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Serious meeting

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

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

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Likely attendees

• 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

• 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

• 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)