Could you reformat to make this more legible?
Cheers,
Peter
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From: Wikimedia-l [mailto:wikimedia-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Michal
Buczynski
Sent: 27 September 2018 14:07
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Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Odp: Re: Wikimedia Conference 2019: New name, new concept,
eligbility criteria
Hi Yaroslav, I find your concern important so let me attempt to refine it to discussion
points or a call for action. :) Firstly, I think it is unwise to assume what
"everyone is interested in". You don't know personally all the
people in the Movement, e.g. me and my interests. If you meant some particular people or
body, please voice it clearly and we can go from that point. Secondly, there were
signs showing people interested in your input: 1. while creating and filling a
"diversity matrix" to check if we cover all the stakeholders, the
non-representatives of affiliates, WMF or other bodies (FDC, sAPG, AffCom) this issue has
been raised - certainly for the funds allocation group. I am not sure of the final outcome
in terms of e.g. inclusion of particular names within the group (it is a pretty tricky to
give some representativeness without overblowing the groups) but I am sure the strategy
team has been working on this issue and can communicate something. :) 2. There are many
ways to reaching out to the wider audiences: including surveys, online discussions, show
and tell sessions (e.g. IIRC on Wikimania *all* strategic sessions, except the
organizational/briefing for the groups, were fully open for all conference participants)
and sessions dedicated to particular communities. E.g. in my home Poland there were
strategy sessions for willing attendees of WMPL conferences, some languages also had
dedicated online discussion venues, and everyone could contribute in English. Thus,
let's give the credit where it is due. I am not discussing here if this interest
was sufficient. And I am pretty sure that if needed we can explore this direction further
(e.g. put more resources to discuss the strategy in particular national/regional
communities and send it upstream) and many people don't participate even though
they have very meaningful things to say. Perhaps what you wanted to write is e.g.
"Please provide X seats in the [ Group 4: Additional participants – mostly
members of the Movement Strategy working groups – invited to complement the conference
program] for non-affiliated Wikimedians based on their editorship in Wikimedia projects
and trust of their local communities". Did I understand you properly? Best
Regards, Michał Buczyński Wikimedia Polska, FDC, Resource Allocation Working Group
Dnia 27 września 2018 13:21 Yaroslav Blanter <ymbalt(a)gmail.com> napisał(a):
This is very remarkable that nobody is actually interested in input from what the WMF
functionaries now call "unorganized volunteers" - people who actually
work in the projects. We are just not in the picture. Good luck with that. Do not be
surprised to see a huge number of volunteers to oppose the strategy document again, as it
happened last year. Cheers Yaroslav On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 12:54 PM Nicole Ebber
<nicole.ebber(a)wikimedia.de> wrote: Hi Chris, I can comment on your
question why we need another strategy conference: The Wikimedia 2030 process is ongoing,
and is building – among many other inputs – upon the outcomes of the last two
conferences. Organized groups are already working on the implementation of the Strategic
Direction in their own strategic/annual planning and programmatic work, and Working
Groups start developing recommendations for change on the structural level of the
movement. In spring 2019, these groups will need feedback and input from the
movement's organized groups and the Wikimedia Summit – alongside other
opportunities for community consultations – will be build as a platform to synchronize
the Working Groups' work and to gather and synthesize this input and agree upon
next steps. I hope this helps to shed some light on the need for this event. Please let
me know if you have further questions. We'll also be presenting the current state
of the strategy process at today's activities meeting; if you're
interested in tuning in:
meta.wikimedia.org meta.wikimedia.org All the best Nicole
On Wed, 26 Sep 2018 at 22:18, Chris Keating <chriskeatingwiki(a)gmail.com>
wrote: > I have so many questions. > > Is anything concrete
planned to replace the learning and capacity-building > work that used to happen
at WMCON? (Or has the identification of capacity > building as a strategic
priority just resulted in .... the abandonment of > the main capacity building
event?) > > And why after two "strategy focused"
conferences, do we need another one? > What will it achieve except acres more
flipchart? How many conferences do > we expect to need before the strategic
direction starts to become a > reality? > > Chris >
> On Tue, 25 Sep 2018, 20:34 Cornelius Kibelka, < >
cornelius.kibelka(a)wikimedia.de wrote: > > > Dear all, >
> > > As Nicole Ebber already wrote a couple of weeks ago, we would
like to > give > > you some further information about the next
Wikimedia Conference, that > will > > take place from March 29–31,
2019 in Berlin, Germany. > > > > The next conference will
focus on the Movement Strategy process and > > movement governance for the
organized part of the movement in general. > The > > program will
be designed according to the status and needs of the ongoing > > Movement
Strategy process and its working groups. We are hoping to see a > >
diverse group of participants next year, and look forward to creating > three
> > days of working, discussing, and thinking together. The event is made
> > possible through the generous financial support of the Wikimedia
> > Foundation. > > > > Thus, to make it
clearer that learning and capacity-building will not be > > part of the
program and cut laces to the previous conference, we will > > change the
name to “Wikimedia Summit” (#wmsummit). > > > > The change
of the purpose of the event is accompanied by a change in the > >
composition of the audience. The event will be a more focused one, and > >
therefore we aim to scale down the audience to around 200 participants. > As
> > it is this still the Wikimedia affiliates conference, every _eligible_
> > affiliate can send one (1) delegate. Furthermore, we will invite
> > participants from the Wikimedia Affiliate EDs (~10), WMF Board of
> Trustees > > (10), WMF staff (~10), the committees (~15 from FDC,
AffCom and Simple > APG) > > and additional members of the Movement
Strategy working groups, that do > not > > come in another role
(~20). You can find more information regarding this > on > >
Meta.[1] > > > > Registration for the Wikimedia Summit will
open on November 2 and end on > > December 17, 2018. We urge participants
that need a visa to register no > > later than November 19, so we can
support them as best as possible to > get a > > visa for the event.
> > > > We will keep you updated in the further weeks and
months via the usual > > communication channels. If you have any questions,
please do not hesitate > > to contact us, preferably via
wmsummit(a)wikimedia.de. > > > > Best regards, >
> > > Daniela Gentner & Cornelius Kibelka > >
> > [1] > > >
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