Hello all,
As many of you already know, we had a meeting on Saturday in Kendall Square
(the notes can be found here:
https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/New_England_Wikimedians_April_2014_meetup).
For those of you who weren’t able to attend, we planned out two more meetups
and the next general meeting, as well as talked about the edit-a-thon on May
3rd at the Peabody Essex Museum. Further information on all of these events can
be found on our Meetup.com page, as I have yet to finish developing the
respective Wikipedia pages for two of the events:
http://www.meetup.com/wikipedia-5/
In terms of other major things that came out of the meeting, we agreed to gain
fiscal responsibility through the sponsorship of Wikimedia District of
Columbia. This will allow for us to spend money and have a place to put any
funds that we raise without having to rely on anyone’s personal bank account,
and prevent the need for incorporation. We will also be able to raise funds and
have a place to store them, without having to do sort out where the money
should go. Additionally, we will pursue having a website so that we can
consolidate some of our web activities, which would also allow for the
discontinuation of the Meta page, as well as allow us to have a website to
direct people who are interested in us. Another lesser matter that we will
pursue will be generic business cards for members of the user group, so that
people will be able to perform outreach better. This will come into affect once
the Affiliations Committee decides on a redesign of our logo, due to there
being some legal issues that many user groups are skirting by using the WMF’s
logo in their designs. Each of the above things were the result of myself and
Ben talking to people at the Wikimedia Conference in Berlin last week, and have
all gotten the green light from the Affiliations Committee.
Finally, per the implementation of other chapters, we have developed an
Friendly Space Policy that outlines the user group’s views on harassment and
other unwelcome behavior at chapter events:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/New_England_Wikimedians/Friendly_space_policy.
This policy will go into effect immediately, as we want to create a welcoming
environment for anyone who attends our events. If anyone has any questions or
suggestions about this policy, please feel free to e-mail myself or Maia.
On behalf of the provisionary board for the New England Wikimedians,
Kevin Rutherford- Co-Chair
Maia Weinstock- Co-Chair
John Sanzi- Secretary
Benjamin Lees- Treasurer
Jennifer Baek- Legal Council
P.S. These officer roles are for temporary organizational purposes. If anyone
wants to run for an office that would take on certain specific
responsibilities, we will hold elections at our annual meeting in July when we
decide upon some more roles for interested persons.
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