On Oct 18, 2015, at 10:08 AM, Gnangarra
<gnangarra(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Any process that divides the community isnt good for the community, we
already seeing the effects of poor decisions being taken by groups and
individuals acting in isolation
On 18 October 2015 at 20:02, Leigh Thelmadatter <osamadre(a)hotmail.com>
wrote:
Im not sure now is the right time to divide
affiliates. Thematic
organizations and user groups are still new and there is still a heavy
preference towards chapters. User groups are not necessarily small, and
chapters are not necessarily large.
I hear what you are saying about resources being stretched thin. Wiki
Learning was one of the first to get approved as a user group after years
of trying, but we have not received any mentoring as of yet. Fortunately,
we are already pretty well-organized and receive support from the Tec de
Monterrey.
Im worried that separating affiliates would marginalize groups that just
now got some kind of recognition and voice.
Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2015 03:00:31 -0700
From: wiki.pine(a)gmail.com
To: maorx(a)wikimedia.org.ve; Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
CC: kharold(a)wikimedia.org
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Number of new User Groups
It's nice to see the recent momentum in the formation of user groups. Can
Affcom shed some light on what may be causing the burst of announced
formations?
Relatedly, I'm wondering if the number of UGs is now so high that the
budget and/or programmatic capacity of WMCON will be a bit stretched to
accomodate all of the UGs in addition to the larger affiliates. I was
thinking that it would be good to have a track at WMCON devoted to small
affiliates, but now I'm starting to wonder if there are so many of us,
with
interests and concerns hopefully now more visible
on WMF's radar due to
our
increased numbers, that it would make sense to
have separate conferences
for the large and small affiliates so that undivided attention from WMF
can
be given more evenly to both size classes of
affiliates for the duration
of
a conference. Any thoughts about those options,
from Affcom, WMF, WMDE,
or
others?
Pine
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