Thanks for this well-needed clarification, Gautum.
As I understood, it was the Mumbai and Pune community that came up with the
idea for this event, they reached out to different members of the community,
and had our support.
I would like to know the purpose of this framework? does this imply that
chapter approval/support would be needed for any future events?
Salmaan
On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 2:57 PM, Gautam John <gautam(a)prathambooks.org> wrote:
Hey All:
We realise that the WikiConference Framework has caused some confusion and
we wanted to clarify this.
The Chapter EC would like to indicate intent of the following:
- The Chapter indicates its intent to take the responsibility of
working with various stakeholders to have this event run year on year
- We would like to help build with the community a repeatable and
sustainable set of methods that would help organize an national annual
Wikimedian event.
- The focus is to evolve a framework that would allow City, Chapter and
other community stakeholders to participate in organising the annual event
in manner that the experiences, learning and best practices can be carried
forward across years.
The following clarifications are also in order:
1. The framework is a draft and is open for further refinement with
various stakeholder inputs. The framework will always be an ideal goal. Even
if the proposal doesn't match it, the idea is for the Chapter to help bridge
that gap.
2. We do believe that as a general practice it is good haver many
cities bidding to run this event on annual basis and that a choice is made
based on the merits of the bid.
3. The enthusiasm and passion shown by the Mumbai and Pune Wikipedians
in taking the lead get an event of this nature for the first time is
laudable. We also owe a debt of gratitude to the Bombay and Pune communities
for bringing the discussion and planning thus far for the event.
4. What we intended to communicate is that we know Mumbai has an event
being planned and even if it doesn't match whatever framework we all come up
with, it doesn't really matter, because all of us, Community and Chapter,
will work together to bridge the gap such that the event works.
5. It's awesome that Mumbai and Pune communities are ready to go with
the event. It doesn't appear at this stage that there any other volunteers
or bids in the making. We all want an event of this nature to happen. That
said, we are also trying to put some process and structure around it for
future events.
Thank you very much.
For Wikimedia Chapter, India.
Best,
Gautam
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