Hi Barry
Jon and Arne and I will be meeting in Frankfurt on 3 October. If anyone's available at 1500 UTC on that day, I think a conference call would be very productive.
Not clear what the agenda is for this call? I'd prefer not to work this weekend after spending art of the last two traveling to/from India.
The primary agenda for the call will be to review the draft proposal. Arne, Austin and I will be working on it, incorporating the input received on meta and by emails, such as yours. We will be looking for counsel at 1500 UTC on Sunday. If you or others can dial in then we would appreciate the help. Our plan is to send it on Sunday evening to Ting and James to distribute to the Wikimedia Foundation board members before the meetings on October 8 and 9. Understand, though, that Sunday is a difficult day for many. For anyone that cannot make this time, we'd appreciate input prior.
As previously discussed, the draft proposal (to whom is apparently not yet clear) is at [1], so please weigh in as soon as you can. Since our working timeline has this made official in just a few days, this is the #1 priority.
I had a look and I'm OK with the general scope, though a bit nervous about how the team is going to accomplish all of this work. I do wonder whether some issues aren't really answerable at this stage. For example, it isn't clear to me what the best organizational form(s) is/are in large, complex countries like India, Brazil, China, etc. We might need to stay flexible as things emerge. While I like the general goal of creating something with longevity, we need to think about resilience as well.
Thanks.
Additionally, a draft questionnaire/survey is at [2], which everyone should take a look at in the next few days. This is public, of course, and once it's finalized the idea is to have people copy it to their userspace and link back on that page. They're fairly open-ended questions, and intentionally so—it's meant to get a general feel of what the community thinks of the topic, and allow people with very strong opinions to make those opinions known.
Will have a look
Cheers
Jon
And in case you're wondering, I'm still working on the central calendar/schedule we talked about in our last meeting—expect that later today.
[0] http://doodle.com/wmdcifcgggn8q6ug [1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_roles_working_group/Proposal [2] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_roles_working_group/Questionnaire
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