For the original meetup page and discussion, see Wikipedia talk:Meetup/DC1.
For the next meetup page, see Wikipedia:Meetup/DC_2.

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.

• user:Raul654
• user:Danny
• user:Sj
• user:Fennec
• user:Phyzome
• user:TTLightningRod
• user:Thames
• user:Maveric149
• user:Improv
• user:Isomorphic
• user:Seth Ilys
• user:Gyrofrog
• user:Brian0918
• user:Casito

• Raul's pictures
• Phyzome's gallery
• commons:Category:Washington DC Field Trip

• TTLightningRod (left, with shoulder bag), Seth Ilys (right, with shoulder bag), Danny (sipping coffee), Fennec (foregroundward with map), Phyzome (backgroundward with map)
  TTLightningRod (left, with shoulder bag), Seth Ilys (right, with shoulder bag), Danny (sipping coffee), Fennec (foregroundward with map), Phyzome (backgroundward with map)
• left to right - Phyzome, Fennec, Seth Ilys, TTLightningRod, Danny
  left to right - Phyzome, Fennec, Seth Ilys, TTLightningRod, Danny
• left to right - Seth Ilys, TTLightningRod, Danny
  left to right - Seth Ilys, TTLightningRod, Danny
• Phyzome (left) and Fennec (right)
  Phyzome (left) and Fennec (right)
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• File:DC meetup06.jpg
• File:DC meetup07.jpg
• Fennec
  Fennec
• Phyzome
  Phyzome
• Phyzome
  Phyzome
• Fennec (left) and Phyzome (right)
  Fennec (left) and Phyzome (right)
• Thames (left, seated), Maveric149 (right, seated); left to right, standing: Isomorphic, Phyzome, Improv, Seth Ilys
  Thames (left, seated), Maveric149 (right, seated); left to right, standing: Isomorphic, Phyzome, Improv, Seth Ilys
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• Fennec
  Fennec
• Gyrofrog
  Gyrofrog
• Isomorphic
  Isomorphic
• Maveric149
  Maveric149
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• File:DC meetup19.jpg
• File:DC meetup20.jpg
• Fennec
  Fennec
• Maveric149 (left), Seth Ilys (right)
  Maveric149 (left), Seth Ilys (right)
• Improv
  Improv
• Improv
  Improv
• Improv
  Improv
• Seth Ilys (left), Maveric149 (right)
  Seth Ilys (left), Maveric149 (right)
• Left to right - Danny, Seth Ilys, and Maveric149
  Left to right - Danny, Seth Ilys, and Maveric149
• Improv
  Improv
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• Sj
  Sj
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• Improv (left) and Fennec (right)
  Improv (left) and Fennec (right)
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• TTLightningRod
  TTLightningRod
• TTLightningRod
  TTLightningRod
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• (Left to right) Maveric149, Thames, and Fennec
  (Left to right) Maveric149, Thames, and Fennec
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• Fennec (left) and Maveric149 (right)
  Fennec (left) and Maveric149 (right)

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