Thank you for the update and thinking through the changing direction of the 2019 conference.
I only wish that a different term than “Capacity Building” were used as something excluded from the upcoming conference, given that it is also the name of one of the Movement Strategy working groups. I know that is not what you meant, but the irony . . . ----- With Incredulity toward Metanarratives, Jeffrey User:FULBERT fulb...@fulbert.org > On Sep 25, 2018, at 3:34 PM, Cornelius Kibelka > <cornelius.kibe...@wikimedia.de> wrote: > > Dear all, > > As Nicole Ebber already wrote a couple of weeks ago, we would like to give > you some further information about the next Wikimedia Conference, that will > take place from March 29–31, 2019 in Berlin, Germany. > > The next conference will focus on the Movement Strategy process and > movement governance for the organized part of the movement in general. The > program will be designed according to the status and needs of the ongoing > Movement Strategy process and its working groups. We are hoping to see a > diverse group of participants next year, and look forward to creating three > days of working, discussing, and thinking together. The event is made > possible through the generous financial support of the Wikimedia Foundation. > > Thus, to make it clearer that learning and capacity-building will not be > part of the program and cut laces to the previous conference, we will > change the name to “Wikimedia Summit” (#wmsummit). > > The change of the purpose of the event is accompanied by a change in the > composition of the audience. The event will be a more focused one, and > therefore we aim to scale down the audience to around 200 participants. As > it is this still the Wikimedia affiliates conference, every _eligible_ > affiliate can send one (1) delegate. Furthermore, we will invite > participants from the Wikimedia Affiliate EDs (~10), WMF Board of Trustees > (10), WMF staff (~10), the committees (~15 from FDC, AffCom and Simple APG) > and additional members of the Movement Strategy working groups, that do not > come in another role (~20). You can find more information regarding this on > Meta.[1] > > Registration for the Wikimedia Summit will open on November 2 and end on > December 17, 2018. We urge participants that need a visa to register no > later than November 19, so we can support them as best as possible to get a > visa for the event. > > We will keep you updated in the further weeks and months via the usual > communication channels. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate > to contact us, preferably via wmsum...@wikimedia.de. > > Best regards, > > Daniela Gentner & Cornelius Kibelka > > [1] > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Summit_2019/Eligibility_Criteria > > -- > Cornelius Kibelka > Program and Engagement Coordinator (PEC) > for the Wikimedia Conference > > Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin > Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0 > http://wikimedia.de > > Stellen Sie sich eine Welt vor, in der jeder Mensch an der Menge allen > Wissens frei teilhaben kann. Helfen Sie uns dabei! > http://spenden.wikimedia.de/ > > Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. > Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter > der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für > Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207 > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
