WALRUS/February 2017

Date and time

Tuesday, February 28, at 9 PM EST / 6 PM PST, at 6:30 PM Pacific / 9:30 PM Eastern

Zoom videoconference information

Getting set up with Zoom

• We will use a meeting tool called Zoom instead of Google Hangouts. Please sign up for an account on www.zoom.us and then take a look at https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/201362033-Getting-Started-on-PC-and-Mac
• Note that Zoom provides a telephone interface and that the Zoom software applications are proprietary; use the telephone interface if you care about your freedom.

How to join the meeting

Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android https://zoom.us/j/434107126

Or iPhone one-tap (US Toll): +14086380968,434107126# or +16465588656,434107126#

Or Telephone:

• Dial: +1 408 638 0968 (US Toll) or +1 646 558 8656 (US Toll)
• Meeting ID: 434 107 126
• International numbers available: https://zoom.us/zoomconference?m=gs5iGVpTiPh0NcLdcj50O3ddFHDocjBy

Chair & secretary for this month

• Meeting host for Zoom: Kirill Lokshin
• Meeting chair: Chris Schilling (I JethroBT)
• Meeting secretary for minutes: ???

Agenda

• 0:00-0:15 - "One minute updates" from each chapter and user group.

Possible agenda items suggested - add your own

• 0:00-0:15 - checkin / introductions
• 0:15-0:20 - @Shameran81: presents a project from en:OCLC
• 0:20-0:25 - Art+Feminism in March 2017
• 0:25-0:30 - New user group starting in Chicago (tentative name: Second City Wikimedians (led by Airplaneman, TonyTheTiger, and I JethroBT)
• 0:30-0:35 - Wikipedia Day LA and global plans for next year (maybe): Wikipedia Day Wormhole, January 14, 2018!
• 0:35-0:40 - Wikimania 2017 is in Montreal August 9–13, 2017. US wiki people have an opportunity to propose something. - Bluerasberry
• 0:40-0:45 - WikiConference North America 2017 - let's restate intentions - Bluerasberry
• 0:45-0:50 - Wikipedia:Bay Area WikiSalon - update by Wayne Calhoon (Checkingfax)
• 0:50-0:55 -

Tabled agenda items

(If there is time at the end of the meeting, anyone can pick up one of these items for discussion)

• Website for Wikimedia US Coalition
• Health & Medicine programs
• Wiki Loves Earth and other photography competitions
• Art + Feminism
• Legal activism and civil liberties

• Privacy
• Copyright

• Freedom of panorama
• Orphaned works

• Technical developments

• QR codes
• Wikimedia mobile apps and mobile web
• Wikidata and referencing

• Government agencies and NGOs with mission alignment (ex. National Archives, state and local governments, history societies, Red Cross, Consumer Reports, UNESCO, NASA)
• Grants:IdeaLab/Cameras for Commons photographers
• GLAM-US coordination and/or "GLAM-Wiki Consortium", possibly an intern, contract, or part-time position
• Requesting the www.wikimedia.us domain from WMF
• Collaboration with public broadcasters such as PBS, NPR, and BBC America, and public-interest broadcasters such as C-SPAN

Meeting minutes

• etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/February_2017
• Shared meeting notes