Hi everybody,
For those of you who don't know me, I'm leading the Wikimedia strategic planning process. Our goal is to develop a five-year strategic plan through an open community process that is going on right now and that will go on through July 2010. We're trying to answer three questions:
* Where do we want to see the Wikimedia movement in five years? * Where is it now? * How should we get from here to there?
The hub for this conversation has naturally been a wiki: http://strategy.wikimedia.org/. It's been up for about two months now, and we've already gotten an incredible amount of engagement there. We've also been holding regular IRC office hours (as most followers of this list know), and Philippe Beaudette, the facilitator of this project, has been tirelessly talking with many people and evangelizing the project.
We're now moving into a phase where we're going to be encouraging even greater participation. This Wednesday, we'll be putting out a broad Call for Participation, advertised through the Central Notice, which means that anyone accessing any of the Wikimedia project sites will see it.
I wanted to make sure that all of you were aware that this is happening, and I wanted to point you to a few links that explain this in more detail.
http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Process http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Task_forces
In the meantime, if you have any questions or thoughts, please share them, either on the strategy wiki, here on this mailing list, or with me or Philippe directly. Thank you!
=Eugene