Hi Kaew.

Yes, ofcos a national organiser be part of the international. I also agree that we need more members, but I also believe too many cooks will spoil the food. The reach decisions much quicker, I think we need to limit the number of members we can include in. 

​However. in the international team, we can have one member per region; maybe 1 from North Am, One from South Am, One/two from Europe , One from Middle East, One from South Asia and so on. ​In my experience, that helps because there the representative gets closer to the organising team of those countries. 

Completely agreed, we should share resources with WLE and WLPA. It will benefit all. 




Regards from Mumbai,
Karthik Nadar. 

On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 5:15 AM, KaewWiki <KaewWiki@gmail.com> wrote:
A few thoughts regarding the international team:

1. Can a national organizer be part of the international team?  Years
ago we don't like this because of possible conflict of interest.  But
what we learned from WLM2014 is that we need more people and we want
them to act faster.  Can all participating countries send [at least?]
one representative to help with the international team?  If there are
too many people, the tasks can be delegated to a group or an
individual.

2. Can we share the resource/expertise with WLE as much as possible?
In other words, the team itself and the submission/processing/judging
mechanism may be common for both contests.  If the committee/process
are common, you can add the third/4th/... topic and go beyond the
saturation stage of S-curve.  This may address many of us who believe
that WLM for Europe is in contraction phase.

3. This is about the right time to discuss about international team if
we want a fruitful contest in 2015.  I believe that there is a
significant potential for growth for people to take photo from
October-August.  Uploading existing photos is one thing but taking it
purposefully for this competition is another.  The earlier we have the
team the better we can work on our PR campaign.


On 30 December 2014 at 04:02, Ynhockey <ynhockey@gmail.com> wrote:
> In that case if anyone wants to help the international team, it's a good
> idea to start now :) we still have things to do this year, and the person
> could get some understanding for next year (assuming they hadn't previously
> been part of the team).
>
> —Yan.
>
> On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 10:46 PM, Lodewijk <lodewijk@effeietsanders.org>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Yan,
>>
>> Actually, the grant for next year should already be drafted by now :) I
>> don't want to hurry people too much, but I'm afraid it would be unwise to
>> wait with finding the team for next year...
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Lodewijk
>>
>> On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 9:39 PM, Ynhockey <ynhockey@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Can we wait for this year's competition to end before agreeing on next
>>> year's team? There are actually still quite a few things to do, including
>>> regarding the grant.
>>>
>>> —Yan (Ynhockey).
>>>
>>> On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 10:02 PM, Saqib Qayyum <saqib.qayyum@hotmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I can help too .. :P
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ________________________________
>>>> Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2014 00:17:10 +0530
>>>> From: karthikndr@wikimedia.in
>>>> To: wikilovesmonuments@lists.wikimedia.org
>>>> Subject: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Call for Volunteers - WLM International
>>>> Team
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Dear all,
>>>>
>>>> We shall need a good international team to have another successful
>>>> version of Wiki Loves Monuments after 2014. The team should comprise of
>>>> experience volunteers who have conducted WLM or any such event in their
>>>> country.
>>>>
>>>> There are numerous tasks and first task will be to hunt and find our
>>>> countries who shall be willing to organise Wiki Loves Monuments again. To
>>>> brief, the International Team is more of coordinating with all participating
>>>> countries and without proper coordination, there will be no international
>>>> competition for WLM 2015.
>>>>
>>>> Been in the international team is also more of applying for grant,
>>>> documenting, following up and keeping track of status of all participating
>>>> countries. Time to be spent may vary according to the skill of team members;
>>>> more the skills and people, lesser the burden; however you can assume 10
>>>> hours a week during the contest (just horrifying).
>>>>
>>>> Would you be interested to be part of international team for WLM 2015,
>>>> please send me a brief introduction of yourself and also a note on how you
>>>> would benefit the international team. Please send the same by 6th of Jan.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Regards from Mumbai,
>>>> Karthik Nadar.
>>>>
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