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Seattle Public Library in Columbia City

Annual meeting — Sunday, June 15, 2025, 1‐2:45pm PDT

The room will be open for set up at 12:30, and we will open the Zoom call as soon as we are set up. There will be a waiting room for the Zoom call.[note 1]

Here is a link to our current by-laws: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ri1fKCyOj9P2z-VA5wPz8ufF19yTEvTH3LfU8oIcqO0

Please also see:


Agenda

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Introductions

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Activities reports and questions

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Please read through the reports and please ask any questions at the meeting. Questions can also address other Cascadia Wikimedian activities not covered by the reports.

Election of Board of Directors

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We elect six new board members. We should have a minimum of four (4) and not more than nine (9) directors.

There are three current board members:

2024-06-09 through 2027-12-31 terms (3 year)[note 2]
  • Peaceray
  • Jmabel
  • llywrch

After the members elect the Board of Directors, the board will choose its officers at a later time.

Those who wish to stand for election to the Board of Directors

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Members may also self-nominate, or nominate another member present during the meeting.

Other business

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  • Wiknics
    • One planned for Seattle in August
  • WikiConference North America
  • It's a long time since we did a photo expedition. Anyone interested in doing one this summer? - Jmabel (talk)
  • Plan and schedule a "GIMP 101" workshop for some time this year, probably about a 2-hour hands-on workshop, which should bring people up to the level of being reasonably capable of doing most day-to-day photo editing with GIMP. (Workshop proposed by Jmabel (talk) because Peaceray is interested in learning this, and it would be a lot more efficient for me to teach more than one person.)
  • Please add your agenda items!

RSVPs

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Probably attending

Maybe attending

Regrets

Results

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Adapted as Wikitext from etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Cascadia_2025_06 with minor copyedit

  • Introductions
    • Peaceray - English Wikipedia, Wikidata, participates in WikiPortraits and Seattle Independent Film Festival, program committe for **WikiConference North America
    • SounderBruce- English Wikipedia
    • RiverLongandFar - MediaWiki developer
    • JMabel - home wiki is Wikimedia Commons
    • Su-Laine - English Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons, do science and environment
    • Lane / bluerasberry - organizes wiki meetups / edits science and environmental issues
    • An / CascadeUrbanite - edit about the Puget Sound region and video games
  • Review of the agenda
  • Would anyone like to be board member?
    • SounderBruce self-nominated
      • vote
      • all in favor
      • none opposed
  • upcoming Wiknics
    • The Seattle Wiknic will in August
    • if anyone else would like to be involved from Portland or Vancounver, then they are welcome to participate
  • WikiConference North America
    • WCNA 2025 will be in NYC in October
    • scholarship deadline is passed
    • deadline for submissions is 1 July
      • both in-person and virtual submissions are invited
  • access to the United States
    • political tensions make people from outside the United States hesitant to visit United States
    • there is a desire to increase options for virtual participation
    • organizing committee is exploring options to host in Canada
      • Vancouver is an option
        • problem - there is perception that if Vancouver hosts WikiConference North America, then that city will not have capacity to be host to other Wikimedia conferences for which it wants to apply
        • problem - not extra staff for this region, nor are there volunteers in the area, although the Cascadia group is active in the region
    • conference organizing regions
      • Canada needs significant United States input and labor for any conference in Canada
      • Mexico is not interested in hosting WikiConference North America as they do Spanish language events
    • conference platform which Wikimedia Foundation recommends is eventyay, which is open source
  • photo walks — it is time for another regional photo walk
  • legal status of Wikimedia Cascadia
    • organization is not in compliance with its reporting as a nonprofit organization registered in Washington state
    • what can the organization do it come into compliance?
      • requires 5 board members
        • bluerasberry self-nominated
        • vote
          • all in favor
          • none opposed

Notes

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  1. ↑ This is a precaution to deal with Zoombombing or other disruptive activity, which would enable us to boot someone from the meeting and then to not automatically admit them should they connect back into the meeting. This is probably unnecessary, but some of us have encountered this during online wikiconferences.
  2. ↑ Elected at June 2024 general members meeting

References

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