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
Jeromy-Yu Maximilian Chan, ARAD
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