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/1FAIpQLScyzOcB9FmgWWrenoe0… * 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

Nicole, I've signed up as a [temporary] coordinator. Language committee has been catching things for the last few months and we have to start talking first about what we want to talk in relation to the strategy process. We'll do the best to do that. On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 2:04 AM, Nicole Ebber <nicole.ebber(a)wikimedia.de> wrote: > Hello again, > > I hope this email finds you well. As we are ending cycle 1 of the > movement strategy process conversation today, I am currently looking > into the list of organized groups on Meta and reaching out to groups > we haven’t heard back from.[1] > > I have noticed that the Language Committee has not designated a > discussion coordinator yet, and wanted to see if there is any > information that you are missing right now, or any support you need. > Of course, I would also like to hear from you if you decide not to > participate right now. Every feedback will help us to improve and > iterate on the ongoing process. > > Looking forward to hearing from you, > Nicole > > [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2017/Outreach/L… > > On 3 March 2017 at 22:13, Nicole Ebber <nicole.ebber(a)wikimedia.de> wrote: >> 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/1FAIpQLScyzOcB9FmgWWrenoe0… >> * 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 > > > > -- > Nicole Ebber > Adviser International Relations > Movement Strategy Track Lead: Organized Groups > > Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. > V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts > Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig > anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, > Steuernummer 27/029/42207. > > _______________________________________________ > Langcom mailing list > Langcom(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/langcom