreach) and Sara Crouse (Head of Partnerships and Foundation Relations), flying in for the weekend from Wikimedia Foundation HQ in San Francisco. We'll have a special meeting with Frank and Sara earlier that day to discuss future outreach projects.
If time permits I'd like to make a few remarks and have some discussion of pending proposals concerning BLPs and related issues.
Newyorkbrad (
talk) 02:52, 22 December 2008 (UTC)reply
Interested Wikipedians
Meeting Signup List - Likely, Possible, and Regrets
Scottandrewhutchins (
talk) 15:38, 2 January 2009 (UTC) There is a Sunday school teachers meeting that afternoon I am expected to attend. If someone like Pharos wants to give me a phone number so I can arrive late, this could work. The meetings rarely last more than an hour and definitely not more than 2.reply
Done! We'll be glad for you to join us anytime.--
Pharos (
talk) 15:49, 2 January 2009 (UTC)reply
Probably won't decide until that morning. Depends on when I wake up and what I get accomplished during the week. -- DrGaellon(
talk |
contribs) 06:17, 12 January 2009 (UTC)reply
There was one chauffeur in attendance. Also, a wikisibling made an appearance.
Apologies
I apologize for not making it, guys. I came down with a cold on Wednesday, and have been nursing it since. I've been sleeping in for the past few days, and the Meetup slipped my mind. I'm usually better organized with my appointments than that. Sorry about that.
Nightscream (
talk) 17:44, 20 January 2009 (UTC)reply
Your penance will be to have some nice hot chicken soup. Get better. —
Becksguy (
talk) 19:49, 20 January 2009 (UTC)reply
Chapter formation
Wikimedia NYC was approved as an official chapter by the WMF board on January 12. Our next steps are to incorporate under New York law, establish a membership system, and then hold elections. We should be incorporated soon, and we should be able to hold elections in a couple of months.
The Brooklyn Museum public event will be the evening of Saturday February 7, and the Met public event will possibly be on Friday February 20th or on another Friday.
Particularly for the Met, it will be important that they can caption all photos before we upload them to Wikimedia Commons, which might take some time because they expect a very large participation. We discussed the possibility of our volunteers coming down to the Met and helping with the captioning.
DGG on the New York Public Library
User:DGG filled us in on some promising discussions with the New York Public Library for two-part classes that will be taught at the Mid-Manhattan Library this April. There is alsio great potential for expanding our educational initiatives with them.
User:Shapiros10 described his intrepid plan for
Wikipedia:Wikipedia Takes the Subway the following morning. Which we pursued on Monday, with several intrepid teams of Wikimedians and family snapping photos of 24 unillustrated subway stations, and much else interesting besides.
Feb 7 meet in Brooklyn
On the afternoon of Saturday February 7, we'll be having a special long-term planning meeting in Brooklyn (place and time TBD) with Frank Schulenburg (Head of Public Outreach) and Sara Crouse (Head of Partnerships and Foundation Relations) of the WMF, flying in for the weekend from Wikimedia Foundation HQ in San Francisco. We will probably also have representatives from the New York Public Library there.
Later that day, we'll walk over to the Brooklyn Museum to set up our table and sign in the lobby in time for the start of
First Saturday for
Wikipedia Loves Art at 5 PM.