Dear members of the Language Committee,
As you know, the Wikimedia Foundation staff, a designated strategy team and
a Community Process Steering Committee have designed a process to gather
input from all voices in the Wikimedia movement to define the strategic
direction of our movement over the next 15 years. The process until
Wikimania is divided into three discussion cycles, and cycle 1 will run
from 10 March to 10 April.
I am currently reaching out to all organized groups (e.g. affiliates,
committees) and encourage them to participate. As LangCom is one of these
organized groups, I would like to ask you to participate in these
conversations, too!
There are different options for your group to participate: You can discuss
in person, onwiki or on other online platforms, as well as virtually via
telephone or video conferences. We have created a toolkit that will support
you with designing and hosting these conversations.
We are asking for at least one person from each organized group to
volunteer to be the Discussion Coordinator. This person will receive and
invitation to a Discussion Coordinator training and is responsible for:
* Inviting people to the discussion
* Hosting the discussion
* Summarizing the discussion
Please use the following links:
* Sign-up to be a Discussion Coordinator:
https://docs.google.com/a/
wikimedia.de/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScyzOcB9FmgWWrenoe0RnCy
Xo6F9YZyustrmsrD0g0zTRr2Cg/viewform
* Use the discussion toolkit for organizing your group's conversations:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2017/Toolkit
* Find out more about the movement strategy process:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2017
This is the time many of us have been waiting for for years. I would love
to see each and every one of you make your voice heard and take the chance
to shape the future of our movement together. I am very much looking
forward to making this happen with all of you! Stay tuned for updates on
the process that we will publish next week, and please reach out to me with
any question you might have in the meantime.
Sincerely,
Nicole
PS - Note that all summaries submitted by 20 March will be used in the
strategy track during WMCON in Berlin 28 March - 2 April. If your group
meets after WMCON but by 10 April, your summary will still be synthesized
before Cycle 2 begins (late April).
PPS - I have joined the team as Track Lead on 1 March, which is made
possible through an agreement between Wikimedia Deutschland and the
Wikimedia Foundation. In the sense of a strategic partnership, our two
organizations have agreed that I will invest most of my time until the end
of the year towards this new role.
--
Nicole Ebber
Wikimedia Movement Strategy Lead
Track A: Organized Groups