Fellow Wikimedians,


I’ll be attending this year's annual Wikimedia Summit on behalf of our user group. The conference is from 29–31 March in Berlin. In short, the goal of this conference is to work out more details for the Wikimedia Movement's 2030 strategy. I've attached an email from conference Program Coordinator Cornelius Kibelka that has more details on the movement strategy "scoping drafts" if you're interested.


In simple terms, there are two main buckets of people attending:

  1. 2030 strategy working group members
  2. Non-working group members who are part of Wikimedia affiliates (I'm in this bucket)
My primary purpose at this conference is to represent the perspective, needs, and aspirations of our Chicago Wikimedia community as they relate to the Wikimedia Movement's 2030 strategy. Along with other affiliate representatives, I'll be conversing with and giving feedback to working group members on strategy. There are 9 working groups, each focusing on a different aspect of the movement. From my own perspective and conversations with many of you, these aspects are where I think our community is most involved:

I'll therefore be focusing on these aspects of movement strategy at the conference. Feel free to reply to this email thread or reach out to me personally if you have any questions, comments, or anything to add! I'll be sure to report back what I've learned after the conference.

All the best,
Brian Choo
User:Airplaneman on Wikipedia

---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Cornelius Kibelka <wmsummit-list@mailing.wikimedia.de>
Date: Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 6:02 AM
Subject: [Wikimedia Summit 2019] Get ready to talk about the future at the Wikimedia Summit (aka: Scoping Documents are online)
To: Wikimedia Summit Participants mailing list <wmsummit-list@mailing.wikimedia.de>


Dear Wikimedians,


Start preparing for this year’s Wikimedia Summit: the nine working groups of the Movement Strategy Process have produced scoping documents that are now live! And the groups are looking for answers about how to shape the future of our movement. These documents will be at center of the Wikimedia Summit program - check them out on Meta [1] and bring your ideas and input with you to Berlin.


We’ve set ourselves the ambitious goal of becoming the essential infrastructure of the ecosystem of free knowledge by 2030. How can we adapt to ensure our movement is future ready? What are the biggest opportunities that could drive this evolution? These scoping documents outline guiding questions, and the Wikimedia Summit is one of the key forums where we will start to find solutions and help create actionable recommendations for change.


We encourage all of you to read the documents before the Summit, discuss with other members of your group and come ready to jump straight into these topics.


On a side-note: At the same time, from today until mid-April, there is an online community conversation (on Meta, in several languages, and via survey) on these questions. Both the insights gathered online in these conversations and offline at the Wikimedia Summit will feed into the analysis and recommendation phase of the strategy process.


If you have any questions regarding the scoping drafts, we recommend you post these on Meta, where the working group members can answer. If you have any questions regarding the Wikimedia Summit itself, please do not hesitate to reach out to me.


Happy reading!


Cornelius


[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Participate

[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/2019_Community_Conversations

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Cornelius Kibelka
Internationale Beziehungen | International Relations
Vorstandsteam | Office of the ED

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Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0
http://wikimedia.de

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