https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Wikipedia_Education_Collabora…
See "Membership".
Actually, there are better things in the world than to be a member of the
Collaborative. You are supposed to do some actual work, which does not
immediately impact your home education program.
Vojtěch Dostál
předseda rady / chairman of the board
Wikimedia Česká republika / Wikimedia Czech Republic
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2015-06-09 1:10 GMT+02:00 Bohdan Melnychuk <base-w(a)yandex.ru>ru>:
While writing my letter of GLAM lists I recalled that
I was once rejected
membership in Education-coop mailing list. The reason was "Closed List".
As far as I know it's a list for a cabal of people who are working on
Education (an[1] Education Collaborative). I know of them since their
meeting in Prague[2] as a friend-wikimedian of mine attended it. The
process of selecting people to that meeting was quite cabalish (with
absolutely no public announcement) as well, iirc. During the meeting it was
completely ungooglable, iirc. IIRC, the only mention I found back then was
in some affiliate's google calendar. But I'm not about a meeting ages ago.
I'm about the collaborative itself.
I'm not actually a person of WEP[3] but still I'm a person who don't likes
when things are hidden but there's no real reason to do it. It looks like
the case for me. I don't see why should it all be that much cabalish.
Doesn't collaborative a derivative from collaboration? My views on word are
often somewhat perfectionist but anyway I just can't see how collaboration
and making things that closed can co-exist.
I'm fine with closed lists, teams and stuff in general as there are things
which should not be discussed in public or it could because it's easier to
make a tiny group of people do something instead of crying out to a lazy
unorganised crowd. But just make it clear how can one (apply to) join or
e.g. just join as a observer/non-voting commentator/whatever.
Footnotes:
[1] afair the page on outreachwiki was about some older formation under
the name. it's probably fixed since that time) Education Collaborative
[2] was it already 2 years ago? time sure runs fast
[3] which means that it's not like I can e.g. go organise a WEP thing
offline — the most I can do in real actions is helping a WEP person. That's
if actions are about WEP and not about something general which any
wikimedian can do.
Yours sincerely,
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