I assume good faith on Goma's part, and hope you all will as well.
He is coming to Berlin for the Movement Roles meeting, because we
invited him. He is leaving on Friday as he was not invited to stay
for the Chapters meeting.*
He is one of the driving forces behind major projects on the Catalan
Wikipedia, and has been for many years, since long before the question
of a Catalan chapter became a big issue. To tar Goma with the brush
of someone 'trying to get his case heard' is just as inappropriate as
suggesting that Delphine and Arne are pat of some Foundation
conspiracy.
He lives and breathes Wikipedia, as do most of the Amical Board --
something many of us can related to. And he spends far more of his
time on national and cultural projects (like the event supporting
small languaegs that ca:wp held in honor of their 10th anniversary,
and their GLAM event that happened yesterday in Barcelona) than he
does on these meta-wikimedia dramas.
I have met with him twice, and been offended by him more than once
online, but I have been deeply impressed with the quality of work that
his group does, and the sense of camraderie and collaboration that
drive them. If we cannot find ways to work with them with respect and
without snide commentary, we are failing our movement.
SJ
* NB: On behalf of the Foundation, I regret that no one representing
Amical will be in attendance this weekend.
The Board politely and unofficially asked the Wikimedia Conference
organizers to invite a representative from Amical, after discussing
this at our last IRC meeting, as their work lines up with many topics
on the agenda.
--
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 5:54 PM, Austin Hair <adhair@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 10:51 PM, Jon Huggett <jon.huggett@gmail.com> wrote:
>> you met with him last year and since as well?
>
> At the chapters meeting and at various meetings at Wikimania; he has a
> thing about dropping in anywhere he thinks his case can be heard,
> whether he's invited or not.
>
> Austin
>
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