First of all, I would like to thank Florence for bringing this subject up. I must admit that I did not know of the group's existence until one day I "happened" upon it about one month ago. I was researching the possibility of creating an Offline User Group, and had even created a logo for a user group back in December 2018: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Offline_Logo.svg
I therefore propose this logo for the group. I am also willing to work to get this User Group more active. Best regards Gabriel On Mon, Mar 4, 2019 at 8:31 PM Samuel Klein <[email protected]> wrote: > For group contacts + reports : It would be good to have an annual > nomination thread, and short wiki vote, a few months before our annual > report? (*August* each year) > That way we can use the same energy to summarize what's been happening; > those involved in active projects should feel welcome to be liaisons; and > we keep the meta pages up to date. > > On board voting: > + Arranging private votes has been a perennial weakness for the movement. > Would others be interested in public discussion of pros/cons of different > candidates? > + I respect the concerns around voting multiple times: we want people to > be comfortable joining many groups while only voting once. Is there any > proposal yet re: how to do this? > + Say that, per Nemo, only incorporated groups vote in the final > selection. Perhaps we could share formal recommendations with that group, > before their vote (and sort those out on Meta). > > SJ > > On Mon, Mar 4, 2019 at 9:39 AM Federico Leva (Nemo) <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Thanks for raising the point. >> >> Florence Devouard, 27/02/19 14:17: >> > Yet... an WMF affiliate has some obligations... so how should we deal >> > with that in the least time-consuming, least-bureaucratic, >> > least-expensive way, yet playing our role in representing, recruting >> and >> > promoting offline in the mouvement ? >> >> From my point of view as a supporter of offline projects, the ideal >> solution is that all affiliates agree that only incorporated entities >> will have a formal vote (whatever its weight) in the final phase of the >> selection of 2 board seats, to avoid creating new unwanted work about >> internal governance. >> >> Alternatively, a simple method might be to decide that all user groups >> will have a discussion/vote on a certain wiki page where all their >> members can join (Meta-Wiki may be enough if it can be public), so that >> it's easy to identify unwanted patterns. (And establish a quorum or >> whatever other criteria is decided.) >> >> Federico >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Offline-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/offline-l >> > > > -- > Samuel Klein @metasj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266 > _______________________________________________ > Offline-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/offline-l >
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