OOPS Re: [Open Education League NY] Meetups

[Jon Liechty]

Sorry, everyone, for mis-directing a personal message. I promise in the future to watch my replies more carefully!

Jon

--- On Mon, 5/11/09, Pharos <pharosofa...@gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Pharos <pharosofa...@gmail.com>
> Subject: [Open Education League NY] Meetups
> To: "Open Education League NY" <open-educati...@googlegroups.com>
> Date: Monday, May 11, 2009, 2:33 PM
>
> Hi folks,
>
> One of the initial ideas we had in the discussions at Open
> Everything
> NYC was that as we form a real Open Education community in
> this area,
> and there are quite a few folks coming at this goal from
> disparate
> projects and areas of experience, it would be a good way of
> connecting
> for us to actually meet up once a month or so.
>
> There was some discussion of whether we should hold
> meetings
> independently or perhaps piggyback on another group like
> the Drupal
> meetup, and it is probably too early to say now what a
> permanent
> solution would look like (and I hope we'll have some good
> suggestions
> coming).
>
> But to start things off anyway, I would like to invite you
> all to our
> next Wikimedia NYC meeting at Columbia University this
> Sunday May 17.
> It's a very Open Education-friendly crowd, and as an
> organizer of that
> meeting I would be very glad to set aside a special session
> where
> Wikimedians can interact with the broader Open Education
> community,
> and the two groups can hopefully share their questions and
> experiences.
>
> ---Wikimedia NYC Meeting details for Sunday May 17---
>
> 2:30 PM - 5:00PM:
> Room 1402 Pupin Hall, Columbia University. Take the
> elevator to the
> 13th floor and then walk up one flight of stairs. Meeting
> to be held
> in the library at the east end of the hall.
>
> 5:00 PM onwards:
> Meetup at Pupin Hall, and then walk together to The
> Symposium, a local
> Greek restaurant with an oddly appropriate name..
>
> Page on Wikipedia:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC
> ------
>
> So, just consider this an open invitation to you good folks
> to join us
> this Sunday, and hopefully we can make some more permanent
> arrangements in the future.
>
> Thanks,
> Richard
> Wikimedia NYC
>
> >
>