Dear all,

in its July voting, the WCA has decided to open up membership for thematic organisations and give user groups a voice. If you are a representant of a thematic organisation or a user group and would like to know more about the WCA, feel free to get in touch!

Now we're facing a situation where the name (Wikimedia _Chapters_ Association) is inconsistent with who we actually define as our member base. So we need to change name.

Our first stab was "Association of Organisations". It was not accepted, but hey, I'm not overly sad. I guess, we can do better. But we need your ideas! What's a good name? Put your suggestions here or support a proposed name:

http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikimedia_Chapters_Association/Q...

Eternal fame awaits you if our suggestion is chosen. Oh, apropos. Decision upon a new name shall be made in Hong Kong on Thursday, August 8th.

For those who are wondering what the WCA is doing, here's a short update. We are here to help Wikimedia organisations in their various matters of daily and strategic business. Among the projects we do are: * WCA Journal [1]: a medium to keep up to date in the organisations world * Chapters Manual [2]: a resource to look up any questions regarding operating a Chapter * Peer Review: we offer to double check your organisations strategy, funding requests or projects * Organisations Seminar [3]: Two days packed with experience and discussion about running Chapters and Wikimedia organisations.

Best, Markus

[1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Chapters_Association/Journal [2] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WCA_Chapters_Manual [3] http://wikimania2013.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Chapters_Association_-_Org...