User:Econterms
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I'm Peter Benjamin Meyer. My regular user page is on the English Wikipedia.
I'm a new 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.
Chapter business
- Treasurer duties and updates
- Glossary for Wiki-DC
- broken but want to follow up: list of verified users on this wiki ; we're not using https: (aka SSL) on this wiki.
- I was a candidate for the Wiki-DC board of directors in the Feb/March 2013 election. Here were my candidacy statements.
- I welcome feedback about the chapter at this special-purpose address: peter.meyer (at) wikimediadc.org.
- All our chapter meetups: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/DC
To do
- Work out some of the potential annual budget
- review: http://blog.wikimediadc.org/2013/10/the-annual-meeting-is-upon-us/
- Update: Internal:Annual_financial_report_(2012–2013)
- Help organize edit-a-thons:
- Statistics editathon -- tentatively Dec 8 or Dec 15, 2013
- Goethe Institute edit-a-thon
- Economic History Association presentation about Wikipedia (not mainly an edit-a-thon) -- went well!
- 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
Public policy topics
- possible workgroup within Wiki DC ; how to organize it?
- Prepare congressional briefings in 2014 after good experiences in 2013 ([[1]])
- in 2013, Wiki DC was committed to advocating for Internet freedom (along the SOPA/PIPA issue line. Wiki DC has some budget capacity for this. contact person at Lofgren's office is senior legislative counsel: harley.geiger at mail.house.gov ; 225-3072.
- Software patents are hot since Supreme Court will hear a case in March or April -- could blog in advance on the topic, and organize a trip to see the case argued
- Might propose a talk for Wikimania 2014 on public policy issues, e.g. "Software patents and government software", or "Can chapters take public policy positions?"
- could organize an edit-a-thon on government procurement topics
- legislation of interest:
- ACTA: The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), is a multinational treaty for the purpose of establishing international standards for intellectual property; agreed on in 2011 if I understand correctly
- CISPA: Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act -- a proposed U.S. law to "allow" (require?) sharing of Internet traffic data between the U.S. government and some companies, intended to help the government investigate cyber threats and ensure security of networks.
- Aaron's Law: sponsored by Rep. Zoe Lofgren's office
- SOPA/PIPA -- effort by recording industry and Hollyword to incorporate copyright protection into the infrastructure of the Internet; beaten back in 2011.
- CALEA: The wikipedia:Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act is a United States wiretapping law passed in 1994
- Research "Aaron's law" proposal (named for Aaron Swartz) from Rep. Lofgren's office: proposed revision to Computer Fraud and Abuse Act to reduce penalties and maybe more. [2]