Call for volunteers:
The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for volunteers to contribute to forming a Communications Projects Committee, for the purpose of acting on specialized communications requests, such as researching press lists, analyzing media coverage, as well as other functions not presently covered under ComCom.
This committee will be made up of translators, wiki liaisons and consultants, from a variety of countries, including graphic artists. We are looking for volunteers who are willing to make ComProjCom their first priority.
ComProjCom will be responsible for executing and carrying out PR campaigns. Members of ComProjCom will also be given the opportunity for training and eventual entry into the Communications Committee.
Interested parties should contact Sandra Ordonez at sordonez@wikimedia.org or myself with your details and/or specialties.
Cary Bass
On 3/28/07, Cary Bass cbass@wikimedia.org wrote:
Call for volunteers:
The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for volunteers to contribute to forming a Communications Projects Committee, for the purpose of acting on specialized communications requests, such as researching press lists, analyzing media coverage, as well as other functions not presently covered under ComCom.
Great to see this is getting off the ground. To all those of you who do not have any experience with Wikimedia committees - try it, it's rewarding, fun and gives you real influence over a part of the organization. Note, however, that it is also hard work. :)
On a side note: Cary & Sandy (and the committee, once it's formed) - try making the shortened name a bit more 'readable', ComProjCom is a bit longish and complicated. E.g. 'CPCom' (like SPCom) or ComPCom (might be too similar to ComCom).
Łukasz Garczewski wrote:
On 3/28/07, Cary Bass cbass@wikimedia.org wrote:
Call for volunteers:
The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for volunteers to contribute to forming a Communications Projects Committee, for the purpose of acting on specialized communications requests, such as researching press lists, analyzing media coverage, as well as other functions not presently covered under ComCom.
Great to see this is getting off the ground. To all those of you who do not have any experience with Wikimedia committees - try it, it's rewarding, fun and gives you real influence over a part of the organization. Note, however, that it is also hard work. :)
On a side note: Cary & Sandy (and the committee, once it's formed) - try making the shortened name a bit more 'readable', ComProjCom is a bit longish and complicated. E.g. 'CPCom' (like SPCom) or ComPCom (might be too similar to ComCom).
CPCom is a very good idea. Any other thoughts? It's *your* committee!
Cary
We were considering comprocom to distinguish from the special projects committee, how does that sound?
On 3/28/07, Łukasz Garczewski lgarczewski@gmail.com wrote:
On 3/28/07, Cary Bass cbass@wikimedia.org wrote:
Call for volunteers:
The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for volunteers to contribute to forming a Communications Projects Committee, for the purpose of acting on specialized communications requests, such as researching press lists, analyzing media coverage, as well as other functions not presently covered under ComCom.
Great to see this is getting off the ground. To all those of you who do not have any experience with Wikimedia committees - try it, it's rewarding, fun and gives you real influence over a part of the organization. Note, however, that it is also hard work. :)
On a side note: Cary & Sandy (and the committee, once it's formed) - try making the shortened name a bit more 'readable', ComProjCom is a bit longish and complicated. E.g. 'CPCom' (like SPCom) or ComPCom (might be too similar to ComCom).
-- Łukasz 'TOR' Garczewski _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
On 3/28/07, Sean Whitton (Xyrael) sean@silentflame.com wrote:
We were considering comprocom to distinguish from the special projects committee, how does that sound?
Why not have done with it and call it com-org?
Wikimedia project communications would be more in common with our standard naming conventions and might encourage an organisational setup that will result in less conflict the the current proposed one seems likely to.
setup that will result in less conflict the the current proposed one seems likely to.
May I ask what conflict you expect? :-)
On 3/28/07, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
On 3/28/07, Sean Whitton (Xyrael) sean@silentflame.com wrote:
We were considering comprocom to distinguish from the special projects committee, how does that sound?
Why not have done with it and call it com-org?
