WALRUS/April 2017

Date and time

We'll meet for a pan-USA Wikimedia local activists chat on Thursday April 20 at 6:00 PM Pacific / 9:00 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.

How to join the meeting

Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS, Chromebook or Android: https://zoom.us/j/884234801

Or iPhone one-tap (US Toll): +14086380968,884234801# or +16465588656,884234801#

Or Telephone:

• Dial: +1 408 638 0968 (US Toll) or +1 646 558 8656 (US Toll)
• Meeting ID: 884 234 801
• International numbers available: https://zoom.us/zoomconference?m=bLX_A8iHToP8y08eq8_53sfTHy9TPMaq

Chair & secretary for this month

• Meeting host for Zoom: Kirill Lokshin
• Meeting chair: Kevin Payravi
• Meeting secretary for minutes: multiple, including Lane Rasberry

Agenda

(please rearrange and add anything you want to discuss)

• 0:00-0:15 - "One minute updates" from each chapter and user group.
  • Bay Area WikiSalon one year anniversary
• 0:15-0:20 - Reports from Wikimedia Conference 2017, which was 31 March to 2 April, 2017
• 0:20-0:25 - Wikimedia Foundation board elections upcoming! Nominations ending 20 April, voting 1 to 14 May 2017
• 0:25-0:30 - Scholarship applications for Wikimania - how to improve the process (Checkingfax and others)

Possible agenda items suggested - add your own

• How did your local Art+Feminism events go?
• Encouraging new Wikimedia user groups in Minnesota, Chicagoland, Allegheny, etc,
• Rapid Grants for small groups up to $2k
• Great American Wiknic - Summer 2017
• WikiConference North America in Montreal (and NYC wiki-train) as preconference to Wikimania - August 2017
  • (Is not there one scheduled in San Diego?)
• Wikipedia Day Wormhole - January 2018
• Wiki Loves Monuments 2017 (preliminary info) from SuperHamster
• Wikipedia + Libraries: Better Together update and invitation to collaborate Shameran81 (talk)

Notes (via Etherpad)

https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Walrus_April_2017