Hello everyone,
As I mentioned a few weeks ago, I've been working on a draft for an "agreement in principle" regarding an overall strategy for Wikimedia chapters/groups in the US, with the intent to have a document that individual Wikimedians can sign at Wikimania this summer.
My working draft of the agreement is located at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Kirill_Lokshin/Sandbox. The current text has recently been revised based on a number of suggestions I received yesterday at the US Wikimedians' IRC meeting.
As always, any comments or suggestions would be very appreciated!
Cheers, Kirill
-- Kirill Lokshin Secretary | Wikimedia District of Columbia http://wikimediadc.org | @wikimediadc
I like this overall,
Sorry for being absent from the meeting this evening (I got pulled into a meeting) but I actually really like this draft though because I think a loose collaboration has always shown to be better for our groups. Smaller, mostly volunteer, chapters and groups do the best work imo (NYC is a perfect example of that) because they can focus on what they know, exactly what the local community needs, and they can do amazing work with the biggest reward. When too much consolidation happens then they focus on "bigger things" and the local, and most effective, out reach happens. My hope would be a loose group of the groups (chapters, non chapters, random wikimedians from the US) who can keep the communication going on what's working, what does well/doesn't do well and can help provide advice to groups or others who want to do this locally. Some of them may want to become chapters, or partner groups, and some may not (and some should not) but they can all help push the movement forward in the best of ways.
James
On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 9:03 PM, Kirill Lokshin < kirill.lokshin@wikimediadc.org> wrote:
Hello everyone,
As I mentioned a few weeks ago, I've been working on a draft for an "agreement in principle" regarding an overall strategy for Wikimedia chapters/groups in the US, with the intent to have a document that individual Wikimedians can sign at Wikimania this summer.
My working draft of the agreement is located at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Kirill_Lokshin/Sandbox. The current text has recently been revised based on a number of suggestions I received yesterday at the US Wikimedians' IRC meeting.
As always, any comments or suggestions would be very appreciated!
Cheers, Kirill
-- Kirill Lokshin Secretary | Wikimedia District of Columbia http://wikimediadc.org | @wikimediadc
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I like this draft.
BirgitteSB
On May 9, 2012, at 11:03 PM, Kirill Lokshin kirill.lokshin@wikimediadc.org wrote:
Hello everyone,
As I mentioned a few weeks ago, I've been working on a draft for an "agreement in principle" regarding an overall strategy for Wikimedia chapters/groups in the US, with the intent to have a document that individual Wikimedians can sign at Wikimania this summer.
My working draft of the agreement is located at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Kirill_Lokshin/Sandbox. The current text has recently been revised based on a number of suggestions I received yesterday at the US Wikimedians' IRC meeting.
As always, any comments or suggestions would be very appreciated!
Cheers, Kirill
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Thanks so much for putting this together Kirill. It looks great! What are the next steps?
On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 7:22 AM, Birgitte_sb@yahoo.com wrote:
I like this draft.
BirgitteSB
On May 9, 2012, at 11:03 PM, Kirill Lokshin < kirill.lokshin@wikimediadc.org> wrote:
Hello everyone,
As I mentioned a few weeks ago, I've been working on a draft for an "agreement in principle" regarding an overall strategy for Wikimedia chapters/groups in the US, with the intent to have a document that individual Wikimedians can sign at Wikimania this summer.
My working draft of the agreement is located at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Kirill_Lokshin/Sandbox. The current text has recently been revised based on a number of suggestions I received yesterday at the US Wikimedians' IRC meeting.
As always, any comments or suggestions would be very appreciated!
Cheers, Kirill
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In terms of the draft, I'd like to leave it open for further comments and refinement over the next month or so, with a goal of having a final text ready by mid-June -- which will hopefully give everyone time to review (and promote) it before Wikimania.
As far as the Wikimania logistics are concerned, it seems increasingly likely that scheduling conflicts will prevent us from holding a large US-oriented meeting until very late in the conference schedule. Instead of putting everything off until the last day -- which, in my opinion, would not be ideal -- I'd like to propose a two-part strategy for adopting the agreement:
(1) Hold a small formal signing ceremony sometime during the pre-conference days. The idea would be to gather a few representatives of the key US-based Wikimedian groups (e.g. someone from WM-NYC, someone from WM-DC, someone from GLAM-US, etc.) and have a nice photo-op of them signing the agreement.
(2) Leave copies of the agreement in the main Wikimania public areas for the duration of the conference, and invite people to sign them when they have the opportunity.
How does this approach sound?
Cheers, Kirill
-- Kirill Lokshin Secretary | Wikimedia District of Columbia http://wikimediadc.org | @wikimediadc
On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 10:25 AM, Lori Phillips < lori.byrd.phillips@gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks so much for putting this together Kirill. It looks great! What are the next steps?
On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 7:22 AM, Birgitte_sb@yahoo.com wrote:
I like this draft.
BirgitteSB
On May 9, 2012, at 11:03 PM, Kirill Lokshin < kirill.lokshin@wikimediadc.org> wrote:
Hello everyone,
As I mentioned a few weeks ago, I've been working on a draft for an "agreement in principle" regarding an overall strategy for Wikimedia chapters/groups in the US, with the intent to have a document that individual Wikimedians can sign at Wikimania this summer.
My working draft of the agreement is located at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Kirill_Lokshin/Sandbox. The current text has recently been revised based on a number of suggestions I received yesterday at the US Wikimedians' IRC meeting.
As always, any comments or suggestions would be very appreciated!
Cheers, Kirill
-- Kirill Lokshin Secretary | Wikimedia District of Columbia http://wikimediadc.org | @wikimediadc
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