Hi Cornelius,
a quick sanity check (sorry if this was already discussed): in your
overview, you don't mention any WMF staff members as such. Is that because
they won't be invited in that capacity (i.e. not including staff members
that happen to be in affcom, that are affiliate representatives or as
strategy working group representative, or as 'organizer'), or is their
number just not limited by a quotum like the other groups, and are you
counting on WMF to make sane decisions on who to send?
Secondly, are you also planning to invite people 'à titre personnel' to
the conference/summit/event besides these numbers? (i.e. because they would
add value to the program on a particular topic, or because they have
specific expertise) I'm thinking of volunteer community members that may
have input for certain discussions but are not part of an affiliate or
formal committee, or external experts such as the CEO of Creative Commons,
who was invited in the past.
Best,
Lodewijk
On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 12:35 PM 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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