[Foundation-l] communications committee

[Elisabeth Bauer]

Hi all,

Angela, Michael and I met today for discussing the details of the
communication committee. I'm giving here a summary of this meeting, a
second meeting will be held next weekend, open to all interested people
who want to help with the communications committee.

The committee will consist of four initial members
* Angela Beesley
* Michael Snow
* Nicholas Moreau
* David Gerard
Further members are welcome.

The Schwartz PR team who is working pro bono for us and I will act as
advisors. With this email, I am resigning from my job as press officer.
I will still help with the work, but I need a bit of distance from
Wikimedia/Wikipedia at the moment.

The committee will elect a chair as soon as it has a stable membership.

Working tools:
* an internal press wiki (enotif enabled) and a mailing list will be
used to coordinate the work of the communications committee. The mailing
list and the wiki will be open to all people doing PR on an
international or project level.
* the press queues in otrs
* the press release distribution and archive software on wikimedia.de

Main tasks (for the moment):
* The committee is responsible for authorizing and coordinating the
press teams on local projects (list on [[Wikimedia:Press room]])
* The committee will tend to the list of interview contacts
([[Internal:Interview partners]])
* It will draft and distribute the press releases of the Wikimedia
foundation and provide help for local press releases

Areas of work:
>From the structure of the committees, there are quite a lot of work
areas for the communication committee:
* Press
* Promotion
* OTRS
* Translation
* Fundraising
* Internal communication

To address all these areas, probably subcommittees have to be founded,
that's a topic for the open meeting next weekend.

Relevant meta pages:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications_committee
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications_subcommittees

greetings,
elian