App. Now, the keynote speakers at the third annual wikiconference, held in october in san diego, including the Wikimedia Foundation executive director. This is one hour 10 minutes. Right . All right, hi my name is katherine maher. The Wikimedia Foundation is a Nonprofit Foundation that host s and supports wikipedia and other free knowledge project. We are proud to work with many global organizations, the many global organizations and partners that support the community of wikimedians and the projects. I am so excited to be here for the third annual wiki conference in the United States, and the first ever wikiconference north america. It is amazing to see how our community continues to grow and reach beyond our own borders every day. It is my first time at a wikiconference in the United States, and i cannot say how excited i am to be in san diego. It is my vote we do more events here already. I want to thank our incredible conference organizers for putting together this event. This week
Hoping to have a conversation about the future of our movement. As i said at the beginning, we have been an incredible initiative, an incredible movement, an Incredible Community of people for 15 years now. We have achieved a tremendous amount. And one of the things that i think im hearing as i go around and talk to people is gosh, weve achieved all of this and got this incredible momentum and these resources and were perhaps positioned in way today that we have never been positioned before to take advantage of the opportunities that are out there, the hard challenges in front of us, and the imperative to bring more people into our movement to make it the thing we want it to be. And how do we go about doing this . What gets us moving in the same direction together or at least sets out a direction in which we can all bring our unique resources, capacity, and skills in the contexts and cultures in which we work wom . What is the next mountain we want to climb . Its not that were done yet
We are used to vip and motorcade but many people are saying this visit is something special. Pope francis arrived here in the u. S. To massive excited crowd and the very all american cheer. The first latin american pope. Jesuit and former archbishop of buenos aires hailed as revolutionary by some. Others believe he strayed too far from the church conservative tradition. He talk to reporters on the flight from cuba to washington was asked specifically about this newsweek cover that asks is the Pope Catholic . Some people think im a bit left he said but this is an error and i am certain i have not said one thing that is not within the social doctrine of the church n. Washington, the pope will sit down at the white house with president obama who called him a trans formative leader. On thursday he will deliver a speech to congress. Papal first. I think things we will hear are income disparity in the poor. Something about the virment and something about migrant and refugee issues visits imm
Feet rooted right here behind his podium. Which is against my nature. Its going to extraordinarily difficult for me to stay planted but if you see me wandering stage right, wave your hands, make some signal and i will return to the podium as quickly as i can. I also, i have some incredibly interesting and amazing videos in which we were panning and zooming about the globe. I can promise you will not see those. Tonight apparently they did not have the latest version of powerpoint in 1719. So well see some stills nonetheless, which i hope will keep your attention. So were going to talk about 1776, and this was a trying year for revolutionaries and the 13 british mainland colonies. The ragtag Continental Army scored a victory in march of 1776 when the british withdrew from boston, but the success was shortlived. An invasion of canada ended in disaster largely because a smallpox epidemic that eventually crossed the continent. And then the british drove washingtons troops from new york. In
Signals and i will return to the podium. And i learned i had an incredible video and interesting video which we were panning the globe and you will not see those tonight. This tavern dates to 1719 and they didnt have powerpoint in 1719 so we will see stills which i hope keep your attention. We are going to talk about 1776 and this was a trying year for the revolutionaries in the 13 call olon colonys. The success was shortlived at the time. An invasion in canada ended disastrous because of the small pox that crossed the continent. They were chased south through new jersey and just missed destroying it for good and ending the revolutionary cause. Washington had 7,000 troops against 32,000 british troops. On christmas, we turned back into new jersey and crossed the delawa Delaware River and they converged on trinton, new jersey the next morning. After a brief incident, the army captured the entire regimine. You know the story already. You learned it in school. I bet most of you have read