[Foundation-l] Options for community organization

[Samuel Klein]

Working on specific proposals -- or better yet, specific /projects/, strikes
me as an excellent plan.  Here's a list I put together a few years back that
may be a useful framework for organizing project ideas:

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Initiatives

SJ


On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 12:22 PM, Milos Rancic <millosh at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
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