Wikimedia-US-CO March 2020

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[Brand Project] Collaborating on a new brand identity for our movement
by Samir Elsharbaty 10 Apr '20

10 Apr '20

Dear Wikimedians of Colorado User Group members, My name is Samir Elsharbaty. I'm a community brand and marketing coordinator at the Wikimedia Foundation. I'm reaching out with an update and an invitation to join us in the movement brand project. Last year, we started the movement brand project <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications/Wikimedia_brands/2030_moveme…>; a project to evolve the Wikimedia movement’s brand identity system. To do this we have partnered with Snøhetta <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sn%C3%B8hetta_(company)>, an international branding and architecture agency. Through workshops, exercises, and requests for feedback, Snøhetta is working with Wikimedia communities to create an updated naming convention and design, which will be used by the Wikimedia Foundation and will be opt-in for affiliates. As a Wikimedia affiliate organization, Colorado Wikimedians UG is an important stakeholder in this project. I would like to invite you to become part of a process to shape our global shared brand identity. Participation is not time consuming but crucial to direct our work ahead. Over the next five months, the brand team will be helping Snøhetta gather community feedback at key moments. Your involvement would revolve around receiving updates and providing feedback on proposals for a naming convention and brand design. If you are interested, please select one or two people from Colorado Wikimedians UG to act as a Liaison between our team and your group during this process. We will send important updates and all feedback opportunities to that person so that they can share with the group and collect your feedback. This process will arrive at a new branding system that you will be able to adopt if you choose, so we hope that you will decide to participate. In the meantime, here are main hubs for updates and discussion on this project: 1. The brand network on Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/groups/wikipediabrandnetwork>. 2. Snohetta’s project hub, brandingwikipedia.org. 3. The project page on meta <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications/Wikimedia_brands/2030_moveme…> . Please reach out to us with any questions or thoughts you may have. I’m looking forward to collaborating with you! Best regards, Samir Samir Elsharbaty (he/him) Community Brand and Marketing coordinator Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>

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Fwd: [Wikimedia Summit 2020] Preparing a virtual Wikimedia Summit
by Abhay Natu 20 Mar '20

20 Mar '20

FYI ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Cornelius Kibelka <wmsummit-list(a)mailing.wikimedia.de> Date: Fri, Mar 20, 2020, 1:02 PM Subject: [Wikimedia Summit 2020] Preparing a virtual Wikimedia Summit To: Wikimedia Summit Participants mailing list < wmsummit-list(a)mailing.wikimedia.de> Dear all, Thank you for your patience in these unique times. The good news is: there will be a virtual Wikimedia Summit. We need time to plan, design, and work with you all on preparation. We are currently looking at dates in May, and will keep you informed as we move forward. This means, you can let go of the blocked dates in your calendar, 3-5 April. The virtual Wikimedia Summit will be the first in a series of virtual events that move from engaging with the recommendations and closing phase 2 of Movement Strategy and transitioning into implementation, phase 3. These events will be held over a period of 30-60 days after the Summit. For the virtual Wikimedia Summit, we won’t change the participant structure. We would like to use the Summit framework to engage with movement organizations and groups, and work with them on creating an understanding of the recommendations, taking their local or thematic contexts into account. The following virtual events after the Summit will be focusing on implementation, and will be tailored to meet the needs of different movement stakeholders. We will work with experienced facilitators and co-design the events with the respective target groups from across the movement. We have never hosted such a virtual conference – so it’s something completely new for us, and maybe also for you. We aim for a program that is focused on interaction and participation, and not one-directional. I want to give you some insights into what we are thinking about: - To use the “virtual in person” most efficiently, we will ask participants to prepare beforehand; - To accommodate different time zones, we aim to hold repetitive sessions at different times of day; - To accommodate language difficulties, we are looking into subtitling or language specific break-out rooms; - We want to pay special attention to engaging everyone equally, and find ways to support the diverse contexts and habits of people working together online. Please understand that’s all we have to share at this point, and we will keep you all updated with news and next steps. We hope you and those around you are well. Please all take good care of yourselves. See you on the Internet :) Cornelius -- Cornelius Kibelka Internationale Beziehungen | International Relations Vorstandsteam | Office of the ED Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0 http://wikimedia.de Keep up to date! Current news and exciting stories about Wikimedia, Wikipedia and Free Knowledge in our newsletter (in German): Subscribe now <https://www.wikimedia.de/newsletter/>. 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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Meetup in Boulder?
by Abhay Natu 08 Mar '20

08 Mar '20

Hello Wikimedians of Colorado, How about getting together to take stock of our activities and plan a few small things over the next few months? We can plan to meet in Boulder or somewhere on the Turnpike one of the evenings during the week of 8/26 (week after next) or week of 9/2 (Labor Day week.) Let us know what works for you. Thanks, Abhay -- Keep it simple. As simple as possible. But no simpler. --- A. Einstein

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