A good starting point for discussion is the written material already out
there about the purpose of the event:
"*Wikimedia Conference 2014* is the annual meeting of all Wikimedia
chapters<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chapters>
, thematic
organizations<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_thematic_organiz…
and user groups <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_user_groups>,
board and staff members of the Wikimedia
Foundation<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation> as
well as other committees to discuss the future of the Wikimedia movement in
terms of collaboration, structures and organizational development."
There has been a "Future of Wikimedia Conference" page on Meta for some
time, although it has had limited input. Asaf Bartov wrote a little on the
talk page about the purpose of the conference:
- An opportunity for Wikimedia movement organizations to meet
face-to-face and share ideas about projects and practices and to discuss
any unresolved issues that may have come up during the past year.
- A venue for one of the quarterly Wikimedia Foundation Board of
Trustees meetings and an opportunity for the Wikimedia Foundation Board of
Trustees and Wikimedia movement organizations to meet and talk.
- A venue for the Funds Dissemination Committee to meet to assess the
funding proposals for Round 2 of the current year and provide
recommendations on those proposals to the WMF Board.
It may make more sense to continue the discussion on the meta page:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Future_of_the_Wikimedia_Conference