On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 6:45 AM, Tzu-Chiang Liou <tcliou(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks Jeromy,
>
> Hey guys, don't know what's the status now. But regarding to the regional
> cooperation
> for Asia-wide chapters, I have some personal ideas:
>
> Most of all, I agree we do need to enhance the interaction among local
> chapters, but
> more importantly, we should come up with some "niches". For example, why do
> we
> need such "space". A possible reference is the European local chapters.
> While they
> have common goals or target interest groups, it's only a matter of time for
> them to
> gather together and work toward similar subjects.
>
> Then, how about Asia, here are my two cents (patches welcome):
>
> 1. Content-oriented: it's nice to have regional content-driven event like
> Wikipedia
> Academy. And the success of such event is, I think, based on the tightly
> and long
> term commitment from local community. Such commitment could hardly been
> achieved
> by colleagues too far away from us, thus the regional collaboration is
> essential.
>
I think in this part, what we can do, I think, is experience sharing, which
the 1st stage goal of our future cooperation. Of course in long term we can
really do thing joint-chapter stuff physically.
>
> 2. Policy-oriented: We should actively engage in some inter-governmental
> organizations
> in Asia-wide area. For example, I know and have some contacts in UN's open
> source
> organization in Thailand. I believe some of you might have interesting
> connections as
> well. Make good use of that. And try to initiate appropriate agendas in
> APCE or ASENA
> like "Open Content Licensing in Digital World". Increasing our visibility
> in regional
> organizations.
>
That sounds great to me, that would be a long thread to discuss on the new
list.
>
> 3. Besides mailing list, we should increase the physical interaction among
> regional local
> chapters. And initial workshops or relative events. I know budget is
> normally a challenging
> part for many chapters (especially for junior members), hence 4.
>
> 4. Mid-term goal is to establish a charity organization that could receive
> donation.
> For the annual fundraising fro Asia-wide area, we should negotiate with
> the Foundation
> to keep certain amount for local development. And keep in the some kind of
> trust.
>
WM Hong Kong is taking part in this year's annual fundraising with WMF, so
we will share what experience we got this year to you
so why we have to had a list.
>
> By the way, maybe we should invite members in Wikimedia Australia? I know
> some
> of them would like to initiate Asia-Wide cooperation as well. And how
> about Japan,
> though they don't have association, we could still exchange ideas with
> them, right?
>
Okay as we have a list, and most of targeted group are here
let's start to talk about Tzu-Chiang's huge input seriously
especially what we can share, where can we go stuff
cheers,
--
Jerry~雨雨
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