Re: [Wikimedia Education] EDUWiki UG: wrapping 2018 and looking forward to 2019!

2019-02-06 Thread Pine W
Hi Shani, Thanks for your email. I have been waiting to reply in detail until I have fewer interruptions and short term issues to address. I am now in a better position to think about this discussion. The delay has also helped to alleviate my earlier feeling of surprise, and I hope that I can now

Re: [Wikimedia Education] EDUWiki UG: wrapping 2018 and looking forward to 2019!

2019-01-30 Thread Shani Evenstein
Hello, Pine. Filip already addressed some points, so I'll add some food for thought (I'll try to keep it concise, since as you well noted, I'm very busy these days): * Yes, a lot of effort is going into setting up the Education User Group, but these are not only my efforts; rather it's a group ef

Re: [Wikimedia Education] EDUWiki UG: wrapping 2018 and looking forward to 2019!

2019-01-30 Thread Pine W
:) OK, it sounds like the group is happy with how things are going. I think that, for long term endeavors like setting up a new organization which may be active over a time range of months to decades. thinking about sustainability is a good idea. I intended the questions to be benevolent and not h

Re: [Wikimedia Education] EDUWiki UG: wrapping 2018 and looking forward to 2019!

2019-01-29 Thread Filip Maljkovic
On 30.1.19. 03:54, Pine W wrote: > Hi Filip, > > Previously WMF seemed to have a larger scope of work in supporting > educators in institutions. I think that some of that stopped when a few WMF > staff members left. I think that at least some of that staffing has been > restored. However, I don't w

Re: [Wikimedia Education] EDUWiki UG: wrapping 2018 and looking forward to 2019!

2019-01-29 Thread Pine W
Hi Filip, Previously WMF seemed to have a larger scope of work in supporting educators in institutions. I think that some of that stopped when a few WMF staff members left. I think that at least some of that staffing has been restored. However, I don't want WMF to use a staffing shortage as a reas

Re: [Wikimedia Education] EDUWiki UG: wrapping 2018 and looking forward to 2019!

2019-01-29 Thread Filip Maljkovic
Hi Pine, On 29.1.19. 20:32, Pine W wrote: > Hi Shani, > > Thanks for sharing these updates. > > It sounds like there is a lot of effort being spent on organizing the > EduWiki group. Thanks for the amount of tiime that you are putting into > this. > > I have two questions. > > Facilitating meeting

Re: [Wikimedia Education] EDUWiki UG: wrapping 2018 and looking forward to 2019!

2019-01-29 Thread Pine W
Hi Shani, Thanks for sharing these updates. It sounds like there is a lot of effort being spent on organizing the EduWiki group. Thanks for the amount of tiime that you are putting into this. I have two questions. Facilitating meetings of Wikimedia educators, working on tools, asking for feedba

[Wikimedia Education] EDUWiki UG: wrapping 2018 and looking forward to 2019!

2019-01-28 Thread Shani Evenstein
Dear all, (and sorry in advance for x-posting -- we are sharing this a bit wider to draw attention to not only the education group, but also the Libraries and GLAM groups, which we believe have a lot in common with ours and hope will be active partners in our work throughout the year) Below is a