Yes, thanks again Ben! And thanks Laura and others who are interested in
this process. I'm really pleased multiple people were interested!
And, thanks for your vote of confidence in me. I have now registered for
the summit, so barring complications, I'm planning to attend. I think this
year will be crucial as we try to decide what the strategy process, which
has been somewhat unwieldy to date and hard to follow, means for affiliates
like ours.
Per Ben's request, here is a small bio for people who don't know me -- I
have been a Wikipedian since 2003. I primarily edit English Wikipedia &
Wikidata, but have dabbled in other projects (Wikivoyage, Commons, Spanish
Wikipedia etc). I have spent most of my Wikimedia career as an events
organizer, and have been involved in planning many of the Wikimanias
(including Wikimania 2006 here in Cambridge) and various other conferences.
I also served on the Board of Trustees for the Wikimedia Foundation from
2010-2015 as a community-elected & chapter-selected member. I am also a
librarian, and have spent a lot of time trying to help Wikimedia and
libraries become closer partners - through events, trainings, writing, etc.
Currently I am a librarian at MIT, where I specialize in engineering; I
moved to the area in 2015 and before that lived in California, where I
worked for UC Davis (but I spent a lot of time here, so people often think
I've lived in Boston longer!) My current personal interests as an editor
are citations in Wikidata (the WikiCite project) and climate change
information on Wikipedia, but I've done many different things over the
years.
As for the summit -- and Wikimedia New England generally -- I really want
to present the perspectives of people who teach with Wikipedia in their
classrooms/libraries as well as individual editors, and I think this group
has national (and global) expertise in that. We have such a strong history
of interesting Wikipedia projects in this area with individual champions in
many universities; I think the trick is to share this expertise and help
the group feel more cohesive, and also help those currently running
projects feel more supported. This group doesn't have formal roles per se -
anyone who wants to lead on any particular aspect is more than welcome to -
so if you want to try something out with the group let us/me know and we
can try to make it happen!
cheers,
Phoebe
On Thu, Dec 12, 2019 at 9:49 AM Samuel Klein <meta.sj(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks for the small process around this. :)
🌍🌏🌎🌑
On Tue., Dec. 10, 2019, 9:41 p.m. Benjamin Lees, <emufarmers(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
I would prefer to have a collaborative process in
the future, but since
we only have a few days at this point, I think we're going to have to just
do a quick vote. (Or else have a dictator choose someone. :-))
Therefore, I'd like to set a deadline for nominations of *11:59 PM on
Wednesday*. Then we can have voting and discussion until *6 PM on
Saturday*, which will give our selected delegate 24 hours to submit the
application to the conference organizers.
So for anyone who hasn't emailed me or the list, now's your (brief)
chance! And for those who have, you should write up a short statement to
introduce yourself to people on the list who don't already know you.
Benjamin
On Tue, Dec 10, 2019 at 10:14 AM phoebe ayers <phoebe.ayers(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Dear Ben,
Thanks so much for keeping on top of this. As Ben mentioned, it's a good
opportunity to meet with others from global Wikimedia affiliates; the focus
of the meeting is likely to be on movement strategy (see
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20 for
the current strategic process) as well as techniques for building
affiliates. It would be great if the person going was also able to work on
some Wikimedia New England organizing this year.
Thanks Laura for volunteering! I haven't been the last few years (never
for New England, actually) and am also free / interested in going next
year. But I want to make sure it's open to all.
Every year it seems we talk about having a slightly more robust process
for choosing a delegate, but we haven't developed this to date. Do you have
ideas Ben? (or anyone?) Discussion is open to all who considers themselves
part of Wikimedia New England (a loose affiliation!)
Thanks again Ben.
best,
Phoebe
On Tue, Dec 10, 2019 at 8:51 AM Jenemann, Laura <ljeneman(a)bu.edu> wrote:
Hi all,
I’m interested, though would happily defer to others.
Please let me know the best way for next steps.
Laura
--
Laura Jenemann
Communication, Media, & Film Librarian
Boston University Libraries
617-353-9240
ljeneman(a)bu.edu
*From: *Wikimedia-boston <wikimedia-boston-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
on behalf of Benjamin Lees <emufarmers(a)gmail.com>
*Date: *Monday, December 9, 2019 at 10:06 PM
*To: *Boston Wikimedians <wikimedia-boston(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
*Subject: *[Wikimedia-boston] Delegate for Wikimedia Summit 2020 (it
could be you!)
Just a reminder that applications for Wikimedia Summit 2020 are due on
December 16: <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Summit_2020/Registration_Informat…
This is the annual meeting in Germany in April for all of the Wikimedia
affiliates from around the world to collaborate on movement strategy. As a
user group, we are eligible to send one delegate. The summit organizers
cover participants' travel costs.
We don't have much time for deliberation; perhaps those who are
interested should say so here, or email me, and then we can quickly select
someone?
We can also talk about this on Slack, but I know not everybody has
joined, so I don't want anybody to be left out.
Benjamin
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