Hi, all.
So I made it to the summit, and so far I have this to report: help I want to go back to bed. Also uuuuh we're apparently an affiliate and have some say in affiliate-selected board seats?!
But seriously, the focus of this thing seems a lot more specific than previous years, not that I'm particularly familiar with previous years either: it's all about Strategy. Movement process. 2030 stuff. That... discussion I maybe kind of sort of derailed a year or two ago on this same list (sorry about that). As such, I'm wondering if anyone does have any particular thoughts on this, or ideas as to stuff I ought to be looking into in particular that might affect us as a group/loosely affiliated lump of people in theoretical proximity to each other who occasionally organise things in theoretically relevant geological locations?
Or if you actually want to read up it, it's probably this: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20
As for the affiliate-selected board seats thing, I'm... honestly not really sure what the deal with that is - I've been signed up for a mailing list about it (possibly as the selected person for this conference? Not sure - was anyone else added to that?) but haven't been able to find out a whole lot about what's the deal with that onwiki, either, partly on account of being a bit distracted travelling all over and being ill.
So, yeah, should I be representing us on that, too, does anyone know any more about that one, and what do we make of that?!
-I
Apparently the affiliate-selected board seat change is this: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliate-selected_Board_seats/Resolution_20...
So actual thing: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliate-selected_Board_seats/2019
It looks like they somehow mistook me for the point of contact for the user group (possibly because we don't have one? is that even possible? or am I, in which case, is that wise?) and that's why I got the emails. Anyway, here's the sum of what seems to be the case:
* We, as a user group, get a vote on the two affiliate-selected board seats! Probably. All the user groups in good standing now get a vote, along with all other affiliates. (Unless you have two really redundant groups or something, but that doesn't really apply to us.) * We may or may not need to actually specify a membership list to do this. Technically the list on meta seems to count, though, even if it's not necessarily accurate. * We do need to get our annual report in (and we will! Yay! We're on top of things!) * To vote, we will designate a delegate to actually cast the vote. How they vote is up to us as a pile, or them, or whatever we all decide in general. Maybe we sign up a bobcat someone trapped in their kitchen and it does... something totally random? Probably not, but that'd be a proper local, at any rate. * Voting works by ranking candidates. More information will happen on this once candidates nominate themselves. * Any of you can nominate yourselves as a candidate, unless you're a bobcat or something. For the WMF board. Yes. But you probably can't be our delegate if you do? * Okay, so we probably can't nominate a bobcat as our delegate either. * Also they need more facilitators for the actual vote, if anyone's interested, but the deadline is apparently today.
If any of this is totally unclear (or possibly downright incoherent), I sincerely apologise, but I'm not dealing with the bobcat.
-I
On 29/03/2019 08:56, Isarra Yos wrote:
Hi, all.
So I made it to the summit, and so far I have this to report: help I want to go back to bed. Also uuuuh we're apparently an affiliate and have some say in affiliate-selected board seats?!
But seriously, the focus of this thing seems a lot more specific than previous years, not that I'm particularly familiar with previous years either: it's all about Strategy. Movement process. 2030 stuff. That... discussion I maybe kind of sort of derailed a year or two ago on this same list (sorry about that). As such, I'm wondering if anyone does have any particular thoughts on this, or ideas as to stuff I ought to be looking into in particular that might affect us as a group/loosely affiliated lump of people in theoretical proximity to each other who occasionally organise things in theoretically relevant geological locations?
Or if you actually want to read up it, it's probably this: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20
As for the affiliate-selected board seats thing, I'm... honestly not really sure what the deal with that is - I've been signed up for a mailing list about it (possibly as the selected person for this conference? Not sure - was anyone else added to that?) but haven't been able to find out a whole lot about what's the deal with that onwiki, either, partly on account of being a bit distracted travelling all over and being ill.
So, yeah, should I be representing us on that, too, does anyone know any more about that one, and what do we make of that?!
