User:Econterms
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I'm Peter Benjamin Meyer. For Wikimedia & chapter purposes I can be reached at peter.meyer@wikidc.org.
I'm a director and officer of this chapter. I'm focusing on chapter business of two kinds (a) being treasurer and (b) participating in and hosting edit-a-thons.
My regular user page is on the English Wikipedia.
Ongoing chapter business
- Public policy joint workspace
- Need to audit chapter's finances from 2014-2015.
- Glossary for Wiki-DC
- All our chapter meetups: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/DC
- We also sponsored the New England meeting: [1] ; [2] ; [3]
- Our chapter uses a growing number of software platforms, including: github, trello, quickbooks, meetup.com, WorPress, . . .
- Fiscal sponsorship of Art + Feminism, whose chiefs are Michael Mandiberg, Jacqueline Mobey-, Siân Evans, and Dorothy Howard -- grant is for $11226, here. The money arrived 12/12/2014 and $15 went to wire transfer costs.
- /June 2015 meeting
- /AAAS meeting
- /Online harassment reference points
- /Congressional staff edits
- /Konkani editathon -- an interesting prospect
- internal@wikidc.org goes to all board and Wiki DC committee members -- I don't know who else, if anyone
- /Affiliates Conference April 2016
Financial statements our chapter makes
- Audit Committee -- 5 members look at QuickBooks and maybe bank and paypal statements or logins ;
Formal public statements include:
Other statements, less public or less formal include
- Reports to WMF on each grant we received from them -- what we did, what the expenses were, and often receipts and invoices
- Report to Segura -- Walter Segura of contacted us about this WMF project: Movement-wide Financial Report; James sent what he needed.
- Matt Bisanz: a real CPA ; maybe ask Stephen Brown
To do
- 2016 Year of Science: [wikiconferenceusa.org/wiki/Submissions:2015/Making_2016_the_Wikipedia_Year_of_Science]
- fill out: /Wikiscience proposal draft
- possible blog post: /Wikipedia is not doomed
- review: http://blog.wikimediadc.org/2013/10/the-annual-meeting-is-upon-us/
- Help organize edit-a-thons:
- /Possible GHI-Goethe-Institute edit-a-thon
- Wikisource edit-a-thon -- need funding; tentative time and place: the 2014 WikiConference USA, tentatively May 30-June 1, 2014 -- organizers are Pharos, HareJ, and (Jen), recent NY LS grad and organizer of FCX2013 and on board of Free Culture Foundation)
- National Geographic Society edit-a-thon
- Possible Harvard club edit-a-thon
- /Possible Government procurement edit-a-thon
- keep working Event_guide/Edit-a-thon and Internal:Partnership guide
- in 2014: /Bylaws tweaks for the future; present WikiDC activities next yr to NYC conference as lightning talk
- draft /presentation for GLAM Boot Camp on chapters and funding
- broken but want to follow up: list of verified users on this wiki ; we're not using https: (aka SSL) on this wiki.
- List of Econterms user space on this wiki
- recent changes, excluding new-accounts and user space
- examine later: https://transcription.si.edu/project/6631
- Org development coordinator
- https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/WM_US-DC/Cultural_Partnerships_2015
- GLAM-wiki org is under construction and this employee would support that; they are or have been a user group ; not incorporated ; dominc and lori
- we do meeting support for nara too
Done!
- I was a candidate for the Wiki-DC board of directors in the 2013 election. Here were my candidacy statements. -- Feb/Mar 2013
- My Report from the 2013 WikiSym/OpenSym conference, Aug 2013
- Economic History Association presentation about Wikipedia -- went well! Sept 2013
- Annual budget plan thru Sept 2014 -- Aug-Nov 2013
- Statistics editathon -- Dec 8, 2013
- Updated with nonprofit language: Internal:Annual financial report (2012–2013) -- Oct 2013-Jan 2014
- I am no longer the treasurer, but I was. Treasurer duties and updates