[Foundation-l] Options for community organization

[Milos Rancic]

After a lot of time, I think that it is fair to conclude that Meta
community and WMF are not able to move toward organization of the
whole community (or the communities). But, we need organization for a
lot of reasons, already mentioned here. So, I suggest the next:

- As we have enough different suggestions, I think that personal
proposals are not very useful anymore. OK, it may be useful, but it is
not *very* useful.

- For those who are interested in organizing community, I think that
the best way is to self-organize themselves and start to work on
sensible proposals. Let's say, groups with at least 5 Wikimedians
should be large enough. PVC is the first of those groups, but not
necessarily the only. I would ask interested persons/groups to
announce their existence, as well as to make a page at Meta about
them, with at least some basic informations, which include: who is in
that group; is it a close or open group; what are your ways of
communication -- as well as to inform the rest of the community about
their conclusions (here and at their Meta page).

- At the other side, communities should start with self-organizing
their inter-project cooperation at the lower scale -- from two to a
few projects interested for cooperation (I am thinking here only about
projects with developed communities; a couple of very active users
would be good enough). The best for the beginning is to start to talk.
The first product of cooperation may be common place for giving
interwiki bot flags.

I am already a member of PVC (or whatever the future name of that
group will be), as well as I started with asking close communities to
initiate their cooperation. Everyone else is free to do the same, of
course.

I would like to make a group for initiating self-organizing of
inter-project coordination. So, if anyone is interested, let me
contact personally.