I hope all of you are safe. I am forwarding this email from Ryan
from wikimedia-l, about the next steps of the implementation
process of the Strategy. The team is looking for a set of diverse
people to prepare the virtual transition discussions.
There is an office meeting with the Movement Strategy core team
on Thursday. June 11 @ 08:00 UTC (Google Meet
<http://meet.google.com/rva-yqaq-zdk>) [7] to share any
comments and ask questions.
I think that if you are interested in joining this group,
attending the office meeting or getting in touch with a regional
group might be a good idea.
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Dear all,
It’s my pleasure to be writing to you about the Movement Strategy.
We have come together over the past 3 years to develop our
Strategic Direction [1] and then the recommendations [2] to guide
our collaborations and future. So many of you contributed to the
process — some for only a part, and others throughout the entire
process. With the recommendations complete, our focus now shifts
to implementing the recommendations in a collaborative, open, and
transparent way.
Transition
To make the transition from the publication of the recommendations
to their implementation, we need to do some planning. It’s a
10-year strategy, with dozens of initiatives, dependencies, and
connected goals, to be delivered in a more distributed,
deliberative, and open collaborative model than ever before. We’ll
need to work together to define how we prioritize, sequence,
resource, and support each initiative.
So much of our work is done online, but a lot of strategic work
also happens in person. We can’t do that now, and so we’ve had to
adapt to engage broadly, and in inclusive ways. To create this
plan, movement-wide virtual events will kick off in September. We
will use the Movement Strategy principles [3] as a guiding
framework to ensure the planning will be inclusive and empowering
for our diverse range of communities, without leaving anyone
behind.
As a result of the pandemic, we lost the chance to work together
in-person on the transition to implementation at the Wikimedia
Summit in Berlin [4]. Yet we gained an opportunity to include a
higher number and a more diverse profile of participants. Engaging
with online contributors, technical developer communities, and
smaller user groups throughout the process will be a key priority.
Successful virtual engagements with a high number of diverse
participants are difficult to do well. Therefore, a Design Group
will collaborate to prepare for the virtual transition
discussions. This group will consist of community members
reflecting different parts and perspectives of the movement,
including representatives of regional collaboratives (CEE, ESEAP,
Indaba, Iberocoop, North America, South Asia, WikiArabia,
WikiFranca), the EDs and chairpersons groups, and WMF staff.
Anyone who is interested can contribute. Regular summaries of the
preparation work and design discussions will be published on meta
so that anyone interested will be able to share insights and help
improve the process, even if not part of the Design Group itself.
Participation
I look forward to: Working with many of you at the virtual
transition events.
Ways to participate and the schedule of events will be determined
by the Design Group. The current plan is to start the virtual
transition discussions with the movement in September.
The virtual events is where major discussions will take place on
sequencing, prioritizing, and resourcing the recommendations
across the movement.
Seeing those of you interested participate in the open review of
the transition preparations.
The task will be to review the work of the Design Group and share
your perspective, enriching the thinking to improve the events.
Open review will happen in parallel to the work of the Design
Group from the end of June to the end of July / beginning of
August.
Having nominations from different movement groups and
collaboratives (mentioned above) for the Design Group.
The task will be to design as a group how the transition process
of online events will be set up.
Want to know more?
We have put together a placeholder meta page [5] and will keep
updating it as more information becomes available.
Join office hours with the Movement Strategy core team on
Wednesday. June 10 @ 17:00 UTC (Google Meet
<http://meet.google.com/uun-pzmb-kti>) [6] or Thursday. June
11 @ 08:00 UTC (Google Meet
<http://meet.google.com/rva-yqaq-zdk>) [7] to share any
comments and ask questions.
Our email channel is always open:
strategy2030@wikimedia.org
<mailto:strategy2030@wikimedia.org>.
Best,
Ryan Merkley
Chief of Staff, Wikimedia Foundation
[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2017
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2017>
[2]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Recommendations
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Recommendations>
[3]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Recommendations/Movement_Strategy_Principles
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Recommendations/Movement_Strategy_Principles>
[4]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Summit_2020/Report
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Summit_2020/Report>
[5]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/2030
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/2030>
[6]
https://meet.google.com/uun-pzmb-kti
<https://meet.google.com/uun-pzmb-kti>[7]
https://meet.google.com/rva-yqaq-zdk
<https://meet.google.com/rva-yqaq-zdk>
_____________________________
Ryan Merkley (he/him)
Chief of Staff, Wikimedia Foundation
<https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
rmerkley@wikimedia.org <mailto:rmerkley@wikimedia.org>
@ryanmerkley
<https://twitter.com/ryanmerkley>
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