Hi Cascadians,
Peaceray, Brianhe and I met this evening. We agreed on a multi-pronged
approach in response to WMF comments:
* We plan to reorganize how we do our programmatic and administrative
tasks, in order to distribute the workload among more people. This is
dependent upon the agreement of a variety of people to take on more work
like our 501c3 application and event logistics. More details will be
forthcoming, hopefully by Monday.
* The Board will internally develop a written response to WMF comments,
indicating a willingness to realign some plans with WMF wishes while noting
some places of questions or differing views. This will probably be
published in late May or in June after approval by our board.
* While at the Wikimedia Conference, I will discuss with other affiliates
and WMF ways in which we believe the WMF grantmaking processes and
limitations can be improved and streamlined.
Regards,
Pine
On May 7, 2015 10:37 AM, "Monika Sengul-Jones" <jones.monika(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Thanks for the shout out, Pine. :-) I'm pretty
thrilled this Inspire
Campaign proposal was funded. The idea came out of the February I Love To
You Edit-a-thon, and was developed in partnership with Sage Ross
(Ragesoss!). We'll work together with Wiki Ed on the classroom partnership.
Will definitely keep this group updated on how the process goes, we'll
really be getting started in mid-July, but all the plans will be coming
together in the meantime. If you have any questions, or would like to
collaborate, please feel free to send me a PM.
I'd look forward to sharing more about this in person at Cafe Allegro, but
I'll be down in San Diego (again!) when the next Cascadia meeting is
happening. That said, I am excited for this and for future events with the
UW libraries as well. Way to go on the Visual Editor, Pine and all, good
stuff is happening.
Best,
Monika
On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 4:25 PM, Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi all,
* We piloted VisualEditor training at the most recent edit-a-thon that we
held at UW. The feedback from the librarians was positive. I'll work on
turning the training into a video format soon, possibly during my travel
to
the Wikimedia Conference. I am considering
producing a PDF version first
because that is easier to do, and a video version second.
* The UW librarians are interested in continuing to partner with us. More
info about that during the next few weeks.
* We received feedback from WMF about the current version of our proposed
annual plan on Meta. At this point, WMF is willing to fund portions but
not
all of our plan. Our Board is in the process of
scheduling a meeting to
discuss our next steps.
* You may remember that Monika mentioned on this list (
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-cascadia/2015-March/000492.…
)
her grant proposal for an Inspire campaign project "Full Circle Gap
Protocol: Addressing the ‘Unknown Unknowns". WMF has awarded funding for
this project. Congratulations, Monika. (:
* We will have our regular social meetup at Cafe Allegro on May 26th this
month, later than usual. At this meetup, I plan to share what I learned
at
the Wikimedia Conference and any potential new
partnerships or
initiatives.
We can also discuss our plans for the remainder
of this year, including
potential future events at the UW libraries. I hope to see many of you on
the 26th. (:
Pine
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