User:Econterms/Glossary for Wiki-DC

Glossary

• 501(c)(3) -- a category of tax exemption administered by the IRS -- tax deductibility for donors, both individual and business ; need to tweak application to IRS and add some specific language about disbursing $
• Berlin Agreement refers to the event founding the Chapters Association
• Bootstrapping grant: A grant from WMF to Wiki-DC for starting up
• Chapter reports: Wikimedia chapters file reports here; we can compare them.
• Chapters Association -- association of Wikimedia Chapters acting independently of the Foundation
• the Corporation: that means this organization: Wiki Society of Washington, DC Inc., aka Wikimedia-DC
• Dashboard: Active Board documents are often listed here: Internal:Dashboard
• Events grant: Wiki-DC received a Events 2012 grant from WMF
• FDC = Funds Dissemination Committee at Wikimedia Foundation
• the Foundation = Wikimedia Foundation
• GLAM bootcamp: A conference idea for Wiki-DC to sponsor ; Dominic has suggested it
• Night Owls -- a possible cosponsor for things: http://nightowls.dcacm.org/
• Saylor Foundation: a not-for-profit organization named for MicroStrategy founder; develops open textbook/educ materials; sponsored Wikimania 2012 as per thisWikimania 2012 press release
• Wikichievements is a pilot project to assign ranks and give physical awards for editing articles, analogous to barnstars. Wikimedia Serbia and Wikimedia NYC and Wikimedia DC are supporting it. (written thus: WM RS, WM NYC, and WM DC)
• Wiki Loves Monuments
• Wiki-loves-Monuments grant ; Wiki-DC also a Wiki Loves Monuments USA 2012 grant