Wikipedia:Meetup/DC 1

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There was a Wikipedia meetup in Washington DC on May 7-8, 2005. Initially, we met up at the US Navy Memorial around noon. We then split up, and spread through the city to take lots of pictures for us on Wikipedia. Later, we met up at Brickskeller, for dinner and chatting. Afterwards, we crossed the street to sit in a park, and discuss forming an American chapter of the Wikimedia foundation.

Attendees

Pictures for Wikipedia Articles

Pictures of Wikipedians

Inscription

After the meetup, Danny walked us across the street to a nice little park and we talked about the American meetup. In back of us, there was a stone slab with the following inscription (which Danny had us duly note for posterity as well as checking to see if the author had an article on Wikipedia)

Here is the inscription you wanted:

Our soul shall never perish
freedom knows no dying
and the greedy cannot harvest
fields where seas are lying
Cannot bind the living spirit
nor the living word
cannot smirth the sacred glory
of the Almighty Lord

--Taras Shevchenko, The Caucasus, 1845