Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/August 2014
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The August 2014 NYC Wiki-Salon and Skill Share was held with the Wikimedia NYC community on Sunday August 17, 2-5pm on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.
Location:
- Yeoryia Studios at Epic Security Building, 2067 Broadway, "Otello" Room, 5th Floor
- Between West 71st & West 72nd Streets, above Gigi Cafe, near Trader Joe's (location map)
- Nearest subway station: 72nd Street (IRT Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line)
Afterwards at 5pm, we walked to a social wiki-dinner together at the nearby Santa Fe restaurant on 71st Street.
Agenda
[edit]Bring your own ideas!
- Follow-up on ideas raised at recent wiki-events
- WikiConference USA
- Annual Meeting/Wiknic and Spoken Wikipedia
- Wikimania2014 reports
- Chapter business
- Grants review
- Committees and officers review
- Social media and documentation/newsletter review
- Future plans
- Editathons in Westchester, New Jersey, Harlem, and more!
- Diversity workshop in September
- Fall 2014 university classes
- Speakers, workshops and roundtable discussions (perhaps as 5-minute lightning talks and as skill shares)
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Sign up
[edit]- You may also sign up at Meetup.com, especially if you are new and aren't sure how to comment on the wiki.
Likely attendees
[edit]- Pharos (talk) 02:36, 4 August 2014 (UTC)
- Mitch32(Protection is not a principle, but an expedient.) 02:43, 4 August 2014 (UTC)
- DGG ( talk ) maybe--not certain . 06:02, 4 August 2014 (UTC)
- kosboot (talk)
- Newyorkbrad (talk) 16:04, 4 August 2014 (UTC)
- Tom Lowenhaupt ( talk )
- Frenezulo (talk) 10:50, 5 August 2014 (UTC)
- Carol Hutchins
- Sepiatint
- Jim.henderson (talk)
- Becksguy (talk) 15:52, 7 August 2014 (UTC)
- BrillLyle (talk) 08:05, 8 August 2014 (UTC) - hope to attend
- Rangilo Gujarati (talk) 01:40, 9 August 2014 (UTC) - No better way to end "wiki-break" than attending a meetup. Yes, I'm in/around NYC after two years for next two years :-) See you folks soon enough.
- Gymnogyps (talk) 21:32, 12 August 2014 (UTC)
- Copeland.powell (talk) 21:32, 12 August 2014 (UTC) I'll be there! Can't make it to dinner afterwards, unfortunately.
- Jihyunb (talk) 21:15, 12 August 2014 (UTC)
- Mozucat (talk) 18:20, 13 August 2014 (UTC)
- --DrX (talk) 12:46, 14 August 2014 (UTC)
- HullIntegrity (talk) 14:14, 14 August 2014 (UTC)
- Salubrious Toxin (talk) 15:44, 15 August 2014 (UTC)
- OR drohowa (talk) 05:28, 16 August 2014 (UTC)
Possible attendees
[edit]- Noreen Whysel (talk) - I have a 15 yo interested in Wikipedia. Would I be able to bring her?
- Certainly, all ages are welcome. The current president of the Wikimedia DC chapter first came to these meetings at 14 years old :)--Pharos (talk) 16:36, 4 August 2014 (UTC)
- RoyGoldsmith (talk) 20:41, 9 August 2014 (UTC) Depending on weather.
Regrets
[edit]- Lange.lea (talk) 16:19, 4 August 2014 (UTC) I'll be out of town that weekend. Look forward to similar gatherings in the fall.
- Blue Rasberry (talk) 17:27, 5 August 2014 (UTC)
- Scottandrewhutchins (talk) 19:06, 14 August 2014 (UTC) Double-booked as it is. Finalizing sale of church town hall and ceremony.
- Robert Greer (talk) 16:01, 4 August 2014 (UTC)