Gaurav,
Who told you that you were allowed to move out of here? :) We'll most
certainly have to get together before you do, in any case.
I suppose I'm an active enough Wikimedian, and I'd love to have a group
here, so I'd be willing to help out leading it.
Todd
On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 4:45 PM, Neal McBurnett <neal(a)bcn.boulder.co.us>
wrote:
Thanks, Gaurav! I'd be happy to be a group
leader.
Neal McBurnett
http://neal.mcburnett.org/
On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 04:29:26PM -0700, Gaurav Vaidya wrote:
Hi everybody!
I’ve set up a user group page at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Community_User_Group_Colorado,
which I think of as a first step to setting up an official "Wikimedia
Community User Group Colorado”. I pretty much only need two more things to
fill out the application form at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Contact/affcomusergroup —
(1) An official description of the group: I’m going to go with the
description
at the top of the user group page, so please edit and improve
it!
(2) Three active Wikimedians as group leaders:
please reply to the
mailing list if you’re interested!
I’m happy to be a group leader during the setup phase, but it looks
likely that
I’m going to move out of Colorado this fall, so we’re going to
need active leaders to keep the group going and to continue to organise
events into the next year. You need to have at least 300 contributions on
any Wikimedia project and have an account that’s older than six months old
to be a group leader.
The main advantages of becoming an official user group are: (1)
recognition by
Wikimedia, so maybe increasing our profile with organization
interested with working with Wikipedia in the area, (2) free Wikimedia
merchandise for use in activities and outreach activities, and (3) one
scholarship to attend the Wikimedia Conference in Berlin (
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_user_groups#why). I know Buaidh
has been thinking about setting up an official organization for our area
for a while now, and I think this might be the best way to go about it!
cheers,
Gaurav
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