-I
Thank you, Isarra! Quite a lot to digest.
FYI, I have just signed up for and become a "facilitator" for the election.
Note that therefore I may neither endorse any candidate, nor participate in any public discussions of candidates' merits, nor participate in any decision about how an affiliate organization's vote is cast.
(as noted in https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliate-selected_Board_seats/Resolution_20...)
Has our annual report been linked in to the appropriate official places?
-Neal
On Sat, Mar 30, 2019 at 05:34:10PM +0000, Isarra Yos wrote:
Apparently the affiliate-selected board seat change is this: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliate-selected_Board_seats/ Resolution_2019
So actual thing: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliate-selected_Board_seats/2019
It looks like they somehow mistook me for the point of contact for the user group (possibly because we don't have one? is that even possible? or am I, in which case, is that wise?) and that's why I got the emails. Anyway, here's the sum of what seems to be the case:
• We, as a user group, get a vote on the two affiliate-selected board seats! Probably. All the user groups in good standing now get a vote, along with all other affiliates. (Unless you have two really redundant groups or something, but that doesn't really apply to us.) • We may or may not need to actually specify a membership list to do this. Technically the list on meta seems to count, though, even if it's not necessarily accurate. • We do need to get our annual report in (and we will! Yay! We're on top of things!) • To vote, we will designate a delegate to actually cast the vote. How they vote is up to us as a pile, or them, or whatever we all decide in general. Maybe we sign up a bobcat someone trapped in their kitchen and it does... something totally random? Probably not, but that'd be a proper local, at any rate. • Voting works by ranking candidates. More information will happen on this once candidates nominate themselves. • Any of you can nominate yourselves as a candidate, unless you're a bobcat or something. For the WMF board. Yes. But you probably can't be our delegate if you do? • Okay, so we probably can't nominate a bobcat as our delegate either. • Also they need more facilitators for the actual vote, if anyone's interested, but the deadline is apparently today.
If any of this is totally unclear (or possibly downright incoherent), I sincerely apologise, but I'm not dealing with the bobcat.
-I
On 29/03/2019 08:56, Isarra Yos wrote:
Hi, all. So I made it to the summit, and so far I have this to report: help I want to go back to bed. Also uuuuh we're apparently an affiliate and have some say in affiliate-selected board seats?! But seriously, the focus of this thing seems a lot more specific than previous years, not that I'm particularly familiar with previous years either: it's all about Strategy. Movement process. 2030 stuff. That... discussion I maybe kind of sort of derailed a year or two ago on this same list (sorry about that). As such, I'm wondering if anyone does have any particular thoughts on this, or ideas as to stuff I ought to be looking into in particular that might affect us as a group/loosely affiliated lump of people in theoretical proximity to each other who occasionally organise things in theoretically relevant geological locations? Or if you actually want to read up it, it's probably this: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20 As for the affiliate-selected board seats thing, I'm... honestly not really sure what the deal with that is - I've been signed up for a mailing list about it (possibly as the selected person for this conference? Not sure - was anyone else added to that?) but haven't been able to find out a whole lot about what's the deal with that onwiki, either, partly on account of being a bit distracted travelling all over and being ill. So, yeah, should I be representing us on that, too, does anyone know any more about that one, and what do we make of that?! -I
Wikimedia-US-CO mailing list Wikimedia-US-CO@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-us-co
That is awesome! Also possibly slightly concerning, because that means we have even fewer people likely to properly take part in this. I'm seriously all for the bobcat, personally.
I did link the annual report on a giant table just now, but then yelled at the table instead of providing an edit summary, so I'll, uh, send it wikimedia-l tomorrow, unless you want to do it now. (Also it turns out we're late again, because they expect annual reports for the year by exactly the end of the year period. Which given that the year period isn't over until that exact day I guess means we should be submitting them on that exact day? Is that what that means? Or should we just submit next year in the middle of february and not worry about it? Because apparently our specific recognition date, and thus due date for these, is 4 march.)
