Re: [Wikimedia-l] Movement Strategy: First round of Working Group members

2018-07-24 Thread Anders Wennersten
As I see it the strategy process is run for the functionaries in the movement and by them. People with focus on contributing to the projects are not involved, when volunteers is mentioned it is mostly people running worskhops for beginners etc, a kind of semi functionaries, not the hard core

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Movement Strategy: First round of Working Group members

2018-07-24 Thread Yaroslav Blanter
On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 9:16 PM, David Cuenca Tudela wrote: > > I don't like to think in drastic terms like these because it fails to > recognize the amount of good will that has been poured into the process and > the selection of participants by the Strategy team. It is perhaps more >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Movement Strategy: First round of Working Group members

2018-07-24 Thread David Cuenca Tudela
On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 1:34 PM Paulo Santos Perneta < paulospern...@gmail.com> wrote: > I fail to understand why, among the dozens of people > chosen to be part of the Working Groups, there's not a single one that can > be identified as a representative of that community. > Well, you can slice

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Movement Strategy: First round of Working Group members

2018-07-24 Thread Paulo Santos Perneta
​ Hello David, > I do not agree that there should be speakers of all languages in the working groups. The language a person speaks says nothing about the ideas they support. There are monolingual English speakers that appreciate the value of having multilingualism play a prominent role in the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Movement Strategy: First round of Working Group members

2018-07-24 Thread David Cuenca Tudela
> The messages about our application process that we ran in June were not distributed directly to the broad variety of project communities. Our focus was indeed on the organized part of the movement, and then to work with the Working Groups on getting the message to the project communities and to