User:Econterms

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.

• My Report from the 2013 WikiSym/OpenSym conference

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.

• List of Econterms user space on this wiki
• recent changes, excluding new-accounts and user space

• 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