I just received this mail: In preparation for a movement strategy conversation in Berlin, we would like to extend one more invitation for a second representative to attend the Wikimedia Conference this March. This is in addition to the one representative that is already invited to attend the conference on behalf of your affiliate. This year’s conference has been built with 3 tracks; extending one additional invite will allow your group to designate one person for strategy and one for the customary learning tracks. - 1 person - Strategy track - 1 person - Capacity Building & Partnerships learning tracks During the Strategy track, we will be discussing the future of the movement and the best ways to fulfil our vision: that every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Importantly, the person you designate for the Strategy track should have demonstrated leadership and/or domain expertise important to your group’s efforts. You should prioritize someone who... - will represent your community and share back home what they learn - has implemented one or more different types of programmatic or engagement leadership in the last 12 months in your community - has engaged in learning and/or evaluation practices in order to learn and share about your group’s strategic activities and program work - is working to develop and/or lead strategic efforts in your community (e.g., communications, volunteer engagement, skills development for community engagement, community health, program design and evaluation). If you have already registered a representative to join the main conference in Berlin and that person is your preferred representative for the Strategy track, no problem. You may choose a second person to attend one of the other conference tracks while your original representative attends Strategy. To designate your representatives to the Strategy and a non-strategy track, reply to this message and share the names of 1. the person you wish to represent your group in the Strategy track 2. the person you wish to participate in Capacity Building & Partnerships learning tracks Please respond to this message to let us know about your additional representative’s name and email address as well as the track designation for your representatives as soon as you are able. There will be a new registration period for the additional person to register, which will be open January 9 through January 30, 2017. We will keep track of your decision and share the invitation to register to the additional affiliate representative. Please take the time to consult with each other to determine who is best to represent your group. Once we hear back, we will proceed with messaging to share a registration link for your additional representative so that they may register before the deadline. --- If this is the case, I'd like to propose myself for the Strategy track, if you are OK with it. There is the possibility to have someone else for the other track, so I encourage you to think about it. If there are more candidates, we could try to vote or something? On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 3:26 AM, Sam Wilson <sam(a)samwilson.id.au> wrote:

Yes, but maybe they will come to the Wikiconf in another capacity, as WIkimania organizers... Or not. If not, Ernest is perfect for the Wikiconf. On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 6:13 PM, Nicolas VIGNERON < vigneron.nicolas(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:

(please refer to my previous mail in this thread for more details). Aubrey On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 6:02 PM, Andrea Zanni &lt;zanni.andrea84(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:

Hi Sam, In the end, as the time was running out, (sunday is last day) I registered for the Strategy track and Ernest for the partnership one. I really hope to speak with someone from your team, and if you're available we can also discuss things together before the conference and during it (not sure if a skype call is possibile, but we could try). Aubrey On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 1:46 AM, Sam Wilson &lt;sam(a)samwilson.id.au&gt; wrote:

I really like the idea :-)

How about either Monday 23rd UTC1400, or Saturday 28th 0600UTC? On Thu, 5 Jan 2017, at 07:53 PM, Sam Wilson wrote:

No, definitely too early! :-) How about 1000UTC on Saturday? (You're at UTC+1 are you?) Who else is interested? What timezones are you in? On Wed, 18 Jan 2017, at 04:31 PM, Andrea Zanni wrote: > > >> > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Best_practices_in_scheduling_a_meeting >> > ) >

It's sounding like Saturday might be reasonable for most people? I think the people who have replied so far are at -7, +1, and +8 hours. So maybe 1400UTC would be ok? What do you think? Poll: http://beta.doodle.com/poll/g3svqgdmekmcy6tx Meeting planner thing: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingtime.html?iso=20170128&p1… On Wed, 18 Jan 2017, at 06:15 PM, Nicolas VIGNERON wrote: