For your information. :-)<br><br>---------- Forwarded message ----------<br><span class="gmail_quote">From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Sean Whitton</b> <<a href="mailto:sean@silentflame.com">sean@silentflame.com</a>>
<br>Date: Aug 28, 2007 12:28 PM<br>Subject: [Foundation-l] ComProj needs your help - call for volunteers<br>To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <<a href="mailto:foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org">foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org
</a>>, <a href="mailto:wikipedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org">wikipedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org</a>, English Wikipedia <<a href="mailto:wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org">wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org</a>><br><br></span>Dear Wikimedians,
<br><br>The Communication Projects Group or ComProj was set up some months ago<br>to provide a venue for collaboration between Wikimedians who want to<br>help with communication work. We do all sorts of things: preparation
<br>of PR material, reaching out to specific groups to get them involved<br>in our projects, and encouraging inter-project communication.<br><br>While the group was started up by Sandra Ordonez, the Wikimedia<br>Foundation's Communications Manager, it could in its present form have
<br>been started up by any Wikimedian - Sandy is always there to offer<br>guidance but she has made it clear she is not in charge and wants the<br>group to run itself. We do that.<br><br>How we work is that communication projects are put forward on our
<br>mailing list, and people can volunteer to take them on in groups or<br>individually. These can come from all members and, unsurprisingly,<br>Sandy and Cary Bass, Wikimedia's volunteer co-ordinator at the office.<br>
We also have weekly IRC meetings to discuss our projects.<br><br>At the moment we are struggling for members due to August dragging<br>many people away. Projects are not getting done as fast as they should<br>be and we could really do with more members. So, if you have an
<br>interest in communications, please drop by<br><<a href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communication_Projects_Group/Membership">http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communication_Projects_Group/Membership</a>>.<br>All that we require is that you are willing to put a decent amount of
<br>time into our projects, prioritising it amongst your other valuable<br>work.<br><br>Please distribute this to individual project mailing lists that I may<br>not be subscribed to, as ComProj is not just for Wikipedia.<br>
<br>Yours,<br>Sean Whitton<br>ComProj chair<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>foundation-l mailing list<br><a href="mailto:foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org">foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org</a><br>
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