Dear All,
I sent the below text to this list last week and have only receive two replies of
individuals who are interested to attend a meet-up with the Wikimedia Foundation's
Executive Director, Sue Gardner. Sue will be in Toronto from February 6-8, and she would
like to attend a meet-up of local Canadian Wikipedians to get to know many of you and your
work toward creating a chapter. It is my experience that meet-ups are best organized and
developed by the local wikimedia community. The Wikimedia Foundation is happy to support
and sponsor the event, however I have requested assistance on several occasions (to this
list) to help me coordinate the logistics and spread the word among Canadian Wikipedians.
What I need is someone to suggest a location for a meet up, this can be as simple as a
coffee shop or pub and does not need to have a private meeting room. I would also like to
get a general idea of how many Wikipedians might attend and what the best day for the
meeting would be. That said last week I created the below tab on the Toronto meet-up page
and announced it to this list. If you wish to attend a meet-up and meet Sue please sign up
on the link and provide me some suggested location.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Meetup/Toronto
Regards,
James T. Owen
On Jan 12, 2011, at 12:00 PM, James Owen wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I added to the Wikipedia talk Page for Toronto meet ups a section for the planning
for a February 2011 meet up. Please use the below link to indicate if you are interested
to attend, and suggested dates/time, and locations.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Meetup/Toronto
>
> I would like to find a location early next week so please indicate suggestion by
Sunday if possible.
>
> Thanks
> James
James Owen
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