Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/April 2013

The April 2013 New York City Meetup event will be held on Sunday Apr 14, at Symposium Greek Restaurant @ 544 W 113th St (in the back room), on the Upper West Side in the Columbia University area.

What, Where, When, and How?
There is a public meeting in the afternoon at the appropriately-named Symposium Greek Restaurant (in the back room), where we take further steps to organize the Wikimedia New York City local chapter, and provide a salon-style forum for discussion of Wikipedia and Wikimedia issues.

Right afterward, there is an optional post-meeting Wiki-Dinner at the same venue.

Main public meeting
(to discuss Wikipedia issues and Wikimedia NYC chapter issues):
 * Symposium Greek Restaurant @ 544 W 113th St (in the back room) on the Upper West Side. 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM.
 * Google map of venue
 * 40.8055°N, -73.9643°W
 * Street view

Optional post-meeting Wiki-Dinner

 * Stay at Symposium Greek Restaurant, shuffle tables and chairs, and then nosh and schmooze, wiki-style. 5:00 PM onwards.

Transportation
Nearby subway stations:
 * 116th Street – Columbia University (IRT Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line)

Agenda
Bring your own ideas!
 * Introduction and follow-up on recent activities
 * Round-robin introductions on everyone's Wikipedia experiences and recent activities (wik-newbies and wiki-oldies!)
 * How Wikipedia Day @ NYU went in February


 * Future activities planning and chapter business
 * Free Culture X Conference in NYC, April
 * Wikimedia Conference 2013, April - what message should NYC share with the global movement?
 * Growing partnerships through Free Culture Alliance NYC
 * Wikimedia NYC Annual Meeting & Elections, perhaps May
 * Wiki Loves Public Art in May, perhaps a local activity
 * Great American Wikinic in June, let's pick a park venue
 * Future meetup venues and schedule?
 * Other suggestions for projects?


 * Speakers and roundtable discussions
 * Questions and input from wiki-newbies
 * Possible roundtable topics: Education programs, reaching out to underserved groups, paid editing, French spies interfering with the encyclopedia!
 * Governance of the .nyc TLD - Lessons from Wikipedia.

Sign
You can also choose to sign up at the April 14 event page on our meetup.com account.

Likely attendees

 * Pharos (talk) 12:14, 8 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Jim.henderson (talk) 12:16, 8 April 2013 (UTC)
 *  Blue Rasberry   (talk)   13:26, 8 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Becksguy (talk) 16:36, 8 April 2013 (UTC)
 * kosboot (talk) 17:37, 8 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Newyorkbrad (talk) 00:55, 10 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Tomlzz1 (talk)
 *  DGG ( talk ) 17:59, 10 April 2013 (UTC)
 * TimidObserver (talk) 13:00, 11 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Scottandrewhutchins (talk) 13:28, 11 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Jihyunb (talk)
 * Daniel Case (talk) 01:39, 13 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Jeremyb (talk) 04:28, 13 April 2013 (UTC)

Possible attendees

 * User:Sumanah
 *  Mr.choppers &#124;  ✎
 * — Dispenser 22:27, 12 April 2013 (UTC)
 * - carolh12

Regrets

 * Sincere regrets, I'll be running from a flag football game on Roosevelt Island to a celebratory dinner for my wife's enrollment in the clinical psych Ph.D. program at Columbia/TC. Next month! Thomas Craven (talk) 18:14, 10 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Regrets. Going into final exams.  Can you send us the date and place for the next meeting? Bearian (talk) 19:04, 10 April 2013 (UTC)
 * I don't actually live in the New York metro area... how do I take my name off this list Lbr123 (talk) 21:06, 10 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Sorry can't make it this time. I'm writing a sci-fi novel and hope to have a draft ready by June. Maybe sometime after that.--Tomwsulcer (talk) 23:20, 10 April 2013 (UTC)
 * I'll be in Washington, D.C. AstroCog (talk) 14:31, 11 April 2013 (UTC)
 * In California for a few weeks. Andrevan@ 18:40, 11 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Wish I could. Haven't been to a meetup since DEC2006. Would love to have the chance to catch up with Newyorkbrad. Keep me in the know for future events. --ColonelHenry (talk) 01:15, 12 April 2013 (UTC)
 * I've only ever made it to one meeting and would very much like to join you at the Symposium. A month of in-patient physical therapy following knee replacement keeps me elsewhere. — Robert Greer (talk) 11:50, 13 April 2013 (UTC)
 * No can do this time around :( A fluffernutter is a sandwich! (talk) 14:56, 14 April 2013 (UTC)
 * User:Daniel the Monk My regrets, I have to attend a function of my Order today.
 * Sorry, teaching today...Modernist (talk) 15:18, 14 April 2013 (UTC)
 * T. Canens (talk) 22:01, 14 April 2013 (UTC)