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Notes for October meeting
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WMNE Notes

Present

  • Maia
  • Kevin
  • Pharos
  • Adam
  • Amanda Rust
  • John
  • Jenny

Amanda Rust on Open Access Editathon

  • GLAM/Collections editathons for Open Access Week.
  • Focused now on Boston, but maybe in the future extend to Smith or Mt. Holyoke
  • Some institutional support but many institutions are unfamiliar with Wikipedia
  • Need Wikipedian support
  • Cambridge needs people, but not as bad as Countway or Mass Historical
  • Geonotice template?

Future meetings

  • November/December? May be difficult for students
  • Maia: need some plans in the future
  • Kevin: past meetings every month have been undersubscribed
    • moved to bi-monthly
    • also moved to sunday
    • discussed over IRC
  • Maia: seems odd that meeting changes happened without input from people who go to the meetings
  • Meetup organization
  • Adam: meetup at bocoup
    • Maia: Maybe, but open up to the listserve
    • Locations need to be static
    • Draft suggestions
    • Bunker hill community college
  • Maia: meetings can/should be edit centric
  • Adam: meetup administration changes
    • Maia: ok
    • Kevin: Sort of evolved from an old boy system, so +1 for change
  • Amanda: what is the principal organizational tool?
    • email?
    • meetup?
    • wikipedia?
    • etc.
  • Jenny: meetings (in general) should have rough notes of what transpired for new folks to understand what we did in an individual meeting. Not just minutes for non-profit business.

Group organization

  • Kevin: WMNE elections may be held online

ADA Camp

John's comments on bylaws

  • Someone noticed I was a lawyer and asked me to look at the bylaws and I did.
  • Seems to conform to Mass law on non-profit incorporation.
  • Word of warning:
    • Until we have the bylaws agreed upon, don't get too far ahead of ourselves on explaining what the non-profit will do and don't
  • By-laws can be changed (And the system will track changes)

New Meeting

  • Early January?
  • Adam: in the spirit of the past discussions, I'd like to use the wider list to figure out the time/space
  • Maia: should change the name of the meetup group to better reflect what we're doing
  • Kevin: changing the name should be easy
  • Adam: we can/should split the meetups from the organizational business.

Officers

  • John: see MGL Part I Title XXII Section 6A for required officers
  • Draft by laws for WMNE.
  • Agenda

User group

  • Kevin: Dues?
  • Adam: user group stuff seems good to me.
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