[Wikimediaau-l] Chapter/SoP update

[Brian Salter-Duke]

On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 11:49:51AM +1000, private musings wrote:
> G'day folks,
> 
> Having had a little think about this, I found it hard to figure out the
> objection to mentioning specific projects in the statement of purposes, so
> have added some details;
> 
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Australia/Statement_of_Purpose
> 
> Hope that helps - please do make a note either on the talk page, on on this
> list if you can shed some light on Chapcom's rationale for why this mightn't
> be the best idea... also, am I right in saying that Chapcom is the interim
> chapter committee? - sorry for being slow!

I see John has reverted our edit. As he says the list will not be
complete in future and that might have legal ramifications. If we
mention just one or two, it looks like favouring some projects over
others. I hope that ChatComm will accept the current wording of mention
of WP in the footnotes as they are primarily for informing CAV. In the
main statement any mention of projects is probably not acceptable to
ChapComm (others have enlightened you on what ChapComm is).

Cheers, Brian.
 
> cheers,
> 
> Peter
> PM.
> 
> 
> On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 5:29 PM, Brianna Laugher <brianna.laugher at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> >
> > We have had a couple of committee meetings on IRC. Discussion has
> > mostly revolved around the new Statement of Purpose (SoP) draft.
> > <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Australia/Statement_of_Purpose>
> >
> > Our main concerns have been about explicitly meeting the wishes of
> > both Chapcom and Consumer Affairs Victoria (CAV). CAV in particular
> > wants more explicit, concrete points, it seems.
> >
> > For CAV, they would like us to mention the WMF projects explicitly by
> > name, but for Chapcom, they would prefer we don't. So, there are some
> > different tensions there we have to negotiate a little.
> >
> > So, I guess, we will have another week, see if members are happy
> > enough with it, run it by Chapcom and then ask Brian to take it back
> > to CAV.
> >
> > thanks everyone for your patience and work on the SoP so far.
> >
> > cheers,
> > Brianna
> >
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