@Raphael Add this to Justice's reply

WMCON does have requirements for how delegates are selected. Read please. And I posted these requirements as well. 

And no, the previous years we have not had a democratic way of choosing. It is only last year, that I initiated the conscious, group selection of delegates.

@Rexford

I have had a conversation about Whatsapp groups and mailing lists with Asaf a while back.

Let me just say that for all who said they wanted to be part of the group/remain in the group following this mailing list call for membership are on our Whatsapp group.

Every single one of them.

@Georgina

Please refer to the answer I gave Rexford. For now it is not about Whatsapp's effectiveness.

The sole reason we bother with Whatsapp is that, all the 37 members who answered to this mailing list call for membership are on our Whatsapp group.

@Joy

We have some recruits from Barcamp Accra. I have asked Justice to add them to the mailing list. When that is done, I will post the link to the membership registration again.

The reason why membership has had to be a bit more intimate than mass is because we get many requests concerning the identification of our members. And an organisation that doesn't have a record of members is a backward one.

Membership is processed these days. People even have membership IDs. 

You missed the first because you had things to attend to. It's the same with the group's volunteers. We don't register people every day. We also have things to do.

We register in batches solely because of the movement-wide problem of relying on volunteers to do things that normally paid staff should be doing.

@Justice

When you add your BC recruits, let me know.

Finally please @Raphael @Rexford pay attention to the group. Have a thorough (non selective) interest in what we do and our welfare. 

Don't wait till moments like this before you start asking questions. Because more often than not, you'd be asking questions that have already been answered.

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On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 2:46 AM, Raphael Berchie <rberchie@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello everyone happy new year and a belated Wiki birthday to us all.
So I chanced on this https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2018/Participants%27_List and realized  Sadat is the one representing us at this year’s WMConn. Congrats to him I have no shred of doubt that he will fully represent us and I have no problem about his eligibility and competence.
 My problem however is mode of selection. Was it decided us a community or it was an individual’s decision because as far as I am concerned the mailing list is the official place for having such discussions and I have seen no such discussions here.

Again in previous years we have had consultatative talks and we have all known who was representing us so what changed this year?

Lastly as a Usergroup we were allocated two slots for participation. How come it is only one person.

I need some answers.

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