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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