Hi,<br><br>short answer: Lack of time<br><br>I'm interested in working for Wikiversity, because of this, I joined the ComProj-Group. At the moment - lack of time - I do not much at the German Wikiversity-project "Spread Wikiversity". But in order to support the Wikiversities and our ComProj-Group I created some banners and so on. Look here:
<br><br><a href="http://de.wikiversity.org/wiki/Wikiversity:Werbebanner">http://de.wikiversity.org/wiki/Wikiversity:Werbebanner</a><br><a href="http://fr.wikiversity.org/wiki/Wikiversit%C3%A9:Banni%C3%A8res_et_boutons">http://fr.wikiversity.org/wiki/Wikiversit%C3%A9:Banni%C3%A8res_et_boutons
</a><br><a href="http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Wikiversity:Banners_and_buttons">http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Wikiversity:Banners_and_buttons</a><br><br>If there's anything to do in Germany (I'm from Germany) so contact me by mail. At the moment I haven't much freetime, but what I can do, I will do... (Hoping this won't be much for the next few months.)
<br><br>Yours Michael from Germany<br><br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">2007/11/5, Sean Whitton <<a href="mailto:sean@silentflame.com">sean@silentflame.com</a>>:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hello all,<br><br>Firstly, this e-mail is not directives or commands or anything like<br>that, but I am throwing lots of ideas around in the hope that they<br>will bounce off some of you. I am thinking that due to a lack of other
<br>issues the following could also be discussed exclusively at<br>Wednesday's meeting, so it would be good if as many of our members<br>could attend as possible for this reason as this is pretty important.<br><br>I think most of us will admit that right now ComProj is not doing a
<br>lot. I think that there are a number of reasons for this, which I will<br>try to outline.<br>1) Lack of work<br>In general, we are not being given enough things to do. Those that we<br>do get end up being an individual thing between someone and a ComProj
<br>member which is not ideal as it would be better to work more as a<br>group.<br>2) Lack of participation<br>We don't actually have that many active members right now. We could do<br>with recruiting more or we can't get done what we intend to.
<br>3) Lack of motivation<br>I don't think people are interested in the projects we have. This<br>means nothing gets done. There is no expectation that members should<br>do things they are not interested in in this group (perhaps this is so
<br>for the ComCom, but not ComProj which should be enjoyable in all<br>aspects)<br><br>So how do we solve this? I think that we need to make some fundamental<br>decisions, as a group, about how we want ComProj to work. Do we need
<br>to formalise, bring in membership requirements (i.e. doing work, not<br>that people should be qualified to join initially), or do we need to<br>stop worrying about set projects and simply have a pool of people to<br>access via the mailing list.
<br><br>Unsurprisingly, since I am chair and we are in this situation, I am<br>stumped. Ideas welcome.<br><br>Thanks,<br><br>Sean<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>ComProj mailing list<br><a href="mailto:ComProj@lists.wikimedia.org">
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