We have confirmed the dates of the consultation: *October 4th and 5th* (weekend). If you haven't do so yet, please do give some thought to the *Delegates* and *Venue* sections of the organization page: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:India_Community_Consultation_2014 I hope some community conversations about delegates are taking place. As I said 5 days ago, we'd rather have communities nominate delegates, than to have to select people ourselves. For communities that do not come up with community nominations, we will be selecting people on the basis of proxy measures such as levels of engagement on wiki, on lists, and good standing (not banned etc.), but this may well not be the optimal delegates from the community's standpoint. Asaf On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 10:33 PM, Asaf Bartov <abartov(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: > Hello again, everyone. > (I would appreciate forwarding/translation, again) > > I hope discussions are underway about nominating delegates for this > meeting, as we will need to begin arranging logistics in a couple of weeks. > > In the meantime, one of you anonymously offered comments on the talk > page, and I have now addressed them, here: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:India_Community_Consultation_2014 > > I'm particularly calling out to your attention that the meeting is *not* > expected to *set* the future of work in India, or to bind communities > into accepting whatever is agreed upon at the meeting. On the contrary, it > is a *joint visioning* and strategizing meeting, whose final output, > ideally, would be a roadmap, a set of proposals, and a shared understanding > of different possible roles of organizations and informal structures in > India, all of which would be *offered* back, on-wiki, to the communities > to discuss and develop further, or not. > > Some communities may embrace some of the ideas, others may object or just > choose not to adopt them for now, and others still may struggle to even > have that kind of conversation. All of these outcomes are valid, and we > are decidedly not looking for (another) one-size-fits-all strategy for all > of India. > > Please do visit the page and help us decide the venue and begin building > the participant list. We would much rather have communities nominate, as > well as individuals self-nominate, to participate, than having to select > whom to invite ourselves (though of course we would do that to ensure > minimal representation, if we need to). > > Thanks, > > Asaf > > > On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 8:50 PM, Asaf Bartov <abartov(a)wikimedia.org> > wrote: > >> Dear fellow Wikimedians, >> >> (this is important and a rare opportunity -- please do take a few >> moments to read.) >> >> I would like to draw your attention to a major piece of news: >> >> The Wikimedia Foundation is convening a community consultation on the >> future of Wikimedia work in India, to be held in October in Bangalore, with >> significant representation from across India, the different projects, and >> the different language communities. >> >> Please see the following page on Meta for details, context, and to begin >> discussion the delegates you would like to see participating. All costs >> will be borne by the Foundation. >> >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Community_Consultation_2014 >> >> Let's try and keep discussion on the talk page of that page on Meta, so >> everyone can follow, even people not on this list. >> >> Also, your help in forward this widely, translating as necessary, etc., >> would be MUCH appreciated. Again, this is an important opportunity, and we >> need to ensure we get every community's attention. >> >> I look forward to this conversation very much! >> >> Asaf >> >

Hi Sudhanwa, Based on https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2014-September/01167… The agenda for the meeting is likely to cover these issues: *Introductions, expectations, ground rules *SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats) analysis and sharing stories of individual contributors, diverse language communities and projects *SWOT for India and Indic languages across South Asia *Visioning for the movement in India * Strategies and action plans for the movement going forward (next six months, next year, next two years) * Roles, responsibilities and rules of engagement between the different actors in India To give few examples on how to approach this agenda, please see: http://www.slideshare.net/oligoglot/wmf-in-swot http://www.slideshare.net/oligoglot/wmf-biennial-prioritiesmemo and http://www.slideshare.net/oligoglot/wikimedia-foundation-in-india These slides are 3 years old but are relevant still. //It is not clear if we want to discuss on on-wiki topics(copy-pasted material, rules and regulations for admin activities etc.) // No. This is not a consultation about each wiki project's internal policies. They are best evolved over a period of time through direct discussions on wiki directly guided by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Five_pillars and based on precedents in other wikis and local community's vision. //off-wiki(real world events like seminars, academis, GLAM etc) activities or any other things beyond these eg. technical things like language support and WYSWYG editor etc.// Above are various strategies that answers the questions "HOW can we grow Wikimedia in India". In my understanding, this consultation will predominantly focus on "WHAT" questions. WHAT is the potential, weakness, threats and opportunities for Wikimedia movement in India. WHAT we should be doing and WHAT we should not be doing. WHO does WHAT and HOW is also an important question but that can only come after we define the WHAT. Ravi _______________________________________________ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l