-I
On 01/04/2019 21:59, Neal McBurnett wrote:
Thank you, Isarra! Quite a lot to digest.
FYI, I have just signed up for and become a "facilitator" for the election.
Note that therefore I may neither endorse any candidate, nor participate in any public discussions of candidates' merits, nor participate in any decision about how an affiliate organization's vote is cast.
(as noted in https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliate-selected_Board_seats/Resolution_20...)
Has our annual report been linked in to the appropriate official places?
-Neal
On Sat, Mar 30, 2019 at 05:34:10PM +0000, Isarra Yos wrote:
Apparently the affiliate-selected board seat change is this: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliate-selected_Board_seats/ Resolution_2019
So actual thing: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliate-selected_Board_seats/2019
It looks like they somehow mistook me for the point of contact for the user group (possibly because we don't have one? is that even possible? or am I, in which case, is that wise?) and that's why I got the emails. Anyway, here's the sum of what seems to be the case:
• We, as a user group, get a vote on the two affiliate-selected board seats! Probably. All the user groups in good standing now get a vote, along with all other affiliates. (Unless you have two really redundant groups or something, but that doesn't really apply to us.) • We may or may not need to actually specify a membership list to do this. Technically the list on meta seems to count, though, even if it's not necessarily accurate. • We do need to get our annual report in (and we will! Yay! We're on top of things!) • To vote, we will designate a delegate to actually cast the vote. How they vote is up to us as a pile, or them, or whatever we all decide in general. Maybe we sign up a bobcat someone trapped in their kitchen and it does... something totally random? Probably not, but that'd be a proper local, at any rate. • Voting works by ranking candidates. More information will happen on this once candidates nominate themselves. • Any of you can nominate yourselves as a candidate, unless you're a bobcat or something. For the WMF board. Yes. But you probably can't be our delegate if you do? • Okay, so we probably can't nominate a bobcat as our delegate either. • Also they need more facilitators for the actual vote, if anyone's interested, but the deadline is apparently today.
If any of this is totally unclear (or possibly downright incoherent), I sincerely apologise, but I'm not dealing with the bobcat.
-I
On 29/03/2019 08:56, Isarra Yos wrote:
Hi, all. So I made it to the summit, and so far I have this to report: help I want to go back to bed. Also uuuuh we're apparently an affiliate and have some say in affiliate-selected board seats?! But seriously, the focus of this thing seems a lot more specific than previous years, not that I'm particularly familiar with previous years either: it's all about Strategy. Movement process. 2030 stuff. That... discussion I maybe kind of sort of derailed a year or two ago on this same list (sorry about that). As such, I'm wondering if anyone does have any particular thoughts on this, or ideas as to stuff I ought to be looking into in particular that might affect us as a group/loosely affiliated lump of people in theoretical proximity to each other who occasionally organise things in theoretically relevant geological locations? Or if you actually want to read up it, it's probably this: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20 As for the affiliate-selected board seats thing, I'm... honestly not really sure what the deal with that is - I've been signed up for a mailing list about it (possibly as the selected person for this conference? Not sure - was anyone else added to that?) but haven't been able to find out a whole lot about what's the deal with that onwiki, either, partly on account of being a bit distracted travelling all over and being ill. So, yeah, should I be representing us on that, too, does anyone know any more about that one, and what do we make of that?! -I
Wikimedia-US-CO mailing list Wikimedia-US-CO@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-us-co
Wikimedia-US-CO mailing list Wikimedia-US-CO@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-us-co
Okay, sent. Should I have crosslisted here? Oops.
On 03/04/2019 04:48, Isarra Yos wrote:
That is awesome! Also possibly slightly concerning, because that means we have even fewer people likely to properly take part in this. I'm seriously all for the bobcat, personally.