Wikimedia project communications would be more in common with our standard naming conventions and might encourage an organisational setup that will result in less conflict the the current proposed one seems likely to. -- geni
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On 3/28/07, Sean Whitton (Xyrael) sean@silentflame.com wrote:
setup that will result in less conflict the the current proposed one seems likely to.
May I ask what conflict you expect? :-)
The usual conflict between top down systems and wikipedia's more generally bottom up systems.
In this case there appears to be no need to use a top down system (certainly none of the tasks mentioned require it) thus a bottom up system should be used at least initially.
Okay, the group has been renamed to the Communication Projects Group, as this has a informal air in addition to fitting with your suggestions. We also have a (very sparse) page:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communication_Projects_Group
--Sean/Xyrael
On 3/28/07, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
On 3/28/07, Sean Whitton (Xyrael) sean@silentflame.com wrote:
setup that will result in less conflict the the current proposed one seems likely to.
May I ask what conflict you expect? :-)
The usual conflict between top down systems and wikipedia's more generally bottom up systems.
In this case there appears to be no need to use a top down system (certainly none of the tasks mentioned require it) thus a bottom up system should be used at least initially.
-- geni
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On 28/03/07, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
Why not have done with it and call it com-org?
Too much like [[Sea Org]], then people really will think we're a cult ...
- d.
On 3/28/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 28/03/07, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
Why not have done with it and call it com-org?
Too much like [[Sea Org]], then people really will think we're a cult ...
That was my point. This squashing names together was starting to have Scientology vibes.
We now have an IRC channel at #wikimedia-cpg if anyone is interested.
--Sean/Xyrael
On 3/29/07, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
On 3/28/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 28/03/07, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
Why not have done with it and call it com-org?
Too much like [[Sea Org]], then people really will think we're a cult ...
That was my point. This squashing names together was starting to have Scientology vibes.
-- geni
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I'm not sure, but some information got lost in the original message. This should be "Group", not "Committee".
Cary Bass wrote:
Call for volunteers:
The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for volunteers to contribute to forming a Communications Projects Group, for the purpose of acting on specialized communications requests, such as researching press lists, analyzing media coverage, as well as other functions not presently covered under ComCom.
This committee will be made up of translators, wiki liaisons and consultants, from a variety of countries, including graphic artists. We are looking for volunteers who are willing to make CPGroup their first priority.
ComProjCom will be responsible for executing and carrying out PR campaigns. Members of CPGroup will also be given the opportunity for training and eventual entry into the Communications Committee.
Interested parties should contact Sandra Ordonez at sordonez@wikimedia.org or myself with your details and/or specialties.
Cary Bass
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Cary Bass
On 3/28/07, Cary Bass cbass@wikimedia.org wrote:
I'm not sure, but some information got lost in the original message. This should be "Group", not "Committee".
Why the differentiation? I.e. how is a Wikimedia Group different from a Wikimedia Committee? On http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Glossary I have defined committee as:
"a group of volunteers charged with advising the Board of Trustees and taking care of a specific part of the Foundation's activities."
Should "Group" be defined separately? Or perhaps we should rework the above definition?
On 3/28/07, Łukasz Garczewski lgarczewski@gmail.com wrote:
"a group of volunteers charged with advising the Board of Trustees and taking care of a specific part of the Foundation's activities."
Should "Group" be defined separately? Or perhaps we should rework the above definition?
Well, their activities will be execution, not advisory. Their activity is theoretically covered by a committee already; the annouced Group is a sort of support team for Communication Committee, for covering the sphere the current member and supportive people are not well handling. As I heard from Sandy on wmfcc-l, they will have a mailing list, a public one. It would mean the group will have no access to the confidential information now each committee/internal people are invited to share. (And it is also an implication the member of the group will be considered a possible future member of Comcom, I understand).
I have no idea why "translators" are mentioned here, since it is covered already to some extent by Local Coordinators and Teams, though if they are happy to be a part of proposed group, and take responsibilities for other spheres like liaisons for their communities, I will be happy to see it realize.
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