Point of information and a comment:
This year 2 members of the FDC will attend the conference as representatives of the FDC. The full FDC will not be attending any part of Wikimedia Conference this year because the date of the FDC meeting do not align with the conference. Next year if possible I would like to see the two events scheduled together again because I see value in having the full FDC do a panel discussion with all interested people, especially people from affiliated organizations. Plus it makes it easier for the Board of Trustees and the FDC to interact, especially the board observers to the FDC which need to attend both meetings.
Sydney Poore
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On Apr 2, 2014, at 13:26, Nathan nawrich@gmail.com wrote:
A good starting point for discussion is the written material already out there about the purpose of the event:
"*Wikimedia Conference 2014* is the annual meeting of all Wikimedia chaptershttps://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chapters , thematic organizationshttps://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_thematic_organizations and user groups https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_user_groups, board and staff members of the Wikimedia Foundationhttps://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation as well as other committees to discuss the future of the Wikimedia movement in terms of collaboration, structures and organizational development."
There has been a "Future of Wikimedia Conference" page on Meta for some time, although it has had limited input. Asaf Bartov wrote a little on the talk page about the purpose of the conference:
- An opportunity for Wikimedia movement organizations to meet
face-to-face and share ideas about projects and practices and to discuss any unresolved issues that may have come up during the past year.
- A venue for one of the quarterly Wikimedia Foundation Board of
Trustees meetings and an opportunity for the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees and Wikimedia movement organizations to meet and talk.
- A venue for the Funds Dissemination Committee to meet to assess the
funding proposals for Round 2 of the current year and provide recommendations on those proposals to the WMF Board.
It may make more sense to continue the discussion on the meta page: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Future_of_the_Wikimedia_Conference _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe