https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Wikipedia_Education_Collaborative See "Membership".
Actually, there are better things in the world than to be a member of the Collaborative. You are supposed to do some actual work, which does not immediately impact your home education program. Vojtěch Dostál předseda rady / chairman of the board Wikimedia Česká republika / Wikimedia Czech Republic http://www.wikimedia.cz Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/Wikimedia.CR> | Twitter <https://twitter.com/Wikimedia_CR> | Newsletter <http://eepurl.com/FsHJr> 2015-06-09 1:10 GMT+02:00 Bohdan Melnychuk <[email protected]>: > While writing my letter of GLAM lists I recalled that I was once rejected > membership in Education-coop mailing list. The reason was "Closed List". > > As far as I know it's a list for a cabal of people who are working on > Education (an[1] Education Collaborative). I know of them since their > meeting in Prague[2] as a friend-wikimedian of mine attended it. The > process of selecting people to that meeting was quite cabalish (with > absolutely no public announcement) as well, iirc. During the meeting it was > completely ungooglable, iirc. IIRC, the only mention I found back then was > in some affiliate's google calendar. But I'm not about a meeting ages ago. > I'm about the collaborative itself. > > I'm not actually a person of WEP[3] but still I'm a person who don't likes > when things are hidden but there's no real reason to do it. It looks like > the case for me. I don't see why should it all be that much cabalish. > Doesn't collaborative a derivative from collaboration? My views on word are > often somewhat perfectionist but anyway I just can't see how collaboration > and making things that closed can co-exist. > > I'm fine with closed lists, teams and stuff in general as there are things > which should not be discussed in public or it could because it's easier to > make a tiny group of people do something instead of crying out to a lazy > unorganised crowd. But just make it clear how can one (apply to) join or > e.g. just join as a observer/non-voting commentator/whatever. > > Footnotes: > [1] afair the page on outreachwiki was about some older formation under > the name. it's probably fixed since that time) Education Collaborative > [2] was it already 2 years ago? time sure runs fast > [3] which means that it's not like I can e.g. go organise a WEP thing > offline — the most I can do in real actions is helping a WEP person. That's > if actions are about WEP and not about something general which any > wikimedian can do. > > Yours sincerely, > Base > > _______________________________________________ > Education mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education >
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