Hi Wikiers
I support the idea of a national board, and would be willing to serve on that board given certain resourcing constraints. I believe it would not be prudent to break into separate provincial sectors as clearly there is limited momentum even on a national scale.
I have some expertise in the area of governance, and structural and strategic planning and have been involved in founding a society.
Cheers, ================================ Ken Goudsward Assistant Registrar - Records & Operations University of Northern British Columbia goudswak@unbc.ca 250.960.5197
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1. Wikimedia Canada board needed (Jeffery Nichols) 2. Re: Wikimedia Canada board needed (Andrew Whitworth) 3. Re: Wikimedia Canada board needed (Jeffery Nichols) 4. Re: Wikimedia Canada board needed (Geoffrey Plourde) 5. Re: Wikimedia Canada board needed (Delphine M?nard)
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Message: 1 Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 22:11:18 -0330 From: Jeffery Nichols arctic.gnome@gmail.com Subject: [Wikimedia-Canada] Wikimedia Canada board needed To: wikimedia-ca@lists.wikimedia.org Message-ID: 305360DF-8075-42EF-A27F-C1C5AADE3ABC@gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes
In case anyone out there is still getting these messages, I would like to try again to get this chapter founded. Every time a group gets together to found it we make some progress in planning , but the effort eventually falls apart. There are at least 140 people who have expressed interest in joining the chapter, so we do have a big enough base of people to form the chapter. However, what we need is three people willing to contribute a significant amount of their spare time, a bit of money, and become the founding board of the organization. If you are willing to seriously commit to the formation of the chapter please contact me at arctic.gnome@gmail.com and we'll set up a meeting. I believe that we have the support to get this thing off the ground! -Jeffery Nichols, "Arctic Gnome"
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Message: 2 Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 21:08:20 -0500 From: Andrew Whitworth wknight8111@gmail.com Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-Canada] Wikimedia Canada board needed To: Wikimedia Canada planning list wikimedia-ca@lists.wikimedia.org Message-ID: 3b66f84e0902041808u1d37b934sd36bb4a1da2eed62@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
I'm not in Canada, so I can't really participate in this, but I do sincerely hope that this request is heard and other volunteers work to get this chapter started. As always, I'll be on hand as a representative of the chapcom to answer any questions and provide any help that's needed.
I will mention, and this is strictly speculative right now, that there are opportunities for support in terms of personnel and possibly funding for chapters (or pre-chapter groups) that are active and mature. Don't take this as a promise, because it might not be. However, if you guys get some momentum and find that money is holding you back, there might be some help available.
Also, I know that the idea of sub-national chapters was not embraced last time, however the first sub-national chapter has recently been approved (WM New York), so that's a possibility too. If the organizers in Canada find that distance and other factors are too big a barrier to the creation of a Canada-national chapter, creating sub-national chapters might be a "Plan B".
I do hope this call to action is answered. Please let me know if you need any help.
--Andrew Whitworth
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 8:41 PM, Jeffery Nichols arctic.gnome@gmail.com wrote:
In case anyone out there is still getting these messages, I would like to try again to get this chapter founded. Every time a group gets together to found it we make some progress in planning , but the effort eventually falls apart. There are at least 140 people who have expressed interest in joining the chapter, so we do have a big enough base of people to form the chapter. However, what we need is three people willing to contribute a significant amount of their spare time, a bit of money, and become the founding board of the organization. If you are willing to seriously commit to the formation of the chapter please contact me at arctic.gnome@gmail.com and we'll set up a meeting. I believe that we have the support to get this thing off the ground! -Jeffery Nichols, "Arctic Gnome"
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Message: 3 Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 22:57:43 -0330 From: Jeffery Nichols arctic.gnome@gmail.com Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-Canada] Wikimedia Canada board needed To: Wikimedia Canada planning list wikimedia-ca@lists.wikimedia.org Message-ID: 0ED27594-9CE9-4F31-8D96-7F894F356F55@gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes
Thanks, Andrew!
I think having both a national group and provincial groups makes sense. The current bylaws allow regional wings within WMC to deal with local issues, and those wings have representation on the board. Alternatively, if a region thinks that it would be better to incorporate on their own, I hope WMC can work in harmony with them. However, I think it would be useful to have a country-wide chapter to organize large-scale initiatives and to make sure that every Canadian has a chance to join and that every Canadian wanting to donate to WMF can get a tax receipt.
-Jeffery Nichols, "Arctic Gnome"
On 4-Feb-09, at 10:38 PM, Andrew Whitworth wrote:
I'm not in Canada, so I can't really participate in this, but I do sincerely hope that this request is heard and other volunteers work to get this chapter started. As always, I'll be on hand as a representative of the chapcom to answer any questions and provide any help that's needed.
I will mention, and this is strictly speculative right now, that there are opportunities for support in terms of personnel and possibly funding for chapters (or pre-chapter groups) that are active and mature. Don't take this as a promise, because it might not be. However, if you guys get some momentum and find that money is holding you back, there might be some help available.
Also, I know that the idea of sub-national chapters was not embraced last time, however the first sub-national chapter has recently been approved (WM New York), so that's a possibility too. If the organizers in Canada find that distance and other factors are too big a barrier to the creation of a Canada-national chapter, creating sub-national chapters might be a "Plan B".
I do hope this call to action is answered. Please let me know if you need any help.
--Andrew Whitworth
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 8:41 PM, Jeffery Nichols
<arctic.gnome@gmail.com
wrote: In case anyone out there is still getting these messages, I would like to try again to get this chapter founded. Every time a group gets together to found it we make some progress in planning , but the effort eventually falls apart. There are at least 140 people who have expressed interest in joining the chapter, so we do have a big enough base of people to form the chapter. However, what we need is three people willing to contribute a significant amount of their spare time, a bit of money, and become the founding board of the organization. If you are willing to seriously commit to the formation of the chapter please contact me at arctic.gnome@gmail.com and we'll set up a meeting. I believe that we have the support to get this thing off the ground! -Jeffery Nichols, "Arctic Gnome"
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Message: 4 Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 18:48:04 -0800 (PST) From: Geoffrey Plourde geo.plrd@yahoo.com Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-Canada] Wikimedia Canada board needed To: Wikimedia Canada planning list wikimedia-ca@lists.wikimedia.org Message-ID: 699082.73302.qm@web37404.mail.mud.yahoo.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
While I also am not in Canada, I wish you best of luck in your endeavor!
________________________________ From: Jeffery Nichols arctic.gnome@gmail.com To: wikimedia-ca@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Wednesday, February 4, 2009 5:41:18 PM Subject: [Wikimedia-Canada] Wikimedia Canada board needed
In case anyone out there is still getting these messages, I would like to try again to get this chapter founded. Every time a group gets together to found it we make some progress in planning , but the effort eventually falls apart. There are at least 140 people who have expressed interest in joining the chapter, so we do have a big enough base of people to form the chapter. However, what we need is three people willing to contribute a significant amount of their spare time, a bit of money, and become the founding board of the organization. If you are willing to seriously commit to the formation of the chapter please contact me at arctic.gnome@gmail.com and we'll set up a meeting. I believe that we have the support to get this thing off the ground! -Jeffery Nichols, "Arctic Gnome"
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