Dear all,

I am sharing with you what I just also added to the endorsement Meta page:

During our Board meeting on Saturday, we agreed that both the Board and the Executive Director of Wikimedia Deutschland wholeheartedly and unanimously support the new Strategic Direction. In light of its fundamental nature, we will submit the new Strategic Direction to our general assembly for deliberation and final approval on November 18, 2017.

We all look forward to shaping the future of our movement together in the coming weeks, months and years.

Best regards, Tim Moritz Hector

-- Tim Moritz Hector Chair of the Board Wikimedia Deutschland

2017-10-26 10:27 GMT+02:00 Nicole Ebber nicole.ebber@wikimedia.de:

Dear Wikimedians,

Today marks the final milestone of phase 1 of our movement strategy process. Over the past eight months, many of you, of your peers, colleagues, partners and friends have contributed to an endeavor that resulted in the new Strategic Direction of the Wikimedia movement.

This direction provides us with an answer to the question: What do we want to build and achieve as a movement over the next 10–15 years: By 2030, Wikimedia will become the essential infrastructure of the ecosystem of free knowledge, and anyone who shares our vision will be able to join us.[1]

On behalf of the strategy team, it’s with great pleasure that I invite you today to declare your intent to work together towards this future. Organized groups as well as individual contributors of our movement are invited to endorse the Strategic Direction by adding their signature to the endorsement page on Meta-Wiki. You will find all necessary instructions there.[2]

By endorsing the Strategic Direction, you are not necessarily agreeing with every single outcome of the first phase. Endorsing means that you commit to participating in the next phase of this discussion in good faith and to help define, by Wikimania 2018, how to come to an agreement on roles, responsibilities, and organizational strategies that enable us to implement that future.

In addition to signing the meta page, you are all welcome to use the #wikimedia2030 hashtag on social media to celebrate and share your excitement with the world and encourage other Wikimedians to show their support, too.

Ideally, please leave questions or remarks on the talk page, to make it easier to follow-up in a structured way.

Thank you! Nicole

[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_ movement/2017/Direction#Our_strategic_direction:_Service_and_Equity [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_ movement/2017/Direction/Endorsement

-- Nicole Ebber Adviser International Relations Movement Strategy Track Lead: Organized Groups

Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207.

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