User:Econterms
Revision as of 21:43, 18 January 2014 by Econterms (talk | contribs) (updates ; and relevant section moved to Internal:Public Policy Committee workspace)
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
- 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
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