Hi Chris,
I can comment on your question why we need another strategy conference: The
Wikimedia 2030 process is ongoing, and is building – among many other
inputs – upon the outcomes of the last two conferences. Organized groups
are already working on the implementation of the Strategic Direction in
their own strategic/annual planning and programmatic work, and Working
Groups start developing recommendations for change on the structural level
of the movement.
In spring 2019, these groups will need feedback and input from the
movement's organized groups and the Wikimedia Summit – alongside other
opportunities for community consultations – will be build as a platform to
synchronize the Working Groups' work and to gather and synthesize this
input and agree upon next steps.
I hope this helps to shed some light on the need for this event. Please let
me know if you have further questions. We'll also be presenting the current
state of the strategy process at today's activities meeting; if you're
interested in tuning in:
All the best
Nicole
On Wed, 26 Sep 2018 at 22:18, Chris Keating <chriskeatingwiki(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
I have so many questions.
Is anything concrete planned to replace the learning and capacity-building
work that used to happen at WMCON? (Or has the identification of capacity
building as a strategic priority just resulted in .... the abandonment of
the main capacity building event?)
And why after two "strategy focused" conferences, do we need another one?
What will it achieve except acres more flipchart? How many conferences do
we expect to need before the strategic direction starts to become a
reality?
Chris
On Tue, 25 Sep 2018, 20:34 Cornelius Kibelka, <
cornelius.kibelka(a)wikimedia.de> wrote:
Dear all,
As Nicole Ebber already wrote a couple of weeks ago, we would like to
give
you some further information about the next
Wikimedia Conference, that
will
take place from March 29–31, 2019 in Berlin,
Germany.
The next conference will focus on the Movement Strategy process and
movement governance for the organized part of the movement in general.
The
program will be designed according to the status
and needs of the ongoing
Movement Strategy process and its working groups. We are hoping to see a
diverse group of participants next year, and look forward to creating
three
days of working, discussing, and thinking
together. The event is made
possible through the generous financial support of the Wikimedia
Foundation.
Thus, to make it clearer that learning and capacity-building will not be
part of the program and cut laces to the previous conference, we will
change the name to “Wikimedia Summit” (#wmsummit).
The change of the purpose of the event is accompanied by a change in the
composition of the audience. The event will be a more focused one, and
therefore we aim to scale down the audience to around 200 participants.
As
it is this still the Wikimedia affiliates
conference, every _eligible_
affiliate can send one (1) delegate. Furthermore, we will invite
participants from the Wikimedia Affiliate EDs (~10), WMF Board of
Trustees
(10), WMF staff (~10), the committees (~15 from
FDC, AffCom and Simple
APG)
and additional members of the Movement Strategy
working groups, that do
not
come in another role (~20). You can find more
information regarding this
on
Meta.[1]
Registration for the Wikimedia Summit will open on November 2 and end on
December 17, 2018. We urge participants that need a visa to register no
later than November 19, so we can support them as best as possible to
get a
visa for the event.
We will keep you updated in the further weeks and months via the usual
communication channels. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate
to contact us, preferably via wmsummit(a)wikimedia.de.
Best regards,
Daniela Gentner & Cornelius Kibelka
[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Summit_2019/Eligibility_Criteria
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