One addition which I missed while writing the proposal: "If particular
organization is not WMF, a Wikimedia chapter, a Wikimedia thematic
organization, a Wikimedia user group or any other Affiliations
committee approved organization, it has to make rational efforts to
coordinate its Wikimedia-related activities with relevant Wikimedia
organizations operating on particular territory."

On Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at 9:27 AM, Oliver Stegen <oliver_stegen@sil.org> wrote:
> +1
>
> (and sorry, no time right now to "fix the English" of the statement)
>
>
>
> On 08-Feb-17 02:13, Milos Rancic wrote:
>>
>> Gerard and I were talking today about this issue. Here is the proposal
>> to be added into the LPP if accepted. Gerard's parts are related to
>> the traditional LangCom requirements, my parts are about the
>> organizations. Feel free to fix my English, add whatever you think
>> it's important for the amendment itself etc. (Asaf, Carlos, you are
>> encouraged to give your input in relation to the organizational part.)
>>
>> Note that this proposal assumes that both Wikimedia and non-Wikimedia
>> organizations would be able to propose a project for fast approval.
>>
>> * * *
>>
>> Fast approval assumes that the Language committee would approve
>> previously eligible first Wikimedia project in particular language
>> under certain conditions without necessity for the project to pass the
>> process inside of Incubator (which usually lasts at least six months,
>> but likely a couple of years).
>>
>> The main condition for fast approval is officially expressed support
>> by particular organization, which would guarantee that the project
>> would be viable for the next two years.
>>
>> Organization has to have the following attributes:
>> * Officially incorporated organization inside of the country where
>> significant population of speakers of the target language live.
>> * Annual and strategic plan.
>> * Track record of successfully finished projects.
>> * Commitment to transparent work.
>>
>> To do that, organization has to do the following:
>> * Translate 500 most common MediaWiki messages in the target language
>> to immediately show its commitment. (NOTE: I think that few hours of
>> translation job is reasonable immediate requirement; we could discuss
>> about it.)
>> * Present to the Language committee the proposal for the project. That
>> could be a program of editathons in particular area, targeting
>> speakers of one or more languages without any Wikimedia project.
>> * Give formal guarantee that the Wikimedia-related work with
>> particular linguistic group will last at least two years.
>>
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