Hi all,
One thing I have been thinking about is if it would make sense to base a
number of programs that we have in various stages of development in
Wikimedia Cascadia instead of developing and running them as an individual.
For example, personally I am involved with Cameras for Commons
Photographers, which is currently in development as a grants program in
IdeaLab. Someone needs someone to run it if WMF funds it. Other chapters
apparently have similar programs. Would people be open to the idea of
running this as a local, or global, program out of Wikimedia Cascadia?
Another project that I have in mind is transforming the presentation that I
have been drafting into a series of well-polished instructional videos
about Wikipedia that could be posted on Commons for use by professors or
researchers. I am currently thinking about requesting a WMF grant to make
this happen, but I think it would be great to develop and run the program
through Wikimedia Cascadia so there are more people involved. For example,
I think it would be great to have a diversity of presenters for different
modules, and we have some good diversity of highly skilled Wikimedians here
in Cascadia who I hope would be interested in participating.
Another Seattle Wikimedian, and I forget exactly who proposed this,
suggested that we could use our Wikimedia affiliation to get a greater
level of access to areas that are interesting to photograph for Commons,
for example underground tours of Seattle where we might be able to get
press-level access.
Last but not least, I hear that we have some existing GLAM and cultural
outreach projects in the Portland area, and I think it would be great to
see if affiliating those projects more directly with Cascadia and the
Wikimedia brand would be beneficial. For example, we might be able to get
support for micro-grants for bus fares to enable more people to attend our
events.
Thoughts about programs? Obviously we are very early in our development as
an organization but I would love to hear ideas for projects or feedback
about the ones mentioned already.
Thanks,
Pine