User:Econterms

I'm Peter Benjamin Meyer. My regular user page is on the English Wikipedia. For Wikimedia 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.

I welcome feedback about the chapter at this special-purpose address: peter.meyer (at) wikimediadc.org. I do not instantly get messages there but I do get them.

Ongoing chapter business

• Treasurer duties and updates
• 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]
• I'm jazzed about getting a potential committee on public policy going: work contents and a link to the proposal to create the commitee are here Internal:Public Policy Committee workspace
• Our chapter uses a growing number of software platforms, including: github, trello, quickbooks, meetup.com, WorPress, . . .
• Internal:Public Policy
• 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.

Financial statements our chapter makes

Formal public statements include:

• 2012-13 annual financial report
• 2013-14 annual financial report

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.

To do

• 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

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