First of all, I would like to thank Florence for bringing this subject up.

I must admit that I did not know of the group's existence until one day I "happened" upon it about one month ago. I was researching the possibility of creating an Offline User Group, and had even created a logo for a user group back in December 2018:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Offline_Logo.svg

I therefore propose this logo for the group.

I am also willing to work to get this User Group more active.

Best regards

Gabriel

On Mon, Mar 4, 2019 at 8:31 PM Samuel Klein <meta.sj@gmail.com> wrote:

For group contacts + reports : It would be good to have an annual nomination thread, and short wiki vote, a few months before our annual report? (August each year)
That way we can use the same energy to summarize what's been happening; those involved in active projects should feel welcome to be liaisons; and we keep the meta pages up to date.

On board voting:
+ Arranging private votes has been a perennial weakness for the movement. Would others be interested in public discussion of pros/cons of different candidates?

+ I respect the concerns around voting multiple times: we want people to be comfortable joining many groups while only voting once. Is there any proposal yet re: how to do this?
+ Say that, per Nemo, only incorporated groups vote in the final selection. Perhaps we could share formal recommendations with that group, before their vote (and sort those out on Meta).

SJ

On Mon, Mar 4, 2019 at 9:39 AM Federico Leva (Nemo) <nemowiki@gmail.com> wrote:

Thanks for raising the point.

Florence Devouard, 27/02/19 14:17:
> Yet... an WMF affiliate has some obligations... so how should we deal
> with that in the least time-consuming, least-bureaucratic,
> least-expensive way, yet playing our role in representing, recruting and
> promoting offline in the mouvement ?

From my point of view as a supporter of offline projects, the ideal
solution is that all affiliates agree that only incorporated entities
will have a formal vote (whatever its weight) in the final phase of the
selection of 2 board seats, to avoid creating new unwanted work about
internal governance.

Alternatively, a simple method might be to decide that all user groups
will have a discussion/vote on a certain wiki page where all their
members can join (Meta-Wiki may be enough if it can be public), so that
it's easy to identify unwanted patterns. (And establish a quorum or
whatever other criteria is decided.)

Federico

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