Hello!
tl;dr: The strategic direction is final now. All groups and individuals are invited to
endorse it on October 26. Please set-up a process in your group to come to a decision
about your endorsement.
Thanks and regards,
User:Rehman<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Rehman>
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From: Nicole Ebber <nicole.ebber(a)wikimedia.de>
Sent: 05 October 2017 23:55
To: rehman.wikimedia(a)live.com; azeez.abubakr(a)live.com
Subject: [Movement Strategy] Direction is final; endorsement on October 26
tl;dr: The strategic direction is final now. All groups and individuals are invited to
endorse it on October 26. Please set-up a process in your group to come to a decision
about your endorsement.
Dear Rehman and Azeez,
Here’s my regular update to organizations and groups in the Wikimedia movement, and I’d
like to ask you for your attention:
We have finalized the strategic direction and I invite you to take a look at it.[1] This
direction is attempting to capture and synthesize the aspirations and opinions from
hundreds of offline and online conversations that we had in the last seven months with the
different audience groups like individual contributors, organized groups and new voices.
This direction is not a plan or a project, but a direction for us as a movement to move
forward to together.
But we are not fully there yet: Before we conclude phase 1 of the strategy process, we are
asking all groups and individuals for their endorsement of the strategic direction. Here
are the facts:
== When ==
October 26, 2017 (this is the date we are currently aiming for); we aim to create a joyous
moment for all of us, a day to celebrate the future ahead together. Come together, invite
your members or communities to join, sign the page and follow how your fellow Wikimedians
around the world celebrate #wikimedia2030. And although we would like to use this day to
create a sense of community spirit around the direction, there will be a way to endorse
the direction after the 26.
== Who ==
All organizations, groups, committees, and individuals in our movement are invited to
endorse.
== Why ==
To show support and commitment to the direction; to commit to participating in the next
phase of the movement strategy process in good faith.
== How ==
By signing a meta page with your Wikimedia username, indicating that you sign it in the
name of your organization or group. In practice, we will ask people to endorse the
strategic direction (in the green box) and the section “what comes next”[1]. We will build
that page in the coming days and I will send out the link in a coming update.
== What to do now ==
Prepare your affiliate or group to endorse the direction on October 26. You might want set
up a decision making process, hold a meeting, schedule a resolution or whatever works best
for you.
It would also be helpful for us if you can help spreading this information across your
communities, help with translations and direct questions to me or to the talk page of the
direction.
== What’s next ==
From November on, constituents of the movement will
negotiate towards an agreement on roles, responsibilities and organizational strategies
that enable us to implement our shared future. As a signatory, they will pledge to
consider the needs of our movement above their own, and to find the structures, processes,
and resources that enable our movement to best move towards our common direction.
I will send further updates when we are getting closer to the endorsement day. Let me know
if you have further questions or concerns.
Thanks,
Nicole
[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2017/Direction#…
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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.