On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 12:13 AM, Butch Bustria butch@wikimedia.org.ph wrote:
I believe having a common time to do a web conference / webminar or live online chat is a good start before we head over physical interaction and setup an office.
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then we can then setup a physical office and a common fund.
WMID has no desire on setting up an office even if we receive funding needed for Apsara :D
However I disagree on delaying physical interaction, after Free Your Knowledge Competition in 2010, WMID realize that it desperately need someone (more people) who has the passion and the time to take care of administration need of the chapter (WMID). Kartika and Ivonne steps in after the request and we documented each and every coordination meetings for 1,5 years totaling around 200 meetings. That is what it takes for actively and aggressively pushing a regeneration of volunteers. These meetings are not meet up, we call it coordination meeting because it serves a certain purpose and each and every meeting there are progress, decisions and result.
You may disagree or take on a completely different approach, it's your prerogative of course. Once we've completed our planning, we will have our schedule up, and actively contacting Japan, Korea, Kazakh, Iran, and other Asian chapters (like Bangladesh, of course! We'll send you our invitation with ribbon :D) - is it safe to say Philippines is not interested? We're not planning a conference, completely the opposite really, we are aiming in depth training - the goal is developing chapters/ community via in depth individual/ small group coaching and empowerment.
Once together we craft an Pan-Asia Pacific road map and blueprint and an easy to understood and well drafted set of joint chapter project plans then we can worry about politics and money.
I won't lie to you, we don't have an ideal situation where we go: projects first, planning, politics and worry about money and sex scandals later. Most of the time the event runs concurrently, upside down, and sometimes it's action first and planning later - I shite you not, after several projects *I* realize that working with volunteers need a liquid budget framework, which I'm experimenting right now.
I'm happy to to learn that Phillipines are thinking to do Pan Asia Pasific road map, but our regional training center will not wait for that nor need approval from other *Asian chapters*. The reason for that is we're not aiming chapters exclusively, we're targeting driven volunteers as individuals and/ or community.
Yours,