tl;dr: The strategic direction is final now. All groups and individuals are invited to endorse it on October 26. Please set-up a process in your group to come to an decision about your endorsement.


Dear Mikael,

Here’s my regular update to organizations and groups in the Wikimedia movement, and I’d like to ask you for your attention:

We have finalized the strategic direction and I invite you to take a look at it.[1] This direction is attempting to capture and synthesize the aspirations and opinions from hundreds of offline and online conversations that we had in the last seven months with the different audience groups like individual contributors, organized groups and new voices. This direction is not a plan or a project, but a direction for us as a movement to move forward to together.

But we are not fully there yet: Before we conclude phase 1 of the strategy process, we are asking all groups and individuals for their endorsement of the strategic direction. Here are the facts:

== When ==
October 26, 2017 (this is the date we are currently aiming for); we aim to create a joyous moment for all of us, a day to celebrate the future ahead together. Come together, invite your members or communities to join, sign the page and follow how your fellow Wikimedians around the world celebrate #wikimedia2030. And although we would like to use this day to create a sense of community spirit around the direction, there will be a way to endorse the direction after the 26.

== Who ==
All organizations, groups, committees, and individuals in our movement are invited to endorse.

== Why ==
To show support and commitment to the direction; to commit to participating in the next phase of the movement strategy process in good faith.

== How ==
By signing a meta page with your Wikimedia username, indicating that you sign it in the name of your organization or group. In practice, we will ask people to endorse the strategic direction (in the green box) and the section “what comes next”[1]. We will build that page in the coming days and I will send out the link in a coming update.

== What to do now ==
Prepare your affiliate or group to endorse the direction on October 26. You might want set up a decision making process, hold a meeting, schedule a resolution or whatever works best for you.
It would also be helpful for us if you can help spreading this information across your communities, help with translations and direct questions to me or to the talk page of the direction.

== What’s next ==
From November on, constituents of the movement will negotiate towards an agreement on roles, responsibilities and organizational strategies that enable us to implement our shared future. As a signatory, they will pledge to consider the needs of our movement above their own, and to find the structures, processes, and resources that enable our movement to best move towards our common direction.

I will send further updates when we are getting closer to the endorsement day. Let me know if you have further questions or concerns.

Thanks,
Nicole

[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2017/Direction#Our_strategic_direction:_Service_and_Equity


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Nicole Ebber
Adviser International Relations
Movement Strategy Track Lead: Organized Groups

Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207.