[Wikimedia-l] Re: Join the new Regional Committees for Grants

[Florence Devouard]

Hello Tanveer


Thank you for those answers.

Some questions have been moved to meta as suggested, but have not 
received any answer yet. Can you please have a look ?


Thanks

Florence


Le 21/05/2021 à 19:12, Tanveer Hasan a écrit :

Hi Florence,

I wanted to bring to your attention that the CR team has responded to 
your questions on the discussion page of the Community 
Resources/Grants Strategy Relaunch 2020-2021 
. 
We are doing this (responding on discussion page) because of the 
importance of the questions that you have raised and hope that the 
questions and responses would be of help to other community members as 
well. We request community members to post their questions directly on 
the discussion page.


Regards,

P.S: CR team is going to be copy pasting all the questions raised here 
on the mailing list on the discussion page of the Grants Strategy 
Relaunch for the sake of continuity and having the option to translate 
questions and responses in multiple languages for the benefit of other 
community members. Please allow us a little time to respond to the 
questions that have already been raised in this email thread.


ಶುಕ್ರ, ಮೇ 21, 2021 ರಂದು 06:03 ಅಪರಾಹ್ನ ಸಮಯಕ್ಕೆ ರಂದು Florence Devouard 
mailto:fdevou...@gmail.com>> ಅವರು ಬರೆದಿದ್ದಾರೆ:


Hello Julia


I apology if I missed a step at some point.
In this application, I read that

"All the current grant committees (both active and inactive) will
cease to function with the implementation of the new grants
strategy of the Community Resources Team effective from 1 July
2021. We strongly encourage current and former committee members
to apply to be part of the regional committees."

So... is it to understand that absolutely ALL grants provided by
the Wikimedia Foundation will go through those yet uncreated
committees ?

Does that mean all current recipients of APG grants will have to
address their annual request to those yet unknown teams in the
future ? (september in some cases)

To whom will grants requests have to be addressed to for those
groups who are not related to a specific region ? Do they have to
pick up a region of their choice and consider themselves attached
to it, or will they be appointed a region by default ?

Sorry if the questions seem to be unrelated to your call but...
1) I am trying to understand and measure how much unstable our
current situation is as grantees so that we can anticipate...
2) I am trying to evaluate the responsibilities that will be on
the shoulders of those new regional committee members


Best


Florence


Le 21/05/2021 à 08:06, Julia Brungs a écrit :

Dear all,

We hope this email finds you well and safe. The COVID 19
situation continues to affect many of us across the globe and our
thoughts are with everyone affected. We are also aware that there
are several processes currently in progress that demand volunteer
time and we do not want to add more work to anyone's plate.

We do want to draw your attention to our new Regional Committees
for Grants though as they are an opportunity for you to have an
active say in the future of our Movement!

 So today, we invite you to join our new Regional Committees
for Grants! 

We encourage Wikimedians and Free Knowledge advocates to be part
of the new Regional Committees that the WMF Community Resources
team is setting up as part of the grants strategy relaunch [1].
You will be a key strategic thought partner to help understand
the complexities of any region, provide knowledge and expertise
to applicants, to support successful movement activities, and
make funding decisions for grant applications in the region.

Find out more on meta [2].

Regional Committees will be established for the following regions:

  * Middle East and Africa
  * SAARC [3] region (Includes Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan,
India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka)
  * East, Southeast Asia, and Pacific (ESEAP) region
  * Latin America (LATAM) and The Caribbean
  * United States and Canada
  * Northern and Western Europe
  * Central and Eastern Europe (CEE)

All details about the Committees and how to apply can be found
on meta [4]. Applications have to be submitted by *June 4, 2021*!

If you have any questions or comments, please use the meta
discussion page [5].

Please do share this announcement widely with your Network.
Best wishes,
Julia on behalf of the Community Resources Team

[1]

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Resources/Grants_Strategy_Relaunch_2020-2021


[2]

[Wikimedia-l] Movement Strategy Playbook - A Manual for Global Collaboration

[Nicole Ebber]

Hi everyone,

It has now been one year since the Wikimedia 2030 recommendations have
been published. To mark that anniversary, I am delighted to present
“The Movement Strategy Playbook”[1], a comprehensive document that
contains insights into the key practices and lessons learned from this
global open strategy.

The Movement Strategy Playbook highlights experiences of Wikimedians
who participated in movement strategy between July 2018 and June 2020.
During this period, working groups developed the movement strategy
recommendations and principles, with input from community members,
from affiliates, and the Wikimedia Foundation. This process was
supported by a core team, which I led, featuring a mix of people who
worked for the Wikimedia Foundation or for Wikimedia Deutschland.

This level of global collaboration is a first for the Wikimedia
Movement. And this type of organisational open strategy process –
global, transparent, iterative, inclusive – is unique. My sincere hope
is that it will set a benchmark for collaboration in our movement,
both in terms of how this kind of collaboration can be done and also
what to be mindful of. I hope it is useful for others in the movement,
particularly as we move toward implementing the recommendations.

One fantastic thing about the Playbook: It is not ready, and probably
never will be! It is a living document with space for contributions
from everyone in the movement and beyond. On each lesson’s page, you
can add your suggestions for tools or ideas that could help make the
insights even more actionable. The playbook will continue to evolve
and grow, and will become even better with every participatory and
inclusive process that we as a movement complete.

If you want to learn more about exactly how all of this was done, I
encourage you to also read this outstanding overview[2], which was put
together by the movement strategy core team and chronologically
outlines each step that was taken to create the recommendations.

I’d like to say a huge heartfelt thank you to everyone who took part
in this process: all the working group members, the community members,
as well as affiliates and the Wikimedia Foundation who provided input
and helped shape the recommendations, and of course to my wonderful
colleagues in the movement strategy core team. It’s been such an
exciting, eventful, exhausting and overly rewarding experience for me
to navigate through this endeavour with you all.

And now: Happy reading!

Nicole


Note that we have also published a blog post with more context and key
findings on the global Diff blog[3] as well as on Wikimedia
Deutschland’s blog, in both English and German[4].

 [1] 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Reports/Movement_Strategy_Playbook
[2] 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Reports/Process_overview
[3] 
https://diff.wikimedia.org/2021/05/25/movement-strategy-playbook-creating-a-manual-for-global-collaboration/
[4] 
https://blog.wikimedia.de/2021/05/25/ein-regelbuch-fuer-open-strategy-das-movement-strategy-playbook-fuer-globale-zusammenarbeit/



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