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The 13th New York City Meetup event was held on Sunday May 17, 2009 in the Columbia University area. This was the eighth of the meetups with a session dedicated to discussing meta:Wikimedia New York City issues.
There was one public meeting in the afternoon at Columbia University, where we took further steps to organize the Wikimedia New York City local chapter, and provided a salon-style forum for discussion of Wikipedia and Wikimedia issues.
Additionally, there was an optional post-meeting dinner at the Symposium restaurant.
Main public meeting (to discuss Wikipedia issues and Wikimedia NYC chapter issues):
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).
Nearby subway stations:
Bring your own ideas!
Our Treasurer User:MBisanz has sent in the first of our filings with the New York State Education department. Once they give the go ahead, he will be able to file our Certificate of Incorporation with the NYS Secretary of State's office to establish us as as a NYS not for profit corporation. This could take a few weeks. Next steps will be establishing a membership system, and then holding elections. We will also apply for tax exemption under Section 501(c)(3), which will give donors the ability to deduct contributions to us, which will help us to do fundraising.
User:Daniel Case and User:Pharos gave a report on their rendezvous with our 21 fellow chapters at the Chapters meeting in Berlin.
It was decided to support the mandate of the interchapter 'Chapter Agreement Committee' in the furtherance of their discussions with the Wikimedia Foundation. The purpose of the committee is to create a standard agreement between chapters and the foundation that will describe what the powers of the chapters are in terms of activities, fundraising and other matters.
The 1st ' Wiki-Conference New York' will be held at NYU, and we will invite a broad participation from across the region and North America generally. Our very provisional date under current discussion is the weekend of July 25-26.
It was decided that the 3rd annual 'WikNYC Picnic', to be held the same weekend as the conference, would return this year to Central Park.
We will look into getting accommodation for out-of-town conference participants at NYU dorm facilities.
User:Becksguy, User:DGG, User:Gosgood, User:Pharos and User:Ran agreed to join a committee to organize the event. There was discussion about forming a Standing Planning Committee of chapter members who would spearhead planning for periodic events like this.
User:Becksguy led a wide-ranging discussion exploring the various ways processes that worked well when Wikipedia was small are having difficulty scaling up to work well for the humongous size it is now.
Episode 42 Wikipedia growth and Articles for Deletion @ Wikimedia NYC |
17 May 2009
Length: 24m 37s
This
meetup page is an archive of a past event. Please do not edit the contents of this page. |
The 13th New York City Meetup event was held on Sunday May 17, 2009 in the Columbia University area. This was the eighth of the meetups with a session dedicated to discussing meta:Wikimedia New York City issues.
There was one public meeting in the afternoon at Columbia University, where we took further steps to organize the Wikimedia New York City local chapter, and provided a salon-style forum for discussion of Wikipedia and Wikimedia issues.
Additionally, there was an optional post-meeting dinner at the Symposium restaurant.
Main public meeting (to discuss Wikipedia issues and Wikimedia NYC chapter issues):
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).
Nearby subway stations:
Bring your own ideas!
Our Treasurer User:MBisanz has sent in the first of our filings with the New York State Education department. Once they give the go ahead, he will be able to file our Certificate of Incorporation with the NYS Secretary of State's office to establish us as as a NYS not for profit corporation. This could take a few weeks. Next steps will be establishing a membership system, and then holding elections. We will also apply for tax exemption under Section 501(c)(3), which will give donors the ability to deduct contributions to us, which will help us to do fundraising.
User:Daniel Case and User:Pharos gave a report on their rendezvous with our 21 fellow chapters at the Chapters meeting in Berlin.
It was decided to support the mandate of the interchapter 'Chapter Agreement Committee' in the furtherance of their discussions with the Wikimedia Foundation. The purpose of the committee is to create a standard agreement between chapters and the foundation that will describe what the powers of the chapters are in terms of activities, fundraising and other matters.
The 1st ' Wiki-Conference New York' will be held at NYU, and we will invite a broad participation from across the region and North America generally. Our very provisional date under current discussion is the weekend of July 25-26.
It was decided that the 3rd annual 'WikNYC Picnic', to be held the same weekend as the conference, would return this year to Central Park.
We will look into getting accommodation for out-of-town conference participants at NYU dorm facilities.
User:Becksguy, User:DGG, User:Gosgood, User:Pharos and User:Ran agreed to join a committee to organize the event. There was discussion about forming a Standing Planning Committee of chapter members who would spearhead planning for periodic events like this.
User:Becksguy led a wide-ranging discussion exploring the various ways processes that worked well when Wikipedia was small are having difficulty scaling up to work well for the humongous size it is now.
Episode 42 Wikipedia growth and Articles for Deletion @ Wikimedia NYC |
17 May 2009
Length: 24m 37s