Pessoal,
Michael Snow, presidente do conselho da Fundação, começou hoje uma discussão na Foundation-list sobre o caso do "capítulo" brasileiro (mensagem copiada abaixo). Seria muito bacana compartilharmos nossos comentários por lá também.
abs, Thomas
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Michael Snow wikipedia@verizon.net Date: Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 1:54 AM Subject: [Foundation-l] A chapters-related question To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Aside from the new chapters, right now the Board of Trustees is looking at what kinds of related groups we want to have relationships with. (What prompts this directly is the case of Wikimedia Brazil, which was approved to become a chapter last year, but whose organizers have since decided they did not want to proceed as a formal entity at this time. However, I want to ask about the general principle, not the specific case.) The basic question is, what can or should we do to encourage grassroots groups that want to support our mission, but may not fit into the chapters framework?
There are various possibilities here. One example is interest groups that aren't tied to geography, the way the chapters are. I always cite the idea of an Association of Blind Wikipedians, who might wish to organize to promote work on accessibility issues. As with the Brazilian situation, informal groups could also fit local conditions better sometimes, or serve as a proto-chapter stage of development. Maybe there's a benefit in having an association with some durability and continuation, but without going to the effort of incorporation and formal agreements on trademarks and such. It could also make sense to have an organization form for a specific project and then disband after it is completed, such as with Wikimania (somebody can correct me if I'm wrong, but I understand the Gdansk team is planning something like this as distinct from Wikimedia Polska).
Anyway, I would like to invite ideas and discussion on this. Is this something we should do? What kinds of models are people interested in? How should we appropriately recognize and work with volunteer-organized groups? And in all of this, how would we make it both distinct from and compatible with the current structure of chapter organizations?
--Michael Snow
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2009/7/6 Thomas de Souza Buckup thomasdesouzabuckup@gmail.com
Pessoal,
Michael Snow, presidente do conselho da Fundação, começou hoje uma discussão na Foundation-list sobre o caso do "capítulo" brasileiro (mensagem copiada abaixo). Seria muito bacana compartilharmos nossos comentários por lá também.
abs, Thomas
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Michael Snow wikipedia@verizon.net Date: Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 1:54 AM Subject: [Foundation-l] A chapters-related question To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Aside from the new chapters, right now the Board of Trustees is looking at what kinds of related groups we want to have relationships with. (What prompts this directly is the case of Wikimedia Brazil, which was approved to become a chapter last year, but whose organizers have since decided they did not want to proceed as a formal entity at this time. However, I want to ask about the general principle, not the specific case.) The basic question is, what can or should we do to encourage grassroots groups that want to support our mission, but may not fit into the chapters framework?
There are various possibilities here. One example is interest groups that aren't tied to geography, the way the chapters are. I always cite the idea of an Association of Blind Wikipedians, who might wish to organize to promote work on accessibility issues. As with the Brazilian situation, informal groups could also fit local conditions better sometimes, or serve as a proto-chapter stage of development. Maybe there's a benefit in having an association with some durability and continuation, but without going to the effort of incorporation and formal agreements on trademarks and such. It could also make sense to have an organization form for a specific project and then disband after it is completed, such as with Wikimania (somebody can correct me if I'm wrong, but I understand the Gdansk team is planning something like this as distinct from Wikimedia Polska).
Anyway, I would like to invite ideas and discussion on this. Is this something we should do? What kinds of models are people interested in? How should we appropriately recognize and work with volunteer-organized groups? And in all of this, how would we make it both distinct from and compatible with the current structure of chapter organizations?
--Michael Snow
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Acho legal que alguém com tempo e inglês bom, possa mostrar os motivos pelos quais quisemos adotar essa vertente de capítulo, defendendo a agilidade, a possibilidade de crescimento acentuado no número de voluntários, assim como as idéias chegarem a mais pessoas...
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