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Peter Benjamin Meyer (([http://toolserver.org/~quentinv57/tools/sulinfo.php?username=Econterms&showinactivity=1&showblocks=1&showlocked=1 User:Econterms])) joined the Board in 2013 and is Treasurer of Wikimedia-DC. He was a software engineer in a past career and is now a research economist, active in the fields of economic history and the history of technology. His research focuses on how pools of information--like wikis--support invention and the start of new industries. On Wikipedia he has added content on early aviation, nineteenth-century science, on economics, and in other new subject with each edit-a-thon. He is a longtime user of MediaWiki and co-founded one available across the US government called Statipedia. He attends Wikimania and WikiSym conferences every year, and aspires to organize and lead edit-a-thons during 2013.
 
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Revision as of 21:48, 19 April 2013


The Board of Directors of Wikimedia District of Columbia manages the business affairs of the organization pursuant to Article VI of the Wikimedia DC Bylaws. The Board currently consists of seven Directors:

  • James Hare
    President

  • Kristin Anderson
    Vice President

  • Kirill Lokshin
    Secretary

  • Peter Meyer
    Treasurer


  • Nicholas Michael Bashour
     

  • Katie Filbert
     

  • Kathryn Tinker
     
  • Most meetings of the Board are open to the general public; to see the schedule of upcoming meetings, as well as the minutes of past meetings, please visit the meetings page. A list of resolutions adopted by the Board is available on the resolutions page.