I did link the annual report on a giant table just now, but then yelled at the table instead of providing an edit summary, so I'll, uh, send it wikimedia-l tomorrow, unless you want to do it now. (Also it turns out we're late again, because they expect annual reports for the year by exactly the end of the year period. Which given that the year period isn't over until that exact day I guess means we should be submitting them on that exact day? Is that what that means? Or should we just submit next year in the middle of february and not worry about it? Because apparently our specific recognition date, and thus due date for these, is 4 march.)
-I
On 01/04/2019 21:59, Neal McBurnett wrote:
Thank you, Isarra! Quite a lot to digest.
FYI, I have just signed up for and become a "facilitator" for the election.
Note that therefore I may neither endorse any candidate, nor participate in any public discussions of candidates' merits, nor participate in any decision about how an affiliate organization's vote is cast.
(as noted in https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliate-selected_Board_seats/Resolution_20...)
Has our annual report been linked in to the appropriate official places?
-Neal
On Sat, Mar 30, 2019 at 05:34:10PM +0000, Isarra Yos wrote:
Apparently the affiliate-selected board seat change is this: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliate-selected_Board_seats/ Resolution_2019
So actual thing: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliate-selected_Board_seats/2019
It looks like they somehow mistook me for the point of contact for the user group (possibly because we don't have one? is that even possible? or am I, in which case, is that wise?) and that's why I got the emails. Anyway, here's the sum of what seems to be the case:
• We, as a user group, get a vote on the two affiliate-selected board seats! Probably. All the user groups in good standing now get a vote, along with all other affiliates. (Unless you have two really redundant groups or something, but that doesn't really apply to us.) • We may or may not need to actually specify a membership list to do this. Technically the list on meta seems to count, though, even if it's not necessarily accurate. • We do need to get our annual report in (and we will! Yay! We're on top of things!) • To vote, we will designate a delegate to actually cast the vote. How they vote is up to us as a pile, or them, or whatever we all decide in general. Maybe we sign up a bobcat someone trapped in their kitchen and it does... something totally random? Probably not, but that'd be a proper local, at any rate. • Voting works by ranking candidates. More information will happen on this once candidates nominate themselves. • Any of you can nominate yourselves as a candidate, unless you're a bobcat or something. For the WMF board. Yes. But you probably can't be our delegate if you do? • Okay, so we probably can't nominate a bobcat as our delegate either. • Also they need more facilitators for the actual vote, if anyone's interested, but the deadline is apparently today.
If any of this is totally unclear (or possibly downright incoherent), I sincerely apologise, but I'm not dealing with the bobcat.
-I
On 29/03/2019 08:56, Isarra Yos wrote:
Hi, all.
So I made it to the summit, and so far I have this to report: help I want to go back to bed. Also uuuuh we're apparently an affiliate and have some say in affiliate-selected board seats?!
But seriously, the focus of this thing seems a lot more specific than previous years, not that I'm particularly familiar with previous years either: it's all about Strategy. Movement process. 2030 stuff. That... discussion I maybe kind of sort of derailed a year or two ago on this same list (sorry about that). As such, I'm wondering if anyone does have any particular thoughts on this, or ideas as to stuff I ought to be looking into in particular that might affect us as a group/loosely affiliated lump of people in theoretical proximity to each other who occasionally organise things in theoretically relevant geological locations?
Or if you actually want to read up it, it's probably this: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20
As for the affiliate-selected board seats thing, I'm... honestly not really sure what the deal with that is - I've been signed up for a mailing list about it (possibly as the selected person for this conference? Not sure - was anyone else added to that?) but haven't been able to find out a whole lot about what's the deal with that onwiki, either, partly on account of being a bit distracted travelling all over and being ill.
So, yeah, should I be representing us on that, too, does anyone know any more about that one, and what do we make of that?!
-I
Wikimedia-US-CO mailing list Wikimedia-US-CO@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-us-co
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