BC.
Take care
Jon
--
Jon Beasley-Murray
University of British Columbia
A short message, sent from my phone
On Nov 28, 2014, at 4:18 PM, Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks for the comments, everyone. I'm way behind on email, apologizes for
that.
Jon, are you in Vancouver BC or Vancouver WA?
Pine
*This is an Encyclopedia* <https://www.wikipedia.org/>
*One gateway to the wide garden of knowledge, where lies The deep rock of
our past, in which we must delve The well of our future,The clear water we
must leave untainted for those who come after us,The fertile earth, in
which truth may grow in bright places, tended by many hands,And the broad
fall of sunshine, warming our first steps toward knowing how much we do not
know.*
*—Catherine Munro*
On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 1:50 PM, Jon Beasley-Murray <
jon.beasley-murray(a)ubc.ca> wrote:
I am happy to help out with some organization in
Vancouver, but can't put
in masses of time.
Take care
Jon
On Nov 21, 2014, at 2:40 PM, Pine W
<wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Jason, thanks for the info.
Peaceray has followed up with some comments on Meta as well.
It sounds like one thing that we have decided, in the usual wiki way of
"someone should do X, no one else has stepped up to do it, and I can do it
for the most part" is to create an *informal* communications primary
contact list that goes something like this:
University of Washington facilities/logistics: Mako
Portland events, social media coordination, event calendar
coordination, and
mailing list administration: Jason
GLAM: Peaceray
Seattle events, and finance/grants/legal: Pine
Is that all ok so far?
It would be great if we got experienced, knowledgable and reliable
contacts for
event planning at WSU, British Columbia, and other locations.
For the annual plan development timeline, I think we are likely to move
to step 2
sometime in December or January. I am currenty woking really long
days and something like 60 hours per week plus commute time. I hope that my
workload will scale down to a more reasonable 50 hours per week in
mid-December, so that I can do other projects including preparing for our
first board meeting. One of the downsides of Cascadia's lack of paid staff
and the reliance on volunteer time is that actions that would benefit
Cascadia must wait until the volunteers can actually volunteer. We can add
discussion of volunteer workload, availability, abilities, and risks of
burnout to our list of factors for the Board to keep in mind during Annual
Plan development. Right now, paid work must be my personal priority; I
estimate that I top out at 2 hours per week for Cascadia volunteer work. I
hope that everyone understands, and I appreciate your patience. In the
meantime, everyone please do participate in the discussion on Meta. (:
Regards,
Pine
Thank you for providing this timeline, Pine. I wouldn't mind if it were
posted
at Meta so we could keep track of our progress and use it as a
checklist.
As you acknowledged, I've responded with some program ideas at Meta.
Throwing
some spaghetti at the wall to see what sticks. Truly, our group
will be much stronger if more people share their program priorities and
wishes, so please take a look at the Meta discussion and add your thoughts.
Also, you are welcome to update the "Possible calendar" section with dates
for monthly meetups, possible monthly campaigns, one-offs like holiday
parties, etc. I added the possibility of a Cascadia meetup at Wikimania
2015. There was not really a Cascadia meetup in London, but since the next
conference is being held in North America there may be more Cascadian
presence. Also, we can add WikiConference USA once the dates are set.
Jason
On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 1:13 AM, Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Thank you AB for commenting on Meta already (:
I will explain here how I envision that our plan development process
will work.
Already done: Assemble a our Board; get consensus for creating a user
group
including its name and geographic scope; early program brainstorming
and wishlisting; Affcom affiliation approval
Step 1 (now): draft of program list with community input; finance and
legal work
in background; WMF trademark agreement
Step 2: Board creation of bylaws and appointment of officers; Board
selection of
programs and calendar for programs; Board authorization to
draft a budget and grant proposal; Board authorization to register Cascadia
Wikimedians User Group as a nonprofit corporation with relevant government
agencies; Board authorization to establish a registered agent and to create
a bank account; Board authorization to seek a small "bridging the gap"
grant for legal startup expenses like registered agent services prior to
our Annual Plan grant; Board approval of trademark agreement with WMF
Step 3: Budget and program plan/calendar draft development; obtain
small grant for
legal startup expenses and execute the funded tasks
Step 4: Community review of budget and program plan/calendar
Step 5: Board approval of.budget, program plan/calendar, and grant
request(s) to
fund the budget
Step 6: Sumbit budget and grant proposal for review by grantmaker(s)
Step 7: Recieve grant funding.and begin to execute programs (:
After Step 7: quarterly Board reviews until it's time to create the
next
annual plan, with possible special meetings on occasion between
regular quarterly meetings.
Does that all sound ok? Any questions?
Thanks,
Pine
On Nov 17, 2014 3:29 PM, "Pine W" <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi all,
I've put this on Meta:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Cascadia_Wikimedians#Drafting_programs…
I'm hoping that people will comment so that we can get a sense about
the
priorities of our group. The Board can use the comments to finalize a
program plan and an associated budget. The budget will be developed to
support the program plan.
I'm still working in the background about the "infrastructure" budget
for issues like insurance, but even these will benefit greatly by being
informed by a program plan.
One important note is that the plan will likely be adjusted and adapted
as our
capabilities and opportunities change. My thinking is that the Board
can do this via quarterly review meetings with community input.
Please share your comments!
Pine
This is an Encyclopedia
One gateway to the wide garden of knowledge, where lies
The deep rock of our past, in which we must delve
The well of our future,
The clear water we must leave untainted for those who come after us,
The fertile earth, in which truth may grow in bright places, tended by
many
hands,
And the broad fall of sunshine, warming our first
steps toward knowing
how much we do not know.
—Catherine Munro
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