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(a)unbc.ca 250.960.5197 -----Original Message----- From: wikimedia-ca-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikimedia-ca-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of wikimedia-ca-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2009 4:00 AM To: wikimedia-ca(a)lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Wikimedia-ca Digest, Vol 70, Issue 1 Send Wikimedia-ca mailing list submissions to wikimedia-ca(a)lists.wikimedia.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-ca or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to wikimedia-ca-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org You can reach the person managing the list at wikimedia-ca-owner(a)lists.wikimedia.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Wikimedia-ca digest..." Today's Topics: 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) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 22:11:18 -0330 From: Jeffery Nichols <arctic.gnome(a)gmail.com> Subject: [Wikimedia-Canada] Wikimedia Canada board needed To: wikimedia-ca(a)lists.wikimedia.org Message-ID: <305360DF-8075-42EF-A27F-C1C5AADE3ABC(a)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(a)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" ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 21:08:20 -0500 From: Andrew Whitworth <wknight8111(a)gmail.com> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-Canada] Wikimedia Canada board needed To: Wikimedia Canada planning list <wikimedia-ca(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Message-ID: <3b66f84e0902041808u1d37b934sd36bb4a1da2eed62(a)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(a)gmail.com> wrote: ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 22:57:43 -0330 From: Jeffery Nichols <arctic.gnome(a)gmail.com> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-Canada] Wikimedia Canada board needed To: Wikimedia Canada planning list <wikimedia-ca(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Message-ID: <0ED27594-9CE9-4F31-8D96-7F894F356F55(a)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: <arctic.gnome(a)gmail.com ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 18:48:04 -0800 (PST) From: Geoffrey Plourde <geo.plrd(a)yahoo.com> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-Canada] Wikimedia Canada board needed To: Wikimedia Canada planning list <wikimedia-ca(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Message-ID: <699082.73302.qm(a)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(a)gmail.com> To: wikimedia-ca(a)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(a)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" _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-ca mailing list Wikimedia-ca(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-ca