Dear Members of OFWA,
I hope this email finds you and your families in good health. Following occurrences of the pandemic a lot of our activities have been limited to online engagements and because we know how important it is to have physical interactions we have started looking into initiatives that can allow some in-person engagements following all guidelines laid down by the government and the WHO.
I write to inform all members of our community that the board is opening 2 seats for occupancy. These seats as per our bylaws are to be occupied by candidates from our community who meet the necessary requirements. Please refer to the https://drive.google.com/file/d/1m_Sh7i__8lyOCweR12lCv8lPTMCTnNO4/view on who can vie for a board seat as well as learn more about who can vote.
Quick facts about the role:
The position will last for a duration of 1 year.
Board seats can be occupied by active members of our community.
Elections will take place at our Annual General Meeting later this year whether in person or virtual (actual date will be communicated, but usually in December).
Members who want occupy the https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSekMgYrRL2IINANYx4KCdFCF1IJrwp6X3f…, their status will be checked and confirmed before community elections (to ensure applicant meets necessary requirements outline in membership bylaws).
Subject to this announcement we encourage all eligible participants to https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSekMgYrRL2IINANYx4KCdFCF1IJrwp6X3f….
Looking forward to working more closely with you and thank you all for the amazing job you do as members of this organisation!
On behalf of the board,
Felix Nartey
Dear Member of OFWA,
In order to improve communication across our members, we have added you to our newly created mailing list. This channel will be used to communicate updates, opportunities and any other information worthy of your attention.
It will be used together with our current Whatsapp channels to keep you up to speed and feel free to send emails to your colleagues on here as we understand that not all things can be shared or are appropriate for WhatsApp. in as much as we encourage you to use this medium please refrain or desist from sending anything unrelated to the Wikimedia and other open related work here.
We also want to use this opportunity to share our https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1vZRghm8CASp_G6CrbfXi9ggRx2N_GISu?us… you all. We encourage you to read the https://drive.google.com/file/d/1m_Sh7i__8lyOCweR12lCv8lPTMCTnNO4/view?usp=… especially, to understand your right, benefits, and opportunities.
Thank you.
Regards,
Ruby Damenshie-Brown
Communications Officer
Good day community members,
I trust we are all keeping safe?
As per the last update, from the *Transition Design Team* for the
*Wikimedia Strategy 2030*, draft for the next steps has been shared here by
the team here: (
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Transit…)
and now needs inputs from the community.
You can read updates on the draft here
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1C7hWUZbJy69gaAJyP8LEENtvUWDWuTKyus6LwZy…
To this end, the team from Africa is planning to organize a briefing
session with all communities on *Saturday, August 15th, 2020 at 5pm UTC*.
During the session, there will be discussions on the work done so far, what
is expected from the community and also answer questions you may have.
Meeting link is https://meet.google.com/twe-aimj-mkk
Thank you.
CC: Kayode Yussuf
Representative, WikiIndaba
Design Group